December 19th 40th Anniversary Celebrations
Members and guests from Milton Keynes,
Aylesbury and Luton share the
Anniversary celebrations with the Leighton
Buzzard Society
Honorary member Pam Palmer cuts the cake
November 21st. Switzerland: Richard Akers
Richard showed us Swiss Issues starting from
the very first definitive’s of the sitting
Helvetia and running through to modern day, The
second part of Richards display focused on the
Swiss Army Issues, A fascinating subject with a
large number of colourful stamps and material
from the various divisions of the Swiss Army.
Richard shows his Army Issues.
October 17th Visit from Watford Philatelic
Society
Three members of the Watford society made the
journey to visit us on a grey autumn evening to
show a variety of subjects including Wayne Cox
The other side of stamps, Wayne showed how some
countries needed to take drastic steps during
times of war or economic turmoil and resorted to
printing stamps on paper intended for bank notes
or with maps printed on one side in fact any
spare paper that was available to them in large
quantities. Countries included Latvia, Nicaragua
Mexico, Spain, Ukraine, Communist China and
Russia.
Brian Thurlow displayed his collection of Spain
which he had built up from a small gift of
stamps acquired some years ago.
Brian Coates. Concluded with a varied display of
some unusual philatelic items which included-
Detailed post card size pictures from China made
with cut up postage stamps. f Postcards of the
N.W.railway, Victorian Bantam ˝ds, Cyprus
over/prints and various Perfins.
June 20th 2012 A.visit from High Wycombe
Five members of the High Wycombe society came
to give four displays which consisted of a
display by Ken Richardson of Irish covers
featuring the Chinese new year,Greece, Austria,
and one GB overprint which was a British A4
envelope covered in decimal commemoratives each
one individually signed by the post sorter as a
cancellation
John Ketley showed us Rocket mail with the title
of - Toys for boys - as most were on covers
which had been sent up in rockets for the
amusement of their inventors.
Stuart Catchpole showed British Commonwealth
which focused on the period of the 1930s
Alan Druce was the last on with his splendid
display of Great Britain. which started in 1663
and followed through with items such as Die
proofs and artwork from the 1840s including many
1d Black and 2d blue variants,
They were accompanied by their Chairperson Joy
Hearn and together provided us with a memorable
evenings entertainment.
January 18th Hong Kong and Great Britain
Margaret Harris and Richard Page gave displays
as John Spencer who was due to show "Bristol
Channel". had other commitments,
Margaret showed Hong Kong and China with some
interesting postal history items of China and
included stamps from Hong Kong some with
overprints. Postmarks were of great interest as
China is now much sought after by the Chinese
themselves.
After the Break Richard showed a potted history
of British Philately from George lll to
Elizabeth ll.
|
