THE
Stanley Gibbons Philatelic Handbooks.
SAINT VINCENT
WITH
Notes and Publishers’ Prices.
BY
FRANCIS H. NAPIER
AND
E. D. BACON.
STANLEY GIBBONS, LIMITED,
391, STRAND, LONDON.
1895.
THE
Stanley Gibbons Philatelic Handbooks.
SAINT VINCENT.
WITH
NOTES AND PUBLISHERS’ PRICES.
BY
FRANCIS H. NAPIER
AND
E. D. BACON.
London:
STANLEY GIBBONS, LIMITED,
391, STRAND.
1895.
391, Strand, London.
The large number of collectors, not only in this country, but alsoon the other side of the Atlantic, who now make the postal issuesof the various West Indian Colonies of Great Britain the objectof their quest, justifies us in believing that the present volume (thefourth of the series) will be received with as much interest as thatwhich has been evinced for the preceding volumes.
The authors of this Handbook, Lieut. F. H. Napier, R.N.,and Mr. E. D. Bacon, have in preparation a Handbook onthe Stamps of Barbados, which we hope will be ready forpublication in the course of the present year.
The prices quoted will in some cases be found higher than theprices given in our General Catalogue and Price List, but it mustbe borne in mind that those in these Handbooks are specimensof more than average quality, for it is a fact now generally recognizedby all philatelists that a specimen in exceptional conditioncommands a higher price than that which rules for an averagespecimen.
We have priced only those varieties which we have in stock incertain quantities, but it must not be concluded from this that allthose unpriced are of such rarity or value that we are unable tosupply them.
STANLEY GIBBONS, Limited.
May, 1895.
SAINT VINCENT.
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS.
The prehistoric times of Philately may be said tohave ceased in 1863, when the publication of theStamp Collector’s Magazine and the Timbre-Postecommenced. The few and meagre catalogueswhich preceded them in 1862—such as those ofMount Brown and Dr. Gray in England, Moens inBelgium, and Potiquet in France—can only be looked uponas archaic productions, interesting c