book, stamp
Document/Book
Accession Number
2025.006.002Description
Orange paper cover with 34 pages, most of which have franked stamps pasted into pre-marked rectangles. There are a further 11 pages with no stamps affixed. All pages show signs of foxing and many of them are detached from their original binding. The pages are bound by two metal staples in the fold of the booklet. The stamps are from around the world, including India, Jamaica, New Zealand, Canada and Great Britain. There also envelope fragments and a blank pre-paid postcard loose in the booklet. One complete envelope was sent from India to Ireland.Narrative
This stamp book contains stamps from around the world, largely countries within the British Empire, and date from the late Victorian and early Edwardian era. The stamps are mostly low values indicating the cost of postage at the time. The album was created by Berkeley Holme-Sumner, RN (Captain), OBE, who served on HMS Satellite, among other vessels and was in Victoria at various times in the late 19th Century.Captain Holme-Sumner married Margaret Harvey, a granddaughter of Robert and Joan Dunsmuir in 1896, around the time the stamps were compiled in this album. It was collected to aid in the interpretation of the stories of the Dunsmuir family and their descendants.
