{"id":253,"date":"2016-01-23T20:39:13","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T01:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/?page_id=253"},"modified":"2016-02-08T11:57:56","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T16:57:56","slug":"collection-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/exhibit\/collection\/collection-2\/","title":{"rendered":"..."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><i>How to Collect Postage Stamps<\/i><\/b><br \/>\n<b>Bertram Tapscott Knight Smith<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">London : G. Bell and Sons, 1907<\/span><br \/>\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Brown University Library Special Collections<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Much has been written about stamps and stamp collecting. In this book, Bertram Smith aims to inspire uninitiated collectors with the information needed to define personal collecting objectives and understand the world of postage stamps. The book devotes a chapter to the postal history of a select number of countries and explains forgeries, printing processes, covers, and the collecting market. (<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/josiah.brown.edu\/record=b1486759~S7\">JOSIAH)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/olio00000003528md.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-461 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/olio00000003528md-1024x756.jpg\" alt=\"olio00000003528md\" width=\"605\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/olio00000003528md-1024x756.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/olio00000003528md-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/olio00000003528md-768x567.jpg 768w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/olio00000003528md-100x74.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/olio00000003528md-150x111.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/olio00000003528md-200x148.jpg 200w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/olio00000003528md-450x332.jpg 450w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/olio00000003528md-600x443.jpg 600w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/olio00000003528md-900x665.jpg 900w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/olio00000003528md.jpg 1720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Collect Postage Stamps Bertram Tapscott Knight Smith London : G. Bell and Sons, 1907 Brown University Library Special Collections Much has been written about stamps and stamp collecting. In this book, Bertram Smith aims to inspire uninitiated collectors with the information needed to define personal collecting objectives and understand the world of postage <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/exhibit\/collection\/collection-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  &#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":58,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-253","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":964,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/253\/revisions\/964"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}