Lin Yangchen
Coconut Action Party
CONTENTS
Prefatory note
Design
Architecture and geometry
Handcut typefaces
Blueprints
Evolutionary precursors
Transcontinental affinities
Coconut versus Imperium
Fourier analysis
Engraving periodicity
Printing
Made in London
Watermarks
Paper identification
Surface profilometry
Theory of stria morphogenesis
Paper stratigraphy
Journey to the centre of the earth
Fibre analysis
Colours and inks
Coconut blues
Magentavaganza
Heavy metals
Hypnotic bicolours
Psychedelic tricolours
World War II
Early days
Penang seals
Okugawa-Akira seal
Single-frame overprint
Malacca chop
Machine chops
Forged handstamp dies
Trengganu overprint
Fiscal stamps
Labuan
Netherlands East Indies
P.T.T. Indonesia
British Military Administration
Post-war chaos
Overprint morphology
Fake overprints
Plate flaws
$5 high value
1¢ magenta overprint
25¢ double overprint
50¢ postal forgery
Crown Colonies
Singapore
The eccentric 25 cents
1948 postal forgeries
Coconut island
World's smallest perforation
Security markings
Singapore Municipal Commission
Plate numbers
Plane crash
Queen Elizabeth II
Malay states
The coconut's finest hour
Johore
Kedah
Kelantan
Negri Sembilan
Pahang
Perak
Perlis
Selangor
Trengganu
Coconut statistics
Catalogue price patterns
Coda
Spirit of Malaya
Resurrection of the coconuts
Appendices
Coconut definitive rarity chart
Coconut encyclopædia
Coconut bus
Mad about Meleh
Postal system dynamics
Chemical elements and compounds
Scientific imaging
Ultraviolet fluorescence
Computational analysis of perfins
Nomarski interference contrast microscopy
Laser scanning confocal microscopy
Scanning electron microscopy
Atomic force microscopy
Raman spectroscopy
Gunung Tahan
Back matter
Acknowledgements
Literature
©Lin Yangchen
