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

It's not too often I find bargains anymore for my British Philatelic Exhibition collection. Indeed it's not often that I add anything at all. 
But last week I found, after many years and missed opportunities, these three sheets that have been missing from the collection. They have found a good home. When one can find them in full sheets they can sell for up to £50 a set. These cost only a tenner, no other bids. Sometimes it happens !!

1936 London Stamp Exhibition 17-24 October, Dorland Hall, Regent Street, London.

The labels depict a London Skyline at night topped by a Globe of the world. Above that flies a Dove. Can we assume it is a Dove of Peace given the rumblings of War, even as early as 1936 ? So a design of full meaning if that was the case. Can we also assume that given that these labels would have been prepared well before the Exhibition dates then the three colours chosen were of the new King Edward VIII definitives ? This is known to have been the case for the issue of labels for the 1923 and other Stamp Exhibitions. We might narrow down the printing of these sheets as sometime between September 1st, when the Blue, Brown & Green KEVIII stamps were issued, and September 14th when the Red stamp was available. The sheets were all ready for the event before the latter date or else why not issue the labels in red also ?
But I digress.
Printer not known by me. Nor is it known by the authors of 'British Philatelic Exhibitions' or they are just not letting on !! (doubtful)
Perf 12½. Sheets or Sheetlets of 4 with marginal inscriptions.
Very hard to find in such lovely condition. (I should know, I've been searching for 15 years !!)
Sheets sold for 1d each at the Exhibition !!







Londonbus1

A little surprised not to see the jaunty fellow gracing this thread. Or did he sneak past me?

And since the Bus was showing labels of Thomas De La Rue, here are two more. Origins unknown.

I have a number of these exhibition souvenir sheets from the 1960's to 1980's. Happy to put some more pictures up if of interest. Graham

Very nice. Most of the ones I have are from regional stamp shows and exhibitions. Will put a few more up in the coming days. Cheers Graham

It's a very rare occasion these days when I add something to my British Philatelic Exhibition albums.
But I spied this while looking for something else and was the lone bidder ! 

I have already shown some items from this event but this is the Imperf sheet (Wide Margin Variety) and is listed in the Catalogue.
Never seen one before so was quite happy to find it.

1964 GERMANIA POSTA, 1st GERMAN PHILATELIC EXHIBITION & CONVENTION.
Preston hall, Stockton-on-Tees, Sept.5th

GB QEII stamped London 1959 cover with 3d lilac. Graham

1934 AIRPOST EXHIBITION, LONDON.

A number of items have already been shown for this event and I'll admit to it being one of my favourite UK Stamp shows.
All the more reason to have been frustrated for years not to have added these labels for an extra Air Post exhibition event that never was........the firing of one of Gerhard Zucker's famous rockets carrying mail over the River Thames !!!
Cancelled because of bad weather, the firing did take place later in Sussex and the labels were used as a souvenir on that special day.
The beautiful description below (from a German Rocket Post Catalogue) may have some slight mis-truths, who knows. But it's not far out.
Only 1,000 sets were overprinted and 500 were used on covers. So 500 sets of Mint stamps exist.
Tonight I got lucky. I think I deserved something nice and this was it.
Cost a lot but then they always do.
My thanks to Beryllium Guy for offering to accept the package in the UK.


"Early 1934, the young German rocket pioneer and adventurer Gerhard Zucker left his home country,

because he didn’t agree on Hitler’s military purpose of rockets and because

the economic depression made it impossible to finance his experiments any longer.

In relatively prosperous Great Britain, he was allowed by the authorities to launch rockets carrying mail.

His first successful attempts over land were in Sussex Downs on 6 June. Zucker left for the Outer Hebrides,

joined by his publicity advisor Robert Hartman and stamp dealer Heinz Dombrowsky.

A rocket, that was at that time the largest in the world, filled with 1,200 letters

with stamps that had been issued for the occasion, was to be launched 28 July

from the beach of the small and remote island of Scarp to the island of Harris.

The small population of this 2,532 acre island hoped that this new technology would relieve their isolation.

Unfortunately, the rocket exploded straight away and with its remainders,

the letters were scattered all over the beach, having been destroyed or damaged.

These covers were later to become sought-for collector’s items.

The experiment was repeated vice-versa three days later with the same result.

After continuing his experiments in Italy, Zucker came back to Britain for a last attempt with a rocket flight

from Lymington to the Isle of Wight in December, which proved equally unsuccessful.

After having returned to Nazi Germany, Zucker did not cooperate on the development of the later V1 and V2 rockets,

although he volunteered in the Luftwaffe in the second World War.

Living in Hasselfelde in the Harz, he found himself a citizen of the German Democratic Republic

after the war but moved to the Federal Republic later.

He was involved in several peaceful rocket flights with special stamps and cachets

in the sixties and died in his sleep in 1985. The island of Scarp was abandoned by its last inhabitants in 1949 / 1971.

In 2001 the movie The Rocket Post, inspired on Zucker’s episode on Scarp, was recorded on nearby Taransay and Harris.



After several essays, Zucker had six different labels issued for the Sussex Downs experiment,

all overprints on philatelic exhibition labels in six different colours.

These were the first labels used for mail in rocket flights in Great Britain.

In total 6,000 of these stamps exist, of which almost half were used on covers."

thegubman   I have just seen those elsewhere.......but wasn't allowed to bid !!  

Nice sheets anyway.

Good news !! The 1934 labels shown in my previous post have arrived, kindly taken in by Beryllium Guy who confirmed their excellent condition.
Now to look out for more missing items !!

British Philatelic Exhibition 1967

I found this to be a very interesting GB Exhibition Cinderella, printed on card stock.  For comparison, I have included the postage stamp from Ireland on which the design on the Cinderella is based.  Terri (philatelia), would this be an item of interest to you for your Ireland collection?  If so, please PM me!

I believe I sent one of these sheets to philatelia some time ago. It is a nice sheet. (At least to me)

Still, a very generous offer.

The first consignment of 100,000 Britannia stamps were un-denominated and the colour providing the value (33,334 red, 33,333 green and 33,333 dull magenta). These arrived in Mauritius in 1849 but weren't initially used.

A further order of 100,000 vermillion and 50,000 blue where sent in 1857.

The original green (surcharged 4d), dull magenta and vermillion stamps were used but the original red and the later blue ones weren't used and were returned to the UK and sold to collectors as remainders.

Stocks of these remainders were bought by Perkins Bacon for the L.P.E. exhibition. From Gibbons Stamp Monthly May 2014:

I am awaiting the arrival of this very nice corner block from the 1912 Jubilee International Stamp Exhibition.
The Olive-Grey is a relatively scarce colour and in such a nice block with Jubilee lines.....I couldn't resist !
There is one mark on the bottom middle stamp but otherwise pretty good.

Although not strictly speaking a stamp exhibition, The Daily Mail Schoolboys and Girls Exhibition (27th December 1965 to 8th January 1966) did include stamp collecting. Moreover, Glenn Morgan includes it his excellent British Stamp Exhibitions, available online, and if it's good enough for him, I hope it's good enough for us!. The Crown Agents had the Perkins Bacon Press (used to print the Penny Black) and produced this sheet using De La Rue dies, featuring a block of 1866 British Honduras stamps, to print on parchment paper. It took 3 minutes to print each sheet and only 500 were produced but try and find one!

Scan_20200509 by Daniel, on Flickr