This book is mainly showing a FIP Vermeil award winning exhibit on the postal markings of Glasgow 1800 to 1900. It is designed to encourage the study of Glasgow postal history but it also provides a successful example of a postal exhibit which a reader should find useful as an example of how to write up their own exhibit.

The Edinburgh and District Penny Post has basically been ignored in print since the work of Auckland and Bonar in 1972. This book provides a detailed, award winning exhibit showcasing this area of long ignored British / Scottish postal history; it is the example to go with the theory of the Auckland / Bonar text. This book is important for those wanting to know more about the Edinburgh and Distrct Penny Post and for those wishing to examine how an award winning exhibit is displayed.

This book is concerned with the Hurtigruten Coastal Shipping Service of Norway. It presents an 'Open Class' postal history exhibit which means a significant amount of non-philatelic material was allowed. Of course times change and much of the material in this book would also be suitable for the modern F.I.P. 'Postal History Class 2c'. It is a book designed for the person starting to exhibit in postal history or a person interested in the postal history of Norway (or Scandinavia).

This area of British postal history is totally undervalued. The only previous book, of which we are aware, was that by James Mackay called 'Scottish twin-arc postmarks with stampers numbers' (1983). This text is different to his as it is in colour, it introduces the area and it shows how to exhibit such material. It's of major importance for Scottish postal history.

This book is concerned with an undervalued area of British postal history, namely the postal use of 'Postage Due' and 'To Pay' labels / stamps. It is also concerned with encouraging people to exhibit. Both these areas are increasingly being appreciated.