British Pleasure Steamer Cachets By Crawford Alexander, Mike Dovey & Geoff Ellerton Published by TPO & Seapost Society, 75pp, This is the first book to attempt to list and illustrate over 500 cachets which are known, in one volume, and provide a scarcity and valuation guide. Covered are Thames, Medway, the South Coast, Lundy, Liverpool and North Wales, North West England, Irish Sea and Isle of Man, Firth of Clyde, David and Caledonian Macbrane, Lochs Lomond, Awe and Katrine plus the River Tay, the Waverley, Prince Ivanhoe, Balmoral and Kingsear Castle vessels, British Cruise Steamers, Orkneys, Shetland and a few other miscellaneous vessels. Along with the illustrations, there are also additional notes of forgeries, changes of name or operator etc and an index of Vessels and Operators. |