December 4th Visit from Beds and Herts
Neil Russel opened the evenings displays with
material from Tasmania, starting from the
newspaper stamps of 1829, and a large variety of
the Chalon Head stamps of 1855 printed by Perkins
Bacon, sample stamps of the printers de La Rue
through to 1901 when the printing went to
Melbourne, Other material included revenues.
John Swade showed United states postage in two
parts, Firstly revenue stamps of the USA including
a series of 102 stamps for different uses all of
the same value, other stamps of various shades
Perforate, Imperf orate, and paper varieties plus
revenues from the civil war,
The second part dealt with the stamps of 1933-45,
The years of President Roosevelt who was a keen
Philatelist and had a large influence in the stamp
designs of the time.
Peter Mellor rounded up the evening with the
Farthing post, which amazingly covered a large
number of issues,including covers and pre-paid
letters.
November 19th Visit to North Herts Society.
Three members traveled to Royston and showed a
variety of material from Birds of Prey (Richard
Page) Mush Mush, A story of the Sledge dogs (Brian
Alcock),and Uncolicited mail (JohnSpencer).
October 2nd - Airmail Routes of the South
Pacific
Mr John Hawks visited the Society to display some
of his large collection of Air Mail material
cenred mainly on the island of Fiji,,
His talk began from the year 1921 when a trial
flight was organised to test the viability of an
air mail route from Fiji, No mail was carried on
this flight, it was much later in 1928 that the
first air mail route was established from San
Francisco to Honolulu, Fiji Brisbane and finishing
up in Albert park, Darwin, Australia.
In 1934 the route between London and Australia was
set up with postage from Fiji costing 1/10d and
reducing to 1/7d in 1936 . Mr Hawks display
consisted mainly of flight covers, and showed the
various aircraft from mail only flights to mail
carried with passengers
May 8th - Visit from Amersham
Three members of the Amersham society gave
displays to a large audience First to display was
John Harvey who had worked at the Security
printers Harrison and sons of High wycombe, His
display included some unique material, and his
talk on the production of stamps made for a very
interesting story especiialy when mistakes ocured
during production and material had to be
reprinted.
David Page brought along his South African
Revenues which included early material from the
Cape of Good Hope, Natal or Free State, Transvaal
to name a few. His display included Overprints,
Impressed, Embossed and roulette stamps other
material included such items as a Pre-nuptial
contract Consular and Audit stamps
After the break Alan Williams gave a comprehensive
display of Jamaica Land of Wood and Water.Alan
started with a history of the Island from 1494
when its only inhabitants were the Arawak Indians,
The whole population was wiped out with the
arrival of the first settlers .In 1671 the first
letter service came into existence followed by the
first packet in 1702 and Alan showed material from
around this period,
The post office was re-established on the Island
in 1755 and Alan showed material from that period
up to world war two. strangely enough Victorian
stamps were used many years after her death and in
fact there was only one stamp issued for King
Edward V11 from Jamaica.
Three visiting members of the Amersham Society
Members of the Leighton Buzzard Society receive
the Millennium shield from the President of the
East Midland and East Anglian Federation of
Philatelic Societys
April 20th - East Midland and East anglian
Convention . Hinkley.
Several members of the Leighton Buzzard Society
traveled to Hinkley for the stamp fair and
convention, Three members had submitted entries
for the Competition there and scored enough points
to win the Millennium Trophy for the third time
since 2000. beating all other Societys involved.
March 6th - Trapped in the Suez by Peter
Bottrill
Peter Bottrill gave a full evenings talk and
display of the events which followed the closing
of the Suez Canal,
Twelve ships of different nations were trapped in
the Bitter lakes in 1967 and Peter showed us
material that the sailors had made during there
time there including the Bitter lakes world cup,
where members of the crew from each ship formed a
football team, with a full pro gramme of each
match. Covers stamps and cancellations were
printed or hand drawn and Peter had examples of
most of them.
2008 Society Competition
The Palmer trophy
awarded to the best in show
There was a small amount of entries for this years
competition, But our judge Bill Gibb, felt the
standard was very high. More members entered "My six
best sheets" class of the evening with around twelve
entries.
◾Winners are as follows •General Philately ◦Great
Britain Advertisement Labels.
◦Roy Palmer
•Postal History ◦German postal Rates.
◦Alan Crozier
•Thematic ◦British Diurnal Birds of Prey.
◦Richard Page
•My Six Best Sheets ◦Bermuda.
◦Margaret Harris
•Best in Show ◦British Diurnal Birds of Prey.
◦Richard Page
The evening was made more enjoyable as two visitors
bought their collections along for our members to
give opinions as to their interest and value. Also
members took part in a bourse, where stamps were
exchanged and sold.
January
Three members from Leighton Buzzard visited the
Amersham society on January 10th. Here, our
Chairman Richard Page is seen displaying Birds of
Prey
Here, founder member Alan Crozier is seen
displaying German postcard Mail before the
Amersham audience. Our Secretary John Spencer also
showed a small collection of unsolicited mail.
Both members and guests enjoyed a full evening
with a good variety of material.
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