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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;daveydempsey, post: 2800228, member: 22&quot;]I found this cloth covered book, Earth Knowledge, Book III by McDougall&#039;s Educational Company limited.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is strung and knotted rather than stapled.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is undated but by looking at the maps I think it was published after 1902 and before WWI.</p><p><br /></p><p>It mentions&nbsp; German East Africa, Prussia and the Kaiser Wilhelm Kanal which is now the Kiel Canal, Danzig and has no mention of War</p><p><br /></p><p>It is rubber stamped on the inside.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;With the publisher&#039;s compliments *SPECIMEN*</p><p>Trusting this series may be adopted&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Would this stamp mean it was some sort of advertising gift to a school or college&nbsp; hoping they would buy more to use for education ?</p><p><br /></p><p>I can only find one other similar but that is marked Book#I although offered for sale as Book #IV on Amazon.</p><p><br /></p><p>With it being marked *SPECIMEN* and no others around have I got a rarity ?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]280918[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]280919[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]280920[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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