The Tapling Collection of postage stamps was donated to the British Museum from the estate of Thomas Tapling in 1891. The probate value of the Tapling collection...
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Museum Library, later to become the British Library, with the collection of Thomas Tapling. In addition to bequests and continuing donations, the library...
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Stamp collecting (redirect from Stamp collection)
Museum from the estate of Thomas Tapling in 1891. It currently forms the Tapling Collection in the Philatelic Collections of the British Library. Several...
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Thomas Tapling, was a businessman who made a fortune from the manufacture of carpets and household furnishings. His mother was Annie Elizabeth Tapling (née...
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British Library (section Collections)
Library Philatelic Collections are held at St Pancras. The collections were established in 1891 with the donation of the Tapling collection; they steadily...
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Family of Windsor. 2- Tapling collection, British Museum. 3 – Leinster collection, Dublin Science and Art Museum. 4 – White collection, State Library of New...
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onwards for the augmentation of the Tapling Collection or, if this were impossible, the creation of a collection of modern stamps in some other museum...
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Cotton library (redirect from Cottonian Collection)
is a collection of manuscripts that came into the hands of the antiquarian and bibliophile Sir Robert Bruce Cotton MP (1571–1631). The collection of books...
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The Egerton Collection is a collection of historical manuscripts held in the British Library. The core of the collection comprises 67 manuscripts bequeathed...
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Paston Letters (category British Library collections)
The Paston Letters are a collection of correspondence between members of the Paston family of Norfolk gentry and others connected with them in England...
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The Thomason Collection of Civil War Tracts consists of more than 22,000 pamphlets, broadsides, manuscripts, books, and news sheets, most of which were...
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The Stefan Zweig Collection is an important collection of autograph manuscripts formed by the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig. After his death in 1942 his...
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Inverted Head 4 Annas (section Collections)
60 [1980?] Thomas Tapling purchased the item for £32 in 1890 from the Italian stamp dealer Dr. Emilio Diena. The Tapling Collection. British Library....
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is now held as part of the British Library Philatelic Collections. After the Tapling Collection, this is considered the Library's most important philatelic...
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The Burney Collection consists of over 1,270 17th-18th century newspapers and other news materials, gathered by Charles Burney, most notable for the 18th-century...
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National Sound Archive (NSA), in London, England is among the largest collections of recorded sound in the world, including music, spoken word and ambient...
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Harleian Library (redirect from Harley Collection)
Library, Harley Collection, Harleian Collection and other variants (Latin: Bibliotheca Harleiana) is one of the main "closed" collections (namely, historic...
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collection includes some important proofs. The collection is regarded as supplementary to the Tapling Collection. As of November 2007, the collection...
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all visitors, not just library ticket-holders, to enter it. It held a collection of 25,000 books focusing on the cultures represented in the museum along...
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Bojanowicz Collection of Polish postal history 1938–46, and parts of the Fitzgerald Collection of airmails to 1946, the Tapling Collection and the Universal...
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The Model Collection is a collection of 1945–1946 local provisional stamps of Germany issued following the allied occupation, unused and on covers that...
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Lansdowne manuscripts (redirect from Lansdowne collection)
significant named collection of the British Library, based on the collection of William Petty, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne. The purchase of the collection by the British...
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Tauchnitz publishers (redirect from Todd-Bowden Collection of Tauchnitz Editions)
started at Leipzig (Germany) on 1 February 1837. Bernhard started the Collection of British and American Authors in 1841, a reprint series familiar to...
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The H.M. Stationery Office Collection is a collection of British excise revenue material including National Savings and National Insurance stamps that...
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The Johnson Collection is a collection of postcards relating mainly to the social aspects of the history of the British Post Office that forms part of...
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Garrick Collection is a collection of early printed editions of English drama amassed by the actor and playwright David Garrick. The collection was bequeathed...
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The Heys Collection is a collection of philatelic material relating to amateur radio operators in Europe between 1930 and 1997 that forms part of the British...
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King's Library (category Donations from the Royal Collection)
The King's Library was one of the most important collections of books and pamphlets of the Age of Enlightenment. Assembled by George III (r.1760–1820)...
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The Seymour Collection is a collection of philatelic material relating to the development and operation of the de Havilland Comet aircraft, that forms...
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The Beudeker Collection is a collection of maps and views of the Netherlands and Belgium in the British Library, created by the Dutch merchant Christoffel...
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