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#111 – Vol 32 No 3 – Aug 2024

Society Information and News

Editorial

Secretary’s Notes

Forms on Postal Stationery – John Barker

GB Postal Stationery News – Alan Huggins

Victor Marsh aka H. Edgar Weston. Philatelic Entrepreneur or Philatelic Scammer Extraordinaire? – Alan Huggins

Analytical Approaches in Comparing Great Britain Official OHMS Postcards – Dr John K. Courtis

More Peacock Envelopes – Adrian Parker

These Should Not Exist

Notes From The Editor’s Desk



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#110 – Vol 32 No 2 – May 2024

Society Information and News

Editorial

Secretary’s Notes

One Sheet Competition – Winning Entry: Great Walstead School Balloon Tag

Jamaica 1979 Rowland Hill Miniature Sheet – Victoria Archard

Late Use of GV Postal Stationery? – Neil Sargent

F.I.P. Postal Stationery Commission Newsletter

These Should Not Exist

GB Postal Stationery News – Alan Huggins

Forms on Postal Stationery – John Barker

Auction Results

Notes From The Editor’s Desk



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#109 – Vol 32 No 1 – Feb 2024

Society Information and News

Secretary’s Notes

Editor’s Notes

Great Britain Empire Postal Card – John Jennison

ABPS Exhibitions Newsletter – Simon Richards

More Commercial Late Usage of GB Postcards – Maurice Buxton

1858 STO Specimen Overprints – Recent Discoveries – Simon King

Faxmail – Lionel Jones

GB Postal Stationery News – Alan Huggins

Illustrations Wanted of STO Stationery with Advertising Collars – Alan Huggins

Forms on Postal Stationery – John Barker

These Should Not Exist – Charles Dazeley

New Stamped to Order Airletter Find – Charles Dazeley

Notes From The Editor’s Desk



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#108 – Vol 31 No 4 – Nov 2023

Society Information and News

Secretary’s Notes

Subscriptions Reminder

Germany – Early Postal Stationery of the "Pfennig" Issue – Rex Dixon

Faxmail

GB Postal Stationery News – Alan Huggins

Current Issue of Postal Stationery – "Safebox"

These Should Not Exist – More Christmas Airletters [errors]

Forms on Postal Stationery – John Barker

Notes From The Editor’s Desk

Pseudo Postal Stationery

Huggins & Baker "Collect British Postal Stationery" Download available to members



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#107 – Vol 31 No 3 – Aug 2023

Society Information and News

Chairman’s Chat

Secretary’s Notes

World War II Letter Home – Charles Dazeley

Official Paid Post Cards used by the Inland Revenue – Dr John K Courtis

Forms on Postal Stationery – John Barker

Essen May 2023 – Neil Sargent

GB Postal Stationery News – Alan Huggins

New Zealand Stationery - Newspaper Wrappers – Neil Sargent

These Should Not Exist [airletter errors] – Adrian Parker

Notes From The Editor’s Desk



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#106 – Vol 31 No 2 – May 2023

Society Information and News

Chairman’s Chat

Secretary’s Notes

A Couple of Registered Envelopes Finds – Carlton Jones

Argentina 1892 Bernardino Rivadavia Series of Four – Dr John Courtis

In Defence of the S.T.O. Airletter – Charles Dazeley

GB Postal Stationery News – Alan Huggins

These Should Not Exist [airletter errors] – Charles Dazeley, Jean Alexander

The First Airletter – Charles Dazeley

Book Review - Postal Stationery of India: The Use of Cut-outs as Adhesives

Current Issues of G.B. Postal Stationery – John Barker

Postal Stationery for a Purpose – Destination Defined – John Barker

Notes From The Editor’s Desk



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#105 – Vol 31 No 1 – February 2023

Society Information and News

Chairman’s Chat

Secretary’s Notes

Membership Secretary & Journal Editor

Postal Stationery for a Purpose – Charity Issues Part 3 – John Barker

GB Postal Stationery News – Alan Huggins

GB Postal Stationery Change of Use – Clive Jones

British Guiana GVI Postal Stationery – John Jennison

Notes on Hungarian Charity Cards – Judy Kennett

Postal Stationery at Exhibition – Michael Smith

Notes from the Editor’s Desk

Postal Stationery Society Journal - Table of the Dates of Issue



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#104 – Vol 30 No 4 – November 2022

Society Information and News

Chairman's Chat

Secretary's Notes

New Zealand Registered Envelopes – A Few Gaps Filled – Neil Sargent

New Zealand Registered Envelopes (Part 2) (The missing page) – Neil Sargent

The Postal Stationery of Southern Nigeria – Neil Sargent

GB Postal Stationery News – Alan Huggins

The Price of Competing – A Response – Jon Aitchison

Postal Stationery for a Purpose – Charity Issues (Part 2) – John Barker

Postal Stationery Penalties (Part 2) – John Barker

Notes from the Editor's Desk

Request for Help – GB 1841 2d Blue Embossed Envelope – USA Advertising Envelope

Even Later Usage of KGV Stationery – Maurice Buxton

A Couple of USA Advertising Cards – Maurice Buxton



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#103 – Vol 30 No 3 – August 2022

Society Information and News

Chairman's Chat

Secretary's Notes

Marks & Spencer Birthday Cards – Jean Alexander

Mulready Facsimiles – Neil Sargent

Postal Stationery Penalties (Part 1) – John Barker

GB Postal Stationery News – Alan Huggins

New Zealand Registered Envelopes (Part 2, Queen Elizabeth II) – Neil Sargent

Postal Stationery for a Purpose – Charity Issues (Part 1) – John Barker

Notes from the Editor's Desk

The Price of Competing – Neil Sargent



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#102 – Vol 30 No 2 – May 2022

Society Information and News

Chairman's Chat

Secretary's Notes

New Zealand Registered Envelopes (Part 1) – Neil Sargent

GB Postal Stationery News – Alan Huggins

An Early Omnibus Issue – Vasco da Gama – 4th Centennial – John Barker

London 2022 International Stamp Exhibition – Neil Sargent

Notes from the Editor's Desk

Illustrated and Advertising Stationery – Malcolm Lacey



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#101 – Vol 30 No 1 – February 2022

Society Information and News

Chairman's Chat

Secretary's Notes

Notos 2021 – Neil Sargent

Gibraltar Letter Cards – Neil Sargent

Letter Cards – Some Aspects of their Format – John Barker

GB Postal Stationery News – Alan Huggins

Smith Elder & Co. London Manuscript Numbering System – Alan Huggins

'Sample Attached to Contract' – Stephen Schumann

New Zealand Postal Cards (Part 2) – Neil Sargent

Notes from the Editor's Desk



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#100 – Vol 29 No 4 – November 2021

Society Information and News

Chairman's Chat

Secretary's Notes

New Zealand Postal Cards (Part 1) – Neil Sargent

Post Office Wrapper Overprinted on Reverse After Sealing – John Courtis

Book Review – Analysis of Worldwide Postal Wrappers: Attributes of Postal Stationery, Postal History and Social Philately by Dr John K. Courtis

Crown Official Paid – George King

Swiss Double Wrappers – John Jennison

GB Postal Stationery News – Alan Huggins

The Early Days of Inland Revenue Stamping to Order Facilities – Alan Huggins

Swiftair "Publicity Free Sample" – Maurice Buxton

Late Usage of King George V Stationery – Maurice Buxton

The Introduction of the Letter Card – Germany 1897 – John Barker

Hongkong Multipack Speedpost – John Barker

Notes from the Editor's Desk



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#99 – Vol 29 No 3 – August 2021

Society Information and News

Chairman's Chat

Secretary's Notes

Midpex 2021 Report

Journal Exchange Across the World

De La Rue Text Settings on GB & GB Colonial Postal Stationery Wrappers – Jan Kosniowski

Perforated Postal Stationery of Great Britain

Two New Publications: Tasmania and Denmark

Postal Stationery Newspaper Wrapper Catalogue

British Post Office Stationery Post Cards

GB Postal Stationery News – Alan Huggins

The Stamped to Order Postal Stationery Produced by Alfred Smith & Co. Part 2 Letter Sheets – Alan Huggins

Crown Official Paid Stationery – Ian Billings

Notes from the Editor's Desk



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#98 – Vol 29 No 2 – May 2021

Chairman's Chat – introduction of decimal currency durring postal strike, back dating first day of issue of decimal cuurency stationery

Secretary's Notes

MIDPEX 2021

Stamped to Order Instructions 1961 – Neil Sargent

Crown Official Paid Stationery – Ian Billings

Great Britain Postal Stationery News (updates of new items reported) – Alan Huggins

The Stamped to Order Postal Stationery produced by Alfred Smith & Co Part 1 – Letter Sheets – Alan Huggins

Post Cards used by Whitfield King & Co Part 2 – Edward Caesley

Formular/Private Registered Envelopes – Peter O'Keefe

Falkland Islands Registered Envelope – query from Edy Pockele

Recent Articles from the Philatelic Press



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#97 – Vol 29 No 1 – February 2021

Society Information and News

Chairman's Chat

Secretary's Notes

From the Editor – keeping in touch with members

Post Cards used by "Whitfield King & Co", part 1 – Edward Caesley

Plate Proof of Penny and Threehalfpence Postcards – Manny Grey

Treasurer's Report 2019-2020

Victorian Halfpenny Cards Uprated – Neil Sargent

Formular/Private Registration Envelopes – Maurice Buxton

Irish Land Commission Cards – Neil Sargent

A Stamp Dealer's Request using a Reply Postal Card of Venezuela – Edward Caesley

BONC823 – Precursor Precancel to the Argus Wheel – Jan Kosniowski

Great Britain Postal Stationery News (updates of new items reported) – Alan Huggins

Early Newspaper Wrappers revisited – Alan Huggins

Victorian Halfpenny Stamped-to-Order Post Cards 1872 – 1901 – Neil Sargent

Victorian Halfpenny Stamped-to-Order Post Cards – Alan Huggins

Notes from the Editor's Desk



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#96 – Vol 28 No 4 – November 2020

Society Information and News

Chairman's Chat

Officer's Reports – November 2020

150th Anniversary of the Introduction of Pre-Stamped Postcards & Wrappers by the British Post Office – Alan Huggins

Great Britain Postal Stationery News (updates of new items reported) – Alan Huggins

Marseille Pneumatic Post Stationery – Neil Sargent

Enquiry Labels – Michael Lockton

Notes from the Editor's Desk



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#95 – Vol 28 No 3 – August 2020

Society Information and News

Chairman's Chat – GB postal stationery picture postcards

Secretary's Notes

SAFEBOX – Revisted & COVID – 19 – John Barker

Belgium Post War 10% price reduction – Edy Pockelé

Forces 1½d Airletter – Neil Sargent

Admiralty Pension Enrolment Forms 1894-1902 – Alan Huggins

Great Britain Postal Stationery News (updates of new items reported) – Alan Huggins

A Couple of Interesting Finds: A Double Proxy Card and a Golden Advertising Envelope – Maurice Buxton

Book Review – The Postal History of the UPU: The Postal Cards Worldwide 1869 – 1974, by James Peter Gough

The Experimental GB Certificates of Posting 1877-82 – Manny Grey

Notes from the Editor's Desk



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#94 – Vol 28 No 2 – May 2020

Society Information and News

Chairman's Chat – 1971 Post Office Strike privately produced stationery

Secretary's Notes

The Experimental GB Certificates of Posting 1877-82 update – Maurice Buxton

Use of Contemporary Indian Postal Stationery for Advertising Purpose – Maurice Buxton

Lundy Post Card – Neil Sargent

How Can that be Right? (comparing early Thailand postal stationery with catalogue listings) – Rory Morrisey

GB Postal Stationery Newspaper Wrapper WP15: Earliest Used Date – Jan Kosniowski

Great Britain Postal Stationery News (updates of new items reported) – Alan Huggins

Post Office Circulars – 6 January 1885 – 11 May 1897 – extracts of text

Illustrated & Advertising Stationery – Malcolm Lacey

Notes from the Editor's Desk



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#93 – Vol 28 No 1 – February 2020

Society Information and News

Chairman's Chat – New Zealand postal stationery

Secretary's Notes – Forthcoming Meeting – London 2020

Belarus Provisional Surcharges (part 3) – Ron Hogg

Prestamped Airgraphs an Overview – John Jennison

Great Britain Postal Stationery News (updates of new items reported) – Alan Huggins

Return Half of Reply Card Paying its own Postage Due – Maurice Buxton

Modern Indian Armed Forces Stationery (part 2) – Col J Dutta & Dr Anjali Dutta

The Shocking Revelation of Post Office Wrapper Survival Rates (part 2) – John K Courtis

Notes from the Editor's Desk



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#92 – Vol 27 No 4 – November 2019

Society Information and News

Chairman's Chat

Secretary's Notes – Minutes of the AGM

Post Office Circulars – 3 June 1878 – 6 January 1885 – extracts of text

Belarus Provisional Surcharges (part 2) – Ron Hogg

Great Britain Postal Stationery News (updates of new items reported) – Alan Huggins

Response to Queries arising from the August issue

Railway Stamped to Order Picture Postcards – Michael Lockton

Modern Indian Armed Forces Stationery (part 1) – Col J Dutta & Dr Anjali Dutta

Notes from the Editor's Desk



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#91 – Vol 27 No 3 – August 2019

Society Information and News

Chairman's Chat

Secretary's Notes – Stockholmia 2019

New Zealand Instruction Boxes on Newspaper Wrappers – Jan Kosniowski

Belarus Provisional Surcharges (part 1) – Ron Hogg

Great Britain Postal Stationery News (updates of new items reported) – Alan Huggins

Book Review – Postal Stationery Newspaper Wrapper Catalogue by Jan Kosniowski – review by Neil Sargent

Report of Meeting at Swinpex

The Shocking Revelation of Post Office Wrapper Survival Rates (part 1) – John K Courtis

Modern Ugandan Formula Registered Envelopes – Victoria Archard

Notes from the Editor's Desk



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#90 – Vol 27 No 2 – May 2019

Society Information and News

Chairman's Chat

Secretary's Notes

Postal Stationery for a Purpose: Money Orders – Germany part 2 – John Barker

Great Britain Postal Stationery News (updates of new items reported) – Alan Huggins

Estonia 'Paro' Lettercards

Post Office Circulars 30 July 1877 – 28 January 1878 – George King

One Sheet Competition 2019 – Winning Entry: George King – LP6 Picture Lettercard

British India Victorian Envelopes – a response from Sandeep Jaiswal

Notes from the Editor's Desk

Israeli Taxed Reply Card – Edy Pockelé – replies from Paul Jones and Joel Slutzki



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#89 – Vol 27 No 1 – February 2019

Society Information and News

Chairman's Chat

Secretary's Notes

Postal Stationery for a Purpose: Money Orders – Germany part 1 – John Barker

Great Britain Postal Stationery News (updates of new items reported) – Alan Huggins

British India Victorian Envelopes Part 2 – Col Jayanta Dutta and Dr Anjali Dutta

Form approved by the Postmaster-General No 99 – Charles Dazeley

Notes from the Editor's Desk

An Israel Reply Card – Edy Pockelé

Two 19th Century postcards from the Postal Card Society of America – Maurice Buxton



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#88 – Vol 26 No 4 – November 2018

Society Information and News

Chairman's Chat

Secretary's Notes: Minutes of the AGM

GB Provisional Label Revising Compensation Rates – Steven Harrison

Essays for Insurance Compensation Labels and Text on Registration Envelopes – Alan Huggins

Great Britain Postal Stationery News (updates of new items reported) – Alan Huggins

Postal Stationery Society Accounts year end 31 August 2018

Notes from the Editor's Desk



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#87 – Vol 26 No 3 – August 2018

Society Information and News

Chairman's Chat

Secretary's Notes: Swinpex 2018

British Gas Privatisation Envelopes: Postal Stationery or Not? – Maurice Buxton

The Postal Stationery Society of Great Britain (1941) – John Barker

Great Britain Postal Stationery News (updates of new items reported) – Alan Huggins

British India Victorian Envelopes Part 1 – Col Jayanta Dutta and Dr Anjali Dutta

Postal Orders on Postcards – John Gledhill

Formula Registered Envelopes – Ray Harris and Peter Hørlyck

Notes from the Editor's Desk



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#86 – Vol 26 No 2 – May 2018

Society Information and News

Chairman's Chat

Secretary's Notes: Report from the Society's Sprint Meeting

British Guiana 1819 1c card set of 6 colour trials

USSR 25 Kopeks "Miner at the Face" Inland Postal Cards 1956-1960 – Ron Hogg

Great Britain Postal Stationery News (updates of new items reported) – Alan Huggins

The Librarian Library Windsor Castle – John Courtis

Revisiting British India Victorian Post Cards Part 3 – Col Jayanta Dutta and Dr Anjali Dutta

Notes from the Editor's Desk



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#85 – Vol 26 No 1 – February 2018

Society Information and News

Chairman's Chat

German Oversize "Kinder" Stationery Cards – Neil Sargent

The Experimental GB Certificates of Posting 1877-82 – Maurice Buxton

Great Britain Postal Stationery News (updates of new items reported) – Alan Huggins

Revisiting British India Victorian Post Cards Part 2 – Col Jayanta Dutta and Dr Anjali Dutta

The Embossed Stamps of Great Britain 1841-1973 (Alan Huggins display at the RPSL) – Neil Sargent

Great Britain George VI Telegraph Forms: Some Observations – John Jennison

San Marino 1894 Issues – Wayne Menuz

Notes from the Editor's Desk



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#84 – Vol 25 No 4 – November 2017

Society Information and News

Chairman's Chat

Secretary's Notes: Report from the Annual General Meeting

Calling all GB Reply Coupon Collectors – Maurice Buxton

Evolution of German View Cards – The Hitler Head – John Barker

Great Britain Postal Stationery News (updates of new items reported) – Alan Huggins

Revisiting British India Victorian Post Cards – Col Jayanta Dutta and Dr Anjali Dutta

Ford Photocard: another version reported

Notes from the Editor's Desk



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#83 – Vol 25 No 3 – August 2017

Society Information and News

Chairman's Chat

Secretary's Notes: Report from Swinpex and Midpex

Obituary: Colin Stanley Baker 1942 – 2017

Illustrated and Advertising Postal Stationery KGV – John Barker

A Denmark Wrapper with Albino Impression (a new find) – Edy Pockelé

Another e-Card

5d 'Notelope' for Japanese Prisoners of War in Australia

Finlandia 2017 (details of members who received awards)

Great Britain Postal Stationery News (updates of new items reported) – Alan Huggins

Palestine Registration Envelopes – John Jennison

Purchasing direct from the Post Office Supplies Department – Maurice Buxton

Book Review: British and Islands Postal Stationery Provisionals by John M Gledhill

KGV Dagenham STO Photocard – George King

Notes from the Editor's Desk



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#82 – Vol 25 No 2 – May 2017

Society Information and News

Alan Holyoake election to Roll of Distinguished Philatelists

Chairman's Chat

Secretary's Notes: Report of meeting on 1 April 2017, One Sheet Competition

Some Observations on GB Lettercards – Paul Gimberg

GB Lettercards – George King

Great Britain Postal Stationery News (updates of new items reported) – Alan Huggins

Availability, Demand and Characteristics of Used Postal Stationery Wrappers of Great Britain – John K Courtis

Obituary: Professor Ian Stevenson FRPSL

Abnormal Postage Stamps produced by Victor Marsh – Neil Sargent

KGV Dagenham STO Photocard – Neil Sargent

Notes from the Editor's Desk



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#81 – Vol 25 No 1 – February 2017

Society Information and News

Chairman's Chat

Secretary's Notes

A Request from the Editor of 'Irish Philately' – the Journal of the Irish Philatelic Circle

Illustrated and Advertising Postal Stationery – KGV

Great Britain Postal Stationery News (updates of new items reported) – Alan Huggins

Postal Stationery issued for German and Italian P.O.Ws in Australia during World War II

4d Blue Lettercard (LCP25) – 'The Miss McLaren's Revised Version'

Postmen's Marks in Great Britain Part 2 – Colin Baker

Notes from the Editor's Desk



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#80 – Vol 24 No 4 – November 2016

Society Information and News

Chairman's Chat

Secretary's Notes

Annual General Meeting Report

Bulgaria: The 1896 cards commemorating the Confirmation of Crown Prince Boris – Mike Whittaker

Great Britain Registration Envelopes – Maurice Buxton & Colin Baker

Unrecorded Somerset House Colour Standard – Iain Stevenson

Great Britain Postal Stationery News (updates of new items reported) – Alan Huggins

Postmen's Marks in Great Britain Part 1 – Colin Baker

Downstream Access Mail – follow-up

Notes from the Editor's Desk



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#79 – Vol 24 No 3 – August 2016

Society Information and News

Chairman's Chat

Secretary's Notes

Swinpex Meeting Report

Lewandowski Award to Dr John Gledhill

Stamp Dealers Mail Whitfield King Part 4 – Edward Caesley

The Stamp Show, New York 2016 awards to PSS members

Abnormal Embossed Postage Stamps – Neil Sargent

Great Britain Postal Stationery News (updates of new items reported) – Alan Huggins

A Short Investigation of the Sales Price Varieties on the Czechoslovakia 40h Chainbreaker Postal Stationery Card – Peter Williams

Another Postal Stationery Project – John Gledhill

WWI German Stationery with a Premium for the Red Cross: Additional Items – John Barker

Relection on N.Y. 2016 – Neil Sargent

Notes from the Editor's Desk



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#78 – Vol 24 No 2 – May 2016

Society Information and News

Chairman's Chat

Secretary's Notes

Meeting Report of 12 March 2016. One Sheet Competition

Stamp Dealers Mail Whitfield King Part 3 – Edward Caesley

Great Britain Postal Stationery News (updates of new items reported) – Alan Huggins

Downstream Access Mail – George King

Swiss Post 'Free' Stationery and Stamps – John Jennison

A New Brazilian Reply Paid Postal Card of January 25th 1898 – Franco Grassi

WWI German Stationery with a Premium for the Red Cross Part 2 – John Barker

Obituary for David Taylor Smith

Book Review: Aerogrammes of Nigeria 1948 to 2000 – by Ray Harris (based on the original work of Graeme Murry)

Lars Engelbrecht to sign Roll of Distinguished Philatelists

Notes from the Editor's Desk



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#77 – Vol 24 No 1 – February 2016

Society Information and News

Chairman's Chat

Secretary's Notes

WWI German Stationery with a Premium for the Red Cross Part 1 – John Barker

Swiss Federal Railways – Advertising Stationery – John Barker

Great Britain Postal Stationery News (updates of new items reported) – Alan Huggins

Registered Envelopes of Turkey – Neil Sargent

Book Review: The Mulready Postal Stationery – Its Genesis, Production and Usage by Alan Huggins and Alan Holyoake

Notes from the Editor's Desk



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#76 – Vol 23 No 4 – November 2015

Society Information and News

Chairman's Chat

Secretary's Notes

Report on the AGM 24th October 2015

Tony Chilton Competition

Alan Huggins Special Display

Stamp Dealers Mail Whitfield King Part 2 – Edward Caesley

Great Britain Postal Stationery News (updates of new items reported) – Alan Huggins

Advice of a New Publication: The Mulready Postal Stationery, its Genesis, Production and Usage by Alan Huggins and Alan Holyoake

The Development of the German Domestic Rate Postal Card 1873 – 1900 – John Barker

Society Balance Sheet for the year ended 31 August 2015

Book Review: UPU Specimen Stamps 1878-1961 by James Bendon

Notes from the Editor's Desk



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#75 – Vol 23 No 3 – August 2015

Society Information and News

Chairman's Chat

Secretary's Notes

Meeting Reports: Europhilex May 2015; Swinpex 13 June 2015; Midpex 2015

Postcard Petition: The story of James Arthur Chubb – Colin Baker

Stamp Dealers Mail Whitfield King Part 1 – Edward Caesley

Great Britain Postal Stationery News (updates of new items reported) – Alan Huggins

Ubiquitous Postal Stationery Wrappers of W H Smith – John K Courtis

New Publication: The Mulready Postal Stationery, its Genesis, Production and Usage by Alan Huggins and Alan Holyoake

Book Review: Romanian Postal Stationery 1870-1927 by Emanoil Alexanddru Săvoiu

Mauritius Wrapper Production Error – Alan Huggins

Notes from the Editor's Desk



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#74 – Vol 23 No 2 – May 2015

Society Information and News

Chairman's Chat

Secretary's Notes

Illustrated and Advertising Postal Stationery: Postal Cards and Lettercards

Great Britain Postal Stationery News (updates of new items reported) – Alan Huggins

Indian Registration Envelopes: Advertising Envelope – Sandeep Jaiswal

Stationery Forgeries – Neil Sargent

One Sheet Competition – winning entry – France Postal Stationery Identity Booklet – Lars Engelbrecht

Book Review: Canada Postal Stationery Letter Cards of the Victorian Period 1893-1899 by Colin G Banfield

Book Review: Overprinted British Postal Stationery by John M Gledhill

Book Review: Overprinted British Airletters by John M Gledhill

First Recorded Commercial Stamped to Order Air Mail Letter Sheet with a King George V Embossed Die – Alan Huggins



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#73 – Vol 23 No 1 – February 2015

Society Information and News

Chairman's Chat

Secretary's Notes

Illustrated and Advertising Postal Stationery: KEVII Envelopes Part 2

Is this the Biggest ever GB Post Office Stamp? – George King

Indian Victorian Postal Stationery used Abroad – Sandeep Jaiswal

Great Britain Postal Stationery News (updates of new items reported) – Alan Huggins

Post-A-Book – The Padded Envelope Story – George King

Commercial Late Usages of George V and George VI Stationery – Maurice Buxton

Indian George VI Postal Stationery – John Jennison

Notes from the Editor's Desk



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#72 – Vol 22 No 4 – November 2014

Society Information and News

Chairman's Chat

Secretary's Notes

Annual General Meeting Reports

Illustrated and Advertising Postal Stationery: KEVII Envelopes Part 1

KGV Registration Envelopes: Wolverton Issue – Harold Barstow

Tony Chilton Competition report

Great Britain Postal Stationery News (updates of new items reported) – Alan Huggins

British Levant: the usage of Reply Paid Postcards – Alan Huggins

Swiss Bundesfeier Cards 1910 -1938 – Keith Hanmann

Certificate of Posting – Colin Baker

Notes from the Editor's Desk



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#71 – Vol 22 No 3 – August 2014

Society Information and News

Chairman's Chat

Secretary's Notes

Swinpex Meeting Report

Two Stamped to Order Air Letters – Colin Baker

The Swiss Post Pioneers the "Vignette Postal Card" in 1923 – Ulrich Fehlmann

Additions to Listing of British Reply Paid Postcards used in the Levant – Edgard Pockelé

Great Britain Postal Stationery News (updates of new items reported) – Alan Huggins

The Postal Stationery of East Africa Part 5 – Colin Baker

Notes from the Editor's Desk



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#70 – Vol 22 No 2 – May 2014

Society Information and News

Chairman's Chat

Secretary's Notes

Spring Meeting Report

One Sheet Competition Winner

Discoveries of GB Post Office Wrappers (WP15) without Chamfering Evidence of Two Users – Dr John K Courtis

GB Post Office Newspaper Wrapper (WP16) with Private Chamfering – Jan Kosniowski

There is no Such Thing as a Free Lunch (Second Course!)

PPS Envelopes, A Good Decision

Great Britain Postal Stationery News (updates of new items reported) – Alan Huggins

British Levant The Usage of Reply Paid Postcards Part 1 – Alan Huggins

The Postal Stationery of East Africa Part 4 – Colin Baker

Notes from the Editor's Desk



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#69 – Vol 22 No 1 – February 2014

Society Information and News

Chairman's Chat

Secretary's Notes

The Jubilee Envelope and the Alliance Assurance Company – John Davies

The Postal Stationery of East Africa Part 3 – Colin Baker

Great Britain Postal Stationery News (updates of new items reported) – Alan Huggins

Tony Benn's Christmas Card – Douglas N Muir

A Survey of H Edgar Weston / Victor Marsh covers – Colin Breddy

Imprints on H&B AP11 (Houses of Parliament Air Letters / Aerogrammes) – George King

Inland Revenue Embossed Envelopes – Maurice Buxton

Notes from the Editor's Desk



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#68 – Vol 21 No 4 – November 2013

16 Displays by Members of the Postal Stationery Society at a Joint Meeting with the Great Britain Philatelic Society

Word of Welcome – Neil A Sargent

A History of Two Societies – Colin Baker

The Early Development of Postal Stationery – Alan Huggins

Sierra Leone Postal Stationery – Keith Hanman

The Irish Question – Sam Barkley

Canadian Postal Stationery – Professor Iain Stevenson

Thinking Outside the Box  – Colin Breddy

British Postal Stationery used Abroad – Colin Baker

21st Century Irish Post Office Postcards – George King

Reply Paid Stationery – John Barker

The Red Penny 'Foreign Rate' Postcards – Peter O'Keeffe

East African Postal Stationery: Over 100 years of Change – Victoria Archard

The Edwardian Postal Stationery of the Orange River Colony – Michael Smith

The 1914 Round Stamp Impression of the Ottoman Empire – Neil Sargent

Private Letter Cards – Michael Lockton

GB King George VI Stamped to Order – Maurice Buxton

Postal Stationery Letters & Postcards sent to United Kingdom Stamp Dealers – Edward Caesley

Postal Stationery used by Stamp Dealers for Advertising – Edward Caesley

Supplement

Secretary's Notes

Tony Chilton Competition

Notes from the Editor's Desk

Peter Jennings 1947 – 2013

Joint PSS/GBPS Meeting

The Anniversary Dinner

Annual General Meeting – Reports & Accounts



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#67 – Vol 21 No 3 – August 2013

Profile of your Officers and Committee

Chairman's Chat

Secretary's Notes

Postal Stationery Uncovered (report of display at the Royal Philatelic Society on 23 May 2013)

The Postal Stationery of East Africa Part 2 – Colin Baker

21st Anniversary Celebrations 16th November 2013

Great Britain Postal Stationery News (updates of new items reported) – Alan Huggins

F I P Competitions – Melbourne 2013 Class 7 Postal Stationery

Special Delivery Plastic Envelopes – George King

A Question from 1934 (overprints on Poland Wit Stwosz postal stationery postcards) – Peter Williams

Notes from the Editor's Desk

London 2015 Europhilex

Members Wants



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#66 – Vol 21 No 2 – May 2013

Profile of your Officers and Committee

Chairman's Chat

Secretary's Notes

Meeting Report

The Postal Stationery of East Africa Part 1 – Colin Baker

Great Britain Postal Stationery News (updates of new items reported) – Alan Huggins

One Sheet Competition – Winning Entry

Illustrated and Advertising Stationery QV update part 2

Pink Penny Lettersheet – Nissen & Parker – Mike Moran

Notes from the Editor's Desk



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#65 – Vol 21 No 1 – February 2013

Profile of your Officers and Committee

Chairman's Chat

Secretary's Notes

Postal Stationery Cut-outs Continued

Great Britain Overprints Society Project

Postal Stationery Commission Newsletter

Merchants' Marks

The Illustrated Stationery of William Brown – Stamp Dealer

GB Postal Stationery News

Query – Sloper Cancellation

Illustrated and Advertising Stationery QV Updates – Envelopes and Post Cards

Notes from the Editor's Desk



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#64 – Vol 20 No 4 – November 2012

Postal Stationery Society's 21st Anniversary Celebrations

Chairman's Chat

Secretary's Notes

Tony Chilton Competition

Annual General Meeting

Victorian Advertising Sheets – Tony Hitchcock

GB Postal Stationery News – Alan Huggins

Illustrated and Advertising Wrappers – Part 2

The Society's Accounts

Revenues on GB Stationery – George King

70 Not Out – Tony Goldstone

London 2015 gets FEPA patronage

Notes from the Editor's Desk



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#63 – Vol 20 No 3 – August 2012

Philatelic Research Now Much Easier

Chairman's Chat

Secretary's Notes

Swinpex Report

Postage Paid Stationery Cut-outs Invalid for Postage

Use of 3d Empire Card (CP25) as cut-outs

Uprated Post Office Envelopes

Postal Stationery Seminar

GB Postal Stationery News

Code Letters on GB Registered Envelopes

Book Review

Postal Stationery for a Purpose – Air Mail

Notes from the Editor's Desk

Queries and Replies



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#62 – Vol 20 No 2 – May 2012

RPSL part of initiative with leading philatelic libraries

Chairman's Chat

Secretary's Notes

Spring Meeting Report

Display of Sierra Leone

ABPS Award of Merit

One Sheet Competition

Members' Displays

Radford Henry (Harry) Dagnall by Alan Huggins

Unusual Uses of China Shanghai Wrappers: The Puzzle Unfolds

The King is Dead (or is He?)

GB Postal Stationery News

Illustrated and Advertising Stationery: QV Wrappers – Part 1

Georges VI Dies – Dates of First Issue by Maurice Buxton

A Bundle of Joy

A Cape of Good Hope Post Card

Notes from the Editor's Desk



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#61 – Vol 20 No 1 – February 2012

Interrupted Mails

Chairman's Chat

Secretary's Notes

The H. Edgar Weston Saga Continues

Postal Stationery Commission

Edinburgh Postal Training School

Aerogrammes – Their Size and Shape

Illustrated and Advertising Stationery: QV Postcards – Part 4

GB Postal Stationery News

The 1943-46 Provisional Printings of the KGVI 5½d Brown Registration Envelopes

Notes from the Editor's Desk

Book Reviews



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#60 – Vol 19 No 4 – November 2011

A Mystery Postcard

Chairman's Chat

Secretary's Notes

Annual General Meeting Report

Postal Stationery Society Accounts

Tony Chilton Competition

Registration Envelope Queries

International Exhibitions

GB Postal Stationery News

Heligoland Postal Stationery – part 2

The Man Who Never Was – part 2

Notes from the Editor's Desk

Queries and Replies



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#59 – Vol 19 No 3 – August 2011

Society Calendar

Definition of Postal Stationery

Chairman's Chat

Secretary's Notes

Meeting Report

The Englihman Who Posted Himself

An Alfred Smith Postcard

A Strange Use for a Postcard

GB Postal Stationery News

A Perforated Cut-out

Great Britain UPU Specimen Postal Stationery

Heligoland

The Man Who Never Was – part 1

Notes from the Editor's Desk



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#58 – Vol 19 No 2 – May 2011

Society Calendar

Assistance Required

Chairman's Chat

Secretary's Notes

Meeting Report

Postal Stationery for a Purpose – Pneumatic Mail

Whitfield King Stamped to Order

GB Postal Stationery News

Obituary – Andrew Whitworth

Printing of Postage Stamps on Customer's Own Material

Great Britain UPU Specimen Postal Stationery

Notes from the Editor's Desk

Queries and Replies

Society Publications



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#57 – Vol 19 No 1 – February 2011

The Management Committee

Society Calendar

Chairman’s Chat

Secretary’s Notes

Refining a Name – Tony Goldstone

A New Discovery – Illustrated Registration Envelopes – Colin Baker

Postal Stationery for a Purpose Part 1(b) .. For Conveyance by a Specific Means or Route – John Barker

British Empire 3d Postcard for Australia …CP25 1889 1d Brown CP15 1883 after Joining UPU – Tony Hitchcock

Crown Official Paid Stationery – George King

GB Postal Stationery News – Alan Huggins

Gibbons Stamp Monthly Archive Edition – Colin Baker

Illustrated and Advertising Stationery: QV Postcards – Part 3

Air Mail Letter Sheet APS40 – Duff Malkin

Stamp Dealers’ Mail

GB Aerogrammes with Printed Code Numbers Tony Goldstone

Notes From the Editor’s Desk

Queries and Replies



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#56 – Vol 18 No 4 – November 2010

The Management Committee

Society Calendar

Chairman’s Chat

Secretary’s Notes

Annual General Meeting

Postal Stationery Society Statement of Accounts

Illustrated and Advertising Stationery: QV Postcards – Part 2

Information Required

GB Postal Stationery News – Alan Huggins

A British STO Envelope Discovery – Wayne Menuz

Uprated Postcards – Colin Baker

1944-48 Palestine Airletter Sheet – Tony Goldstone

Notes From the Editor’s Desk

Queries and Replies



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#55 – Vol 18 No 3 – August 2010

The Management Committee

Society Calendar

Chairman's Chat

Secretary's Notes

Meeting Report – Sunday 9th May London 2010

Stamp Dealers' Mail – Colin Baker

Auction Realisations

GB Postal Stationery News

London 2010 Festival of Stamps

Illustrated and Advertising Stationery

QV Postcards

60th Anniversary of the First Israel Aerogramme

Meeting Reports – Swinpex and Worpex

Notes from the Editor's Desk

Queries and Replies



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#54 – Vol 18 No 2 – May 2010

The Management Committee

Society Calendar

Chairman's Chat

Secretary's Notes

Single Sheet Competition

Natal Private Postal Cards by Keith Hanman

GB Postal Stationery News

Unusual Early Usages of Stamped to Order Embossed Dies as Adhesives

Regulations for Impressing Stamps on Post Cards 1905

South African Pictorial Aerogramme

March Meeting Report

London 2010 – Lord Bath's Pigeon Post

GB Registered Envelope Size I

Notes from the Editor's Desk



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#53 – Vol 18 No 1 – February 2010

The Management Committee

Society Calendar 2010

Chairman's Chat

Secretary's Notes

Websites to Visit

Strange use of British Field Service Postcards

Perfins Through Postal Stationery Items – An Update

G.B First Registration Envelopes – Size K

Postal Stationery for Purpose

GB Postal Stationery News

An Early Reply Paid Questionnaire

A Most Unusual Double Penny Pink Envelope

W.V.S. News Letters

Gumming On Ocean Penny Post Back Flaps – circa 1815

Notes from the Editor's Desk

Queries & Replies – Australian KGV PTPO Coronation Cards



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#52 – Vol 17 No 4 – November 2009

The Management Committee

Society Calendar 2010

Chairman's Chat

Secretary's Notes

A.G.M. Report

Tony Chilton Competition Results

A New Queensland Postal Card

Strange Use of British Field Service Post Cards – an Update

A Victoria Reply Paid Postcard

GB Postal Stationery News

GB Pre-Stamped Postcards Sold Below Face Value

Illustrated and Advertising Stationery – 'Alfred Smith & Co Stamp Dealer

Illustrated and Advertising Stationery QV Envelopes Part 2

Notes from the Editor's Desk



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#51 – Vol 17 No 3 – August 2009

The Management Committee

Society Calendar 2010

Chairman's Chat

Secretary's Notes

Worpex and Swinpex Meeting Reports

Fiji Reply Coupons

The "First" Israel Aerogramme 1948

Another Combined PCSC/Admission Ticket from China

GB Penny Pink Envelopes – Variations in Gumming

GB Postal Stationery News

Postal Stationery Using the Universal Imperial Print – An Update

The Rise in Electricity Prices

Post Office Strike

Invalidation of British Stamps and Postal Stationery

Book Review

Notes from the Editor's Desk



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#50 – Vol 17 No 2 – May 2009

The Management Committee

Society Calendar 2009

Chairman's Chat

Secretary's Notes

Spring meeting report

Evolution of German View Cards – The Hindenburg Medallion Head

GB Postal Stationery News

Writing for the Journal

Illustreated and Advertising Stationery in the period up to the first world war

31-Year-Old Mystery Solved

Book Review

Midpex 2009

Notes from the Editor's Desk



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#49 – Vol 17 No 1 – February 2009

The Management Committee

Society Calendar 2009

Chairman's Chat

Secretary's Notes

Evolution of German View Cards – The Hindenburg Medallion Head

Great Britain Postal Stationery – A W H Smith & Son Advertising Collar Mystery

GB Postal Stationery News

Printed to Private Order – The Elizabethan Postal Stationery of Frederick Brofos

Book Review

Notes from the Editor's Desk



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#48 – Vol 16 No 4 – November 2008

The Management Committee

Society Calendar 2009

Chairman's Chat

Secretary's Notes

Minutes of the AGM 25th October 2008

The Society's Accounts

The Saga of the Coat of Arms

New International Reply Coupon

The G.B. Postal Stationery News

EFIRO Awards

Lewandowski Award Recipient

New US Postal Card Essays & Proofs Catalogue

Ebay Excesses

Money Letters

Tony Chilton Competition 2008

The Jewel in the Crowne

UPU Specimen Postal Stationery

Notes from the Editor's Desk



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#47 – Vol 16 No 3 – August 2008

The Management Committee

Society Calendar

Chairman's Chat

Secretary's Notes

Evolution of the Early German View Cards – Part 2

G.B. Postal Stationery News

STO Certificate of Posting

Postage Due

An Edwardian Postcard that is All Back to Front

The First British Airmail Letter Card of May 1941

Postal Stationery Cut-Outs

Advertising Square?

Mauritius Mourning Envelope

Notes from the Editor's Desk

Queries and Replies



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#46 – Vol 16 No 2 – May 2008

The Management Committee

Society Calendar

Chairman's Chat

Secretary's Notes

Single Sheet Competition – winning entry

Evolution of the Early German View Cards

Bath Postal Museum Receives a National Commendation

Addendum to "Collect British Postal Stationery"

G.B. Postal Stationery News

Book Review

Notes from the Editor's Desk

Queries and Replies



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#45 – Vol 16 No 1 – February 2008

The Management Committee

Society Calendar

Chairman's Chat

Secretary's Notes

G.B. Postal Stationery News

1935 – A Good Year for Bulgarian Postal Stationery

A Strange Use for a British Field Service Card

Bahrain – 1969 20f & 40f Airletters

Book Review

Notes from the Editor's Desk

Queries and Replies



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#44 – Vol 15 No 4 – November 2007

The Management Committee

Society Calendar

Chairman's Chat

Secretary's Notes

Member's Collecting Interests

Minutes of the Society's AGM

G.B. Postal Stationery News

Watermarks on GB Wrapper and Lettersheet Papers

The Use of Circular Grills to Invalidate Embossed Postal Stationery Dies

The Society's Accounts

Notes from the Editor's Desk

Book Review – The Postage Stamps of New Zealand, Volume IX by Robert Samuel FRPSNZ

Queries and Replies



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#43 – Vol 15 No 3 – August 2007

The Management Committee

Society Calendar

Chairman's Chat

Member's Collecting Interests

Secretary's Notes

Meeting Reports – SWINPEX June 2007

G.B. Postal Stationery News

Book Review – The Postal Statlonery of the British South Africa Company 1890-1924 by Cliff Wheatley & Keith Hanman

Some Nineteenth Century Predecessors of "View Cards"

A Tale of Two Wrappers

Perfins Through Postal Stationery – Newspaper Wrappers – part 2

Notes from the Editor's Desk

Queries and Replies



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#42 – Vol 15 No 2 – May 2007

The Management Committee

Society Calendar

Chairman's Chat

Secretary's Notes

Meeting Reports – March 2007

Single Sheet Competition – Winning Entry

G.B. Postal Stationery News

A Listing of Revalued Postal Stationery – an update

Perfins Through Postal Stationery – Newspaper Wrappers – part 1

Book Review – The Postal Stationery of the Bechuanalands and Botswana by Peter Thy and John Inglefield-Watson

Forces airletter with a Perforated Cross

Israeli "Call-up" Paper

Notes from the Editor's Desk

Queries and Replies

Uprated G.B. Stationery



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#41 – Vol 15 No 1 – February 2007

The Management Committee

Society Calendar

Chairman's Chat

Society Auction -June 2007

Secretary's Notes

Perfins Through Postal Stationery – Postcards part 2

The 1922 Postal Rebate

Society Library

A Listing of Revalued Postal Stationery following the Reduction in Postal Rates on 29 May 1922 and 14 May 1923

Notes from the Editor's Desk

Queries and Replies



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#40 – Vol 14 No 4 – November 2006

The Management Committee

Society Calendar

Chairman's Chat

Editor's Comments

A Recent Discovery of GB KGVI Essays and Proofs

Estimated Survival rates of used GB Newspaper Wrappers

Perfins Through Postal Stationery – Postcards

Minutes of the AGM

Tony Chilton Competition

Society Auctions 2007

Queries and Replies

Notes from the Editor's Desk



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#39 – Vol 14 No 3 – August 2006

The Management Committee

Society Calendar

Chairman's Chat

Secretary's Notes

Tony Chilton Competition

Perfins Through Postal Stationery – Envelopes

Pictures to Post

Aerogrammes and Folded Letter Sheets From The Holy Land – Part 7

Interpreting the history of G.B. Newspaper Wrappers

Auction Report 1st July 2006

Postal Stationery of the Anglo-Italian Local Postal Service in Morocco

Notes from the Editor's Desk



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#38 – Vol 14 No 2 – May 2006

The Management Committee

Society Calendar

Chairman's Chat

Secretary's Notes

Halfpenny Stationery Postcard Used Twice on the First Day of Official Use

One Sheet Competition – Winning Entry

German East Africa – Prepaid Envelopes 1916

Posta Stationery Using the Universal Series Imperium Imprint

Aerogrammes and Folded Letter Sheets From The Holy Land – Part 6

Perfins Through Postal Stationery

A Home Made Airletter

A Postal Stationery Retirement Present from the Department for Work and Pensions

Notes from the Editor's Desk

Book Reviews

Queries and Replies



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#37 – Vol 14 No 1 – February 2006

The Management Committee

Society Calendar

Chairman's Chat

Secretary's Notes

Mulready Request – Help Wanted

Classified Advertisements

Aerogrammes and Folded Letter Sheets From The Holy Land – Part 5

A Couple of Very Cross Postcards

The First Change of Address Card

The Coronation That Never Was

Perfins Through Postal Stationery

Reply Paid Lettercards – Part 3

Notes from the Editor's Desk



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#36 – Vol 13 No 4 – November 2005

The Management Committee

Society Calendar

Chairman's Chat

Secretary's Notes

The Minutes of the AGM

The Society's Accounts

Aerogrammes and Folded Letter Sheets From The Holy Land – Part 4

A Quiet Anniversary

Sloper Experimental Cancels

Notes from the Editor's Desk

Essays for the Design of King George V Side Face Stamp for use on Postal Stationery



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#35 – Vol 13 No 3 – August 2005

The Management Committee

Society Calendar

Chairman's Chat

Secretary's Notes

All in a Flap

Ceylon Printed-to-Private-Order Newspaper Wrappers

Aerogrammes and Folded Letter Sheets From The Holy Land – Part 3

Aerogrammatics

Classics at the BPM 6: Victorian Telegraph Forms

G.B. Some New Items from the King George VI Period

Queries and Replies



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#34 – Vol 13 No 2 – May 2005

The Management Committee

Society Calendar

Chairman's Chat

Secretary's Notes

One Sheet Competition Winner

A Trial 'Swiftair Plus Recorded' Prepaid Envelope

G.B. KG VI Armed Forces Postal Stationery Post Cards – 1914

Obituary – Ben Ferguson

G.B. The Imperial Penny Postcard Rate

Book Review – Aerogrammes of the Union of South Africa 1942-1961

The Luck of the Philatelist

Aerogrammatics: Aerogrammes and Folded Letter Sheets From The Holy Land – Part 2

Notes from the Editor's Desk

Report on Spring Stampex



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#33 – Vol 13 No 1 – February 2005

The Management Committee

Society Calendar

Chairman's Chat

Secretary's Notes

Editor's Comments

V-Mail

Classics at the MPM 5: Land Distance Covers

Reply Paid Lettercards, Part II: Portugal and Possessions

Is it Philatelic?

Aerogrammatics

Notes from the Editor's Desk

Stampex



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#32 – Vol 12 No 4 – November 2004

The Management Committee

Society Calendar

Chairman's Chat

Secretary's Notes

The Minutes of the AGM

The Royal Naval Exhibition Postcard

Classics at the MPM 4: A First Day Cover

Great Britain Stamped to Order: The KGV Fourpence Embossed Die in Blue

King George VI Forces Registration Envelope – A New Discovery

British Levant King Edward VII Postcard – The 'Bogus' Overprint of 1911

The Changing Faces of Postal Stationery

Queries and Replies

The Tony Chilton Competition

Notes from the Editor's Desk



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#31 – Vol 12 No 3 – August 2004

The Management Committee

Society Calendar

Chairman's Chat

Secretary's Notes

The House of Commons Stationery – Part 3

Reply Paid Lettercards – Part 1

Members Collecting Interests

Irish Charity/Propaganda Cards

Postal Stationery Society Publications

Classics at the BPM 3: The Farthing Postcard

Queries and Replies

Notes from the Editor's Desk



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#30 – Vol 12 No 2 – May 2004

The Management Committee

Society Calendar

Chairman's Chat

Secretary's Notes

Registration Receipts

Classics at the BPM 2: Early Pictorial Postcards

Great Britain Postage Rates Paid by Postal Stationery 1840-2003 – Part 3

The Centenary Stamped to Order Wrappers Produced by W.H. Smith

Aerogrammatics

Queries and Replies

Meeting Report

Notes from the Editor's Desk

Classified Advertisements



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#29 – Vol 12 No 1 – February 2004

The Management Committee

Society Calendar

Chairman's Chat

Secretary's Notes

Great Britain Postage Rates Paid by Postal Stationery 1840-2003 – Part 2

Military Aerogrammes

The House of Commons Stationery – Part 2

De La Rue – Schedule of Prices, 1905

Display Advert

Queries and Replies

Notes from the Editor's Desk

Great Britain QV Registration Die with Florets and 'Numeral'

Classified and Display Advertisements



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#28 – Vol 11 No 4 – November 2003

The Management Committee

Society Calendar

Chairman's Chat

Secretary's Notes:

- The Minutes of the AGM

- The Tony Chilton Competition

The House of Commons Stationery: Part1: George King

The Bath Postal Museum is Fighting for its Very Exposition

Classics at the BPM: The Columbian Exposition

Great Britain Postage Rates Paid by Postal Stationery 1840-2003

Notes from the Editor's Desk

Classified Adverts



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#27 – Vol 11 No 3 – October 2003

The Management Committee 

Society Calendar

Chairman's Chat

Secretary's Notes

New Members

Editor's Comments

The Jubilee of the Uniform Penny Post: Part 3 – Colin Baker

Germany – Plus Products – Ransom Bradford

Great Britain Letter Cards – Stamped to Order – George King

Aerogrammatics

Reports from Meetings

Queries and Replies

Notes from the Editor's Desk



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#26 – Vol 11 No 2 – May 2003

The Management Committee

Society Calendar

Secretary's Notes – The PSS Literary Award, The Tony Chilton Competition, Society Auctions, Meeting Reports

Baranya Postal Stationery – David Williams

The Jubilee of the Uniform Penny Post – Colin Baker

Our Links With Other Postal Stationery Societies

British Levant Postal Stationery – The 'Bogus' Overprint of 1911? – Alan Huggins

British Levant Postal Stationery Unrecorded items – Alan Huggins

Great Britain Postal Stationery – Alan Huggins

Queries and Replies

Aerogrammatics

Notes from the Editor's Desk



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#25 – Vol 11 No 1 – February 2003

The Management Committee

Society Calendar

Chairman's Greetings

Tony Chilton Competition

Society News

The Postal Stationery of Liechtenstein, 1940-2000 – Robert Avery

Norfolk Island – Recent Postal Stationery Releases – Bryan Jones

Aerogrammatics

G.B. GVI Postal Stationery Cards – John Jennison

Postal Stationery Society Publications

The Jubilee of the Uniform Penny Post – Colin Baker

Insurance Cards – Peter O'Keeffe

Notes from the Editor's Desk

Queries and Replies

Book Reviews



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#24 – Vol 10 No 3 – October 2002

The Management Committee

Society Calendar

Obituary – Tony Chilton 1950-2002 – Alan Huggins

Secretary's Notes

G.B. Postal Stationery of K.G.V. – Peter O'Keeffe

Library Notes

British Bechuanaland – John Philpott

Victorian Natal – Postcards and Reply-paid Cards at the 1d Rate – John Dickson

A Journal on an Aerogramme – Duff Malkin

The Postal Stationery of Liechtenstein, 1918-1940 – Robert Avery

Reports from Regional Meetings

Book Review, Wants

Displays by Members



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#23 – Vol 10 No 2 – June 2002

The Management Committee

Editor's Comments

Secretary's Notes & Society Calendar

The Development and Demise of the Lettercard in Great Britain – Colin Baker

Those Martians Again – Tony Chilton

The Airgraph Story – Laurie Farrell

Queries and Replies

Letters to the Editor

Exhibition Scene

Meeting Reports

Book Reviews

Library

Aerogrammatics

Articles Noted

New Members

Wants

Editor's Notes



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#22 – Vol 10 No 1 – February 2002

The Management Committee

Editor's Comments

Secretary's Notes

Society Calendar

Rowland Hill, Father of Postal Stationery – Colin Baker

Recent Developments in German Postal Stationery – Ransom Bradford

Sierra Leone Aerogrammes – Peter Rolfe

Great Britain Issues a New Postal Stationery Envelope

Book Reviews

Postal Stationery on Postcards

Queries

Aims and Services of the Society

Membership List

Wants

Library, Auction and Journal Notes



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#21 – Vol 9 No 3 – October 2001

Editorial

Names & Addresses

Query Corner

Topics – A Fijian Proxy Reply Card

A Liverpool Special Event

Postal Stationery on Postcards

G.B. Inland Card Airmailed

Midpex

Book Reviews

Parliamentary Envelopes of 1840 – Colin Baker

A Canadian Cornucopia – Peter Van Gelder

From the Editor's Desk

Aerogrammatics

Membership List

Library

Wants



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#20 – Vol 9 No 2 – June 2001

Names & Addresses

The unknown 1922 De La Rue Business Envelope of India – Ed Deschl

The Postal Stationery of South West Africa – Jan Stolk

Newsletter No.8

From the Editor's Desk

Membership List

Annual General Meeting 2000 Report

Mozambique Company Display Report

Wants

Annual Account



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#19 – Vol 9 No 1 – February 2001

Editorial

Names & Addresses

S.T.O. Envelope

From the Old Curiosity Shop

Society Calendar & Notes

Exhibition Scene

Topics – QV Proxy Letter Sheet

More Speaker's Ovals

Query Corner

Collecting Postal Stationery in Denmark – Erik Hansen

Wants

From the Editor's Desk

Library

Aerogrammatics



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#18 – Vol 8 No 3 – October 2000

Editorial

From the Old Curiosity Shop

Society Notes

Topics – P.S.S. Mark One

What is Postal Stationery?

Proxy Voting Stationery

Query Corner

Secretary's Notes

Penny Pink Letter Sheets with Advertisements – Michael Lockton

Collecting Postal Stationery in Italy – Vittorio Coscia

From the Editor's Desk

Aerogrammatics

Book Review

Library

Membership List

Wants



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#17 – Vol 8 No 2 – June 2000

From the Old Curiosity Shop

P.S. Diplays at Local Societies

National Bibliographies – Australian Colonies/States

Book Reviews

Library

Newsletter no.7

100 Years Ago: Postal Stationery & the Anglo-Boer War – Paul van Zey1

Leeward Islands: the Federal Postal Stationery – Michael Oliver



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#16 – Vol 8 No 1 – February 2000

Editorial

Letters to the Editor

Society Calendar

National Bibliographies – Canada

Auction Action

Query Corner

Topics – G.B. Proxy Voting Stationery

Newsletter no.6

Secretary's Notes

Waste Not, Want Not, From India – Tony Chilton

Electronic Postal Stationery – Sam Barkley

G.B. – Overprinted Post Office Stationery – Colin Baker

Fron the Editor's Desk

Aerogrammatics

Book Review

Library

Membership List



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#15 – Vol 7 No 3 – October 1999

Library & Meetings Notes

Editorial

Jacques Stibbe 1920-99

MIDPEX Report

National Bibliographies – China

Letter to the Editor

Wants

Mulready News

Collecting Postal Stationery in the Netherlands – Jacques Spijkerman

A Case of Identity – Peter van Gelder

Query Corner

From the Editor's Desk

Aerogrammatics

Membership List

Library



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#14 – Vol 7 No 2 – June 1999

Editorial

National Bibliographies

Query Corner

Topics – Postal Stationery Proxy Cards

NEWSLETTER No.5

From the Editor's Desk

G.B. – Additional Stamps to Cover Increased Postal Rates – Colin Baker



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#13 – Vol 7 No 1 – February 1999

Editorial

Society Calendar 1999

Auction Action

A Fascinating Repair Job – Edy Pockele

G.B. – Compensation Labels on Registered Envelopes – Colin Baker

Query Corner

Letters to the Editor

From the Editor's Desk

Aerogrammatics

Book Reviews

Library

Membership List



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#12 – Vol 6 No 2 – October 1998

Part of the Russian Flood [comments on the steady stream of PSEs from Russia]

To Advertise or not to Advertise – that is the Question – Edgard Pockele

Postal Stationery Proxy Cards – Bill Meredith

Stamp Duty on a Proxy the Legal Background – Lawrence Armitage

Aerogrammatics –

– Clarification

– In Praise of the Humble Aerogramme – Tom Adami

Book Reviews –

– The Postal Stationery of Fiji, by Ross Duberal – review by

– Geuzendam Catalogus van de Postwaardestukken van Netherland en Overzeese Rijksdelen – review by Alan Huggins

– The Postal Stationery of Burma & Myanmar, by Richard Warren – review by David Taylor Smith

– Les Cartes Suchard, by F Barnier – review by Alan Huggins



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#11 – Vol 6 No 1 – February 1998

Tales of GB Stationery – An Unusual Use for the Australasia 3d Postal Card – Colin Baker

Siegfried Ascher – Postal Stationery Celebrity – Peter van Gelder

Postal Voting Postal Card

Early Formular Registered Envelope from Queensland

GB Envelopes 1d Pinks that are not pink

Unrecorded Mexican Postal Card – John Edwards

Lawton's Patent Advertising Card

Using cut-outs as Adhesives – Andrew Whitworth

Catalogue Pricing – Edgard Pockele

Book Review – GB Collector's Database Aerogrammes, by Paul R Adby – review by Peter van Gelder

Aerogrammatics -

– Current GB Definitives – Detailed Points – Andrew Whitworth

– Unlisted Item, Query from India Study Circle



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#10 – Vol 5 No 2 – October 1997

Cut-outs used as Adhesives – John Norton

Dies of the GB Halfpenny KGV ¾-face stamp for Postal Cards and Wrappers – Andrew Whitworth

Pre-First Day Christmas Aerogrammes – Duff Malkin

Auction Action – Peter van Gelder –

– A Premature Mulready (Harmers Auction)

– A Sale in South Africa (Stephan Weiz & Co Auction)

Norwegian Developments – Alan Totten

Early Finnish – Goran Nykvist

Highest Auction Prices (probably the world's most valuable stationery postcard) – Wayne Menuz

From the Editors Desk -

– Recent passing away of Robson Lowe

– New Society in Australia, the 'Aerogramme Society'

Book Reviews –

– Collectors' Guide to Postal Stationery by Peter van Gelder – review by John Barker

– Postal Stationery of Ireland by Otto Jung – review by Alan Huggins



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#9 – Vol 5 No 1 – February 1997

A Nigerian Cut-out on Cover – Peter van Gelder

The British & their Stationery – Enio Spurio

Postmerken '96

Auction Action

– PSS Auction report

– John Fitpatrick (Australia and Zanzibar)

– Harmers (Zululand collection formed by Wilson Wong)

But Higher Yet & Higher! (high prices paid for postal stationery) – Enio Spurio

Marshian Have Landed (re Oswald Marsh .. H Edgar Weston) – Allen Cotton – Philip Cockrill – Jack Harwood – Peter van Gelder

QV Card used on Decimal Day – Sam Lawrence

Aerogrammatics

– Middle East to Australia – J R Hill

– 1st Day Airletter Form 1942 – J R Hill

– Date Listing – Brian Harwood

– Australia's first Forces Airletter

– GB 1942 1st Day Airletters



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#8 – Vol 4 No 2 – October 1996

Two Rip Van Winkle Cards – Felix Albrect

Auction Action (reports on postal stationery sold in auctions) – Peter van Gelder

Zululand Postal Stationery – Brian Cartwright

The Birth of the Aerogramme – Rene Lee

Free State of Danzig Postal Stationery 1920-1939, Part 2 – Sam Barkley

Additions to the Society's Library – Peter van Gelder

An Execrable Aerogramme from Exeter – Duff Malkin

Aerogrammatics – Comment on GB Forces Letter & on an Unexhibitable Aerogramme – Rene Lee

Book Review – Norge Helpostkatalog 1996/97 edition – Peter van Gelder



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#7 – Vol 4 No 1 – February 1996

More GB Additions & Revisions – P.M.Purchas

Auction Action: PSS Auction; Stanley Gibbons Australia; Robert Siegel (Four copies of NSW first envelope); Robin Linke – by Peter van Gelder

Templehof 96

Dutch Society of Stationery & Postal History Collectors 50th Anniversary Exhibition

Defining Postal Stationery – Boudewijn Hellebrekers

Tete-Beche & Other Multiples of GB – Sam Lawrence

Free State of Danzig Postal Stationery 1920-1939, Part 1 – Sam Barkley

Royal Visit to Windsor Ontario – Duff Malkin

Aerogrammatics: 50th Anniversary of 1st Air Letter Sheet; Date Listings of Aerogrammes – Colin Baker

A 1942 1st Day Air Letter Form – Brian Harwood

More or Less a British Columbian Aerogramme – Duff Malkin



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#6 – Vol 3 No 2 – October 1995

Commemorative & Promotional Card (the Postal Stationery Society's postcard produced to mark the 125th anniversary of Great Britain's first postal card) – Peter van Gelder

Finlandia 95 an Eye-witness Report – Alan Huggins

Book Review – Handbook of Turkish Philately part 1 Ottoman Empire Postal Stationery, by Andreas Birken – a review by David Taylor Smith

Telegraph Form Queries – John Beard

A Mystery Registered Envelope – Colin Baker

Two Island Mysteries (Jersey aerogrammes) – Tony Gladstone

Japanese Earthquake – David Taylor Smith

More on Australian 1911 Coronation Cards – Wayne Menuz

Modern Lithuanian PSEs – David Williams

Defining Postal Stationery 1 – John Rouse

Defining Postal Stationery 2 – Wayne Menuz

Japanese Discovery (new Koban envelope) – David Taylor Smith

Letter to the Editor from Stanley Gibbons re publishing catalogue of some postal stationery – David J Aggersberg

GB Additions and Revisions – Colin Baker

Previously unrecorded GB EVII stamped to order cards – Alan Huggins

RAF Henlow jumped the Gun! (pre-release of GB Forces Airletter in 1945) – Tony Goldstone



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#5 – Vol 3 No 1 – February 1995

A Message from the Chairman

Editorial

Society Calendar

Defining Postal Stationery – Bill Meredith

Private Certificates of Posting

Lithuanian Postal Stationery Envelopes

Australian 1911 Coronation Cards

Bibliography, a list of postal stationery catalogues and books – compiled by Peter van Gelder

Our Society's Library

New Postal Stationery Issues

Airletters and Defining Postal Stationery – John Ray

Buying Postal Stationery in Korea – Bernie Beston

The First Postal Stationery – Sardinian "cavallini" – Paul Watkins

New findings among GB Postal Stationery – Tony Bowers

The Higgins & Gage Story (continued) – as told to the Editor by Wayne Menuz

From the Editors Desk

Aerogrammatics – Out of Africa- Duff Malkin



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#4 – Vol 2 No 2 – August 1994

A Message from the Chairman

Editorial

Society Report

– Display of Australian Postal Stationery by Roy Dowdeswell

– Display of Belgian Postal Stationery by Iain Stevenson

Control Marks on German Postal Stationery – John Barker

How Raymond beat the Mulready by 18 months – Peter van Gelder

Some aspects of collecting Southern African Postal Stationery – Tony Chilton

The Higgins & Gage Story – as told to the Editor by Wayne Menuz

The Army & Navy Stores fold over cards – Colin Baker



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#3 – Vol 2 No 1 – February 1994

A Message from the Chairman

Editorial

Exhibiting Postal Stationery – Derek Pocock

Query Corner re Lithuanian postal stationery envelope

Society Report of the AGM held on 25 September 1993

From the Editor's Desk

Report on the Society's first auction

Sale of a Sarawak Postal Stationery International Gold Medal Collection – Darryl Fuller

A Couple of Recent English Sales – Peter van Gelder

Report on International Exhibitions POLSKA '93, BRASILIANA '93 and BANGKOK '93 – Alan Huggins

Findings among GB Postal Stationery – Michael Shaw

Tales of GB Stationery, a Private Certificate of Posting – Colin Baker

Aerogrammatics –

– The 50th Anniversary of the First GB Airletter Sheet – Tony Goldstone

– A Date Listing of Aerogrammes – Brian Harwood

– Aerogrammatic Oddments – Peter van Gelder



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#2 – Vol 1 No 2 – August 1993

Message from the Chairman

Editorial – Peter van Gelder

Letter to the Editor

Postal Stationery – what does the Future Hold? – Alan Huggins

Query Corner

Society Report

From the Editor's Desk

Findings among GB Postal Stationery – Tony Bowers

Usage of Mulready Envelopes and Lettersheets prior to 6th May 1840 – Alan Huggins



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#1 – Vol 1 No 1 – February 1993

A Message from the Chairman – Alan Huggins

Report on the Inaugural Meeting of 26 September 1992

Coming Events

Early South African Postal Stationery – the change from imperial to local considerations – Tony Chilton

Japanese Newspaper Wrappers – David Taylor Smith

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