| Description Of Item | Postage stamps with a medical theme, donated by fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The collection contains:
Two stamps from the Republic of Togo featuring Henry Dunant (dated 1969)
Four stamps from the United Kingdom featuring medical discoveries (computer tomography, scanning electron microscopy, ultrasonic imaging, magnetic resonance imaging) (dated 1994)
Four stamps from Canada featuring Frederick Banting, Wilder Penfield, Jennie Trout and Harold Griffith (unknown date, possibly 1980s)
Three A4 pages of images of stamps (not originals) of Zahir Shah, Afghanistan (dated 1951)
One A4 page of text and images of stamps (not originals) from 1000th anniversary of Avicenna's birth (dated 1952)
One A4 page of text and images of stamps (not originals) from anniversary of Faculty of Medicine at Kabul University (dated (1951)
One A4 page of stamps commemorating the joint meeting of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan (dated 1990)
Also includes two envelopes titled 'Largs & District Stamp Club honours - James What of Greenock, ASPS 90th Congress Perth - 12 to 13 April 2019' which contains an index card detailing a short history of the Largs and District Stamp Club. They both have a stamp on the cover of James Watt and the envelopes commemorate James Watt's invention of the document copier. |