AUGUST & OCTOBER 2024

August 2024

• Stuart Rossiter Memorial Lecture - Which is more important, history or Postal History?  A report by the editor on the Lecture delivered by Simon Martin -Redman FRPSL,

• Puffy as Cotton Wool, Renoir on stamps :.The late Flavia del Giudice highlights  stamps  depicting Renoir and his works and what art critics said about him.

• Devil in the Detail, a study of Swiss Classics, Part 1: David P. Williams examines some of his Swiss classics and tries to distinguish genuine from fake. 

• The Herbert L'Estrange Ewen Index to the philatelic press 1901: Brian J.Birch examines an early index to the philatelic press and how it can be useful to modern philatelic researchers.

• Reports by the Hon President and Officers of the NPS to the 2024 Annual General Meeting..

• Meeting reports; On-line  meeting of Monday 10 June 2024.The main speaker, Malcolm Coe showed Early Sudan postal stationery and the stories they tell, the historical background and the stories of the people who sent and received them. The Annual General Meeting on 13 July 2024 and the Displays by Members that followed.

• Book Reviews  Detailed and informative reviews are a regular feature of the magazine. Reviewed in this issue are SG Stamps of the World Catalogue 85th ed 2024 and Malaya Postal Stationery to 1936 by Len Stanway.

• October 2024
  

• Spotting a wrong'un”: by Michael L. Goodman FRPSL. How to spot counterfeit Machins with the naked eye, with illustrations of counterfeits and genuine, and covers bearing a postage due “fine".

• Exploring the contours of Context Philately: by David Beech MBE FRPSL. David Beech explains context philately in a feature based a joint presentation with Alex Haimann to the Philatelic Congress of Great Britain at  Southampton in July 2024.

• What's it worth? Canada: Michael Round highlights a cover plastered in Canadian pictorials'

• Devil in the Detail, a study of Swiss Classics, Part 2: David P. Williams examines an 1850 Geneva cantonal issue, and explains why his own specimen is genuine.

• Herbert L'Estrange Ewen, the Swanage Connection: the editor, with the aid of Chris Oliver and Brian J.Birch discusses the Swanage connection of this philatelist and publisher whose compilation of a pioneering  philatelic press index was the subject of a feature by Brian J.Birch in the August issue.

• Congo Brazzaville - the fake Légal overprints and Seychelles - the photogravure period 1938-69: Michael Round writes about the displays he gave at the AGM in July 2024.

• Meeting reports: Members' displays after the AGM on 13 July 2024. Virtual meeting of Monday 12 August  where  main speaker, Philip Longbottom presented Postal history of the Netherlands from the 16^th century to the early airmail era, and its stamp issues to the 1930's', plus the London Meeting of 14 September featuring Aspects of Malaya by Len Stanway.

• Book Reviews – Detailed and informative reviews are a regular feature of the magazine. Reviewed in this issue are SG Great Britain Concise Catalogue; Anguilla's Quest for Identity by Susan Taylor, Julian Waldron & Brian Stockdale, Queen Elizabeth II - Worldwide Recess printed issues by James Peter Gough, and A Reminder of the British Greetings Telegram Service by F Brian Sole.

• Newsmix : Autumn Stampex preview, Royal Mail's new smartphone weapon against counterfeits and the new ABPS chairman. Most popular music stamps. In his column, Michael L. Goodman explains how to destroy value in a collection and critices f Royal Mail's failure to support Stampex.
  

• EACH ISSUE CONTAINS

  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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