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1838: James Chalmers Essays, 1890 reprints, "General Postage / NOT / EXCEEDING / ONE / OUNCE / Twopence" and two "General Postage / NOT / EXCEEDING / ONE / OUNCE / One Penny." unmounted horizontal strip of three, with mounted single One Penny example cancelled in black "DUNDEE / February, 1838", printed in pink on gummed white wove paper, scarce and fine. Chalmers, a Dundee bookseller, wrote in a February 10, 1838 letter to the Post Office "that sheets of stamped slips be prepared...then rubbed over the back with a strong solution of gum..." and that "to prevent being used twice, postmasters should put the town stamp across the slips." These reprint essays were discussed in an exchange of letters to the editor of the London Philatelist (October 1917) as having been reproduced from the original strip of essays contained in one of the volumes of Sir Henry Cole left to the Victoria and Albert Museum, and distributed with a special Christmas Supplement of the Stamp Collector`s Monthly