Trafford Philatelic Society
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Trafford
Philatelic Society meets at Park House, Northenden Road, Sale, M33 2DG on the
first and third Tuesdays of the month, from September to May. Meetings
start at 7.45pm, but members are welcome to arrive any time after 7.00pm to
swap, buy, or just 'talk' stamps.
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TPS
welcomes all those interested in stamp collecting or postal history, young
and old, beginners and advanced. |
For further details of Trafford
Philatelic Society please ring the Secretary Mr Kearsley on 0161 973 2146
Or Contact the Webmaster via email: nwfedps@live.co.uk
October
2009 Newsletter (Word)
Sixty
Years of Philately in Sale
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Sixty Years of Philately in Sale
It was with some relief that the
officers of the Society learnt recently that our archives had at last turned
up. Along with minute books of meetings (from 1949) and committee meetings
(from 1944) was an almost complete collection of the yearly syllabus. Some of
you will have had sight of the photocopy of the first syllabus that our
secretary brought to a recent meeting, and will no doubt have noted that the
subscription in 1944 was five shillings, the equivalent I would guess of about
£25 in today’s money.
What that early syllabus
confirmed was that the first public meeting of the Society was held on Tuesday,
31 October 1944. It is perhaps interesting to remind ourselves of the wartime
situation of that period. D Day had taken place almost six months earlier, but
hopes of a breakthrough into Germany and a rapid end to the war had been
frustrated by the set-back of Arnhem in September, and a new threat had emerged
in the early days of October, at least for the South East of England, with the
beginning of the V2 campaign. Nonetheless, with the campaign in Italy making
steady, if unspectacular progress, advances in Burma and the American fightback
against Japan in the Pacific gathering pace, it must have seemed that the tide
of war was now definitely running in favour of the Allies, underlined perhaps
by the visit of King George VI to the Western European battlefields 11-16
October.
No doubt buoyed up by a
degree of optimism and determined to begin a process of getting back to
something approaching normality after five years of war, a few dedicated
philatelists gathered in Sale for the first meeting of the newly formed Sale
and District Philatelic Society.
The Treasurer, Norman Wardleworth,
gave a talk and display entitled ‘Russian Commemoratives’. Regrettably, just
what the display comprised is not known (no minute book for these early
meetings appears to have survived), but it is interesting to speculate for a
moment on what Norman might have shown. Would he have started his display with
the War Orphans Fund issue of 1905, or the 1913 celebration of the Tercentenary
of the Romanov Dynasty (those familiar portraits of Czar Nicholas II, Catherine
the Great and other monarchs found in most childhood collections), or the
anniversary issues of the October Revolution (1922)? And where would he have
finished? Had he been able, I wonder, to get his hands on any of the latest
issues of 1944, commemorating amongst other things the liberation of Stalingrad
and Leningrad, ‘Twenty Years without Lenin’, the birth centenary of
Rimsky-Korsakov and recalling the achievements of various other scientists,
writers and artists? And what sort of account would he have given of that
seemingly endless succession of Soviet issues celebrating anniversaries of
previous revolutions and of Lenin’s death, and the propagandistic triumphs of
the new communist regime?
Certainly from the early ‘20s onwards
there is a proliferation of very colourful sets with something like 800
individual stamps appearing in the years before 1945. It’s perhaps curious that
we have no Russian collector amongst our membership at present (at least as far
as I know). I suppose the Soviet and other Eastern European postal
administrations developed such a bad reputation in the decades after WWII that
the number of serious collectors interested in their stamps went into a
decline, and who knows if there has been a recovery yet?
2009/2010 Syllabus
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Tue 5 Jan 2010 |
The History of Manchester |
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Thu 14 Jan 2010 |
Committee Meeting, 8pm Old Hall Hotel |
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Tue 19 Jan 2010 |
Presidents Evening - The History of Australia |
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Tue 2 Feb 2010 |
Sudan. Last day for Auction lists to be handed in to
Auctioneer |
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Tue 16 Feb 2010 |
Thematics minimum 1 sheet, Tropy awarded to best display |
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Tue 2 Mar 2010 |
Presidents Request Evening |
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Tue 16 Mar 2010 |
Members Display - Letter "O" Minimum 1 sheet |
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Tue 6 Apr 2010 |
Society Auction |
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Tue 13 Apr 2010 |
Committee Meeting, 8pm Old Hall Hotel |
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Tue 20 Apr 2010 |
Visit from Bolton Philatelic Society |
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Tue 4 May 2010 |
AGM & Competition Evening |
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Tue 11 May 2010 |
Annual Dinner Venue TBA |
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Tue 18 May 2010 |
Quiz Night |
Society Information
COMPETITION NOTES
Members
proposing to submit competition entries should advise the Secretary no later
than the meeting on 15th April 2008. In all three sections, a minimum
of two entries will be required to constitute a competition. Thematic
Trophy Competition
Members
should offer six sheets maximum for static display and judging. No verbal
description will be allowed. The winner will hold the Thematic Trophy for one
year. Intermediate
Competition for the Maxwell Trophy
Members
should offer six sheets maximum for static display and judging. No verbal
description will be allowed. The winner will hold the Maxwell Trophy for one
year. Armour
Cup Competition
Members
should offer nine sheets maximum for static display and judging. No verbal
description will be allowed. The winner will hold the Armour Cup for one
year. Rules
for the competition are available if required from the Secretary. DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
Autumn
Stampex 19th – 23rd September 2007 Autumn
Philatex 1st – 3rd November 2007 York
Stamp Fair 18th – 19th January 2008 Spring
Philatex 21st – 23rd February 2008 Spring
Stampex 27th Feb – 1st March 2008 |
IN THE LIBRARY
Catalogues
S.G.
Stamps of the World Vol 1 A to C 2006 Edition S.G.
Stamps of the World Vol 2 D to H 2006 Edition S.G.
Stamps of the World Vol 3 I to M 2006 Edition S.G.
Stamps of the World Vol 4 N to R 2006 Edition S.G.
Stamps of the World Vol 5 S to Z 2006 Edition S.G.
British Commonwealth Vol 1 A to J 2001 Edition S.G.
British Commonwealth Vol 2 K to Z 2001 Edition GB
Concise Catalogue 2001 Edition Equipment
Watermark
Detector Kit U.V.
Lamp Any of the items listed
above may be borrowed from the Secretary, either at meetings or by direct
telephone arrangement. Members are expected to return borrowed items by the
following meeting; if later by arrangement with the Secretary. AUCTION NOTES
Vendors
should hand two copies of the list to the Auctioneer by the meeting prior to
the Auction i.e. February 19th 2008. Your
lot-lists should not be numbered when handed to the Auctioneer. He will soon
send one of the lists back to you numbered, so that you can apply numbers to
your lots and bring them to the Auction on the night by 7.00pm. Trafford
P.S. is affiliated to the North Western Federation of Philatelic Societies. Society
Details are on the Internet at: - |
TRAFFORD PHILATELICSOCIETY (FORMERLEY
SALE & DISTRICT P.S.) FOUNDED
1944
Meetings
held at:- PARK
HOUSE, 73,
NORTHENDEN ROAD SALE,
M33 2DG Marketplace
7.00pm – 7.45pm Club
Business at 7.45pm Speaker
at 8.00pm Close at 10.00pm |
