Bridge World – A Wide Exhibition of Stamps

Author: Songyuan
Language: Chinese and English bilingual
ISBN/ISSN: 7806166092
Published on: 1998-01
Hardcover

This book contains 726 pieces of stamps, envelopes and postcards with postmarks from 161 countries and regions where there were bridge stamps first appearing. Among them, there are complete set of bridge stamps from China, and 88% of foreign stampes including a really posted (in 1896) evelope with bridge stamps issued (in 1894) in the Belgian Congo, a Hungarian postcard of 1896, and such famous stamps as the first bridge stamp of the United States in 1898, the Tito Arch Bridge stamp of Yugoslavia, the Humber suspension bridge stamp of England, the Normandie Bridge stamp of France and other sample stamps.

Inscriptions
Preface
Introduction
Arch Bridge
Beam Bridge
Rigid Frame Bridge
Suspension Bridge
Cable – stayed Bridge
Appendix
Postface