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AUGUST, OCTOBER & DECEMBER 2019
August 2019
  • Stockholmia 2019 - an exhibition for serious philatelists - The editor reports on this international exhibition

  • The Romance of Postage Stamps from the Straits Settelements - A comprehensive guide to the stamps of this former Crown Colony by Michael Waugh FRPSL.

  • Great Britain's postcard stamps, post office and private -  Dave Hill looks at the Royal Mail postcard stamp booklets and the pictorial stamps issued by Universal Mail for sending postcards abroad.

  • Meeting Reports - Detailed and informative reports on the displays given by the American Stamp Club of Great Britain on 18th May 2019 and the President's Display on 8th June.

  • New Issues
      -  Canada
    - Queen Elizabeth II
     
    -  The 50th Anniversary of Concorde marked by Gibraltar
      -  Tristan da Cunha Lobster Fisheries 
     
     Isle of Man - Victorian engineers
     
    -  Canada - covered bridges
     
    -  Flightless Birds from Australia

  • Book Reviews -  Detailed and informative reviews are a regular feature of the magazine. In this issue we look at
    - The Fathers of Philately - Inscribed on the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists by Brian Birch, FRPSL
    - Stanley Gibbons GB Concise Catalogue 34th ed 2019
    - Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue - Spain and Colonies 1st ed 2019

October 2019

  • Return to Algeria - In this first of his new series, John McCallum describes issues featuring some of the country's mosques.

  • When British stamps could have been produced in Germany - Flavia del Giudice describes the essays produced in 1913 by Bruckmann printers of Munich to tender for production of Britiash stamps.

  • Meeting Report - A detailed and informative report on the 7 September display by Tony Hickey of German Propaganda Material.  

  • New Issues
      New Zealand Sir Edmund Hilary 1919-2008
     
    -  Malaysia - Installation of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong
      -  Singapore - Air mail centenary
      - 
    New native plants definitives from the Bahamas

  • Book Reviews - Detailed and informative reviews are a regular feature of the magazine. In this issue we look at
    - Stanley Gibbons Commonwealth Catalogue - Cyprus, Malta & Gibraltar, 5th ed 2019
    - Stanley Gibbons Commonwealth Catalogue - Ireland 7th ed 2019
    - Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue - Southern Balkans  1st ed 2019
    - A Guide to Philatelic Research at the Britiash Library
    by David R Beech.
 

December 2019

  • Stuart Rossiter Memorial Lecture 2019 - a report by the editior on the lecture given by James L. Grimwood-Taylor

  • Return to Algeria - Part 2 - John Mc Callum describes issues featuring the country's museums and some of their artifacts.

  • Butterflies and moths in bio-engineering - a philatelic view - Vladimir Kachan uses philately to explain.

  • "The Crime of the Century" - The Great Train Robbery exhibtion at the Postal History Museum is visited by our editor.

  • Down Memory Lane with the NPS - Dave Hill recalls his first encounters with the National Philatelic Society.

  • Checklist of articles in the British Philatelic Press , January to June 2019

  • Meeting Reports - Detailed and informative reports on the display A Century of Czechoslovakia 1918 to 2018 given by Lindsay Bosworth on 12 October 2019 and The Peter Brack Memorial Display - Haiti given by Geoff Hanney on 2 November.

  • New Issues
     
    Dark Skies over Pitcairn
      -  200 years of Queen Victoria's Birth marked by Niue
      -  Ukraine - Yuroslav the Wise
      -  The Bahamas National Trust
      -  Europa 2019
      -  An unusual art stamp from Slovakia

  • Book Reviews - Detailed and informative reviews are a regular feature of the magazine. In this issue we look at
    - Stanley Gibbons Commonwealth Catalogue - Falkland Islands & Dependencies, 5th ed 2019
    - Australasian Crash Mail and Mail from other Incidents Vol 2 1931-1935
    by Brian R Perace FRPSL, APR
    - Newfoundland's Last Definitives: The Waterlow Printings
    by C A Stillions (BNAPS Exhibit Series No. 104)

    • EACH ISSUE CONTAINS THESE REGULAR FEATURES
      • The President's Piece, National PS News, Message from the Editor

      • Letters to the Editor

      • Other Philatelic News     

      • Stamp Fairs Listing - for the following two months.

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