Oxford and Cambridge College Stamps
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Oxford and Cambridge College Stamps
From 1871 to 1886 certain Oxford and Cambridge Colleges issued their own stamps to be sold to members of the college so as thay could pre pay the cost of a college messenger delivering their mail. This practice was stopped in 1886 by the Post Office as it was decided that the service was in contrevention of the post office monopoly. The colleges which issued the stamps were :-
Oxford- Keble 1871# Merton 1876# Hertford 1879# Lincoln 1877 Exeter 1882# St Johns 1884 All Souls 1884 Balliol 1885 (Printed but never issued) Cambridge- Selwyn 1882 Queens 1883 St Johns 1884
Postal stationery was also used by some of the colleges listed above (Post Cards , Envelopes) which were impressed with a pre paid stamp.This is donoted by # above. Read : College Stamps of Oxford and Cambridge by Raymond Lister The College Stamps of Oxford and Cambridge by Rev Hayman Cummings
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