The Stuart Rossiter Trust Awards page
Books published by the Trust, and Trustees themselves, have gained recognition and awards in recent weeks. Some details are set out below:
NAPEX Gold Medal & other Awards for 'Railway Disaster Mail'
At NAPEX, held in
Washington D.C. 3rd to 5th June 2011, Robin Gwynn and Norman Hoggarth's
'Railway Disaster Mail' was awarded a Gold Medal, the NAPEX Literature
Reserve Grand Award for Handbooks and the American Philatelic Society
Award for Research - Literature. Congratulations to Robin and Norman.
The book is available from the Trust. Gavin Fryer invited to sign the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists
Congratulations to Gavin Fryer, one of the Stuart Rossiter Trustees, on becoming RDP. This high award is for his many and varied philatelic roles over many years. He will sign the roll at the philatelic Congress in Portsmouth in June. The Roll of Distinguished Philatelists was established in 1921. An invitation to sign the roll is regarded as the world's pre-eminent philatelic honour. 352 philatelists from 40 countries have signed since 1921. INDIPEX
Award
Express Mail, After Packets and Late Fees in India Before 1870 by
Max Smith and Robert Johnson
Congratulations to Max Smith and Robert
Johnson, who have been awarded a Large Vermeil medal at Indipex, February
2011, for their book ‘Express Mail, After Packets and Late Fees in
India Before 1870’, by published by the Trust in 2008.
The book presents original information into a hitherto unresearched
field using data from the Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections in
the British Library. It describes the Overland mail within India particularly
between Bombay, Calcutta and Madras and the ways by which a sender
could get mail across India quickly in either direction. The period
covered is from about 1840 up to about 1870, as mail cart and railway
services gradually took over carriage of the Overland mail. For the
first time, the Express, After Packet and Late Fee services and charges
are described from official sources and their successes and failures
explained. 294 (A4) pages, profusely illustrated in B/W with 8 colour
plates, Card cover. Price £20.00 + postage & packing UK 1st class
£5.50, Europe printed paper £8.50, Rest of world printed paper by
air £15.00 World surface £8.50.
For details of 'Express Mail, After
Packets and Late Fees in India Before 1870’ please click here to go
to the Book Page
Express Mail, After Packets and Late Fees in India Before 1870 by Max Smith and Robert Johnson
Congratulations to Max Smith and Robert
Johnson, who have been awarded a Large Vermeil medal at Indipex, February
2011, for their book ‘Express Mail, After Packets and Late Fees in
India Before 1870’, by published by the Trust in 2008.
The book presents original information into a hitherto unresearched
field using data from the Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections in
the British Library. It describes the Overland mail within India particularly
between Bombay, Calcutta and Madras and the ways by which a sender
could get mail across India quickly in either direction. The period
covered is from about 1840 up to about 1870, as mail cart and railway
services gradually took over carriage of the Overland mail. For the
first time, the Express, After Packet and Late Fee services and charges
are described from official sources and their successes and failures
explained. 294 (A4) pages, profusely illustrated in B/W with 8 colour
plates, Card cover. Price £20.00 + postage & packing UK 1st class
£5.50, Europe printed paper £8.50, Rest of world printed paper by
air £15.00 World surface £8.50.
For details of 'Express Mail, After
Packets and Late Fees in India Before 1870’ please click here to go
to the Book Page
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Hugh Feldman on 'Postal History Research' at the Royal Philatelic Society London, on Friday November 2nd 2012 at 5.00 p.m.
LETTER RECEIVERS of LONDON
by Hugh Feldman
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ROYAL REFORM
by Charles Goodwyn
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New Channel Islands Forwarding Agents Book
Letter Forwarding Agents of Great Britain handling Channel Islands letters 1673 -1855. by David Gurney FRPSL, 170 pages A5 , profusely illustrated in B/W, Ring bound £9.50 + postage & packing ISBN 978-0-9545207-7-9
Brochure of our Channel Islands Letter Forwarders Postal History book
Revised Referees Guidelines have been published
Powerpoint Presentation of the 2011 Stuart Rossiter Memorial Lecture by Colin Tabeart, at the RPS London.
Volume 3 of Netherlands Mail in Times of Turmoil 1815 - 1839 1795-1815
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of our new Netherlands Mail Vol 3 1815 - 1839 Postal History book Volume 2 of Netherlands Mail in Times of Turmoil 1795-1815
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of our Netherlands Mail Vol 2 1795-1815 Postal History book
Volume 1 of Netherlands Mail in Times of Turmoil 1568-1795
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of Vol 1 Netherlands Mail 1568-1795 Postal History book Railway Disaster Mail
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of our Railway Disaster Mail Postal History book Recently published books, available for sale include:
Our Book on Iraq
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of our Iraq Postal History book
POSTMAN'S ROOTS
by Mike Scott Archer
Price excluding postage £1.00
To read more, click here
EARLY FORCES MAIL
by Barrie Jay
Price excluding postage £20.00
To read more, click here
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE
POSTAL HISTORY OF DENMARK
by David Cornelius Price excluding postage £38.00
THE POSTAL HISTORY OF SPANISH NEW ORLEANS by Yamil H Kouri Jnr Price excluding postage £38.50 THE
POSTAL HISTORY OF THE ARMY OF THE BLACK SEA 1918 -1923
by John Slingsby
Price excluding postage £30.00
To
read more, click here
