The Hillside Collection was formed by a gentleman living in a smaller city far from any of the major stamp centers.
As he accumulated more and more Admirals, he purchased a copy of Marler’s essential work as well as other literature and started to look for the unusual and esoteric.
Over the course of a lifetime and some sixty years of collecting Admirals, he had a number of opportunities to add some rarities within a relatively limited budget. The collection was carefully organized in four large stockbooks.
Sparks arranged to have Leo Beaudet, a longtime member of the BNAPS Admiral Study Group, examine the collection. The report which Leo prepared has formed the basis for many of our descriptions. And, based on the number of high resolution scans we made for Leo’s reference, the readers of the The Admiral’s Log can look forward to some future commentary based on this collection.
The collection includes lathework, re-entries, plate strips, printing varieties, shades, multiples, postal history, as well as wholesale quantities. It should offer something to those beginning to collect this fascinating fi eld and to advanced collectors of the issue. Pencilled notations in selvedge refers to date of purchase at Post Office.
We are pleased to offer this collection.