What Philately Teaches - A Lecture Delivered before the Section on Philately of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, February 24, 1899

The Project Gutenberg eBook, What Philately Teaches, by John N. Luff This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: What Philately Teaches A Lecture Delivered before the Section on Philately of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, February 24, 1899 Author: John N. Luff Release Date: April 26, 2005 [eBook #15713] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WHAT PHILATELY TEACHES*** E-text prepared by Brendan Lane and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) 1 What Philately Teaches A LECTURE DELIVERED BEFORE THE SECTION ON PHILATELY OF THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, FEBRUARY 24, 1899 BY JOHN N. LUFF NEW YORK. Third Edition 1915 2 3What Philately Teaches By way of preface, I wish to say, that I have prepared this paper with the hope of interesting those who are not stamp collectors and my endeavor will be to indicate some of the interesting and instructive things that may be learned by those who follow this fascinating pursuit. Much that I have to say will be ancient history to philatelists, but I trust they will remember that this is not especially intended for them and pardon any dryness in it, in view of its intent.