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Title: The Universal Standard Catalogue Of The Postage Stamps Of The World
Description: Whitfield King & Co, Ipswich, 1903, 4th edition. Limp cloth, G. viii+380+[4]+68pp, 2693 b/w illustrations, covers rubbed & worn, spine creased with the loss of the lettering, thumbed. Paperback , no dustjacket. ¶ A priced catalogue of both individual stamps & philatelic packets. Charles Whitfield King began his stamp collecting aged 14 as a clerk in a shipping office. He quite in 1875 to start delaing in stamps professionally & by 1887 had premises in Lacy Street Ipswich ( pictureed in the catalogue ) and employed nine people.

Keywords: stamps, stamp collecting, ipswich, philately