Excerpt from The Postage Stamps of the Philippines: Including a List of Telegraph and Revenue Stamps Issued Under Spanish Dominion
To Mr. Bartels is wholly due the description of the various types of sur charges, the illustrations, and the very valuable appendix on counterfeits. The writer's thanks are due to Mr. Foster for the method of arrangement and the enumeration of the various shades in which the different stamps exist.
The catalogue as published represents the best knowledge of the compilers - knowledge based on all available information, much study, and careful thought. They do not assume, owing to a lack of information on a large por tion of the subject matter, that the work is free from errors and inaccuracies. It can however be stated with but little fear of contradiction that many of the for merly existing errors have been eliminated, and that for the first time such data as are known are made available in English.
Up to the present time the German catalogue of Friederich has been regarded as one of the best. Aside from its errors and its failure to describe correctly the various types of surcharges and counterfeits, the difficulty of lan guage has prevented this otherwise valuable publication from being generally used among English-speaking collectors.
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