Coffee Hag - Coat of arms of cities and towns of the British Isles

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Coffee Hag : Arms of cities and towns of the British Isles


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Album information :

  • Issued by : Coffee Hag, London
  • Date of issue : 1933
  • Number of stamps/cards : 236
  • Image variants : None, but one extra decorative stamp was issued

Company

For information on the company, see the overview of Coffee Hag albums.

Album

The album ‘Arms of cities and towns of the British Isles' was issued around 1930, most likely 1933.</

The British album was published in Westminster (London) by Abbey Press Ltd. The author is not known, but Major Thomas Shepard has often been mentioned as the author.

The album contains 236 stamps with images, which are numbered separately in each section. The album is divided in chapters per Region, with the Regional arms on a separate page, followed by, alphabetically, the other towns and cities in the Region. The Regions are: London, England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and Northern Ireland. Besides the region, the stamps also mention the county in which the town is situated.

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Unlike some other albums, there is no text on the back of the stamps.

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The whole album is available here

Contents

London

England

Scotland

Irish Free State

Northern Ireland

Wales