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Full list of volume titles

The descriptions are taken from Phillips' original inventory to the collection and have not been altered, except in cases where items have been moved.

Volume number

Volume title

I

Pre-1840 documents and essays for adhesive postage stamps and postal stationery including 1839 Treasury Competition essays.

II

1837-40 essays and proofs of adhesive stamps and Mulready stationery, with Mulready stationery as issued.

III

1840-41 1d unused.

IV

1840-41 1d Plate 1 used.

V

1840-41 1d black and 1d red plates 2, 3, 4 and 5 used.

VI

1840-41 1d Plates 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11, used.

VII

1840 2d blue, plates 1 and 2, unused and used.

VIII

1840-41 colour, paper and cancellation experiments including 'rainbow' trials.

IX

1839-90 Mulready stationery and other printed envelopes.

X

1840 1d black used on covers.

XI

1840-44 cancellations on imperforate line-engraved.

XII

1840-71 cancellations on line-engraved.

XIII

1841-62 1d imprimaturs

XIV

1841-53 imperforate 1d red unused, with some perforated used examples.

XV

1841-53 imperforate 1d red used.

XVI

1841-55 imperforate 1d used (continued).

XVII

1841-55 1d used on covers.

XVIII

1841-54 imperforate 2d blue plates III and IV unused and used.

XIX

1850-55 2d Plate 4 unused and used.

XX

1841-53 imperforate 2d plates III and IV used on covers or piece.

XXI

1854-78 line-engraved essays and proofs.

XXII

1848-54 trial separations, including rouletting, comb perforation and experimental perforation; Prince Consort essays; 1854-62 perforated line-engraved 1d and 2d unused; 1855-62 imperforate varieties used.

XXIII

1854-57 line-engraved 1d red perforation 16 and perforation 14 used.

XXIV

1854-57 2d plates IV, V and VI used.

XXV

1857-62 1d rose-red, die II, alphabet III, perforated, unused and used.

XXVI

1857 1d rose-red, die II, Alphabet II, Reserve Plates 15 and 16 and Alphabet III, Reserve Plate 17, mostly used.

XXVII

1861 1d rose-red, Alphabet IV, Plates 50 and 51, mostly used.

XXVIII

1864 1d red inscribed with plate numbers, mostly imprimaturs and unused multiples.

XXIX

1858-79 2d, ½d and 1½d imprimaturs, unissued stamps and the issued stamps unused and used.

XXX

1847-54 embossed adhesive stamps, essays, proofs and the issued 1/-, 10d and 6d unused and used; embossed postal stationery proofs and as issued.

XXXI

1855-72 surface printed essays, proofs, imprimaturs and 'specimens'.

XXXII

1855-72 3d to 1/- values, essays, proofs, imprimaturs, 'specimens' and the issued stamps unused.

XXXIII

1865-72 1/- and 2/-, 1880 2/- brown, 1872-73 6d and 1873-83 2½d, 3d and 6d, essays, proofs, imprimaturs, 'specimens' and the issued stamps unused.

XXXIV

1873-79 1/-, 4d and 8d values, essays for 9d, 10d and 2/- values and 1880-83 3d to 1/- values, essays, proofs, imprimaturs, 'specimens' and the issued stamps unused.

XXXV

1855-83 surface printed values to 2/- used including rare 'abnormals' and 1/- Stock Exchange forgeries.

XXXVI

1867-82 5/- to £5 values, proofs, imprimaturs, 'specimens' and the issued stamps unused and used.

XXXVII

1880 Consolidated Contract, 1879 essays for the low values, 1880 proofs and imprimaturs and the issued ½d to 5d stamps unused.

XXXVIII

1881-84 schemes for improved stamp designs.

XXXIX

1881-84 Unified 1d and 2/6 to £1 (also 1891 £1 green), proofs, imprimaturs, 'specimens' and the issued stamps unused and used including broken frame varieties of the £1.

XL

1883-84 Unified 1½d to 1/-, proofs, imprimaturs, 'specimens', unissued stamps and the issued stamps, mostly unused.

XLI

1887-1901 ½d to 1/-, essays, proofs, imprimaturs, 'specimens' and the issued stamps unused; 1894 reply stamp essays; 1901 King Edward VII essays.

XLII

1887-1900 ½d to 1/-, unused multiples showing marginal markings.

XLIII

'Postal Fiscals', Railway Letter and Parcel Post stamps, essays, proofs and as issued [newly written up in 1990s].

XLIV

Private Companies' and Post Office Telegraph stamps, Military and Army Telegraph stamps, proofs, 'specimens' and as issued; De La Rue 'dummy' stamps.

XLV

Postage and Revenue stamps overprinted 'SPECIMEN'.

Engine turning

A sheet showing specimens of engine-turned backgrounds, numbered 1 to 28, inscribed 'Perkins, Fairman and Heath'.

Silver Wyon Medal

The 1837 Wyon medal in silver.

Bronze Wyon Medal

The 1837 Wyon medal in bronze.