• The old Stanley Gibbons Catalogues - Handbooks for Detecting Forgeries? - Gerhard Lang-Valchs compares the sources of illustrations used in 19th Catalogues.
  
  
• The First British Precursor to the National Philatelic Society's Index to Current Philatelic Literature - The work of George Bartholomew Duerst (1861-1923) in creating the first British Index is described by Brian J Birch, FRPSL.
  
  
• Meeting Reports - A detailed and informative report on the NPS Christmas Meeting on Saturday 14th December 2019 and the Display of "Odds and Ends" given by Michael Thompson on Saturday 11th January 2020.
  
  
• New Issues
    -  Ascension - Moon Landing 50th Anniversary  
    -  Pakistan - Commonwealth Declaration .
    -  The Velvet Revolution marked by the Czech Republic and Slovakia
     - Royal uniforms from Romania
  
  
• Book Reviews -  Detailed and informative reviews are a regular feature of the magazine. In this issue we look at
  - Stanley Gibbons Collect British Stamps - 71st ed. 2020
  - SG Commonwealth & British Empire Stamps Catalogue 1840-1970 122nd ed. 2020
  - The Postal History of Paiforce - "The Persia and Iraq Force" 1942-1946 by David Trapnell
  - New Africa Catalogues:
     Timbres d'Afrique francophone (vols 1 and 2) 2019 - Yvert &  Teller.
     Westafrika 2019 - Michel

• The first postage stamp to show a butterfly- Vladimir Kachan  from Belarus , an keen collector of butterfly thematic, describes an interesting detail of the 1890 Hawaii 2 cent Princess Liiuokalan  Vatican.
  
  
• Romanitc French Masters and modern French definitives-Flavia del Giudice examines  the connection between two epic French paintings and French issues of the 1970’s and 1980’s.
  
  
• Civil Censorship in South Africa during World War  -Chris  Oliver FRPSL researches censor marks in the first of a two part series.
   
• Colonial stamps of Ceylon used in Aden- Dr Ali Nawaz  Khan looks at 19^th century Aden and the  use of Indian and Ceylonese stamps there.
  
  
• Cover to dead Man –the editor Michael L.Goodman FRPSL writes about a  19^th century cover from GB  to the USA he recently acquired and the sad story behind it.
  
  
• Checklist of articles in the British Philatelic Press , July to December 2019. Compiled by John Hammonds FRPSL.
  
  
• New Issues
    -  The Treaties of Paris centenary  
    -   Botswana , places of interest.
    -   Norwegian cities
    -   Beethoven
  
  
• Book Review - Stanley Gibbons Canada and Provinces specialist catalogue, 7^th edition 2020, reviewed by Michael Round, who discusses the listings, some history surrounding a recent issue, and of course price changes.

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