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Past Events 2008
 Three members from Leighton Buzzard visited the Amersham society on January 10th. Here, our Chairman Richard Page is seen displaying Birds of Prey |
 Here, founder member Alan Crozier is seen displaying German postcard Mail before the Amersham audience. Our Secretary John Spencer also showed a small collection of unsolicited mail. Both members and guests enjoyed a full evening with a good variety of material. 2008 Society Competition
 The Palmer trophy awarded to the best in show
There was a small amount of entries for this years competition, But our judge Bill Gibb, felt the standard was very high. More members entered "My six best sheets" class of the evening with around twelve entries.
The evening was made more enjoyable as two visitors bought their collections along for our members to give opinions as to their interest and value. Also members took part in a bourse, where stamps were exchanged and sold. March 6th; Trapped in the Suez by Peter Bottrill
Peter Bottrill gave a full evenings talk and display of the events which followed the closing of the Suez Canal, Twelve ships of different nations were trapped in the Bitter lakes in 1967 and Peter showed us material that the sailors had made during there time there including the Bitter lakes world cup, where members of the crew from each ship formed a football team, with a full pro gramme of each match. Covers stamps and cancellations were printed or hand drawn and Peter had examples of most of them. April 20th East Midland and East anglian Convention . Hinkley. Several members of the Leighton Buzzard Society traveled to Hinkley for the stamp fair and convention, Three members had submitted entries for the Competition there and scored enough points to win the Millennium Trophy for the third time since 2000. beating all other Societys involved. May 8th Visit from Amersham Three members of the Amersham society gave displays to a large audience First to display was John Harvey who had worked at the Security printers Harrison and sons of High wycombe, His display included some unique material, and his talk on the production of stamps made for a very interesting story especiialy when mistakes ocured during production and material had to be reprinted. David Page brought along his South African Revenues which included early material from the Cape of Good Hope, Natal or Free State, Transvaal to name a few. His display included Overprints, Impressed, Embossed and roulette stamps other material included such items as a Pre-nuptial contract Consular and Audit stamps After the break Alan Williams gave a comprehensive display of Jamaica Land of Wood and Water.Alan started with a history of the Island from 1494 when its only inhabitants were the Arawak Indians, The whole population was wiped out with the arrival of the first settlers .In 1671 the first letter service came into existance followed by the first packet in 1702 and Alan showed material from around this period, The post office was re-established on the Island in 1755 and Alan showed material from that period up to world war two. strangely enough Victorian stamps were used many years after her death and in fact there was only one stamp issued for King Edward V11 from Jamaica.
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