Narrow Gauge Railway Stamps: A Collector's Guide
By Howard Piltz
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Howard Piltz
Howard Piltz was born in Rose Grove, Lancashire, where his bedroom looked out across the railway. He is a life-long transport enthusiast with a special interest in railways and buses. For many years Howard has collected transport stamps, which has now grown into an extensive collection, covering most forms of land, sea and air subjects. This series of books is the result of many years research into the stamps and their origins. Howard is a member of the Chartered Institute of Transport, being awarded chartered status ten years ago. His other hobbies include model railways, narrow gauge railways and gardening.
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Narrow Gauge Railway Stamps - Howard Piltz
INTRODUCTION
The two sides
Collecting stamps brings a wonderful new view of the world that the collector – celebrated in the more formal title of the philatelist – is led through an amazing world of knowledge, where the inquisitive mind would ponder some mysteries of bygone times: Why, you may ask, do British postage stamps never, but never boast their country of origin, whilst Swiss ones bear the enigmatic title ‘Helvetia’ and, as if that is not difficult enough, then where are some far-off lands that these days only appear in our history books? Go south a tad, one might be told, to find Southern Rhodesia, or for that matter just a little more thought might be needed to give us the answer for that evocative name Tanganyika.
Likewise, someone with a worldly interest in transport may find that the hobby will lead him – or her – all over the world, if not literally then as a by-product of studying the subject. There are a great many transport professionals who have worked on several different continents throughout their working lives to bring the benefit of their skills to areas one might consider under-developed in the areas of public transport. Personally, the author has spent many years as an enthusiast of most forms of public transport and has been to places that, until the advent of cheap air travel, seemed quite outlandish. Whilst he has never been to Indonesia, he has read, enthralled, of the fire-breathing dragons that abounded there; however, he has been to a lake on Vancouver Island on Canada’s Pacific coast where lived the world’s two largest flying boats rejoicing in the name of ‘Mars’, whilst it seemed to him at the time – he was 14 – quite exciting, but utterly easy in 1959, to talk himself onto the inaugural KLM Viscount flight from Manchester to Amsterdam, only to find there was no return flight home that day (memories of the heart-clutching scream from his Dad over the phone will never fade: ‘You’re WHERE?’) or a flight, not much later but this time with permission – and paid for – to go plane-spotting alone to the Paris Air Show. Not many years later, he visited the USA to look for the last gasps of two iconic forms of American transport – PCC trams in Newark, NJ, and the Pennsylvania Railroad GG1 electric locomotives. I could also go on a little too long about getting rather merry drinking the local brews in places like Prague, Lisbon or the countryside around Brussels whilst chasing trams.
Coming Together with Works of Art
At first sight it might seem a little odd that one should wish to combine these two totally disparate hobbies, but by good fortune the author happens to have a liking for both subjects and a long time ago began to appreciate that in stamps one could find the wonderful combination of transport history told within a glorious gallery of miniature works of art. See through the ages how the reproduction techniques on stamps have developed from simple monochrome etchings with formal, carefully sculpted borders such as this 1954 Fiji example with an illustration of a Leeds-built locomotive and celebrating the islands well-known sugar industry. Interestingly, apart from