Society News

The dates for the Guernsey members of the RPSL/CISS group are as follows: July 31st, August 28th, September 25th, October 30th and November 27th. All meetings are Friday evenings between 7pm and 9pm. The July meeting will be held in the St Sampson Suite, Peninsula Hotel, Guernsey. The meetings for the rest of 2020 will be held in the Andrew Mitchell Library at Les Cotils, St Peter Port. If you are on Guernsey why not go along. PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE FOR AUGUST 2020 AND BEYOND.

The Committee of the Channel Islands Specialists Society is pleased to announce that David Ackroyd has been declared the winner of the John Hirst Silver Salver for 2019 with his article Ted and James Birch and the Pigeon Post Stamp that appeared in the September 2019 journal.

The Forces Postal History Society (FPHS) has provided me with the following statement.

“During these difficult times we have made the decision to make our current journal available to the widest philatelic audience possible, free of charge. We hope that your membership can make use of this facility which is available as a download from the FPHS website front page at http://www.forcespostalhistorysociety.org.uk”

Richard Flemming, Secretary

With the help of Nick Stuart (CISS Auctioneer) and Ed Martin (CISS Webmaster) a new link to the Auction section has been added that allows members to view previous CISS Auctions and the prices realized for each lot sold in that auction.

So if you were not the lucky winner of that special lot you can now see how much the lot actually was sold for, which may help you with bidding for similar lots in future CISS auctions.

All you have to do is log in to the CISS.uk website, click on “Auctions” in the menu options and then click on “Auctions Archive” where you will see images of lots from the last four auctions (NS9 – NS12) together with the hammer price.