December 3rd
A large turnout with everyone bringing items
which they had either recently bought or recently
mounted for their collections. It was a chance for
members to compare ways of writing up and mounting
their Philatelic items, and it set the mood for
the upcoming Competition in February 2006
November 3rd
Two speakers and a supporter from the Cheshunt
Philatelic Society came along to show us some of
their material which included some rare items of
Scouting courtesy of Don Page. He started his
display with Besiege mail of Mafekin showing Lord
Baden Powell Leader and creator of the Scout
movement. Followed by covers and stamps from World
Jamboree's up to the event of 1957 which took
place in Nicaragua. After the break we were
treated to a display of Old Spain-New Italy
courtesy of Terry Hawkins. The early Spanish
material included covers from 1833 and stamps from
1850 featuring the portrait of Queen Isabella to
1868 when the Queen was deposed. All aspects were
covered including watermark varieties from 1856
also featured was mail from the Spanish Islands.
New Italy was represented by Terry's collection of
modern definitive's which feature castles and
portraits. These were covered in great detail with
examples of paper varieties, printing techniques,
and fluorescence. Members were delighted with the
material on show form this evenings guests and
promised to visit Cheshunt in the near future with
some items from the Leighton Buzzard collectors.
October 8th
Members of the Society met at the Swan Hotel to
take part in the Leighton Buzzard Living Heritage
Day event. Their efforts were rewarded with a good
turnout from the public. Items chosen for display
were Postmarks and Post Offices of Leighton
Buzzard, The development of the penny Red, Post
Cards and Modern G.B, Commemoratives. Also a
cabinet of Button and Boot hooks courtesy of our
Secretary's wife Cindy.
October 5th
Members displayed their competition entries from
past years and shared in their stories of triumphs
and failures, Brian Allcock displayed his recent
entry of Bombay to Aden Sea posts which won him a
Vermeil award at the recent Stampex show. after
the break June and Geoffrey Williams, gave a
demonstration on the Do's and Don't's of
Competition.
September 1st
The start of a new season and two new members
shared an evening of browsing and buying with an
enthusiastic group of older members, followed by a
members mini auction.
June 2nd
The season ended with members displays beginning
with the letters M and N which proved very
entertaining with a wide variety of subjects. The
A.G.M. saw all officers and committee re-instated
May 5th - Hong Kong and Early Flight. Mr Peter
Ball.
Peter began his display from 1830. When the
British Opium trade caused some friction with the
Chinese following the set up of the Hong Kong Post
Office in February 1841. There were many Postmarks
and overprints but no stamps before 1862. The
first issues had no watermark and the second Issue
of 1863 were shown and included forgeries, Peter
showed many early cancellations from such places
as Amoy, Canton, Foo Chow, Ning Po, Shang Hai and
many more. Also shown were Hong Kong stamps on
Chinese postal material. On Christmas day 1941
Hong Kong fell to Japan, which resulted in
Prisoner of War mail and censor marks.
The second half of the display concentrated on
Imperial Post office marks, Air Mails and Balloon
Flight, Members were delighted at the chance of
seeing the rare and historic items that formed
Peter's display.
Peter Ball with some of his material from Hong
Kong.
19th April - East Midland & East Anglian
Philatelic Federation Annual Convention, Wisbech.
Members took winning entries from the Society
competition to Wisbech where they were in
competition with clubs from a very wide area of
England, To their delight the Leighton Buzzard
Society was Judged overall winners and was
presented with the Millennium Shield for the
second time in it's five year history.
Individual wins went to-
June Williams; 1st in the Thematic class.
Geoffrey Williams; 3rd in the 1 Country Class
Geoffrey Williams; 18 Sheet Aero-Philately Class,
Which also won the award for the Best in Show.
James Norris; Scored highly in the Postal History
Class
Geoffrey and June display their Trophies to some
fellow members.
April 7th
This month's speaker was Michael Pitt-Payne. He
bought 240 sheets from his collection of postal
History. The first half of the evening featured
mainly Great Britain starting with pre Postal
reform items, including a cover from 1830 with a
postal charge of 1s 6½d. On 5th December 1839 a 4d
standard letter rate was introduced and Michael
showed items from this period and included items
from 10th January when uniform 1d postage was
introduced to May 6th 1840 with the introduction
of the 1d Black. On the 1st October 1870 the ½d
printed rate was introduced and on 20th April 1940
the postage due was bought into use . Michael
cleverly used items from all periods and included
pre-paid envelopes, post cards and returned mail
to illustrate this fascinating story.
After the break Michael showed covers of U.K. to
France which included Bishop marks from the 1780's
and mail from the 1790's French Revolution. One
item that caused a stir among members was a cover
from Glasgow to France sent in 1826 and because of
the friction between the two countries and various
postal charges incurred a charge of 3/19 ½d.
March 3rd
The Annual Auction saw 245 lots go under the
hammer, most lots were sold and a great deal of
interest was shown in the four lots of Leighton
Buzzard postcards, with bids reaching almost ten
times their estimate.
February 3rd
A well attended meeting with 15 entries in the
main competition
and 7 entries in the "six best sheets" section.
winners were as follows.
General Philately: Geoffrey Williams:
Direct administration of Burma 1937-1945. Best in
Show.
Postal History: James Norris:
Early machine cancellations on the line engraved
issues of Queen Victoria.
Thematic: June Williams:
The Penguin Family.
My Six Best Sheets: Brian Allcock:
Aden Sea Posts.
Our Judge as usual was Alan Griffiths, and again
he found a great improvement on past years with
all entries scoring highly.
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