Trafford Philatelic Society

 

 

 

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

 

March 2010 Newsletter (Word)

March 2010 Newsletter (PDF)

 

October 2009 Newsletter (Word)

October 2009 Newsletter (PDF)

 

May 2009 Newsletter (Word)

May 2009 Newsletter (PDF)

 

March 2009 Newsletter (Word)

March 2009 Newsletter (PDF)

 

Sixty Years of Philately in Sale

2007/2008 Syllabus

Society Information

 

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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

 

Tue 5 Jan 2010

The History of Manchester

Thu 14 Jan 2010

Committee Meeting, 8pm Old Hall Hotel

Tue 19 Jan 2010

Presidents Evening - The History of Australia

Tue 2 Feb 2010

Sudan. Last day for Auction lists to be handed in to Auctioneer

Tue 16 Feb 2010

Thematics minimum 1 sheet, Tropy awarded to best display

Tue 2 Mar 2010

Presidents Request Evening

Tue 16 Mar 2010

Members Display - Letter "O" Minimum 1 sheet

Tue 6 Apr 2010

Society Auction

Tue 13 Apr 2010

Committee Meeting, 8pm Old Hall Hotel

Tue 20 Apr 2010

Visit from Bolton Philatelic Society

Tue 4 May 2010

AGM & Competition Evening

Tue 11 May 2010

Annual Dinner Venue TBA

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: -

www.nwfedps.org

 

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TRAFFORD

PHILATELIC

SOCIETY

(FORMERLEY SALE & DISTRICT P.S.)

FOUNDED 1944

 

SEASON 2007-2008

 

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