Project Gutenberg 2008-09-12 Public domain in the USA. 78 Melville, Frederick John 1882 1940 Melville, Fred J. (Fred John) 18015216 Gambia Reading ease score: 66.8 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. Produced by Simon Gardner, Sankar Viswanathan, Adrian Mastronardi, The Philatelic Digital Library Project at http://www.tpdlp.net, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "Gambia" by Frederick John Melville is a comprehensive historical account published in the early 20th century. The book focuses on the stamps of the Gambia, a British West African colony, detailing various postal issues and their significance to collectors and historians. It provides insights into the history and development of the Gambia's postal system, from its establishment to the specifics of stamp designs and production. The content of "Gambia" delves into different stamp series issued through the years, starting with the Cameo issue of 1869 and detailing subsequent issues up until the early 1900s. Each chapter examines the evolution of postage stamps in the Gambia, focusing on aspects such as design variations, printing methods, watermarks, and engraving intricacies. The book also highlights the importance of these stamps to philatelic collectors, providing detailed descriptions and checklists for various stamp values and types, ultimately creating a rich tapestry of the Gambia's postal history. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Postage stamps -- Gambia HE Text Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: Other 136468 136314 2024-10-11T10:48:41.093466 2023-09-12T04:09:21.984960 text/html text/html 123361 2021-01-04T02:49:26 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 2013289 2021-01-04T02:49:26 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 2119743 2024-10-11T10:48:45.865447 application/epub+zip 2119427 2024-10-11T10:48:42.182489 application/epub+zip 102493 2024-10-11T10:48:41.616474 application/epub+zip 2185726 2024-10-11T10:48:48.779452 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 2161934 2024-10-11T10:48:45.313480 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 150000 2022-09-12T10:19:46.516976 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 75251 75042 2024-10-11T10:48:40.273503 2023-09-12T04:09:21.233963 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 75050 2021-01-04T02:49:26 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 25221 2021-01-04T02:49:26 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 75205 2021-01-04T02:49:26 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 25221 2021-01-04T02:49:26 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21145 2024-10-11T10:48:48.919443 application/rdf+xml 30021 2024-10-11T10:48:41.749580 image/jpeg 4478 2024-10-11T10:48:41.687453 image/jpeg 2046859 2024-10-11T10:48:41.219498 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia