Loughborough & District Philatelic Society
Two images each received a Commended award. ‘Spoons and Music’ by Bob Cornes and ‘Great Egrets’ by Colin Machin each deserved their recognition.
This had been an excellent evening highlighting the photographic expertise which exists within the Society with superb work, particularly in the natural history category, having been submitted. Thanks were given to all those who had entered the Competition, and also to Gary for fulfilling his duties as judge on the night.
The next meeting will be held on Monday, January 24 when guest photographer, David Keep, ARPS, DPAGB, ABPE, will present digital images under the title ‘Underwater Photography, Part 2 – The Big Stuff : Manatees to Crocodiles’.
Anyone wishing to become a member of Sileby Photographic Society should visit the contact page of the SPS website, when further details will be issued. The programme for the current photographic year is also available to view.
AT THE first meeting of the New Year, (January 13) , members of the
were asked to produce five sheets on any philatelic item or face a penalty of £1.00.
Of the 14 who attended (a relatively small number for a meeting), 12 members displayed.
The first to display was Rowland with his display of PHQ cards. ( These are postcards issued by the British Post Office depicting the enlarged designs of the commemorative stamps issued by the Royal Mail during any twelve months). All the cards displayed related to the famous Sir Elton H. John, singer, pianist, song-writer and composer. The set of stamps were issued on 3rSeptember2019.
Ray Tomkins followed with his display of Indian Revenue Stamps. They included stamps used in Aden issued during the reign of King George VI, with the 1 Anna being also used all over the Indian states.
Perfins were included as were those inscribed “His Highness the Raj”. There were revenue stamps for Share Transfers, Agreements and Foreign Bills. Stamps from Bombay and Bombay Province overprinted KGV together with a variety of cancellations. He was followed by Derek Whitmore.
His display was of Scottish Air Letters with a variety of Scottish views and famous Scots, including Robert Burns and John Knox. Trevor Harris then presented his thematic collection of “Cattle on Stamps” from a variety of countries that included Vanuatu, Eire, New Zealand, Namibia and Zambia.
Next came Garth Taylor with some beautifully engraved sets from Nigeria of the reigns of King George V and VI pictorials, with values up to 5/- and King George VI heads all in both used and mint.
He was followed by Brian Buck with his unusual display of “Moomins”, (children’s comic characters) from
Finland. Andrew Higson then displayed items of “Forgeries, Fakes and Reproductions” that included blocks of 4 x 1d blacks and 1d Reds with blank corners together with 10/-, £1 and £5 Telegraph stamps – not genuine. Blocks of “Sea Horses” – forgeries. A cover with a £1 TUC stamp- not genuine, A Postal Union Congress stamp of 1929m a registered cover with 4 King George V stamps and a Miniature sheet all of a dubious nature.
Next came Colin Butler with “Ladies on German stamps”, which showed the ‘Germania issues of both the “Reich Post” of 1899 and the “Deutches Reich Post of 1902. David Gabe followed with an unusual display showing how the colour black was used to enhance stamps. The QV 1d black being a good example. But it soon hit trouble as the postal cancellation was also in black! However, his stamps displayed, showed the many varieties of black being used, some being quite effective.
Rod Neal-Broughton then produced pre-stamp material sent to Manchester dated 1799, Death Duty document, Government of Channel Islands passport, Channel Island Red Cross documents from Jersey and Guernsey, Censored mail from the USA to Straw & Pearce, Solicitors A Censored Mail dated May 7th 1943. Plus an item with an UURGENT MAIL sticker to a person in Shipton. No other details being given, and yet it was delivered!!
Chas. Ford followed with an in study depth of the first large pictorials of Cyprus of King George VI showing a variety of printing errors in the Beach and Sea-line issues and of errors in their frames too. (A magnifying glass being supplied by him to help members to observe the minute details.
Finally came Christine, our President with her beautiful display of only a very small part of her collection of Post Boxes, (Pillar Boxes?), on covers, postcards, stamps and handstamp cancellations.
Vote-of-thanks was given by Rowland The next meeting will be on Thursday, January 27, when it will be a member’s evening on Postcards.