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85:(assistant keeper of Printed Books) estimated their value at more than £50,000 and described the bequest as the most valuable gift since the Grenville Library in 1847 (equivalent to £24,000,000 in 2011).
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The collection covers the period 1840 to 1890 with some items up to 1900 added subsequently and recorded on the album pages. As of
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Tapling Collection includes this 1854, 4 annas stamp in blue and pale red from India with the error of having the head inverted.
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Index to the collection of postage and other stamps bequeathed to the
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Index to the collection of postage and other stamps bequeathed to the
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The collection also includes a significant number of colour varieties of early
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The
Tapling Collection of postage and telegraph stamps and postal stationery
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Leicester
Chronicle and the Leicestershire Mercury (Leicester, England)
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value of the
Tapling collection was set at £12,000 but on arrival
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Uruguay: 1858 120 centavos blue and 180 centavos green, in
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West Africa in the British Library Philatelic Collections
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Spain: 1851 2 reales, error of colour, one of three known
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Hawaii: 1851-52 2 cents to 13 cents (both types), the "
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and selected items are on permanent public exhibition.
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1854 4 annas blue and pale red, error head inverted
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152:, the unique unsevered horizontal strip of five
119:Gold Coast: 1883 (May) 1d on 4d magenta, unique
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90:Philatelic Collections of the British Library
712:Todd-Bowden Collection of Tauchnitz Editions
431:"Spain: 1851 2 reales blue, error of colour"
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365:(5 ed.), Rough Guides, p. 152,
287:, Library Association Pub., p. 205,
220:. 11 July 1891. p. 4. Archived from
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115:The collection features these rarities:
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868:Contributions Agency Collection
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1083:Treasury Excise Correspondence
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853:Campbell-Johnston Collection
687:Leyden Medical Dissertations
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390:West Africa Study Circle
283:Day, Alan Edwin (1998),
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778:Stefan Zweig Collection
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1118:Wilson-Todd Collection
487:Melville, Frederick J.
460:(read online, page 29)
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188:List of postage stamps
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903:Fitzgerald Collection
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763:Lansdowne manuscripts
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543:at Wikimedia Commons
212:"Wills and Bequests"
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983:Langmead Collection
943:Harrison Collection
908:Fletcher Collection
898:Feldheim Collection
863:Chinchen Collection
794:Beudeker Collection
748:Harleian Collection
728:Arundel Manuscripts
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601:Ettridge Collection
514:, British Library,
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1048:Seymour Collection
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973:Kaluski Collection
968:Johnson Collection
923:General Collection
858:Chismon Collection
848:Burnett Collection
758:King's manuscripts
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667:Garrick Collection
652:Durrell Collection
616:Jaffray Collection
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888:Davies Collection
828:Bailey Collection
810:Burney Collection
773:Syriac Collection
768:Stowe manuscripts
753:Royal manuscripts
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672:Hannas Collection
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