A valuable source of illustrations and information about Philippine slogan cancellations is the work by Pablo M. Esperidion serialized in The Philippine Journal of Philately from 1950 to 1959.
This covers the American administration, the Commonwealth, the Japanese occupation and the Republic era. There are 332 slogans listed in all the articles titled "Philippine Postal Slogans."
Esperidion notes at the outset that "Of course, this monograph does not attempt to be complete as there might be some items in existence which, at the time of its preparation, I have neither seen them nor they have come to my knowledge. At any rate, practically all the basic materials referred to in this monograph are from my personal collection...."
I wonder where his collection went.
Another good reference for the Philippine specialist is Mail and Mail Markings of Private Business Firms of the Spanish Philippines by Don Peterson.
Published by the International Philippine Philatelic Society.
Copyright year is 1998.
Printed in black and white, with illustrations.
"This book," says the Introduction, "is a compilation of information on the mail and markings of private business firms of the Spanish Philippines from the late 18th century through 1898. The information, both historical and philatelic in nature, was collected from the Library of Congress, other libraries, auction catalogs, historical documents, and from Philippine stamp and postal history collections. The book represents accumulated data collected over the past 25 years."
My copy is signed "8 of 200" by the author.
Bought it in the late 1990s by mail from Don Peterson in the US.
I didn't know so much could be written about Spanish-Philippine postal history until I read the book Postal History of the Spanish Philippines 1565-1898 by Don Peterson and Geoffrey Lewis.
This hardbound book has a copyright year of 2000.
It is illustrated in black and white.
Bought my copy by mail from Don Peterson in the US.
Came with a dust cover.
Unfortunately, pages 159-174 are upside down!
For the best website on the Spanish era of Philippine philately, go to
http://nigelgooding.co.uk/
This site was created by by Mr Nigel Gooding of the UK (who was born in the Philippines) and is exemplary for its scholarship.
Just take a look!
