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2015 (Newsletters 351-356)

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NL 351, January/February 2015 (36pp)

1 Editorial — Paul Ramsay
3 The President Writes — Bob Galland
3 New Members
3 Thank You
by Tony Walker [S]
3 Dates
4 Forthcoming GBPS Meetings
4 GBPS Diamond Jubilee Festival Display Scans
by Paul Ramsay [S]
4 Great Britain UPU Specimen Stamps
by James Bendon [S]
5 Dealers' Directory
6 Polyester Postage Stamps
by Harvey Russell [S]
6 Photos and Scans and Copies, Oh My!
by Brian Gash [S]
6 Selling Via the Website [S]
6 Edible Postage Stamps
by Walter Kaltwasser [M]
7 GBPS Diamond Jubilee Festival 18‑21 February 2015 – Final Update
by Howard Hughes [L]
11 Fisher‑Brown Plating Book, Second Edition
by Mike Batty [S]
12 Society Displays: Railway Mail from 1837
Display by Fred Taylor
Report by Tony Walker
18 Society Displays: The British Empire Exhibition 90th Anniversary and Wembley to 2014
Display by Don Knight
Report by John Davies
22 Society Displays: The 4½d Jubilee
Display by Iain Stevenson
Report by Howard Hughes
28 Binders for the GB Journal [S]
29 Splitting Irregular Blocks
by Philip Modiano [M]
29 Information Wanted on 2s Brown Forgeries
by Bob Galland, Karl Louis [S]
29 Press Releases: Kidstamps Reveal Top Ten for Young Collectors
from Stamp Active Network
29 New Book: Holography and Philately by Hans Bjelkhagen
30 The Famous Turned Mulready
by Fred Taylor [L]
31 Changes to the Programme Card
by Andy Donaldson [S]
31 Exhibitions in London 17 to 22 February 2015 [S]
32 Pages from a Competition Entry: Book Tokens — Iain Stevenson
34 Pages from a Competition Entry: Just After Official Paid — George King
36 GBPS Publications [M]






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NL 352, March/April 2015 (36pp)

1 Editorial — Paul Ramsay
2 New Members
3 The President Writes — Bob Galland
3 Dates
4 New Society Publication: English and Welsh Spoon Cancels 1853‑70 [L]
6 Europhilex [S]
6 Advertising
by Bob Galland [S]
6 Chippenham Penny Post
by John Calladine [S]
6 5s Castle 2nd De La Rue Inverted Watermark
by Peter Shaw [M]
7 Dealers' Directory
8 Forthcoming GBPS Meetings
9 Society Displays: QEII Wildings
Display by John Pearce
Report by Allan Jones
13 Society Displays: British Naval Mail in World War One
Display by Tony Walker
Report by Michael Sefi
19 1935 Silver Jubilee request
by Harvey Russell [S]
19 Last Post: Fred Smallbone
by Howard Hughes
20 Society Displays: Members' Displays, 2014 Stanley Gibbons Reception
Report by Ian Harvey
24 2015 Competition Results
27 Press Releases: London 2015 Europhilex
27 Press Releases: Midpex 2015 Set to Be Biggest and Best Yet
27 Press Releases: Philatelist Cremation Urn
28 Pages from a Competition Entry: King George V Commemorative Stamp Issues — Mary Pugh
36 GBPS Publications [M]






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NL 353, May/June 2015 (64pp)

1 Editorial — Paul Ramsay
3 New Members
3 Dates
4 The President Writes — Bob Galland
4 Jubilee Festival
by Peter Newroth [S]
5 Dealers' Directory
6 Forthcoming GBPS Meetings
7 Regional Meeting at Midpex – Saturday 4 July 2015
by Andy Donaldson [M]
7 Displays by GBPS Members
by Andy Donaldson [S]
8 GBPS Diamond Jubilee Display to the RPSL
by Andy Donaldson [S]
8 Early GBPS Memorabilia [S]
9 Society Displays: Postage Dues
Display by Patrick Frost
Report by Bob Galland
16 Society Displays: Sheffield Postal History
Display by Frank Walton
Report by Don Davies
24 Society Displays: 100 Years of the Use of High Values
Display by Max Melrose
Report by Janet Bygate
30 GBPS Diamond Jubilee Festival at Stampex 18‑21 February 2015
by Howard Hughes [L]
52 Yearly Meeting of Great Britain and Commonwealth Collectors 1‑4 October 2015 in Wesel, Lower Rhine [M]
53 Plating for Dummies
by Dave Park, David Kaiserman [M]
54 Information Wanted on 2s Brown Forgeries – Thank You
by Bob Galland [S]
54 Disassembling Items
by Peter Chadwick [S]
54 New Book: Ocean Penny Postage by David Duncan Turner
55 Scottish Additional Halfpenny Mail Tax
by Ian Baker [S]
55 Penny Black Strip of Four
by Karl Louis [S]
56 Press Releases: Stamp Active Launches 'Brilliant Britain'
from Stamp Active Network
56 Press Releases: Banbury to Host Festival of Stamps
from Banbury Stamp Society
56 Press Releases: PB175 Post & Go Underprint
from British Postal Museum and Archive
57 GBPS Publications [M]
58 Society Publication – English and Welsh Spoon Cancels 1853‑70 [L]
60 Pages from a Competition Winner: The Maltese Cross — Howard Hughes
64 Binders for the GB Journal [S]
64 Society Tie [S]








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NL 354, July/August 2015 (36pp)

1 Editorial — Paul Ramsay
3 New Members
3 Dates
4 The President Writes — Bob Galland
4 New Displays on the GBPS Website
by Maurice Buxton [S]
5 Dealers' Directory
6 Society Displays: 1839‑1860 1d Reds with a Sprinkling of Rarities
Display by Bill Barrell
Report by Andy Donaldson
10 Society Displays: Old Stamps, New Ideas – The GB Perforated Stars
Display by Mike Williams
14 Penny Red Day
by Philip Mackey [M]
15 Society Displays: Undeliverable Mail from 1764 to the Present Day
Display by Bob Galland
Report by Don Davies
23 Society Displays: British Hospital Ships, A Postal History
Display by Peter High
Report by Janet Bygate
27 Google Celebrates the 1d Black [S]
27 Hugh Jefferies MBE
by David Beech [S]
28 Burning Ambition – A Short Story
by Ray Simpson [L]
29 'N.P.B.' Postmark
by Martin Strack [S]
30 Last Post: Charles Goodwyn
by David Beech
31 Europhilex 2015 Awards
by Howard Hughes [S]
32 Pages from a Competition Winner: The Origins of Express Mail — Alan Holyoake
36 Annual Visit to Cape Town
by Peter Tanner [S]
36 Press Releases: Behind the Scenes with Friends
from Friends of the BPMA
36 Press Releases: Europhilex Winners
from Stamp Active Network




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NL 355, September/October 2015 (32pp)

1 Editorial — Paul Ramsay
2 Olympic Games Overprinted 'Tangier'
by John Gledhill [S]
2 Wavy Line Underprint
by Terry Pusterla [S]
2 New Members
3 The President Writes — Bob Galland
3 Parcel Labels [Business Programme]
by Mark Talbot [S]
3 Dates
4 Dealers' Directory
5 Society Displays: Classic British Private Posts – College Stamps
Display by Chris Harman
9 Scottish Additional Halfpenny Mail Tax – A Further Request
by Ian Baker [M]
10 AGM 60 Reports
15 AGM 60 Minutes
16 Society Displays: Members' Displays, 2015 AGM
Report by Ian Harvey
22 Press Releases: BPMA Post & Go Stamps
from British Postal Museum and Archive
22 Press Releases: Bring a Child to Autumn Stampex 2015
from Stamp Active Network
22 Europhilex 2015 Awards [S]
24 Last Post: Martin Evans
by Philip Robinson
26 New Society Publication: King George V Printing Plates [L]
28 Pages from a Competition Winner: Evolution of British Stamp Perforation 1840 to 1880 — Ray Simpson
32 A Late Example of a BPA Import/Export Control Cover
by Bob Phillifent [S]
32 New Book: Airmails Across the Middle East, 1918‑1930 by Lawrence Kimpton


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NL 356, November/December 2015 (44pp)

1 Editorial — Paul Ramsay
3 The President Writes — Bob Galland
3 New Members
3 Dates
4 Registration Rotary Device Revisited
by Maurice Buxton [S]
4 Parcel Labels [Business Programme]
by Maurice Buxton [S]
5 Dealers' Directory
6 Forthcoming GBPS Meetings
6 'Channel Islands Day' Meeting – Saturday 21 November 2015
by Andy Donaldson [S]
7 Society Displays: GBPS Diamond Jubilee Display to the RPSL Thursday 10 December 2015
Report by Andy Donaldson
8 Book Review: King George V Printing Plates by Douglas Muir
Review by Crosspost
8 Advice of New Publication, Jointly by the GBPS and Postal Stationery Society [S]
9 New Publication: The Mulready Postal Stationery, Its Genesis, Production and Usage [M]
10 New Book: New Books from the Leonard Licht Collection: Seahorses and King Edward VII
11 New Book: Scarce Victorian Postage Stamps of Great Britain on Cover – Supplement by Theo Brauers
11 New Book: The Postal History of Edinburgh 1590‑1902 by Antonius Voorbraak
12 GBPS Publications [M]
13 Last Post: Leslie Wilkinson
by Michael Sefi
14 Society Displays: Aspects of Postal Mechanisation
Display by Ray Downing
Report by Maurice Buxton
23 Society Displays: Philatelic Mail
Display by Maurice Buxton
Report by Maurice Buxton
32 Society Displays: GB Line‑Engraved
Display by Chris Grimshaw
Report by Ian Harvey
36 Pages from a Competition Winner: Great Britain Parcel Post 1882‑1935 — Nick Wraith
40 Pages from a Competition Winner: Mail from the United Kingdom to the Italian Peninsular from the Late 18th Century to the GPU — Ken Burr
44 Press Releases: Penny Black Winner at Stampex
from Stamp Active Network
44 A Late Example of a BPA Import/Export Control Cover
by Maurice Buxton [S]