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FEBRUARY, APRIL & JUNE 2019
February 2019
  • A Philatelic Tour of Royal Residences - Part One, Windsor Castle - Flavia del Giudice begins her tour with the castle that has featured on many British High Values

  • A Chance enquiry about a long lost railway -  The editor explains how a researcher into the Southwold Railway (closed in 1929) approached our membership secretary and brought to light the work of Gladys Driver a contributor to Stamp Lover in the late 1960s.

  • Meeting Reports - A detailed and informative report on the NPS Christmas Meeting on Saturday 8th December 2018..

  • New Issues
      -  Portugal     - 500 years of the postal service
      -  Fox Bay Post Office in the Falkland IslandsT
      -  Sri Lanka - Rubber centenary
      -  British Antarctic Territory - new definitives
  • Book Reviews -  Detailed and informative reviews are a regular feature of the magazine. In this issue we look at
     - SG Commonwealth & British Empire Stamps Catalogue 1840-1970 121st ed. 2019
    - SG Stamp Catalogue - Middle East 1st ed 2018
    - Cuba First Flights and Airmail Events Catalogue 1913-2018     by Adolfo Sarrias Enriquez
     - Operation Tabarin 1943-45 and its Postal History by Gerry Pearce
    - Stanley Gibbons Collect British Stamps - 70th ed. 2019

     
April 2019

  • James Chalmers' impact on the Postal Reforms of 1839-40 - Brian J Birch, FRPSL questions the way in which James Chalmers' role has been promoted in some quarters..

  • Sir Hans Sloane and his famous butterfly collection - Vladimir Kachan looks at how this has featured on stamps, with postmarks from Sloane Square that is named after Sir Hans.

  • A tricky case of identification - A stamp without any lettering from the Polish Occupatation of Lithuania puzzled Michael Round.

  • Fifty four forty or fight! - U R Kidding wonders if a jingoistic postcard produced in the USA might have influenced the design of the Christmas 1898 stamp from Canada marking the introcuction of Imperial Penny Post.

  • Meeting Reports - Detailed and informative reports on the January 2019 display by Tony Bosworth, FRPSL of Anti-Communism in Europe 1919-45 and the Gibraltar display given by David Sumpter on 9th February.

  • New Issues
       -  Montenegro - Commemorating a Commemorative
       -  220 years of Postal Service are marked by the     Netherlands
       -  90th Anniversary of the Lateran Treaty - I    taly and Vatican City
        -     Australian Contrasts Land
        -     Norway - 50 years as an oil nation
         - Spain and the Panama Canal
      -       Germany featiures "The Gruffalo"

  • Book Reviews - Detailed and informative reviews are a regular feature of the magazine. In this issue we look at
    - US Contract Mail Routes by Railroad 1832-1875 by High V. Feldman FRPSL
    - Stanley Gibbons Commonwealth Catalogue - Hong Kong 6th ed 2018
    - Cachets Applied to Interrupted  New Zealand Airmail     by Brian R Peace and Robin D Gwynn

June 2019
  • The Australian Footprints of a European Stamp Forger - Gerhard Lang-Valchs describes the work of Placido Ramon de Torres on the stamps of Victoria.
  • A Philatelic Tour of Royal Residences - Part Two, Hampton Court - Flavia del Giudice continues her philatelic tour.

  • Checklist of articles in the British Philatelic Press, July to December 2018

  • Meeting Report - A detailed and informative report on the March 2019 display by Peter Pugh entitled "Another Bloody Railway" 

  • New Issues
      -       Lascaux 4 - France  
      -       Grytviken in 3D on four stamps from South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands..
      -   Liechtenstein in 1919
      -   The Sundial and the Astronomical Clock from Slovakia and Slovenia
      -   Slovakia     commemorates the Czechoslovak Legions.

  • Book Reviews
    - Stanley Gibbons Commonwealth Stamp Catalogue, Australia, 11th ed 2018
    - Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue,Part 17 China 12th ed 2018
    - Forgeries of Common Stamps after Wotrld War I: Eastern Front, Balkans, Caucasus     by P Clark Souers version 2
    - Newfoundland's Last Definitives: The Perkins Bacon and Sprague Printings     by C A Stillions (BNAPS Exhibit Series 102)
     - Stanley Gibbons GB Specialised Stamp Catalogue,Queen Elizabeth II pre-decimal issues, Vol 3 13th ed.

      EACH ISSUE CONTAINS THESE REGULAR FEATURESEACH 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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