The Amersham & District Philatelic Society

3 May 2012, After a couple of false starts at last we got to see Dane Garrod's display, augmented by Powerpoint of Ten Collections - one Collector. All I can really say is'brilliant' For those of us with dim [...]
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5 April 2012 For his first President's Evening, Tony Bridger had brought along a drop or two of wine and some nibbles for all to enjoy before we got onto the main attraction of the meeting which was Edmund Hall's display of  [...]
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17 May 2012. The catalogue for the AGM Auction is now available and will be found on the Collecting pages or by clicking here Go to the Collecting page to get an E-bid form and [...]
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22 March 2012 This evening's formal competions brought forth a range of entiries of an excellent standard in the Stamps, Postal History and Thematics sections. Sadly, again, there were no entries in the Novices class, sadly as there are so many [...]
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Meeting Date 5 April - President's Evcning Our speaker for that evening, Alan Linger, has had to pull out and will give his talk on From Adolf to Angela at a later date. In his place Edmund Hall will bring forward his [...]
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8 March 2012 Following our team's visit to Hitchin three weeks ago a single-man team form Hitchin, in the form of Bob Hill, reciprocated by giving a display to the Society. Bob's display was in two distinct [...]
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Thursdsy 23 February A well-attended meeting saw some 470 lots offered for sale. Although thesre were no 'star' items sold bidding was brisk on a large number of the lots and a number fetched several times their reserve price. Indian States [...]
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February 19 and 19 members gathered at Guido's restaurant in Amersham for our annual luncheon. It would have been more but illness took its toll and  resulted in depleted numbers. Guido did us proud again and there were approving noises from [...]
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26 January 2012 We were delighted to welcome again to the Society John Baron, the Executive Chairman of the ABPS this time accompanied by Dane Garrod, the ABPS [...]
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Our team was successful at the 2011-12 Quiz held last November and as a result the Society feels bound to offer to hold the Quiz in the coming season. So, we've fixed the date as THURSDAY 18 OCTOBER 2012, venue Amesham Community Centre. Time and [...]
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The Society's 2012 luncheon will once again be at Guido's Restaurant in Amersham, this year on Sunday 19 February. The cost will be £30 per head to include a glass of wine. We welcome all members and their partners at this most pleasant [...]
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The New Year started with an invitation to members to suggest what stamps they would take with them to a Desert Island.  Among the many ideas were a selection of Falkland Island stamps and polar bears on stamps,which [...]
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24 November 2011 Charles Kiddle's display to us brought home the wonder and variety of what is now, almost, a dead art and what was, originally, rather more of importance to collectors than postage stamps. Why the change? It seems [...]
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10 November 2011 While our gallant team was engaged in the Inter-Scoiety Quiz other members dispayed their offerings in the Three-sheet and Postacrd classes of the Society's informal competitions. Despite having lost half-a-dozen members to the [...]
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27 October 2011 We welcomed back Malcolm Watts for the second part of his story of the Wiltshire Moonrakers. Not a part of the country with which the writer is familiar but the wealth of postcards, artefacts and correspondence [...]
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29 September 2011 A delightful twosome from our guest this evening, Peter Denley. The first part a thematic display of man and the sea through the ages, the second part a Postal History treatise on the introduction, usage and eventual [...]
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Our popular auctions suffered a slight setback with the SoS auction seeing much unsold material. There was good bissing in a number of sections; remaindered club books and world mixtures as usual proving popular with, surpisingly a good deal of interest [...]
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A 'Fill-a-frame' evening started our 2011-12 Season Members showed much originality in their displays representing the letters X,Y and Z at our first meeting of the 2011-12 season. [...]
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