The Stamp Specialist
# The Stamp Specialist

The Stamp Specialist is the title of a series of books on philatelic research written and edited for the advanced collector of postage stamps.

## Publisher

The books were published by H. L. Lindquist, 2 West 46 Street, New York City.

## Format

Twenty books were issued between 1939 and 1948. Early books were paper bound, but the majority was hard-bound and each later book was usually popularly identified by the color of its hard cover.

## Content

Each book contains six or more studies of research by eminent philatelic experts, each related to a particular detailed philatelic subject.

Article title and authors of the articles:

### Volume 1, part 1 (1939)

* Miscellany - George B. Sloane
* Mounting and Filing Entire Covers and Postal Stationery - A. Eugene Michel
* Color - A. Maerz
* The United States Five Cent Stamp of 1847 - Stanley B. Ashbrook
* Post Office Seals - Prescott Holden Thorp
* The Confederate States of America 1863 Ten Cent Blue - Stanley B. Ashbrook
* Guam Guard Mail - H. F. Bowker
* The Development of the Rotary Press Printing - Max G. Johl
* Unusual Methods of Mounting - Paul F. Berdanier, Jr. and others
* American and European Methods of Specializing - Edwin Mueller
* Philatelic Auction Survey
* An Analysis of Prices Realized for U.S. Stamps Over a Period of Fifty Years - Charles J. Phillips

### Volume 1, part 2 (1939)

* Independent Mail Routes of the United States - Harry M. Konwiser & Laurence B. Mason
* A Study of the Major Varieties of the U.S. 3c 1851 - Richard McP. Cabeen
* Roman States - The Original and Counterfeits of the First Issue - Fritz Billig
* Pages of Aristocrats from My Stamp Album - Philip H. Ward, Jr.
* The "Used Abroads" of Great Britain - Lou W. Kreicker & Major H.P. Burrell
* The Australian Pennies of the King George V Issue - Wm. J. Davy
* New York Post Office, Some Early "Steamship" Markings - Stanley B. Ashbrook
* The "Southn. Letter Unpaid" Marking of Louisville, Ky. June and July 1861 - Lawrence L. Schenfield
* Preliminary Report on the Survey on Condition -
* Airmail Stamps at Auction, An Analysis of American and English Prices Realized During the Past Year
* What Chance Has the Mail Bidder at a Stamp Auction and Other Pertinent Data

### Volume 1, Part 3 (1940)

* The Penny Black, Philately's Number One - includes an oversize engraving of a Penny Black - Lou W. Kreicker & Major H.P. Burrell
* The United States 12c-24c-30c and 90c Imperforates of 1860 - Stanley B. Ashbrook
* United States Postal History - Part 1 - Seymour Dunbar
* Philately Honors the Constitution - C. N. Downs
* Steamboat Mail Transportation on the Great Lakes - The Ward Steamship Lines - W. L. Babcock, M.D.
* C.C.C. "Socked on the Nose" - Theodore E. Steinway
* Unusual Methods of Mounting
* Revised report on the Survey on Condition
* How to Distinguish Stamp Varieties - Edwin Mueller

### Number 4 (1940)

* Paper. A Non-technical History and Description of the More Common Types as used in Philately - James H. Obrig
* Aviation and Philately, based on the Norman Serphos Collection - Frank L. Wilson
* United States Postal History (Part 2) - Seymour Dunbar
* The Three Cent 1857 - What to look for in the Perforated Issue - Richard McP. Cabeen
* The First Stamps of Honduras - Bertram W. H. Poole
* 40 Years of United States Special Delivery Stamps - C. W. Bates
* Methods of Mounting - Paul F. Berdanier, Jr.
* Final Report on the Survey on Condition
* INCLUDED WITH BOOK #4 PAPER SAMPLES:

### Orange (1941)

* Designs for United States stamps – Paul F. Berdanier, Jr.
* The Supplementary Mail Service of the New York Post office 1853-1872 – Stanley B. Ashbrook with comments by Dr. W. L. Babcock
* Poland – the stampless period – Stephen G. Rich and Vincent Domanski, Jr.
* The Luff reference collection – H. L. Lindquist
* The engraver of the Five Cents De La Rue – August Dietz
* Specializing in twentieth century United States stamps – Max G. Johl

### Blue (1941)

* Thru the Newbury deluxe collection of the 19th century United States - Stanley B. Ashbrook
* Jammu and Kashmir – Notes on Their Stamps - Winthrop S. Boggs
* United States postal history - Seymour Dunbar
   * A Canal Boat letter group
   * A World’s Fair group
   * A Railway Post Office group
* A Primer of the first Greek postage stamps - Robert O. Truman
* The capped relief of the Two Cents 1890 - John H. Latta, C.P.A.
* “Neither rain – nor snow – nor gloom of war...” Three letters that crossed the lines in the American Civil War - Lawerence L. Shenfield
* Poland, the period of stamps, to 1870 - Vincent Domanski Jr. & Stephen G. Rich

### Yellow (1942)

* The Five Cent of 1847 Double Transfers - Stanley B. Ashbrook
* Prisoner of War and Flag-of-Truce Covers - Lawerence L. Shenfield
* Supplement to Independent Mail Routes of the United States - Harry M. Konwiser
* United States Postal History
   * Postal Memorials of Human Slavery and Lincoln - Seymour H. Dunbar
* The Autaugaville Alabama Stamps - Howard Lehman
* Countries for the Specialist
   * Norway - H. L. Lindquist
   * France - Dr. A. J. C. Vaurie
   * Great Britain - Major H.P. Burrell
   * Finland - Arthur Linz
   * Canada - Walter Pollock
   * Guatemala - H. L. Lindquist
* United States - The "Premieres Gravures" of 1861 - Stanley B. Ashbrook
* Census of Philatelists
   * How Many stamp collectors Are There

### Red (1942)

* Canada-17c-1859, A Study of its Plate Positions - Senator James A. Calder
* Four Historical Covers from the Spanish–American War Period in Puerto - R. B. Preston
* China - James Starr
* Coffee House and Newsroom Mail. The Origin of the Postal System in America - Abe Schoenfeld
* A Great Historic Document Comes to Light - General Winfield Scott's Proclamation to the People of Mexico
* The Puerto Rican Columbian Commemorative Stamp of 1893 - R. B. Preston
* Confederate Notes - Stanley B. Ashbrook
   * Newly Discovered Prisoner of war cover with "Examined - Ship Island" in red
   * "Raleigh N. C. Paid 5" Postmaster Provisional or Handstamped Paid?
* Philatelic Byways thru 19th Century B.N.A. - Ed Richardson
   * British Columbia and Vancouver's Island
   * New Brunswick
   * Nova Scotia
   * Prince Edward Island
* Countries for the Specialist
   * Ecuador - H. L. Lindquist
* Confederate Blockade Covers including some Unusual Examples - Van Dyk MacBride
* "Forwarded By" Handstamps - Harry M. Konwiser

### Green (1943)

* The Trans-Mississippi Issue of 1898 (The So-Called Omaha Issue) - George B. Sloane
* The Bull's Eyes of Brazil (in Celebration of the Hundredth Anniversary) - H. L. Lindquist
* Unusual Aguinaldos in One of the Most Theatrical and Interesting Interludes in the History of the Philippine Islands - Col. Hans Lagerloef
* Guadeloupe, The Emerald Island - Robert G. Stone
* Confederate Stamps-On-Provisional Covers - Van Dyk MacBride
* Siam-Thailand - Adolph Klingenstein
* Egypt - Ernest A. Kehr
* Embossed Revenue Stamped Paper of the United States - Carl E. Dorr
* The Swastika in Philately - William T. Corbusier

### Brown (1943)

* The 30 Cents Black Imperforate of 1860 - R. J. Mechin
* Confederate Notes - Lawrence L. Shenfield
   * How the Fighting Men of the 5th Texas Regiment C.S.A. got their letters across the Mississippi to Texas
   * Southern Express Company Office Marking of Vicksburg, Mississippi
* The Democracy of Philately - The Rev'd. William H. Tower
* Canada 17c-1859. The Identification of its Printings through the use of Comparative Color Charts - Senator James A. Calder
* Puerto Rico - The 1873-1876 Overprinted Issues - R. B. Preston
* Russia - The Small Head U.S.S.R. Types of 1923-1927 - H. L. Aronson
* The Raleigh N.C. Provisional - A Correction - Stanley B. Ashbrook
* A Study of the Color of 1861, 3c U.S. Design Stamp - Wm. H. Beck

### Gray (1943)

* The 6 Cents Lincoln Bank Note Issue - George C. Hahn
* A Sheaf of War Covers - The Rev'd. William H. Tower
* Canadian Patriotics and Related Boer War Covers - Ed. Richardson
* An Important Discovery on the United States 1898 4c Stamp - Ferrars Tows
* Early Foreign Mail Service From Peru - Arthur Linz
* History of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing - Thomas F. Morris
* Confederate Mexico Covers - A sequel to "Confederate Blockade Covers" - Van Dyk MacBride
* Iceland - Joseph Jaeger

### Maroon (1944)

* The South's "Way of Life" - Random Notes for the Student of Confederates - August Dietz
* The "Large Geneva Eagle" 1846-1848 - Gustave A. von Gross
* Southern Censorship of the South Bound Mail - L. G. Brookman
* Puerto Rico - The British Postal Agencies in Puerto Rico - R. B. Preston
* A Primer of English Postal History to the Adhesive Period - The Rev'd. William H. Tower
* The Maryland State Issue of 1818 of Revenue Stamped Paper - Colin MacR. Makepeace
* Philatelic Byways Thru 19th Century BNA-Victorian Canada - Ed Richardson
* Captain Absalom Grimes - The Confederate Mail Carrier - Van Dyk MacBride
* The Postal History of the Ionian Islands - Colonel Hans Lagerloef

### White (1944)

* The City Delivery Letter Expresses of San Francisco - Ernest A. Wiltsee
* Air Mail Interruption Covers - R. Lee Black
* National Defense Issue - George C. Hahn and Sol Glass
* "Pan. & San Fran. S.S." (Panama and San Francisco Steam Ship) - Stanley B. Ashbrook
* Puerto Rico - Postal Markings of the 1855-1873 Period - R. B. Preston and M. H. Sanborn
* United States Savings Stamps - A New Field for the Specialist - H. L. Lindquist
* The Royal Genealogies in Stamps - Harold F. Round

### Black (1945)

* Barnard’s Caribou Express – in the Colony of British Columbia, 1860-1971 and later expresses of F. J. Barnard - Henry C. Hitt and Gerald E. Wellborn
* Some notes on the Harold C. Brooks collection of Confederate States of America - Stanley B. Ashbrook
* Patriotic cover fishing - Rollin E. Flower
* A huge find of rare western franks – many hitherto unknown varieties - Ernest A Wiltsee
* Insurance cancellations on Civil War revenues 1862-1871 - Jere. Hess Barr
* Don’t ignore the letters – a cover collector points out the interest and romance to be found in the contents of your covers - Towner K. Webster, Jr.
* A letter from Libby Prison - Van Dyk MacBride
* “Canada Mourns Her Beloved Queen” - Ed Richardson
* Syndicate envelopes - Thomas D. Perry

### Coral (1945)

* The Overrun Nations series - Sol Glass
* Poland, the postal stationery - Clement A. Pulaski
* The Early Postal History of Peru - Arthur Linz
* Russian Zemstvos, a compendium of existing information with additional information based on original research - Col. Hans Lagerloef
* Norway, a few notes on the unlisted 1882-3 Issue - Gustave Larson
* Philadelphia’s part in the Civil War - George N. Malpass
* Brazilian postal forgeries - Samuel Ray

### Emerald (1946)

* Confederate States of America - Stanley B. Ashbrook
   * Some Notes on the Postal Legislation
   * Postal Rates
   * Postal Uses and Earliest Known Dates of the Stamps of the General Issues
* Trans-Atlantic Mails - Major F. W. Staff
* Austria and Lombardy-Venetia, The Re-Engravings on the Dotted Background of the First Issue - Felix Brunner
* Puerto Rico - R. B. Preston
   * The Bogus Stamps of 1897
   * Revenue Stamps used for Postage
* The Development of The Electric Eye - Nathan Goldstein II
* Poland - Clement A. Pulaski
   * The Postal Stationery
   * Stamped Envelope
   * Letter Card

### India (1946)

* The Autographed Field Letters of General Robert E. Lee - Van Dyk MacBride
* Lee Envelopes in the Congressional Library, Washington, D.C. -
* Stamp Booklets and Booklet Panes - Sidney S. Jalkut
* Stamp Booklets and Booklet Panes of the World (the first known comprehensive compilation of these items ever made) - Sidney S. Jalkut
* 1860-1863 Three Cents Plus One Cent Plus One Cent - Stanley B. Ashbrook
* Belgium Postal Savings and Roulette Cancellations - Lt. Com'd'r. Ray E. Morrison
* Norway - A Century of Steamship Mail Service - Gustav Larson
* Milwaukee Handstamps and Their Use - Kenneth F. Olson

### Mahogany (1947)

* Burdell's Express - J. R. W. Purves, F.R.P.S.L
* Express Company Labels of the United States - Harry M. Konwiser
* Stamp Booklets and Booklet Panes - Sidney S. Jalkut
* United States Postal Agency, Shanghai, China - Harvey Bounds
* The Life of Christ on Postage Stamps - George A. Rowse
* Stamped Revenue Paper Issued by Province of Mass., Colony of New York, and by Gt. Britain for Use in America - Leland Powers
* The Postage Due Issues of Norway, A Translation - Gustav Larson
* Camp Shenandoah, Va. - Van Dyk MacBride
* Some Comments on the U.S. Playing Card Stamps - John C. Rogers, Ph.D., M.D.
* The British Postal Service from Peru - Arthur Linz

### Chartreuse (1948)

* Dies of the Columbian stamped envelopes, commemoratives of 1893 - F. L. Ellis
* A check list of uncataloged envelopes bearing patriotic designs of southern sentiment - George N. Malpass
* Puerto Rico; the postmaster provisionals of 1898 - R. B. Preston
* The street car R. P. O. system - Earl D. Moore
* A discovery in 1860 issue of Peru: double transfers - Arthur Linz
* Eights - Frank W. Staff
* The overrun nations series, the flag stamps - Supplement to Article Appearing in The Stamp Specialist Coral Book - Sol Glass
* A sequel to the autographed field letters of General Robert E. Lee - Van Dyk MacBride
* Stamp booklets and booklet panes - Second Supplement to List of Booklets in India Book - (First Supplement, Mahogany Book)

### Forest Green (1948)

* Fairs, Exhibitions and Expositions and Their Souvenirs - Raymond March
* Canada 5d 1859 - Renumbering of Flaws - G. A. E. Chapman
* Guatemala, the 100 Varieties of the One Peso Lithographed Identified - H. L. Lindquist
* "Camp Shenandoah, Va." - Were There TWO? - Van Dyk MacBride
* Teaching With Stamps - Louis H. Drinkwine
* The Alfonso XII Issues for Puerto Rico - R. B. Preston
* The Penny Postage Jubilee of 1890 - Stephen G. Rich
* Stamp Booklets and Booklet Panes - Sydney S. Jalkut
* The Stamp Specialist Enters a New Phase
* Index to the Stamp Specialist
