Lanarkshire Philatelic Society
"Members' Night"
"Unfinished Business"
On
Friday 16th December the theme for the meeting of the Lanarkshire
Philatelic Society was "Unfinished
Business",
when members were asked to look out the shoeboxes and file folders they had
filled with stamps, covers etc on an idea they hoped to complete "some
day".
A
great variety of ideas was displayed:-
Ken
Liddell – Various sources to World War 1; - Letters sent from the battlefield;
postmarks
Paul
McGowan – Netherlands; - Express letters to GB 1948-65;
Foreign rate for postcards
Chris
Moffat – Nyasaland; - Postmarks 1891-1936; Fiscal or Revenue stamps 1891-1936
Alan
Rushworth – Postcards of places concerning his early personal life
Ken
Norris – Stamps, covers, postmarks relating to General de Gaulle
Ellen
Currie – Embroidery/Tapestry; - postcards of Embroideries in Churches;
Exhibition tapestries
Walter
Tytherleigh – Covers, stamps, postmarks of East Prussia; Konigsberg
Margaret
Lyth – the continuing tale of the yet unmarried ‘Wee Maggie’ –
unfinished business!
Bob
Bradford – Czechoslovakia; - a collection of many Covers
Gordon
Shepherd – Scotland; - Air Letters illustrating different aspects of the
country
Albert
Tong – Hologram images on stamps – from various countries
Derek
Wiltshire – Leeward Islands; - Stamps issued 1890-1956
Alan
Rushworth – Postcards of Scottish Steamers and Ferries
Alex
Grimson – Early letters bearing Glasgow Postmarks
David
Brown – Numerical birthday postcards;
postcards of Loch an Eilean
and of Monaco
Raymond
Baldock – World War 1; - Advertising postcards
Sheila
Sinclair – Stamps, postmarks, postcards; - USA Coastguard and Life boats
Eric
Ross – Mountain Features; - Glaciation – Stamps and postcards of Glaciers
Rev.
Bruce McDowall led members in giving warm thanks to members for giving such a
great variety of subjects – and expressed the hope that these would be
completed in the New Year.
Our next meeting in the Caledonian Bowling Club, Motherwell Road, Hamilton, is on Friday 6th January 2017 at 7:30pm, when Committee members will attempt to "Entertain" members with their displays.
Anyone
with an interest in stamps, postal history, postcards etc is very welcome to
attend.