JUNE & AUGUST 2018

June 2018

• 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" 

• “And our dear Channel  Islands are due to be free today“  Winston Churchill's words on 8 May 1945 form the title of this article by Christine Earle FRPSL featuring mail and postcards sent by the newly liberated islanders.
  

• Checklist of Articles in the British Philatelic Press - our twice yearly listing covers the period July - December 2017.
   

• Meeting Reports - Detailed and informative reports on the displays of the second part of the display given by Derek Mauri on Saturday 10 March which covered German Inflation following World War I, and the display on Norway and Spitzbergen given by Patricia Adams on Saturday 14 April 2018.
  
  

• New Issues -
    -  The series of "Delicious Deserts" stamps from Portugal.  
    -  A beautiful stamp from Canada for the 65th Anniversary of the Coronation.
    -  Australia marks the 150th Anniversary of the 1868 Aboriginal XI cricket tour.
    -  New Zealand has issued the fifth in its series of stamps on the First World War entitled "Back from the Brink" 
  
  

• Book Reviews - Detailed and informative reviews are a regular feature of the magazine. In this issue we look at
  Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue - Denmark & Norway 1st ed 2018
  Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue - North-East Africa 2nd ed 2017
  Freedom just around the corner: black America from Civil War to Civil Rights
  
  .PLUS -  Other Regular Features - 

  • The President's Piece, National PS News, Message from the Editor

  • Letters to the Editor

  • Other Philatelic News   

  • Stamp Fairs Listing -  late May, June & July 2018.
    
    and more on "philatelic vandalism"

August 2018

• How to handle the Exchange Packet Part 4 - Barbara Priddy concludes her guide and offers the Packet Team's thanks to the vendors and checkers. 

• Confessions of a Compulsive Competitor - Having taken part in philatelic competitions for over thirty years, Michael Goodman draws on this experience to offer advice and guidance with a view to increasing the number of participants in such events, including the National's own annual competitions.

• French "Ambulant" postmarks -  The last Travelling Post Office ran on the French railways in 1995 and here Dave Hill looks bank at some of the postmarks used on these services. 

• Meeting Reports - Detailed and informative reports on the display Mexico (The Peter Brack Memorial Lecture) given by Ray Barton on Saturday 11 May and the President's Display on Saturday 9th June which featured Cinderellas and Ephemera. 

• New Issues -
    -  Early Trades of Singapore.  
    -  Postal History Definitives from Hungary..
    -  Gibraltar, Ascension, Tristan da Cunha and the Falkland Islands mark the centenary of the Royal Air Force.
    -  Austria celebrates the "Day of the Stamp". 

• Book Reviews - Detailed and informative reviews are a regular feature of the magazine. In this issue we look at
  Stanley Gibbons Commonwealth Stamp Catalogue - India, including Convention and Feudatory States 5th ed.
  Stanley Gibbons King George VI Stamp Catalogue - 9th ed 2018
  Entertainments Tax in South Africa - Four papers by Ian Matheson and Andrew McClellan
  Jusqu'a handstamps and other route indications 2nd rev ed. by Jan C. ter Welte
  Canal Zone Airmail Rates by Tom Brougham & Bradley White
  
  .PLUS -  Other Regular Features - 

  • The President's Piece, National PS News, Message from the Editor

  • Letters to the Editor

  • Other Philatelic News   

  • Stamp Fairs Listing -  late July, August & September 2018

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