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ContentIn the Beginning by John Scott ............................................... 2The Postal History Society: The Early Days (1936 - 1940) .... 3The War Time Stamp Club ...................................................... 6The Nougent Clougher Award ................................................. 8Forming a Postal History Collection by Samuel Graveson ..... 9The Journal of the Postal History Society ............................... 12The Sefton-Fiddian Cup .......................................................... 17The Unrealized Dream ............................................................ 19The Expertisation Committee of the PHS ............................... 20Postal History Society Annual Conferences ........................... 21Postal History Society Publications ........................................ 24Presidents of the Postal History Society ................................. 28Past Secretaries, Treasurers and Hon. Editors ........................ 30The Future of Postal History by John Sussex ......................... 31


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In The Beginning

Street, London, on Saturday 24th October 1936. Among the names to conjure with from the

journal – while illustrations were few and far between and tended to take the form of plates inserted, one compensation was the ability to include an original copy of the Daily Packet List of 1849 with every copy. The Society struggled on throughout the Second World War with

Field, Frank Godden, Adrian Hopkins, C. F. Dendy Marshall and Frank Staff, as well as the Union of Postal Workers, who remain members to this day, albeit under a new name.

remains as strong as ever, namely to promote the study and enjoyment of postal history in all its forms. There is no doubt that collecting passions have moved on over time and, while the early collectors gave scant attention to the contents of their treasured letters, nowadays the historical and social setting is as important as the postmarks, stamps, routes and rates that form the foundation of any study of postal communication. Nevertheless the world at large is blissfully ignorant of what postal history has to offer and the electronic age gives

is our newly envigorated website which makes both our renowned Library and our Journal available to all.

Postal History covers the world and, rather like a volcano which never sleeps, new items

after by future generations of collectors. The Society welcomes new members from whatever region of the globe and regardless of the country or the period from which you derive the most enjoyment. Word of mouth is always the most effective form of encouragement so spread the

predecessors, many of whom feature in this special Anniversary publication.

John ScottPresident


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On 26 September 1936, after a suggestion made at the conclusion of a Junior Philatelic Society meeting,

the establishment of a society for postal history would enhance stamp collecting and might lead to research that needed to be undertaken in the interests of national history.

which would provide useful material for research by serious students. Charles Clear of the Public

considerable stores of knowledge hidden away in various archives that could and should be brought to light by the activities of such a society.

By a unanimous decision The Postal History Society was formed and a committee of Messrs Melville,

Britain and The Stamp Lover.

The objects of the Society were, and remain, the promotion and encouragement of the study of the history of postal communications, local, national and international, and to publish a journal for members and other works relating to postal history.

was chosen as it was the centenary of the death of McAdam.

material in the Bruce Castle collections relating to postal history.

THE POSTAL HISTORY SOCIETYThe Early Days - 1936 to 1940

Frederick John Melville (1882 - 1940), The Society’s First President 1936 to 1937


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six months of 1937. At the beginning of that year the membership roll stood at 44 and by the beginning of

Annual General Meeting was held.

Ordinary meetings were scheduled approximately monthly in London but also two visits to eminent

81, a one-day meeting at Bath, at the invitation of Adrian Hopkins who was then Mayor of the city, and a weekend meeting at Bournemouth arranged by

At the outbreak of war, with membership of almost 100, activities were informally suspended, but efforts

words. With the various centenaries of postal reform looming it was decided that it was up to the Postal History Society to do something and get involved. A Fourpenny Night was held on 5 December 1939, with Adrian Hopkins in the presidential chair. The display and dinner was attended by 37 members who risked walking into lamp posts because of the

for such events and meetings) to celebrate the Uniform Penny Post. Guests at this dinner included

daughters of James Chalmers. Unfortunately Fred Mellville, the guiding force behind the founding of

Plans for the 5 May centenary, included the 27th Philatelic Congress of Great Britain under the

venue was changed from London to Bournemouth, and the date was brought forward from June to the more appropriate weekend of 6 May. An exhibition of postal history was arranged at the Pavilion in

at the GPO) and the editor of The Bulletin was Adrian Hopkins, for between them they were able to exert some pressure on the Postmaster General to go ahead with the planned issue of the 1840-1940 set of stamps.

published book, Penny Postage Centenary, edited by

as much of the stock was destroyed in an air-raid.

invasions of neighbouring countries. Meetings became

However the membership continued to grow during the war and the Bulletin was kept going under the editorship of Samuel Graveson.

Robson Lowe (1905 - 1997) President 1986

Adrian Hopkins MC, RDP (1894 - 1967) President 1939 to 1945


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The list of members as of April 1937 as it appeared in Bulletin No. 2 published in late March or early April 1937.

page reproduced from Bulletin No. 2 he used Bruce Castle as his correspondence address. Bruce

1827 when he came to London from Birmingham.

In 1927 an early collection of postal history formed by W.V. Moreton between the 1880s and 1923 was

Curator of the museum then owned by the Borough of Tottenham and now by its successor, Haringey.


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As a number of Societies had suspended their programmes by the end of 1939 and many members had

Street, be the base for an informal Stamp Club to operate only for the duration of hostilities

The suggestion was that meetings might be held every week, with a rotation of four different styles of programme: one an informal lunch-time session, one at 5.30 for a display followed by dinner, another a social meeting for afternoon tea, and the fourth a dinner. The meals and tea to be taken at the nearby

The basement provided a shelter, just in case!

Secretaries of Societies in the London area were circulated and asked for their preference. No reference

he did not get an encouraging response. However, our Bulletin #22 (August 1942) printed a paper read

morning so there were no staff there at the time. The bomb did not explode so parts of the building

Note:

the Second World War. The Hotel seems to have closed in about 1950

room of either the restaurant or hotel.

THE WAR-TIME STAMP CLUB

Oddenino’s Hotel on Regent Street at Piccadilly Circus circa 1937


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This award of a silver-gilt medal was set up under the will of Nougent Clougher, President of The Postal History Society 1960-62, who died in 1963. It was intended to promote research into Postal History on a world-wide basis and was to be awarded for a book to be nominated by any national or international society. It was not necessary to be a member

judging was placed in the hands of a group of eminent postal historians, initially led be Ebby Gerrish.

to have been made at Congress by Mrs Clougher, but the recipient was delayed by strike action in France. Alongside the initial award of the medal, the Society also awarded 43

since the Society was formed.

It has not been possible to discover recipients for each year as Postal History has not recorded the awards consistently. The awards listed below have been traced from various publications. From 1987 the awards were made by the Philatelic Writers Society.1968 Raymond Salles - La Poste Maritime Francaise1969 J J Winkler - Handbuch de Schweizer Vorphilatelie 1659 - 18501970 Thomas Foster - The Postal History of Jamaica1971 Louis Lenain - La Poste de l#‘Ancienne France des Origines à 17911973 Dr A R B Haldane - Three Centuries of Scottish Posts, an historical survey to 18361974 Robson Lowe - The Encyclopaedia of British Empire Postage Stamps 1693 - 1952, vol V, The Empire in North America 1976 Dr W Reiner-Deutsch - Hon Editor of a Czech journal in USA1977 A G M Batten - 1980 Jack Arnell - Atlantic Mails1983 Vivien Sussex - 1984 Dr John Siggers - 1985 Revd Jeremy Howat - 1986 Robert Goldblatt - 1987 Wilfred T Castle - Cyprus 1353 - 19861988 Stanley F Cohen - 1989 John S White - The Postal History of New South Wales 1788 - 19011990 Hugh M Campbell - Queensland Postal History1991 David Goldsmith and Robert Danzig - The Cancellations of the 1841 Penny Red1993 Archie Donald - 1995 Richard W Pratt - Imperial China: History of the Posts to 18961996 Harold S Wilson - 1997 John Phipps - The Stamps and Posts of Albania and Epirus 1878-19451998 Karl H Schimmer and John M Heath - Mexico Maritime Mail: a postal history from colonial times to the 20th century.

THE NOUGENT CLOUGHER AWARD


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FORMING A POSTAL HISTORY COLLECTIONThis article is transcribed directly from

“Bulletin”

I make no excuse for choosing this subject

the Postal History Society. I imagine than many, if not all, of those who hear or read this paper will be themselves collectors of items illustrative of some phase of Postal history; and I believe there will be a large measure of agreement when I say that the best way to get the facts of our Postal history is to collect items connected with that history.

There are of course many phases of collecting. As individuals we may choose some particular branch, say postmarks or stamps. If we decide on the former we shall be able to cover a much longer period of history, although I think

1680, when William Dockwra introduced his triangular stamp for his local delivery service. Both postmark and stamp collectors have added much to the general sum of information concerning the history of the Post. This fact is well brought out in the standard works on Philately, about which I hope to say something later on.

The temptation that besets all collectors is to collect too much. This fact leads one to suggest that we as individuals should avoid competing with Museums of Postal History. For the Museum - I hope my friend the Curator of the Bruce Castle Postal Museum will agree with me in this - for the Museum

and proper. But who of us has the space, time and money to make a collection of this character; and if made who is there who would have time to keep such a collection in order! I have been told that when

be in such a state of disorder that it has taken years to classify it.

The late Mr. J.H. Daniels of Brighton was much more methodical, but he may be said to have made his hobby a full-time job. Those of us who were privileged to be invited to his home were amazed at the way he was able to put his hand on the items in his collection that we were particularly wishful to see. The secret lay in a small memorandum book in which there was a complete record of the contents of all the numerous boxes and albums that lined the walls of his Postal History sanctum. I recall however that Mr. Daniels confessed to me that certain items of his vast collection were still in the cellar, and would have to be dug out.

Another collector, Mr. Dendy Marshall, has given us in his sumptuous volume on the British Post

would suggest that the totalling up of our different items can serve little useful purpose. It seems so reminiscent of the schoolboy collection of stamps!

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Let us now turn to the history of our British Postal system and try and see how it may be illustrated in a Postal History Collection. As individual collectors we shall not be able to get much further back

documents going back to much earlier times. These documents are of historic interest and it is only right that they should be preserved in our National museums. The facilities that the public enjoy for

of these early postal documents I would mention an invaluable book, a copy of which I have brought

into subject of the right of the Government to open letters of ordinary persons when they were being

relating to the Post from the time of Henry III, onwards. It is to be hoped that our Society may from time to time publish notes on some of the most interesting of these records of the past.

As I have already suggested, the private collector of items of British Postal History must rest content

afford much pleasure when they do turn up. I have never heard of one being offered at a stamp auction, but understand that several appeared at a Postal History auction recently, and found ready purchasers.

With the coming of the Stuarts to the throne of England travel became much more of a necessity than it had been earlier on. This meant more letter writing and in 1635 a new Postal system was inaugurated

their own that will interest all who make a study of the period.

Since I started on my own collection I have become more and more attracted to the 17th century. The latter half of the century is the more intriguing, for it was in 1661 that the impressed postmark

stamps, whilst recent postal history auctions have revealed that the stock of 17th century letters with Bishopmarks is by no means exhausted. In addition to the interest of these marks there is a fascination

the signe of the Fleur de Lys, in Thomas Apostles. What a lot of history peeps from behind such an address!

The Seventeenth century not only provided us with Bishop and Dockwra marks, but with an interesting series of Proclamations concerning the Post. There are also advertisements in some of the early

These have now found a permanent home at Bruce Castle, where they may be studied. The Ordnance

J. Melville, has chronicled the contemporary references to Mr. Dockwra and his Post. No better guide could be found than Mr. Melville in the study and collection of items of this period.

1618, which I am showing in one of the cases. It is from the Mayor of Dover to Lord Zouche and refers to a small vessel lying in Dover Harbour that Lord Zouche was intending to send to Virginia where the

reached each post town on the way to London.


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variety, also franks and impressed paid stamps. Judging by what was sold at auction when his collection

case with specimens, neatly mounted on card and well written up. Personally I have fought shy of too great an accumulation of closely allied types of postmarks. Such a collection does not possess many of

items may well rest content with examples of the chief types, on complete letters for preference. Such

contemporary advertisements and prints with a few maps of the post roads will help to brighten up such a collection. A special section dealing with letters carried by Government Packet Boat and privateship from abroad will be worth adding.

Coach roads, and round these roads built a collection of maps, prints, pre-stamp covers, advertisements and news cuttings. By this means one is able to bring to life again the Coaching era when the highways

and reconstruct some of the scenes in their collections.

The Nineteenth Century is the Golden Age for both Philatelists and Postal history collectors, or

were set up in their wake. Throughout England Penny Posts sprang up like mushrooms in town and village. I believe no one has yet made a complete collection of these Penny Post marks. I speak subject to correction. I suggest that it should be the aim of our Society to get a complete record of the Penny Posts for the use of its members.

The early years of the Nineteenth Century also witnessed great developments in both the Government

of Ship Letter marks for the past ten years. I hope we may see the fruits of his labours in illustrated form before many months have passed.

Colonel Bates, Mr. H.C.V. Adams, Mr. Seymour and other noted collectors and historians have gathered a rich harvest therefrom. But there is still much left for those who would be gleaners. Among the innovations of this period was the envelope. Before 1840 very few writers of letters used envelopes,

of uniform penny postage the pictorial envelope was used for ridicule and propaganda. The late Major Evans wrote a history of these envelopes and his book still remains the best guide on this fascinating phase of our Postal History. There is however scope for more research on the subject.

campaign of Elihu Burritt.

The embossed envelopes, to my mind, are well worth collecting, but I do not advocate cutting the stamps from them and pasting them in an ordinary stamp album. This is a form of mutilation which is not to be encouraged. In these expansive times when the loose leaf album is so generally used there is

yet seen a good collection of items connected with the Telegraph and Telephone. My confessing this


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may bring such a collection to our notice. I hope this may be the case.

In conclusion, I venture to say a few words on mounting and storing Postal History items. After experimenting with various methods of mounting I have adopted a sheet of paper not too large or thick for the mounting sheet. I type all descriptive matter on such sheets before mounting up the

my non-philatelic friends to whom such a collection would be otherwise meaningless. For storage I

each folder being typed on the front. The folders are then placed in the boxes, I prefer a chronological arrangement to that of types, though it is often possible to combine in a measure both ideas. Thus Box No. l contains items relating to the 16th and 17th centuries, Box 2 and 5, 18th century, and so on. Books and pamphlets have to be treated differently. They do not as a rule make attractive items for an exhibition, though an occasional pamphlet does not come amiss when one is giving a display.

own account of his Halfpenny Letter Carriage of 1709 are all desirable items for a collection. Other

have made a close study of outside the British Isles is the British Mails in Madagascar from 1878 to 1895. This had to be treated somewhat differently. Information was hard to come by and had to be

many hours spent on this particular piece of research work I will conclude this paper by expressing my thanks to those who are responsible for placing at the service of the public such valuable records as those contained in our public libraries and museums. Without the help of these institutions the student of history would never be able to get very far in his search after the truth.

THE JOURNAL OF THE POSTAL HISTORY SOCIETYBulletin

Bulletin to Postal History from No.152 in January

on aspects of postal history from all parts of the world. Once the typeset and printed format had been adopted many of the articles were illustrated. The indexes demonstrate that while British Isles subjects have dominated, other areas geographical from Abyssinia via Jamaica to Yugoslavia, and topically from Accountancy Marks through Maritime Mails to Wreck Covers, have all been covered.

Past and present editors have always been keen to receive scripts from members, particularly when the


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Prof. Barrie Jay’s Editorship, the article was by Robert Johnson.


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Sefton-Fiddian, of Birmingham (and later of Bournemouth), who had joined the Society in 1946.

material together with a paper not exceeding 2,000 words dealing with the subject of the display. No award was to be made unless at least four entries were received.

in Bulletin #44. Eleven entries were received

cup to Gerald Wellburn for British Columbia and Vancouver Island. Other entries were of a high standard but his was a clear winner. Second place went to Ethel Harper, and third to Bernard Taylor. Winners names, their papers and when they were published in the Bulletin where noted:

THE SEFTON-FIDDIAN CUP

Year Name Subject Bulletin

1948 Gerald Wellburn British Columbia and Vancouver Island #46

1950 J M Y Trotter Private Postal agents for Guernsey Letters #551951 H J Butler Postal History of Tristan da Cunha (published in The Philatelist September 1951)

Findings, Conclusions and Ideas.

1955 Dr Frederick Parsons Early Postal History of Madras #84

1957 Martin J Moreton The Yemen #921958 C J Collinson Too Late and Late Fee markings #99

Steamers - 1848 #1041960 Dr Frederick Parsons Military Datestamps of Serbia #112

USA & Hong Kong, 1867-1877 and its developments #122

1965 J Alfred Birch (Not announced, no paper published)


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Year Name Subject Issue1971 Dr Brian de Burca The Abyssinian Campaign 1867-1868 1972 Geoff Oxley An outline of early Postal History of Ceylon #176,1771973 Barrie Jay The Early History of the London Cross Posts #1801974 David Cornelius The Twopenny Posts of the Plymouth area #1871975 Geoff Oxley Letters from the East via Suez 1830-1864

1981 Col Neil Blair (Not announced, no paper published)1982 Dr David Trapnell Some Questions concerning the Postal History of the Houses of Parliament in the 19th century #225

mail from Victoria to UK illustrating Private and Packet Vessels and the emergence of Steamers #2291984 Ken Clark Foreign Mail to Japan1985 Denis Vandervelde (Not announced, no paper published)1987 Denis Salt The Local Posts of Shifnal and Ironbridge #247

1992 Malcolm Montgomery Fines on Letters exchanged with British North America, 1859-1876 #264

1994 John Scott Mauchline Philately1995 Denis Vandervelde 18th century Forwarding Agents expediting mail from

1998 John Scott The Inland Sample Post, 1915-1918 #288

In the Spring of 2005, after a period of few entries and in some years no entries at all, the rules were amended by the Council to: 16 pages of postal history, any subject, any period, any country. The

vote, with the President having an additional casting vote in need. Articles based on some displays have been published in Postal History, as noted.

2005 David Tett Mail from the Civilian Labourers on the Burma -

2006 John Yeomans French Settlements in India #320

2009 John Yeomans Mauritius, Accountancy and To Pay marks 1859-1871 #333


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THE UNREALIZED DREAM

house for the Society within London. The following was a three page document circulated to members, probably in 1961. The dream was clearly unrealized and all that remains is a copy of the undated

It was the intention of the founders of the Postal History Society that a permanent home or club should be instituted once the Society was fully established. Owing to the war and other reasons the original plans were never implemented but the Council now feel that there should be no further delay.It is becoming increasingly apparent that the Society needs permanent premises to house its growing

for meetings and for the administrative side of the Society.Apart from these reasons there is a widely-expressed feeling in favour of a meeting place in Central London, open all the time, where postal historians could meet, study, bring their guests, or merely

surely be satisfaction in the resulting expansion of the Society and in its activities to broaden the scope, and improve the study, of postal history.

Conference. The Council has decided to submit the following plan to Members:-

1. Location

2. Accommodation

3. Facilitieswould be present in person or by relief arrangement to provide limited catering, i.e. tea, coffee,

use the Club for research, etc., outside normal hours, i.e. say 10 a.m. to 11 p.m.

4. Administration. The Club would be owned on behalf of the P.H.S. by a Trust which would delegate the administration to a member of Council resident in the London area.

5. The Cost. Unfortunately the best things in life are seldom free and the proposed club will cost a great deal of money to set up, although once established its running cost should not be outwith the

it must be apparent that substantial sums must be subscribed by the great majority of members if that total is to be reached.

The Council do not propose to treat this as a long term operation for they feel that few members would wish to subscribe to a venture which might not see the light of day for years. It is hoped that it


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project dropped.

side the value of the proposed Postal History Club as a contribution to the national and international study of postal history would be inestimable and we do ask you earnestly whether you cannot help.

A. N. Welsh.The Croft,Yester Park,Chislehurst,Kent,

The Council in issuing this appeal fully appreciate that many of those to whem it is addressed, if only because of distance, are likely to obtain little or no personal return from the project. On the other hand,

To :- A. N. Welsh. The Croft, Yester Park, Chislehurst, Kent.

NAME(Block letters please).

Please delete phrases inapplicable. Any further comments you may have will be welcomed.

genuineness of adhesives, albeit on covers.

Charles Jewell, the Secretary of the Committee, commented at the end of 1943 that the number of collectors who had submitted material had surprised him. The items covered A to Z in geography,

were noted from the obvious to the clever.

THE EXPERTISATION COMMITTEE OF THE PHS


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POSTAL HISTORY SOCIETY ANNUAL CONFERENCES

what appears to be much more of a social weekend than one given over to displays and presentations

Exeter followed by a welcome by the Mayor and Mayoress of Bournemouth. The afternoon was free to enjoy a walk around the town followed by a reception given by the Bournemouth Philatelic

of cars took the delegates to the New Forest and on their return they met the Bournemouth Philatelic

was not repeated until October 1945 due to the outbreak of the Second World War.

One of the features of many of the earlier Annual Conferences was the provision to members of souvenir cards related to the venue of the event. Examples are shown in the collage below.

Brighton 1954

Windsor 1958

The Hague 1965

Kings Lynn 1962


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Lyndhurst 1964 Jersey 1971

1945 Nottingham The Victoria1946 Edinburgh The Caledonian

1948 Ipswich The Crown and Anchor 1949 Shrewsbury The Lion

1951 Cheltenham The Queens Hotel1952 Littlehampton The Beach1953 Harrogate The Cairn Hydro1954 Brighton The Norfolk1955 Looe The Nailzee Point1956 Tunbridge Wells The Spa Hotel1957 Windermere The Windermere Hydro1958 Windsor The White Hart1959 Largs Marine and Curlinghall 1960 Hereford The Green Dragon 1961 Paris (various hotels)

1964 Lyndhurst The Grand Hotel1965 The Hague De Zalm and Du Passage1966 Portmerion The Portmerion1967 Guernsey The Old Government House1968 Perth The Station1969 Douglas, Isle of Man Fort Anne1970 Chichester The Dolphin and Anchor1971 Jersey The Beaufort 1972 Bury St Edmunds The Angel1973 Falmouth The Bay1974 Chester Mollington Banastre

1976 Ipswich Post House

1977 Oxford Jesus College

1979 Durham University College1980 Weymouth The Gloucester1981 St Andrews The John Burnett Hall1982 Tunbridge Wells The Calverley

1985 Vlissingen Piccard1986 Lyndhurst Lyndhurst Park1987 Halifax Holdsworth House

1990 Scarborough The Clifton1991 Gloucester The Crest1992 Tiverton The Tiverton 1993 Chester Abbots Well1994 Perth Stakis City Mills1995 Steeple Aston Hopcroft Holt1996 Hanley Stakis1997 Bournemouth Swallow High Cliff 1998 Norwich The Nelson1999 Bowness Windermere Hydro2000 Bath Hilton Waterside2001 Derby The Midland2002 Swindon The Marriott2003 Preston The Marriott2004 Newbury The Hilton2005 Charlecote The Charlecote Pheasant 2006 Portsmouth The Hilton2007 Cheltenham The Thistle2008 Worcester The Fownes2009 Faringdon Sudbury House 2010 Morley Hayes, Derby Morley Hayes

The following is a list of the venues which have hosted the Annual Conferences of the Society. The programmes in more recent years have been devoted to invited guest displays setting a general theme and members displays. Standing displays are also accommodated as often more members wish to

Surprisingly, only on two occasions in the last 26 years have delegates been roused from their beds by


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Members at the Society’s Meeting in Bath 1947

Participants at the Conference at Looe 1955.


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POSTAL HISTORY SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS

objective has been realized with a total of 93 titles published between 1940 and 2010. Many of the

London.

Author Title YearGraveson S (ed) Penny Postage Centenary 1940 op

Mann JTW Great Britain - The Postmarks and Envelopes of the Airgraph

Uniform Penny Postage Provisionals of Great Britain, 1840-1853 1948 op

Lobdell JK & Hopkins AE Hong Kong and the Treaty Ports 1949 op

Crago NS, Fugle AG & Hong Kong, a study of the Postal History since liberation,

Chubb C The Government Dockwra Time Marks, 1683-1794

Westley HC The Early Postal History of the British West Indies & North America 2 1957 op

cancellations 4 1957 op

Stitt Dibden WG London Date Stamp Codes 6 1958 opBirch A The Postal History of the Danish West Indies

Webb, Col FW Anglo-French Currency Stamps in the Far East

Tomlinson LG & Clougher NM Prince Edward Island 7 1959 opTolkowosky E Israel, The Jerusalem Cross Forerunner

Birch A The Postal History of Sweden

Thursday 26 May 1960 1960 op


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Glasgow E Some aspects of the Postal History of Nigeria

Stitt Dibden WG & Lowder JWA The Krag Machine Cancellations 9 1960 op

Ireland 1832 1960 op

Stitt Dibden WG & Tebbutt L Stamford Postal History 11 1961 op

with Kandahar and Baluchistan 1881-87 12 1961 opHopkins AE, et al Afghanistan and the Second Afghan War

Hong Kong, 1867-1877, and its developments

Mann JTW Columbia Stamp-Cancelling Machines at the E.C.D.O., London, 1901-7 13 1963 opStitt Dibden WG The Additional Halfpenny Mail Tax 1813-1839 14 1963 op

Moore L The Ship Letter postmarks of Lake Maggiore

Sattin G The Postal History of Delhi from 10 May - 31 December 1857

Stitt Dibden WG Early Stamp Machines 17 1964 op

Sankey M Care of Mr Waghorn ISBN 9780 85377 0084 19 1964 op

of Charles II 20 1964 op

Thursday 6 May 1965 1965 opStitt Dibden WG Four Hundred years of Anglo-Dutch Mail

Stitt Dibden WG Leicester and the Posts ISBN 9780 85377 0053 22 1966 op

ISBN 9780 85377 0077 23 1967 opStitt Dibden WG Wembley & Olympic Issues, the stamps and associated postal markings (Note 1) 1968 opWebb, Col FW Hong Kong Air Mails ISBN 9780 85377 0060 1969 opJohnson LJ The Posts of Essex ISBN 9780 85377 0008 24 1969 op

to 1867 ISBN 9780 85377 0015 25 1969 is

ISBN 9780 85377 0022 26 1971 opStitt Dibden WG Newspaper Branch Cancellations ISBN 9780 85377 0039 27 1971 op


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Muggeridge SJ The Postal History of Maidstone & the surrounding villages ISBN 9780 85377 0091 28 1972 op

Westley HC Early Postal History of British West Indies & North America

Cornelius DB Devon & Cornwall, a postal survey 1500-1791 ISBN 9780 85377 0121 31 1973 is Oxley GF The English Provincial Local Posts 1765-1840 ISBN 9780 85377 0138 32 1973 op

Scott Archer M The Penny Posts of Wales before 1840

Warn I Bristol 5th Clause and Penny Posts, 1793-1840 ISBN 9780 85377 0145 (Note 2) 35 1980 op

Falkland Islands 1808-1880 37 1984 opHolmes, Brig KS Operation Overlord, the sea-borne invasion of North West Europe, 1944-45 ISBN 9780 85377 0169 38 1984 isWellsted HA Express Service, 1891-1971 ISBN 9780 85377 0176 39 1986 op

Arnell JC & Luddington MH The Bermuda Packet Mails & the Halifax-Bermuda mail service 1806 to 1886 ISBN 9780 85377 0190 1989 is

Salt D The Domestic Packets between Great Britain and Ireland, 1635-1840 ISBN 9780 85377 0220 1991 is

Parmenter J GB Used Abroad, cancellations and postal markings ISBN 9780 85377 0244 1993 opHendy JG, ed Beale P Ship Letters ISBN 9780 85377 0268 1997 isHenderson SPA Postal History Society Library Catalogue 1997 isMark G Imperial & Foreign Mails, Sea Conveyance during War 1914-1918 ISBN 9780 85377 0275 1997 is

(Note 3) 1998 is

1842-1879 ISBN 9780 85377 0329 1999 is

Thursday 24 February 2000 2000 is

ISBN 9780 85377 0282 (Note 4) 2007 isMark G Prisoners of War in British hands during WWI ISBN 9780 85377 0299 2007 is

ISBN 9780 85377 0305 2009 is

ISBN 9780 85277 0312 2010 isPostal History Society 75th Anniversary Exhibition, Spring Stampex 2011 2011 is

Notes: 1. Published jointly with the British Philatelic Society 2. Published jointly with the G.B. Philatelic Society

4. Published jointly with the British Philatelic Federation op = Out of Print is = In Stock. Number preceding year of publication represents the “Special


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Society Publications Price List

Holmes Operation Overlord, the sea borne invasion of NW Europe

Mark (Editor) Imperial & Foreign Mails: Sea Conveyance during War

Salt Domestic Packets Between Great Britain & Ireland

Prices to members of the Society are in brackets. Postage and packing extra on all sales: please


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1949-51 B F Hounsell Dammers

1953-55 Thomas E Field1955-57 Charles Clear

1959-61 Nugent Clougher

1963-65 Dr Frederick P N Parsons

1967-69 Bill Newport1969-71 Col. David M Eley1971-73 Francis Granville1973-75 Dr H A Wortman

1983-85 Michael Champness

1986-88 Trevor Davis1989-90 John Scott1990-92 Geoff Oxley1992-94 Vivian Sussex1994-96 Fred Goatcher1996-98 Michael Jackson1998-00 Hugh Feldman

2002-04 Eric Goffe

2010- John Scott

PRESIDENTS OF THE POSTAL HISTORY SOCIETY

R.W. Hatswell 1937 Col. Guy Crouch 1947 & 1951

Charles Clear 1955

Thomas E. Field 1953

Sydney Raine 1957

Robert K. Wortley 1952


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Nugent Clougher 1959

Alan Robertson 1961 Raife Wellsted 1965 & 1981

Martin Willcocks 1977

Trevor Davis 1986John Scott 1989 & 2010

Patrick Pearson 1975

Vivian Sussex 1992

Robert Johnson 1979


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Michael Jackson 1996

Hugh Feldman 1998

John Sussex 2004

Richard Stock 2006 Richard Wheatley 2008

HON. SECRETARIES

1938-44 Foster Bond1944 Samuel Graveson1945-47 Nougent Clougher1948-52 Maj. Adrian Hopkins1953-68 Frederick Walker

1976-78 Jean Farugia1979-83 John Scott

1986-95 Michael Jackson1996-99 Bill Hogg2000-01 Claire Angier

2005-06 Jay Walmsley2007-11 Hans Smith2011- Steve Ellis

HON. TREASURERS1936-40 Samuel Graveson1941-46 Donald Hunt

1969-72 Col. David M Eley1973-76 Cyril Parsons1977-82 Ian Warn

1991-96 Hugh Feldman1997-06 Graham Mark2007-10 Jay Walmsley2010- David Tett

HON. EDITORS1936-46 Samuel Graveson1947-50 Francis Granville-Smith1951 Tom Todd1952-66 Maj. Adrian Hopkins

1971-75 Geoff Oxley1975-79 Edward Baker1979-86 John Hayhurst1986-93 Bill Newport1994-05 Barrie Jay2005-11 Hugh Feldman2011- Claire Scott

Prof. Barrie JayEditor Postal History 1994 - 2005


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The Future of Postal History

Over the last 75 years the study and collecting of Postal History has grown from a minor sideline into the main interest of many philatelists. This trend has been worldwide and there is hardly any area or period of the history of postal communications that has not been studied and written about. Most national and international exhibitions now have a postal history class and it is often one of the most popular among both exhibitors and viewers. The Postal History Society has been in the forefront of this development and this publication demonstrates that from modest beginnings the Society has pioneered and fostered the study and collection of postal history. The Society has over 300 members across all the continents and has published over 90 books and pamphlets on subjects

journal provides a vital link between members.

But what of the future? While not possessing a crystal ball large enough to predict the next 25 years, let alone another 75, it is clear that we are living already in an

on-line, as is the index for our last 300 odd journals and e-mails are likely to be an

also in the diminishing demand for orthodox postal services and it is far from clear what contemporary postal history there will be for future generations to collect.

those of previous centuries, Machin covers which I collect being a case in point as a readable datestamp becomes a thing of great rarity.

In competitive philately we have witnessed a burgeoning interest in the social content

are amongst the most enthusiastic supporters of this new development which offers the possibility of much greater connectivity with the wider world of academic research as well as with the public who may not have been enthused by stamp collecting. In conclusion, the Society extends a warm welcome to new members without whom the efforts of previous generations witnessed in this booklet will come to naught.


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Documents

75 anniv book - Postal History · Postal History Society 75th Anniversary 3 On 26 September 1936, after a suggestion made at the conclusion of a Junior Philatelic Society meeting,