127124 'ADHESIVE WAFER SEALS, A TRANSIENT VICTORIAN PHENOMENON' BY CHAMPNESS AND TRAPNELL.

'ADHESIVE WAFER SEALS, A TRANSIENT VICTORIAN PHENOMENON' BY CHAMPNESS AND TRAPNELL. A superb copy of this excellent 1996 hardback, 152 pages with excellent illustrations. Contents: Introduction, Hand Seals, matrices, Post Office seals, Paste seals, envelopes, evolution of the adhesive wafer seal, first British wafer seals, commercial background and use, wafer seals used in other countries, postage stamps used as wafer seals and collecting wafer seals. Part 2 is a very comprehensive listing of the different types of wafer seals with a catalogue of those recorded by the authors followed by 'Special interest groups' such as Peace, Sunday Observance and Vegetarianism. Superb and very scarce publications. (Ref 127124).