Saint Vincent, with Notes and Publishers' Prices

This is a specialist's guide to the postage stamps of St. Vincent, one of the Windward Islands in the Caribbean. The book documents the colony's first stamp issues from 1861, providing collectors with detailed classifications, color variations, and perforation types that made Victorian-era stamps notoriously difficult to organize. The authors address the particular challenge of St. Vincent's stamps: small print runs, multiple variations within single issues, and the confusion caused by inconsistent manufacturer records. The handbook includes actual publisher pricing, allowing collectors to assess the relative rarity and value of different stamps. Beyond mere cataloguing, it traces the establishment of St. Vincent's postal system, the transition to a General Post Office, and the regulatory framework governing colonial mail. For philatelists, this book represents a snapshot of how late-Victorian collectors understood and categorized Caribbean stamps, before modern cataloguing systems brought order to the field. It remains a useful historical reference for those studying British colonial postal history.