Sixteen members and two guests attended the CISS Member’s Meeting at the Royal Philatelic Society London on Saturday, 14 September. The day’s programme commenced with the traditional room auction seeing 66 lots going under the hammer. Although only 28 lots were sold, prices realised were at reserve or well above asking price. In all £495 was realised, with the highest price attained was for a Jersey (June 1945) Passive Resistance Acknowledgement letter from the States of Jersey which realised £65, against a reserve of £3.00!
The theme for members’ displays was anything relating to “Letters W, X, Y and/or Z”, with many varying interpretations of the letters on show. In all nine members provided displays for members to enjoy with the majority centred on material that covered the Channel Islands and WW1 and WW2, and a very rare Jersey ship letter handstamp on an item of mail from West Africa bound for London, that was routed via Jersey. The nine members providing displays were as follows: Jon Aitchison, Richard Flemming, Roger Harris, David Laurillard, Gerald Marriner, Alan Moorcroft, Nick Stuart, John Triggs and David Winnie.
David Winnie presenting his interesting four-frame display of Guernsey Regionals
