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Journal Article
- Author
- Bishop, Percy C.
- Title
- The Great Colour Question: Why Philatelists Cannot Call a Spade a Spade and a Red a Red
- In
- Stamp Collectors' Fortnightly
- Imprint
- vol. 6, no. 135, 12 May 1900, p. 35
- Abstract
'Why is it,' Mr Bishop asks, 'that colour as applied to postage stamps has never been successfully measured, classified, or standardised?' Oh for a 'slightly saddened orange-brown and joyful salmon pink'!