English & Irish Magnetic Telegraph Co stamp

The Langmead Collection is a collection of British and Irish

telegraph stamp Telegraph stamps are stamps intended solely for the prepayment of telegraph fees. The customer completed a telegraph form before handing it with payment to the clerk who applied a telegraph stamp and cancelled it to show that payment had been ...

s and stationery from 1851 to 1881 that forms part of the

British Library Philatelic Collections The British Library Philatelic Collections is the national philatelic collection of the United Kingdom with over 8 million items from around the world. It was established in 1891 as part of the British Museum Library, later to become the B ...

. It was formed by Peter Langmead and received by the Library under the "in lieu of tax" scheme in 1991.The Langmead Collection.
British Library, 9 February 2012.

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