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. LuffThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withalmost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away orre-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License includedwith this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.netTitle: What Philately Teaches A Lecture Delivered before the Section on Philately of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, February 24, 1899Author: John N. LuffRelease Date: April 26, 2005 [eBook #15713]Language: EnglishCharacter set encoding: ISO-8859-1***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WHAT PHILATELY TEACHES***E-text prepared by Brendan Lane and the Project Gutenberg OnlineDistributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net)Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 15713-h.htm or 15713-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/5/7/1/15713/15713-h/15713-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/5/7/1/15713/15713-h.zip)WHAT PHILATELY TEACHESA Lecture Delivered before the Section on Philately of the BrooklynInstitute of Arts and Sciences, February 24, 1899byJOHN N. LUFFNew YorkThird Edition1915By way of preface, I wish to say, that I have prepared this paper withthe hope of interesting those who are not stamp collectors and myendeavor will be to indicate some of the interesting and instructivethings that may be learned by ...