• Butterflies and moths in literature and poetry - Vladimir Kachan links nature and literature.
  
  
• A Few More Books on Forgeries - Michael Roundadds another instalment to his guide published in October featuring "Madame Joseph", "The Yucatan Affair" and several other books..
  
  
• The Lost Silk Road City of Tamralipti -Briti Deb & Indrajit Mukherkjee take a philatelic look at an ancient Indian city.
  
  
• Art Deco or Art Nouveau, Charity Stamps or Cinderellas? -The Rev. Reginald Campbell puzzles over some Russian charity stamps.
  
  
• All the fun of the Fair! - Dave Hill shows some postcards of early fairground attractions.
  
  
• Albert Decaris - Maureen Palmer on the life and work of a famous French stamp designer.
  
  
• New Issues
  • Triangular “first” for Year of the Ox
  • National Parks Set ushers in 2021
  • GB “special Stamps “ programme
  
  
• Book Reviews -  Detailed and informative reviews are a regular feature of the magazine. In this issue we look at

  - Trinidad and Tobago - The Stamps and Postal Stationery by Peter Ford.
  
  - International Postal reforms by James Grimwood-Taylor.
              Vol 2 The Birth of the Postage Stamp and its International effects.
  
  - Stanley Gibbons "Collect British Stamps" 72ed. 2021
  
  - Airmails of New Zealand - The Inland Flights - An Aerophilatelic History Compiled by James A Stapleton
  
  - Crises in the Cayman Islands Post Office under the British Colonial System 1889-1939 by Graham Booth FRPSL.

• Amazing adventures of the Air Marshal’s butterfly, Vladimir Kachan highlights the Purple Emperor Butterfly on stamps and how it was a favourite of a British Air Marshal.  

• Wafer seals . Stewart Gardiner FRPSL examines the way  envelopes were sealed in the early 19^th century.

• The “Spud Papers “ queried, Gerhard Lang-Valchs questions whether this 19^th century study of forgeries attributed mainly to  the notorious Spiro brothers also included forgeries by Torres and others as well as Spiro.  

• Butter sculptures - Dave Hill examines some postcards of “butter sculptures“. It is not an April Fool item!

• NPS members in a national one-sheet competition and the editor's "Chamber of Horrors".

• Newsmix (formerly Other News )  Postal Museum and Royal Philatelic Society headquarters to re -open

• NPS News - Obituaries for Col E.X “Ted" Halliday, MBE and Christine Earle FRPSL. Ballot form for Johnson Literary Award poll.

• New Issues - The Legend of King Arthur and HM The Queen’s 95^th birthday “Omnibus issue“.

• Book Reviews - Detailed and informative reviews are a regular feature of the magazine. In this issue we look at
      - SG GB Concise 2020 
      - Pan-American AirwaysWartime Transatlantic Air Mail Censorship and the LAT1 Substitute by John Wilson and Frank Walton RDP, FRPSL
      - Stanley Gibbons Commonwealth & British Empire Stamps 1840-1970 ("Part 1") 123ed. 2021

June 2021

• How to handle (or mis-handle) the Exchange Packet Part 3 - Barbara Priddy continues her guide and calls this instalment "You did your best, but Royal Mail defeated you"

• Amazing adventures of the Air Marshal’s butterfly, Vladimir Kachan highlights the Purple Emperor Butterfly on stamps and how it was a favourite of a British Air Marshal.  

• Cataloguing poster stamps. Stewart Gardiner FRPSL describes some catalogues which might be of use to collectors in this field.

•  With a song in my heart, or down memory lane at the BBC. John Davies highlights covers sent to celebrities at the BBC from his own collection, while the editor shows a cover sent from the USA to the BBC which had been checked for Anthrax.

• Stanley Gibbons only foray into a philatelic publication index. Brian Birch FRPSL describes how Gibbons made a foray into this field after World War I.

• Butterflies and the British upper classes. Vladimir Kachan continues his series on butterflies ,describing how British monarchs, aristocrats and politicians  loved butterflies.

• Checklist of articles in the British Philatelic Press - July to December 2020. Compiled by Riodney Knight.

• Newsmix - Competition for GB Covid heroes stamp  - Annual music stamp poll - New Postal Museum Post and Go..

• New Issues - The new bar coded second class stamp, and why the idea is not so new. New stamps to honour Prince Philip due June 24^th.

• Book Reviews - Detailed and informative reviews are a regular feature of the magazine. In this issue we look at
   - Australasion Crash Mail and Mail from other Incidents Vol Three 1936-1939 by Brian R Peace
   - The Wreck of SS Jebba 18 March 1907 by Martin B Evans FRPSL
  -  Placido Ramon de Torres - From Foundling to Master Forger by Gerhard Lang-Valchs

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