RJI Publishing

Compiled by Darryl Hinton-Blaker, 220 pages, hardbound, 7" x 10".  An in-depth presentation of the early period of development of the philatelic and postal history of the German Empire and its colonies from 1872 to 1900, including insight into the political and postal development of the territories which were to become the German Empire. 

The book includes the development of the UPU, private local postal services, rates, postal markings introduced for Germany and her colonies, postmarks for special events and services and traveling post offices, horseshoe cancels, Post-Spedition cancels, machine cancels, F-marks, German colonial (and forerunner) cancellations, plus much more.

ISBN 1-885184-00-X / 978-1-885184-00-9

(Item RJI-003) $19.95