Items by: Richard Flemming

The Channel Islands Specialists’ Society will be manning a stall at Midpex. The event will be held on Saturday, 6th July 2019 at the Warwickshire Exhibition Centre, The Fosse Way, Near Royal Leamington Spa, CV31 1FE. The event starts at 10.00am and ends at 4.30pm. A range of CISS publications will be available for purchase, so if you are coming to the event do come and say hello. Admission is Free and there is ample car parking available too.

Forty-three members and guests attended this year’s Weekend Meeting held at the Grasmere House Hotel that overlooked the River Nadder and Salisbury Cathedral. Gerald Marriner FRPSL kindly provided the standing display of Jersey Hotel material. The traditional ‘Three Sheets to Tell a Story’  held after dinner on the first evening, unfortunately, only attracted two entries, and after the traditional vote,  Gerald Marriner was declared the winner. On Saturday David Winnie, Chairman, provided a fine display of St Aubin postal history from 1830-2000. This was followed by Ron Brown FRPSL with a display of the material used in the production of his 114-page monograph that was launched at the Member’s Weekend meeting and titled “The German Occupation of the Channel Islands 1940 – 1945. Other members providing displays for the weekend were: Leo Meyr, Olaf Beecken, David Gurney FRPSL, Gerald Marriner FRPSL, Brian Sole FRPSL, David Laurillard and Richard Flemming. It was also good to see two of our newest members, Mike Moody and Alan Whittaker, provide fine displays too.

Group photograph of those members and guests who attended the Member’s Weekend at the Grasmere House Hotel, Salisbury. Other photos to follow.

May / September 2019

The Postcard Traders Association is hosting a Postcard Fair an the Leisure Centre, Kingsfield Road, Woking, Surrey, GU22 9BA on Friday, 17th May and Saturday. 18th May 2019. This will be repeated on Friday, 20th September and Saturday, 21st September 2019. Both events start at 10am and finish 4pm. Entrance fee is £3.00 on Friday and £2.00 on Saturday

Following the sale of the Royal Philatelic Society London’s building at 41 Devonshire Place, London it was decided to seek new premises for our Society’s meetings. I am pleased to inform members that we have secured the use of rooms at the Union Jack Club, Sandell Street, London, SE1 8UJ, just a short walk from Waterloo Station. The club is run for all current and ex-service non-commissioned personnel from the three armed forces, and it offers excellent restaurant and bar facilities at reasonable prices too. I will issue details and further instructions regarding meetings in the near future, but the first meeting at the Union Jack Club will be on Saturday, 10th February 2018.

Richard Flemming

Secretary

At the Guernsey weekend the Joan Flood Salver was awarded to Bob Mallet for the best piece of published research on a Channel Island topic.

A new publication ‘A Catalogue of Jersey Postcards published by Levy Sons & Co. Paris’ has been produced by CISS member Bob Mallet. This accurate and comprehensive work records all the known variations existing for titles, images, numbers and printing tones of the Jersey LL postcards.

The catalogue costs £27.50, postage and packaging is extra. Contact bob@jerseyLLcards.co.uk for further details.

An article, only appearing on this site, intends to keep you up to date with Bogus Issues, Fakes and Facsimilies which are being offered for sale particularly on internet sites. As more spurious items appear on the market, it is intended that the article will be updated. Click on this link: Buyer Beware.

Alan Moorcroft, President, presenting Gerald Marriner with an engraved tankard in recognition of the many years service  that Gerald has given to the CISS as Auction Secretary and Secretary.