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
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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?
2012 Syllabus
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Tue 3 Jan 2012 |
‘Half and Evening’ – The 1937 Coronation Omnibus Issue
& Modern New Zealand. |
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Wed 11 Jan 2012 |
Committee Meeting, 8pm Old Hall Hotel. |
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Tue 17 Jan 2012 |
‘King Edward VIII’ – Guest Speaker. |
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Tue 7 Feb 2012 |
Presidents’ Evening – The History of Australia through
stamps, Pt. 2. |
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Tue 21 Feb 2012 |
Members’ Evening ‘Local (Postal) History Night’. |
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Tue 06 Mar 2012 |
An Evening with Ron Pickering on St. Helena. |
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Tue 20 Mar 2012 |
‘Less Than an Hour’ – Messina Earthquake 1908 & ‘World
War II’. |
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Tue 05 Apr 2012 |
Members’ Thematic Evening (award of Thematic Trophy). |
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Wed 11 Apr 2012 |
Committee Meeting, 8pm Old Hall Hotel. |
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Tue 17 Apr 2012 |
Society Auction (advise Secretary
of entries to Competitions). |
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Tue 01 May 2012 |
AGM & Competition Evening. |
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Tue 08 May 2012 |
Annual Dinner Venue TBA. |
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Tue 15 May 2012 |
Summer 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
Tues 6 Dec 2011 – Christmas Quiz Night; Tues 20 Dec 2011 – Members’ Evening – Letter S – minimum 1 sheet. |
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. 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 |
