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Stamp collection

This article is about the stamp collection. For the Nevada casino collection, seeFitzgerald Hoard.

TheFitzgerald Collection is an extensive^[1]philatelic collection ofair mail stamps donated to theBritish Library and announced in 1951.^[2]^[3]^[4]

In 1953 a further donation of funds was provided by Mrs Augustine Fitzgerald to preserve and catalogue the collection. In 2006 theFitzgerald Airmail Fund was reported at £68,000.^[5]

Description

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At the time of donation,The Times described the collection as the finest of its kind. As well as the extensive collection of stamps for early postal flights up until the 1930s, the collection includes related artefacts such as souvenirs ofpostal balloons as per the siege of Paris in 1870 and documents such as the air pilot's licence issued to SirJohn Alcock.^[4] It is particularly well represented in the material of France, Germany, Italy, Newfoundland and United States.^[6]

References

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^Harris, Philip Rowland (1998),A history of the British Museum Library, 1753–1973, British Library, p. 592,ISBN 978-0-7123-4562-0
^The Times newspaper reported the donation in 1951, but Harris (1998) reports the year of acquisition as 1942 and the British Library website (on 19 January 2011) reports 1947. According to Schoolley-West (1987), the collection was offered to the British Museum in 1942 but due to the collections being securely stored under war-time conditions, the collection could not be delivered until 1947.
^Schoolley-West, R. F.; Library, British (1987),Stamps, British Library, p. 46,ISBN 978-0-7123-0127-5,British Library YV.1988.b.727
^^a ^b"Gift To British Museum; Fitzgerald Collection Of Airmail Stamps".The Times. 11 August 1951. p. 6.
^The British Library Annual Report 2005/06; Statement of Funds(PDF), British Library, 2006
^"Philatelic Collections: Air Mail Collections". British Library. 3 November 2003. Retrieved19 January 2011.

British Library

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collections

Ephemera	Ettridge Collection Evanion Collection Francis Place Collection Jaffray Collection National Reports Collection
Literature	Ashley Library Cotton Library Dexter Collection Durrell Collection Eccles Collection Ediciones Vigía Garrick Collection Hannas Collection Harold Pinter Archive King's Library Leyden Medical Dissertations Paston Letters Private Case Suppressed Safe collection Thomason Collection Todd-Bowden Collection of Tauchnitz Editions
Manuscripts	Arundel Manuscripts Coptic Language Collection Cotton Collection Egerton Collection Harleian Collection Royal manuscripts King's manuscripts Lansdowne manuscripts Stowe manuscripts Syriac Collection Stefan Zweig Collection
Maps	Beudeker Collection
Newspapers	Burney Collection
Philatelic	Bailey Collection Blackburn Collection Bojanowicz Collection Booth Papers Burnett Collection Campbell-Johnston Collection Chismon Collection Chinchen Collection Contributions Agency Collection Crawford Library Crown Agents Archive Crown Agents Collection Davies Collection Ewen Collection Feldheim Collection Fitzgerald Collection Fletcher Collection Foreign and Commonwealth Office Foreign Office Collection General Collection Ginger Collection H.M. Customs and Excise Collection H.M. Stationery Office Collection Harrison Collection Harrison & Sons Collection Heys Collection Imperial War Museum stamp collection Inland Revenue Stamping Archive Johnson Collection Kaluski Collection Kay Collection Langmead Collection Landmark Trust Lundy Archive McInroy Collection Model Collection Monks Collection Mosely Collection Muraleetharan Papers Murray Collection Photograph Collection Postal Authority Publicity Collection R.P.S.L. Handouts Collection Row Collection Ryan Collection Seymour Collection Scott Collection Shelley Collection Sherborn Collection Smith Collection Supplementary Collection Tapling Collection Treasury Excise Correspondence Turner Collection of Forgeries Turner Collection of Newspaper Tax Stamps Turner Collection of Railway Letter Stamps U.P.U. Collection Walker Collection Williams Papers Wilson-Todd Collection
Sound	British Library Sound Archive Oral History of British Science St Mary-le-Bow Debates