Today, an thing absolutely essential to a good, safe, pristine contemporary philatelic collection :scotch.
No, I'm sorry, not the whisky. The adhesive tape.
Yes, to pack books we bought on-line at a bookshop, an editor or a postal administration to insure they arrived without torn pages and with plate covers.
Here is the one used by the Royal Mail for my Douglas N. Muir's A Timeless Classic. The evolution of Machin's icon. The collectors of postal marks will be happy to recognize some british ones.
The curator of the British Postal Museum & Archive tells though the genesis of the Machin series the story of the revolution in the philatelic creation, happened in Britain in the sixties. How Postmaster General Tony Benn and artist David Gentleman launched a big transformation with the initial goal of getting rid of the Wilding portrait. Conclusions were Arnold Machin's design for definitives and a new simplier head for commemoratives.
Great book.
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