- 2008
- 2008Membership stands at around 220, and includes collectors in the USA, Japan, Italy, Canada and Holland, with the remainder being divided almost equally between Wales and England (but none living in Ireland and only one in Scotland!).
The Society's Constitution
may be viewed by clicking here.
Meetings take place
five times a year, alternating between North and South Wales, with the Annual General Meeting being held as part of a four-day gathering each
June at the Snowdonia National Park Study Centre near Porthmadog in Gwynedd.
There are three or four postal auctions
of Welsh material annually. A sample page of the list for a recent auction, showing estimates and - when available - prices realised, may be viewed by clicking here.
Subscriptions for the season 2008/2009 (beginning 1 September 2008) are:-
The Overseas supplement is to cover the
additional postal costs incurred in sending Society publications to members
overseas.
New members joining after 1st March in any year are deemed to
have paid their subscription for the following year also.
A Membership Application Form, as a .pdf file for printing out, may be downloaded by clicking here.
The Society's award-winning
Newsletter
is published three times a year - issue no.108 (May 2008) contained details of recent events and articles on aspects of Welsh philately, including:
Full - £7.00 (GB pounds) Senior citizen - £5.00 Student (full-time) - £5.00 Family member - £3.00 Overseas supplement - £4.00
A Family member is a close relation living
at the same address as a full member - only one copy of each Society publication
is sent to that address.
The July and August 1996 issues of the UK publication
Stamp Magazine contained several articles devoted to aspects of Welsh philately, to celebrate the Society's Silver Jubilee, including
A potted history of the Welsh Philatelic Society
Society Publications The Society has a small stock of the following publications, written
by members:-
| The Bangor Penny Post by John Cowell (1977) | £2.50 | ||
| The Postal History of Caernarfon by Geraint Jones (1979) | £2.50 | ||
| Machine Cancellations of Wales by Paul Reynolds (1985) | £3.50 | ||
| The Welsh Post Towns before 1840 - a Supplement by Michael Scott Archer & others (1987) | £3.50 | ||
| Postman's Roots by Michael Scott Archer (2003) | £2.00 |
For details of how to order these publications, please send an appropriate
e-mail to Peter Brindley
In connection with this event the Society produced a sheet of 'stamps' (though more correctly termed 'labels') printed in red on white paper, and bearing the Society logo, shown above, and the words "25th Anniversary".
Each sheet comprises ten labels (five rows of two), rouletted between, the first five labels having the design in red on a white background, and the remainder the same design but with colours reversed.
The pair of stamps in the centre row thus comprises the two designs se-tenant.
Below are shown the Society logo depicted on the labels, (NB - the green background is NOT present on the labels), and the cachet used (in black only) on a small number of special covers produced to commemorate the meeting.
The labels and cover may be viewed together by clicking here
Specimens of the labels are available for purchase
at 1.25 GB Pound (including postage to UK addresses) per sheet of 10 labels,
and a few of the covers are available at the same price - ordering details
for both labels and covers may be obtained by sending an appropriate e-mail
to Peter Brindley
| Saturday 4 October 2008 | Village Hall, Llanbedr Dyffryn Clwyd, RUTHIN. Denbighshire | |
| Saturday 15 November 2008 | The Ivy Bush Hotel, CARMARTHEN. | |
| Saturday 28 February 2009 | South Gate Hotel, ABERYSTWYTH. Ceredigion | |
| Saturday 9 May 2009 | Village Hall, LLANGYNIDR. Powys | |
| Thursday 18 June to Sunday 21 June 2009 | Plas Tan y Bwlch, MAENTWROG. Gwynedd | |
| Thursday 17 June to Sunday 20 June 2010 | Plas Tan y Bwlch, MAENTWROG. Gwynedd | |
This page was last updated on 20 September 2008.
It is maintained by the Society's President, Peter Brindley,
from whom further details may be obtained
by e-mail or by telephoning (01248) 352682 (answerphone)
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