April 10th - Pauline Avery: Penguins.
Pauline is a member of the Leighton Buzzard
Society, and now lives in Kent. She now works for
Stanley Gibbons which gives her access to the many
stamps needed to keep her vast collection of
Penguin stamps up to date. Her collection covers
all the eight species of penguin, although some
sub-species have yet to be featured on stamps.
Members were impressed by the size of the
collection and the way it was presented. The
Chairman asked if she would give another showing
in a few years time to which she agreed.
Pauline shows part of
her collection.
Members
enjoying a closer look at Pauline's Penguins.
Bedford
were the winners of the inter club quiz held at
Leighton Buzzard in May 2002.
October 9th - Sue McEwan - Malay state of Jahore
Sue gave a display of over 200 sheets divided
into two parts showing the first stamps of 1876
which were over-prints of the Strait Settlements.
Revised in 1884 although again over printed. 1891
saw the first Jahore own issue and in; 1898 Jahore
joined the U.P.U after a break for coffee Sue
continued the display which included the Japanese
Occupation. Censor marks, Postal stationery, Air
Mails, and postcards, together with such scarce
items as the 1933-34 essay.
Sue provided some light relief with the history
of, the rule of Sultan Ibrahim, and stories of his
reign some true and some sue felt, were; doubtful.
All Members agreed it was a splendid evening.
November 5th - Steve Chilcraft - Cricket on
Stamps
On a cold, wet, November evening Steve's display
bought back memories of summer days by the village
green, the sound of leather on willow and cries of
"Owsat".. Cricket and cricketers are well
represented on postage stamps, and as one of our
member thought, it was to be an evening of
Commonwealth. Not so as Steve was keen to point
out, the first cricket stamps were issued by Cape
Verde Islands. and since then many other
non-commonwealth countries have issued stamps. The
history of cricket was well documented. It was
believed that matches were being played during the
18th century and the first test match took place
in 1877. Steve showed almost 200 sheets of stamps
although he admitted to having many more including
F.D.C's. Members were grateful for a fascinating
evening of Thematic's.
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