ISSUE 130 - October 1, 2021 - Stamp News Online Magazine
100 Years Ago in Mekeel’s:
The Cape “Wood-Blocks”
by A. B. Creeke, Jr.
(From Mekeel’s Weekly, July 1 & July 8, 1911, with images added)
How often has some one authoritatively stated that “the last word” has been written on a subject, only to find, perhaps years afterwards, that a comparatively unknown student has recently taken up the supposedly futile search and attained some slight measure of success?
The well-known Cape “Wood-blocks” have always been great favourites with both philatelist and stamp collector: both are not only “Cape triangulars,” but also short-lived provisionals, and therefore . . .
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