FEBRUARY & APRIL 2016

February 2016

• All Change for Definitives? - Looking at the current stamps from the Netherlands, Peter Mellor asks if the concept of the traditional definitive set is changing and asks for help in keeping track of current trends. 

• Studying and Competing in Postal History -  Michael Goodman reports on the 2015 Stuart Rossiter Lecture

• New Issues - 

  • Alice in Wonderland - the Tristan da Cunha connection

  • Slovakia Post Office Day 

  • Pakistan marks the restoration of Murree General Post Office

  • New Definitives from Tristan da Cunha - Ships.

• Meeting reports -  Detailed and informative reports on the Display given at the Society's Christmas Meeting on  Saturday 5 December by eleven members of the National.. .  

• Book Reviews - Detailed and informative reviews are a regular feature of the magazine. In this issue we look at
  Conflict: The Falkland Islands Postal Service 30 March - 14 June 1982 by Anthony K Stuckey, W Vevers FRPSL and G Marriner FRPSL
  Collecting Easter Island Stamps and Postal History by Steve Pendleton and David Maddock
  Stanley Gibbons Commonwealth and British Empire Stamps Catalogue 1840-1970 118th edition 2016
  Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue - Belgium & Luxembourg 1st edition 2015
  Stanley Gibbons Commonwealth Stamp Catalogue - Eastern Pacific 3rd edition 2015
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• PLUS -  Other Regular Features - 

  • The President's Piece, National PS News, Message from the Editor

  • Letters to the Editor

  • Other Philatelic News   

  • Stamp Fairs Listing -  late January, February and March 2016

April 2016

• Historian takes up sledge hammer in "Smashing" start to Mail Rail project. - Michael Goodman was present at the launch of this exciting project and describes what he saw. 

• Collecting World War One - on all fronts. -  Dave Hill explains how he breaks down his collection of postal history material from this conflict beginning with items from Great Britain

• New Issues - 

  • Decimal Currency Anniversary from Australia

  • King Harald V of Norway - 25 years

  • Trains in Sabah

  • Extreme Sports - recent issues from Portugal.

• Meeting reports -  Detailed and informative reports on the Displays "The Dutch West Indies and the 1940 Konijnenburg issue of the Netherlands" given by John Jackson FRPSL  at the Saturday Meeting on 9 January 2016  and "Overseas for a Halfpenny 1879-1949" given by Peter Mellor on 13 February 2016.. .  

• Book Reviews - Detailed and informative reviews are a regular feature of the magazine. In this issue we look at
  Airmails Across the Middle East 1918-1930 by Laurence Kimpton 
  Egypt: From the  Postal Concession until Suez 1932 to 1956. Part 1:until 1 May 1041 by John Davis
  Fiji Postal History - Postage Meters, Registration Labels , Machine Cancellations by John Dean
  Posted in Advance for Christmas - The History of a British Post Office Experiment 1902 to 1909 by Patrick Campbell FRPSL
  CZSG Check List of Canal Zone Stamps and Postal Stationery revised 2015 Editor Richard Speilberg
  Stanley Gibbons Collect British Stamps 2016
  Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue - Poland 1st edition 2015
  Stanley Gibbons Commonwealth Stamp Catalogue - Windward Islands & Barbados 3rd edition 2015
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• PLUS -  Other Regular Features - 

  • The President's Piece, National PS News, Message from the Editor

  • Letters to the Editor

  • Other Philatelic News   

  • Stamp Fairs Listing -  late March, April and May 2016

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