Bacon, Mr. E. D., 298 Baden, 61 Bagshawe, Mr. A., 302 Balkan States, 203 Baltimore, 289 Barbados, 219, 322 Baring, Mr. Thomas, M.P., 167 Basle, 256, 290 Batavia, Find of old papers in, 85 Bâtonné paper, 23, 39 Baton Rouge, 181, 332 Bavaria, 61 Beaufort House Press, The, 95 Beaumont, 332 Belgium, 179 Bellman, Origin of the, 67 Benzine, The use of, 139 Bergedorf, 271, 326 Berger-Levrault, M. F. G. Oscar, 125, 269-271 Berlin Postal Museum, 330 Bermuda, 322 _Billets de port payé_, 81 Birchin-lane, Stamp exchange in 118, 121, 263 Bisected provisional stamps, 23, 37, 219 Blest, Mr. W., 302 _Bleuté_, blued paper, 23 Blind division, General Post Office, 57 Blocks of stamps, 23, 25 Blood locals, The, 273 Bogus stamps, 23, 247, 258-260 Booty, Mr. Frederick, 123, 124, 147 Borchard, Mme., 278 Bourne, Mr. Herbert, 172 _Boys' Own Magazine, The_, 127 Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co., 172 Brattleboro, 273 Brazil, 71, 116, 234 British Central Africa, 168 British Colonial Stamps, 32, 203, 311 British Guiana, 53, 219, 268, 269, 271, 275, 277, 282, 301, 321, 329, 331 British Museum, 97, 98, 124, 160, 281, 327, 329, 330 British New Guinea, 170 British North America, 71, 202, 295 British Post-offices abroad, 53 British Solomon Islands, 206 British South Africa Company, 170 British West Indies, 71, 202 Brown, Mr. Mount, 123, 124, 127, 264, 268 Brunei, 259 Brunswick, 61 Buenos Aires, 71, 271, 311 Bulgaria, 306 Bulwer, Mr. Edward Lytton, 96 Burelé, 23 Burnett, Mr. M., 302 Caillebotte, Mm., 302 Canada, 176, 220, 269, 311 Canary Islands, 71 Cancelled to order, Stamps, 23 Cape Colony, 25, 179, 202, 220, 269, 331 Caroline Islands, 206 Cashmere, 40, 253 Castle, Mr. M. P., 131, 290, 302, 325 Castle-Mann collection, The, 202 "Catalogue of British Colonial and Foreign Stamps," Mount Brown's, 124 Catalogues, Stamp, 137 Cayman Islands, 221 Centimetre, 24 Ceylon, 201, 222, 224, 253, 290 Chalk-surfaced paper, 24 Chalmers, Mr. James, of Dundee, 99, 101 Chalon, Mr. Alfred Edward, R.A., 170 Change-alley, Stamp exchange in, 263 Charles II., 64 Cheverton, Mr. Benjamin, 102, 105, 159, 160 Chili, 71, 179, 189, 202 China, 189, 201 Christie, Manson & Wood, 167 City medal, Wyon's, 163 Clarke, Mr. Harvey R. G., 290 Cliché, 24, 45 Clipperton Island, 259 Clotilde, Princess, 305 Coit, Mr. J. T., 296 Cole, Sir Henry, 101, 102, 106, 109, 110, 167 Collections, Sales of, 302 Colman, Mr. C., 302 Colour trials, 24 Coloured postmarks, 186 Colours, 23, 28 Colson, Mr. W. H., 332 Comb perforating machine, 24 Commemorative stamps, 24 Commissioners of Post-office inquiry, 101, 109, 159 Commonwealth, posts during the, 63 Compound perforations, 24 Condition, The Importance of, 8; Essential details of, 139-142 Confederate States of America, 296, 331 Control letters, marks, 24 Cook Islands, 206 Cooper, Miss Eliza, 160 Cooper, Mr. W., 302 Cooper, Sir Daniel, 123, 129, 131, 272, 274, 275, 282, 298, 302