The British Post Office has, until recently, enjoyed an almost complete monopoly of the carriage of letters. A letter in general terms is an item up to one pound in weight. It follows that any item that is over one pound may be termed a parcel, will not be subject...
Since my previous article Hejaz: The First Postage Stamps of 1916 and T.E. Lawrence in The London Philatelist (Ref.1) some further information has come to light. The Royal Philatelic Collection contains a number of imperforate proof sheets for the 1916 issue. These are listed in Wilson (Ref.2) and include the...