Philatelic Exhibitions-------Great Britain..

Philypmia
London 1970

London 1960

Pietro Annigoni's portrait of Queen Elizabeth II is my favourite, so this item commemorating Stampex 1963 is one I like.  A bit dinged up, unfortunately.



Ryan

THE NATIONAL STAMP EXHIBITION, Manchester 1947

The sheet, printed in Photolithography, shows the impressive Manchester Library which was built in the 1930's.
The Exhibition was held at Houldsworth Hall, today part of Manchester University.

London 1950

Printed via Collotype process.

Nice material ! Very nice Maltese Cross sheet. First time I've seen it !

Below is a 1976 Stampex Sheet [actually thin card] commemorating the the Bicentenary of the United States. The sheet reproduces the 24c 1869 US stamp and a painting by Trumbull of the signing of the Independence. In original colours.
Sheet designed by D.Rivett and printed in Lithography by Bradbury Wilkinson & Co.Ltd.
Version shown is a scarce Presentation edition overprinted 'SPECIMEN' in Black.



[Ack. British Philatelic Exhibitions: G.H.Morgan & G.Wilson]

Londonbus1

It will soon be Halloween...so you'll be sure not to forget this one !!

Wembley'97 was held at the Wembley Exhibition Centre ands sponsored by Royal Mail and Stanley Gibbons.
Each year had a theme and for 1997 the theme was Horror, to coincide with the 'Tales and Legends-Horror Stories' issue for May of that year.

Walsall Security Printers had a fine idea for their stand and issued some scary sample stamps and matching envelopes which were both for sale. All proceeds went to the NSPCC.










This show had long been my favourite in London and I always planned my holidays around it.
When Wembley2000 was cancelled it was the end of an era for me. Great venue, great dealers and a lot of fun. A real all-comers event.

For the 1997 show, the organizers had a giant Dracula and Frankenstein walking around all day and the Children loved it. There was a Horror Childrens auction too, where spooky things would happen at unexpected moments.

I have never seen so many young and youth at a show in the UK. When this event died, it seemed the fun stuff for kids died too.

At London2010, I worked for some hours on the Stamp Active stand for kids at the big International Exhibition. Only a handful of kids passed by all day and while it was fun, there were no activities, and no atmosphere of the 'young' variety.

Wembley was, and still is, sadly missed.

Londonbus1

These are a couple of items that I recently picked up and relate to the London International Stamp Exhibition of 1960 that was held at the Royal Festival Hall from 9 to 16 July.

They form part of my small but growing Cinderella collection 

I just recently bought a pair of the yellow London labels from our friend Londonbus. I HAD to. July 16, 1960 is the day I was BORN. A must for the collection.

Stampex 1965. 19-27 March, Central Hall,London.

Stanley Gibbons issued an interesting sheet showing possible ideas for a pictorial definitive series.
What are your opinions of the designs ?? Would they have been more popular than the Machins ?? Mmmmm!

All in all a nice sheet, not common and nicely printed by Harrisons with all the relevant information. The sheet was also given away later with copies of Gibbons Stamp Monthly.



Londonbus1

And so to my most unexpected purchase during my recent visit to the UK.

I was on my way out of the Stafford Stamp Show, but seeing the pouring rain that awaited me, decided to sit down at
one more table.

It was table 1, strangely enough, at least that's what it said in the programme.
I spied an album of Cinderellas on the table and it turned out he had 6 albums !!

I managed to spend a large chunk of my Stamp budget on this one table, and a large chunk of that chunk on the same item !
Let me explain.

I came across an unusual sheet of KGV Jubilee Essay reproductions on plain card. Nothing so special but attractive nonetheless.
No info, just the Essays in 6 colours, but the design looked familiar. I asked politely if he knew anything about them and it turned out he knew a lot about them....he was selling them for the organizer of a long-forgotten Philatelic Weekend and Exhibition from 1975 and this was one of the souvenirs. This one however was issued in very small quantities for visiting dignitaries. I recognized the design because I had one of the other souvenirs which was given to all visitors.
The first two issues of my Catalogue did not list this sheet.
I was excited.
He had a few copies and I purchased them all !!

My wallet was empty but I went out into the rain and sludge a happy man.

For reference, the Essay shows a Vandyk head and was most likely by Barnett Freedman although I have yet to find it.
The sheet was issued in very limited quantities for the 1975 North Western Philatelic Federation Weekend at the Town Hall in Hyde, Cheshire on May 10th.
It commemorates the 40th Anniversary of the Silver Jubilee of KGV.











Londonbus1

Edited to add one of the other sheets from this event.

STAMPEX.

Central Hall, London March 1961.

Two sheets showing reproductions of Liechtenstein stamps on ungummed parchment paper.
Printed in Recess by the Austrian State Printing Office from the Origianl dies, the reproductions are underprinted in grey.
Sheets are numbered.
Presented in informative folder with interleaving to protect each sheet.

Scarce. Catalogue/market price £50.


















Londonbus1

I wonder if the bi-colour Austrian sheet, can be considered a "Black print"?

Def:
A True Black Print, can be isolated from mere private reproductions in Black,because they are printed by the same printing house utilised by the Post Office for the issued stamps"