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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Stanley Gibbons
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Britain's leading firm of dealers in stamps, whose annual catalogues are a bible to philatelists and whose headquarters in London's Strand include the world's largest stamp shop. Stanley Gibbons (1840–1913), was born in the same year as the postage stamp (see *Post Office). He established his company largely on the strength of one brilliant purchase – a sackful of stamps, many of them rarities, which had been won by two sailors in a raffle in Cape Town. He secured this treasure in 1863 for £5, and sold from it for many years. In 1865 he began the Stanley Gibbons catalogue, which was then a 20-page list issued on a monthly basis.
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