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Events 2010
January 20th 2010
Four members of the Aylesbury Philatelic Society gave
displays starting with Victorian philately from the Gold
coast Courtesy of John Powell, Cyril Parsons showed 50 years of British
post marks while Graham Aylett gave a display of Denmark's first stamp,
To end the evening Michael Pitt-Payne showed examples of the post
between France and the U.K. with emphasis on the complex postage
rates.
February 17th 2010
There was a poor turnout for the annual Competition compared with other
years, Winners were-
16 Sheet Thematic Alan Crozier, German Post
9 Sheet Thematic Richard Page, The Barn Owl
9 Sheet one country Rory Morrissey Thailand
Six Best Sheets Rory Morrissey Under the sea
March 17th
Gerald Lovelll was the March speaker in time for the new F.1
season with a display about Silverstone with covers postmarks stamps
and signatures of well known pesonalities who have raced and been
involved with this circuit.
Gerald has to date raised much money for good causes from
his signed covers and has spent considerable time at events to further
his cause.
May 19th 2010
The annual inter-club quiz took place at Leighton Buzzard and the home
team came third. Winners again were Bedford followed by Luton with
Milton Keynes fourth,
June 16th 2010-China;
War with Japan 1937-1945
David Sibley gave a dazzling display of Chinese material from this
small but important period in the History of China.
The Japanese invaded China from the North to the South in 1937 and
David had samples of mail from his collection to cover this era,
Mail to and from China had to take many long routes especially
after 1939 , so as to avoid enemy territory,
David also displayed stamps of the period which included many
overprints and stamps printed in Hong Kong and America.
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