AUGUST, OCTOBER & DECEMBER 2021

August 2021

• A Philatelic Tribute to Michelangelo's Masterpiece - Flavia del Giudice takes a good look at the Costine Chapel through the Italian Michelangiolesca definitive series of 1961.   

• Broadcasting Mail - Following the feature on BBC mail in June 2021 Stamp Lover, Peter Mellor shows how the BBC expected their correspondents to pre-pay tyheir letters and lpooks back to the days of experimental broadcasting in 1922.

• The Butterflies you can find in Canadian philatelic material - Vladimir Kachan shows how butterflies can be found in the counrtry's 19th century cancels.
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• Why shouldn't all Philatelic Societies consider running Zoom meetings?- unkown to most of us before the pandemic Huw Williams  explains how Societies might take advantage of the new technology.
  
  
• Avec "Les Poilus", or "The Hairy Ones" - Dave Hill explins through a postcard from World War One.
  
  
• Rare NPS Cover error comes to light! - Michael Goodman reports on errors found in the special Nationmal Philatelic Society cancellation used on souvenir covers sold on the Society's stand at the November 2011 Christmas Ideal Home,
  
  
• New Issues - And now for the Olympics.
  
  
• Book Reviews - Detailed and informative reviews are a regular feature of the magazine. In this issue we look at
      - Stanley Gibbons Great Britain Concise  catalogue 2021
      - Stanley Gibbons Great Britain Specialised  catalogue - Volume 1, part 1 Queen Victoria
      - Australian Airmails across the Pacific Ocean 1937-1951 by Laurence Kimpton
      - Pan American's Final Flight by Jon E. Krupnick
     

October 2021

• Napoleon on Postcards, by Flavia del Giudice
  
  
• Wartime Malayan Postcard by Susan McEwen FRPSL - a postcard which “survived” the Japanese occupation.
  
  
• Confessions of a failed thematic competitor, Part 1. The editor Michael L. Goodman FRPSL discusses his attempts at thematics and  his “Tyrants “ and “Communism “ entries.
  
  
• Luring them in, a warning  to novice philatelists, Michael Round takes a critical look at some offers.
  
  
• Forgotten books on forgeries - Gerhard Lang-Valch unearths some little known works which shed light on early forgers.
  
  
• Curious post office names and postmarks,by Dave Hill.
  
  
• Spanish “ rubber stamps “ - Edith Knight highlights a Spanish issue printed on rubber.
  
  
• Meeting Report - A brief report on our September Meeting - the first since Spring 2020.
  
  
• New Issues -  “Roll over Beethoven”, the issues voted the most favourite music stamps.
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• Book Reviews - Detailed and informative reviews are a regular feature of the magazine. In this issue we look at Collecting Nigerian Cancellations by Paul Readhead
   - Les surcharges locales de 1992 à 1997 aux Comores by Olivier Bergossi
   - Malta Post Offices, 1806-1857 and their hand struck Postal Markings by Alan Green
   - Disinfection of the Mail in the Mediterrsnean with the Focus on Malta by James Van der Linde
   

December  2021

• Christmas Quiz, devised by Michael Round, test your philatelic knowledge. No prizes though!
   
• Forgers and fancy cancels .  Gerhard Lang-Valchs argues that some 19^th century forgers can be identified by the forged “fancy cancels “ on their stamps.
  
  
• Counterfeit Machin spooks editor, The editor explains why he was puzzled by a counterfeit 2nd class stamp he received in the mail.
  
  
• The Butterfly hunter ,  Vladimir Kachan  highlights the stamps which feature Alfred Russel Wallace and his scientific work. He was an early exponent of evolution.
  
  
• “Brooks supports the world and will never let it down“. In the second part of his series about being a failed thematic competitor, the editor reviews his efforts to present material relating to the Brooks surgical appliance company of Marshall, Michigan.
  
  
• Checklist of articles in British Philatelic Press January to June 2021, compiled by Rodney Knight.
  
  
• Meeting Reports - These have resumed with our successful October virtual meeting and our AGM and grand auction in November.
  
  
• NPS News - Our Hon President and Auctioneer Mike Thompson told the AGM he will cease conducting auctions due to ill health. Arrangements for a “bring and bid “ sale at our January 8^th meeting are revealed together with a briefing on forthcoming meetings.
  
  
• New Issues,The 2021 GB Christmas stamps shown on our front cover.
  
  
• Book Reviews - Detailed and informative reviews are a regular feature of the magazine. In this issue we look at Costa Rica surcharges ,forgeries and fantasies and History of Airmails in Poland.
  

  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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