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The stamp dealer was a large man and the day was very hot for an English summer. His office on the third floor, at the top of the building, was stifling. His work table was edged against the window overlooking the Strand. It gave him a good north light, ideal for examining the five stamps arrayed before him. He had bought them in a mixed lot a month before for a ridiculously low price and had arranged for them to be auctioned by Ventom, Bull & Cooper. At that auction house, they were sure to fetch good prices and result in a handsome profit for him.
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The Navigation and Commerce issue is a definitive series of French postage stamps issued for the colonial territories of France. It was designed by Louis-Eugene Mouchon.
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The Air mail parcel service from India to England was introduced with the flight from Karachi on June 11, 1931. Earlier the Air mail parcel service from England to India commenced from May 23, 1931.
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The history of the Cape of Good Hope dates back to the 1800's when ships traveling from Europe and England discovered this route to India and the Far East.
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British India had hundreds of Princely States, some 652 in all, but most of them did not issue postage stamps. The stamp-issuing States were of two kinds: the Convention States and the Feudatory States. The postage stamps and postal histories of these States provide great challenges and many rewards to the patient philatelist. Many rarities are to be found here. Although handbooks are available, much remains to be discovered.
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In 1895, a janitor was cleaning the basement of the Louisville, Kentucky, courthouse. He had been given orders to burn stacks of papers which had accumulated over the years. While he was throwing the stacks into the furnace, the stamps affixed to some of the expendable trash caught his eye. He showed the papers bearing the unusual stamps to the caretakers of the courthouse; they turned out to be a large find of the St. Louis 'Bears.'
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The provisional stamps of the St. Louis Postmaster - he was John M. Wimer - were foreshadowed by a notice published on November 5, 1845 in the Missouri Republican:
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