The Stamp Specialist is the title of a series of books on philatelic research written and edited for the advanced collector of postage stamps.
The books were published by H. L. Lindquist, 2 West 46 Street, New York City.
Twenty books were issued between 1939 and 1948. Early books were paper bound, but the majority was hard-bound and each later book was usually popularly identified by the color of its hard cover.
Each book contains six or more studies of research by eminent philatelic experts, each related to a particular detailed philatelic subject.
Article title and authors of the articles:
Miscellany - George B. Sloane
Mounting and Filing Entire Covers and Postal Stationery - A. Eugene Michel
Color - A. Maerz
The United States Five Cent Stamp of 1847 - Stanley B. Ashbrook
Post Office Seals - Prescott Holden Thorp
The Confederate States of America 1863 Ten Cent Blue - Stanley B. Ashbrook
Guam Guard Mail - H. F. Bowker
The Development of the Rotary Press Printing - Max G. Johl
Unusual Methods of Mounting - Paul F. Berdanier, Jr. and others
American and European Methods of Specializing - Edwin Mueller
Philatelic Auction Survey
An Analysis of Prices Realized for U.S. Stamps Over a Period of Fifty Years - Charles J. Phillips
Independent Mail Routes of the United States - Harry M. Konwiser & Laurence B. Mason
A Study of the Major Varieties of the U.S. 3c 1851 - Richard McP. Cabeen
Roman States - The Original and Counterfeits of the First Issue - Fritz Billig
Pages of Aristocrats from My Stamp Album - Philip H. Ward, Jr.
The "Used Abroads" of Great Britain - Lou W. Kreicker & Major H.P. Burrell
The Australian Pennies of the King George V Issue - Wm. J. Davy
New York Post Office, Some Early "Steamship" Markings - Stanley B. Ashbrook
The "Southn. Letter Unpaid" Marking of Louisville, Ky. June and July 1861 - Lawrence L. Schenfield
Preliminary Report on the Survey on Condition -
Airmail Stamps at Auction, An Analysis of American and English Prices Realized During the Past Year
What Chance Has the Mail Bidder at a Stamp Auction and Other Pertinent Data
The Penny Black, Philately's Number One - includes an oversize engraving of a Penny Black - Lou W. Kreicker & Major H.P. Burrell
The United States 12c-24c-30c and 90c Imperforates of 1860 - Stanley B. Ashbrook
United States Postal History - Part 1 - Seymour Dunbar
Philately Honors the Constitution - C. N. Downs
Steamboat Mail Transportation on the Great Lakes - The Ward Steamship Lines - W. L. Babcock, M.D.
C.C.C. "Socked on the Nose" - Theodore E. Steinway
Unusual Methods of Mounting
Revised report on the Survey on Condition
How to Distinguish Stamp Varieties - Edwin Mueller
Paper. A Non-technical History and Description of the More Common Types as used in Philately - James H. Obrig
Aviation and Philately, based on the Norman Serphos Collection - Frank L. Wilson
United States Postal History (Part 2) - Seymour Dunbar
The Three Cent 1857 - What to look for in the Perforated Issue - Richard McP. Cabeen
The First Stamps of Honduras - Bertram W. H. Poole
40 Years of United States Special Delivery Stamps - C. W. Bates
Methods of Mounting - Paul F. Berdanier, Jr.
Final Report on the Survey on Condition
INCLUDED WITH BOOK #4 PAPER SAMPLES:
- "SUPPLEMENT TO THE STAMP SPECIALIST Number 4 (1940) - A glassine packet of nine enclosed paper samples to be mounted with stamp hinges or pasted, in the spaces allocated to them on the pages.
The spaces for the paper samples to be mounted are within the article, " Paper. A Non-technical History and Description of the More Common Types as used in Philately -
James H. Obrig
Designs for United States stamps – Paul F. Berdanier, Jr.
The Supplementary Mail Service of the New York Post office 1853-1872 – Stanley B. Ashbrook with comments by Dr. W. L. Babcock
Poland – the stampless period – Stephen G. Rich and Vincent Domanski, Jr.
The Luff reference collection – H. L. Lindquist
The engraver of the Five Cents De La Rue – August Dietz
Specializing in twentieth century United States stamps – Max G. Johl
Thru the Newbury deluxe collection of the 19th century United States - Stanley B. Ashbrook
Jammu and Kashmir – Notes on Their Stamps - Winthrop S. Boggs
United States postal history - Seymour Dunbar
A Canal Boat letter group
A World’s Fair group
A Railway Post Office group
A Primer of the first Greek postage stamps - Robert O. Truman
The capped relief of the Two Cents 1890 - John H. Latta, C.P.A.
“Neither rain – nor snow – nor gloom of war...” Three letters that crossed the lines in the War Between the States - Lawerence L. Shenfield
Poland, the period of stamps, to 1870 - Vincent Domanski Jr. & Stephen G. Rich
The Five Cent of 1847 Double Transfers - Stanley B. Ashbrook
Prisoner of War and Flag-of-Truce Covers - Lawerence L. Shenfield
Supplement to Independent Mail Routes of the United States - Harry M. Konwiser
United States Postal History
Postal Memorials of Human Slavery and Lincoln - Seymour H. Dunbar
The Autaugaville Alabama Stamps - Howard Lehman
Countries for the Specialist
Norway - H. L. Lindquist
France - Dr. A. J. C. Vaurie
Great Britain - Major H.P. Burrell
Finland - Arthur Linz
Canada - Walter Pollock
Guatemala - H. L. Lindquist
United States - The "Premieres Gravures" of 1861 - Stanley B. Ashbrook
Census of Philatelists
How Many stamp collectors Are There
Canada-17c-1859, A Study of its Plate Positions - Senator James A. Calder
Four Historical Covers from the Spanish–American War Period in Puerto - R. B. Preston
China - James Starr
Coffee House and Newsroom Mail. The Origin of the Postal System in America - Abe Schoenfeld
A Great Historic Document Comes to Light - General Winfield Scott's Proclamation to the People of Mexico
The Puerto Rican Columbian Commemorative Stamp of 1893 - R. B. Preston
Confederate Notes - Stanley B. Ashbrook
Newly Discovered Prisoner of war cover with "Examined - Ship Island" in red
"Raleigh N. C. Paid 5" Postmaster Provisional or Handstamped Paid?
Philatelic Byways thru 19th Century B.N.A. - Ed Richardson
British Columbia and Vancouver's Island
New Brunswick
Nova Scotia
Prince Edward Island
Countries for the Specialist
Ecuador - H. L. Lindquist
Confederate Blockade Covers including some Unusual Examples - Van Dyk MacBride
"Forwarded By" Handstamps - Harry M. Konwiser
The Trans-Mississippi Issue of 1898 (The So-Called Omaha Issue) - George B. Sloane
The Bull's Eyes of Brazil (in Celebration of the Hundredth Anniversary) - H. L. Lindquist
Unusual Aguinaldos in One of the Most Theatrical and Interesting Interludes in the History of the Philippine Islands - Col. Hans Lagerloef
Guadeloupe, The Emerald Island - Robert G. Stone
Confederate Stamps-On-Provisional Covers - Van Dyk MacBride
Siam-Thailand - Adolph Klingenstein
Egypt - Ernest A. Kehr
Embossed Revenue Stamped Paper of the United States - Carl E. Dorr
The Swastika in Philately - William T. Corbusier
The 30 Cents Black Imperforate of 1860 - R. J. Mechin
Confederate Notes - Lawrence L. Shenfield
How the Fighting Men of the 5th Texas Regiment C.S.A. got their letters across the Mississippi to Texas
Southern Express Company Office Marking of Vicksburg, Mississippi
The Democracy of Philately - The Rev'd. William H. Tower
Canada 17c-1859. The Identification of its Printings through the use of Comparative Color Charts - Senator James A. Calder
Puerto Rico - The 1873-1876 Overprinted Issues - R. B. Preston
Russia - The Small Head U.S.S.R. Types of 1923-1927 - H. L. Aronson
The Raleigh N.C. Provisional - A Correction - Stanley B. Ashbrook
A Study of the Color of 1861, 3c U.S. Design Stamp - Wm. H. Beck
The 6 Cents Lincoln Bank Note Issue - George C. Hahn
A Sheaf of War Covers - The Rev'd. William H. Tower
Canadian Patriotics and Related Boer War Covers - Ed. Richardson
An Important Discovery on the United States 1898 4c Stamp - Ferrars Tows
Early Foreign Mail Service From Peru - Arthur Linz
History of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing - Thomas F. Morris
Confederate Mexico Covers - A sequel to "Confederate Blockade Covers" - Van Dyk MacBride
Iceland - Joseph Jaeger
The South's "Way of Life" - Random Notes for the Student of Confederates - August Dietz
The "Large Geneva Eagle" 1846-1848 - Gustave A. von Gross
Southern Censorship of the South Bound Mail - L. G. Brookman
Puerto Rico - The British Postal Agencies in Puerto Rico - R. B. Preston
A Primer of English Postal History to the Adhesive Period - The Rev'd. William H. Tower
The Maryland State Issue of 1818 of Revenue Stamped Paper - Colin MacR. Makepeace
Philatelic Byways Thru 19th Century BNA-Victorian Canada - Ed Richardson
Captain Absalom Grimes - The Confederate Mail Carrier - Van Dyk MacBride
The Postal History of the Ionian Islands - Colonel Hans Lagerloef
The City Delivery Letter Expresses of San Francisco - Ernest A. Wiltsee
Air Mail Interruption Covers - R. Lee Black
National Defense Issue - George C. Hahn and Sol Glass
"Pan. & San Fran. S.S." (Panama and San Francisco Steam Ship) - Stanley B. Ashbrook
Puerto Rico - Postal Markings of the 1855-1873 Period - R. B. Preston and M. H. Sanborn
United States Savings Stamps - A New Field for the Specialist - H. L. Lindquist
The Royal Genealogies in Stamps - Harold F. Round
Barnard’s Caribou Express – in the Colony of British Columbia, 1860-1971 and later expresses of F. J. Barnard - Henry C. Hitt and Gerald E. Wellborn
Some notes on the Harold C. Brooks collection of Confederate States of America - Stanley B. Ashbrook
Patriotic cover fishing - Rollin E. Flower
A huge find of rare western franks – many hitherto unknown varieties - Ernest A Wiltsee
Insurance cancellations on Civil War revenues 1862-1871 - Jere. Hess Barr
Don’t ignore the letters – a cover collector points out the interest and romance to be found in the contents of your covers - Towner K. Webster, Jr.
A letter from Libby Prison - Van Dyk MacBride
“Canada Mourns Her Beloved Queen” - Ed Richardson
Syndicate envelopes - Thomas D. Perry
The Overrun Nations series - Sol Glass
Poland, the postal stationery - Clement A. Pulaski
The Early Postal History of Peru - Arthur Linz
Russian Zemstvos, a compendium of existing information with additional information based on original research - Col. Hans Lagerloef
Norway, a few notes on the unlisted 1882-3 Issue - Gustave Larson
Philadelphia’s part in the Civil War - George N. Malpass
Brazilian postal forgeries - Samuel Ray
Confederate States of America - Stanley B. Ashbrook
Some Notes on the Postal Legislation
Postal Rates
Postal Uses and Earliest Known Dates of the Stamps of the General Issues
Trans-Atlantic Mails - Major F. W. Staff
Austria and Lombardy-Venetia, The Re-Engravings on the Dotted Background of the First Issue - Felix Brunner
Puerto Rico - R. B. Preston
The Bogus Stamps of 1897
Revenue Stamps used for Postage
The Development of The Electric Eye - Nathan Goldstein II
Poland - Clement A. Pulaski
The Postal Stationery
Stamped Envelope
Letter Card
The Autographed Field Letters of General Robert E. Lee - Van Dyk MacBride
Lee Envelopes in the Congressional Library, Washington, D.C. -
Stamp Booklets and Booklet Panes - Sidney S. Jalkut
Stamp Booklets and Booklet Panes of the World (the first known comprehensive compilation of these items ever made) - Sidney S. Jalkut
1860-1863 Three Cents Plus One Cent Plus One Cent - Stanley B. Ashbrook
Belgium Postal Savings and Roulette Cancellations - Lt. Com'd'r. Ray E. Morrison
Norway - A Century of Steamship Mail Service - Gustav Larson
Milwaukee Handstamps and Their Use - Kenneth F. Olson
Burdell's Express - J. R. W. Purves, F.R.P.S.L
Express Company Labels of the United States - Harry M. Konwiser
Stamp Booklets and Booklet Panes - Sidney S. Jalkut
United States Postal Agency, Shanghai, China - Harvey Bounds
The Life of Christ on Postage Stamps - George A. Rowse
Stamped Revenue Paper Issued by Province of Mass., Colony of New York, and by Gt. Britain for Use in America - Leland Powers
The Postage Due Issues of Norway, A Translation - Gustav Larson
Camp Shenandoah, Va. - Van Dyk MacBride
Some Comments on the U.S. Playing Card Stamps - John C. Rogers, Ph.D., M.D.
The British Postal Service from Peru - Arthur Linz
Dies of the Columbian stamped envelopes, commemoratives of 1893 - F. L. Ellis
A check list of uncataloged envelopes bearing patriotic designs of southern sentiment - George N. Malpass
Puerto Rico; the postmaster provisionals of 1898 - R. B. Preston
The street car R. P. O. system - Earl D. Moore
A discovery in 1860 issue of Peru: double transfers - Arthur Linz
Eights - Frank W. Staff
The overrun nations series, the flag stamps - Supplement to Article Appearing in The Stamp Specialist Coral Book - Sol Glass
A sequel to the autographed field letters of General Robert E. Lee - Van Dyk MacBride
Stamp booklets and booklet panes - Second Supplement to List of Booklets in India Book - (First Supplement, Mahogany Book)
Fairs, Exhibitions and Expositions and Their Souvenirs - Raymond March
Canada 5d 1859 - Renumbering of Flaws - G. A. E. Chapman
Guatemala, the 100 Varieties of the One Peso Lithographed Identified - H. L. Lindquist
"Camp Shenandoah, Va." - Were There TWO? - Van Dyk MacBride
Teaching With Stamps - Louis H. Drinkwine
The Alfonso XII Issues for Puerto Rico - R. B. Preston
The Penny Postage Jubilee of 1890 - Stephen G. Rich
Stamp Booklets and Booklet Panes - Sydney S. Jalkut
The Stamp Specialist Enters a New Phase
Index to the Stamp Specialist
