Two members represented Walllington & Carshalton on the 28th April, and gave us a fascinating display as follows.
BRIAN ASQUITH presented nine different 10-sheet displays on a variety of subjects.
Early Levantine and Turkish postal history; mainly 1784-1846, but including an item from 1438.
Shares and Bonds including American Express, Panama Canal, Stanley Gibbons, Croydon Tramways, Corinth Canal, Gordon Bennett Race, Bleriot, etc.
Wakefield postal history from 1720 to 1840 including 4d Uniform Post, 1d Mulready and 1d Black items.
Banknotes including “Bradburys”, Bohemia and Moravia, Hungary, Japan, Russia, Czech, stamps printed on banknote paper etc.
Trieste mainly air interest from 1911, 1918, crash covers, glider mail, 1934 rocket mail, Zeppelin items, WWI delayed censor mail to NY etc.
Abyssinia/Ethiopia airmails 1929 – 1941 period.
Turkish Airlines including the Turkish Aviation Fund issues, 1926 Air-stamps etc.
USA 1978 and later A, B, and C denominated stamps including blocks, panes and use on overseas mail contrary to instructions.
GB delayed mail, Invalid Stamps cachets, vandalised mail, postal delays due to local disputes, failure of postman to deliver, Croydon to Sutton via Glasgow, etc.
DEREK MAURI followed with an extensive display of German Inflation Period internal mail, showing the inexorable rise in postal rates at ever decreasing intervals, particularly in 1922 and 1923, until the introduction of the re-valued currency on the 1st December 1923.
Derek showed postcards, local and longer distance rated items, mostly with stamps but also hand-stamped items when the Post Office failed to keep stamp production up with the ever increasing rates.
Inter alia, Derek showed items with 100 Marks, 1000 Marks, 6000 Marks, 75,000 Marks,800,000 Marks,
2 million Marks, 4 million Marks, 100 million Marks, 500 million Marks, 10 billion (or milliard) Marks,
20 billion Marks and 100 billion Marks (e.g. 20,000,000,000 Marks).
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