September 2011

Contents to Volume 42, Number 4.

The latest news from the stamp world.

Reports from philatelic societies.

Forthcoming Fairs and Auctions.

News of recent auction results.

John Holman looks at Express Mail stamps, designers Arnold Machin and Stuart Rose, UK aerial Post and National Trust ‘Passport Stamps’.

September stamp issues: UK Aerial Post Centenary, The House of Hanover and British Birds Post&Go Stamps.

Peter Jennings FRPSL, FRGS, takes a look back to an important aviation achievement.

Tony Buckingham looks at the souvenirs marking anniversaries of the first UK Aerial Post.

John Deering reports on the ‘Thomas the Tank Engine’ retail booklet, Recorded Signed For stamps and updates NVI sheet printings.

Derek Connell takes a philatelic visit to the Festival of Britain.

Exceptional British stamps are reviewed by Paul Brittain.

A supplement to the Great Britain Specialised Catalogue.

Readers’ correspondence.

Peter van Gelder reports on New South Wales Greater Jubilee cards, early GB aerogrammes, New Zealand postcards and Cecogrammes.

Peter Martin tells the stories behind some of the early airmail flights and the pilots who undertook them.

Peter Jennings FRPSL, FRGS, reports on the stamps and postal service of the ‘Land of the Midnight Sun’.

Nimrod suggests stamps worth looking for from Northern Rhodesia. Your chance to win a £50 SG voucher.

Ian Hamilton looks at the career of Andrei Tupolev – ‘the father of Soviet aviation’ – and the aircraft he designed.

Neil Russell FRPSL, FBSAP, provides some further thoughts on the embossed labels used to send post-war food parcels to Britain.

The World Rugby Cup takes place this year in New Zealand; Professor Chris Coggins highlights some of the stamps produced to mark previous competitions

David Horry moves to the Pacific in search of postmarks to be found on the stamps of King George VI.

Robin Gwynn FRPSL, FRPSNZ, examines the first issue of New Zealand’s Government Life Insurance Department stamps.

A brief history of Germany’s Zeppelin airships is provided by John Moody.

Extracts from the journal of ‘an ordinarie collector’, selected by Michael Banister.

A little-known area of Malaya is visited by Rob Holley.

Island Hopper reports on stamps for The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, a Commonwealth Youth Games sheet from the Isle of Man and issues for Jersey’s financial industry and scenery.

A summary of recent and forthcoming issues from around the world.

Dean Shepherd investigates some recent new issues.

David Horry reveals the story behind another unissued stamp. Hugh Jefferies reports on the new Commonwealth and Empire Stamps catalogue.

A 12-page update to the Stanley Gibbons Catalogue.