The President’s Dinner will be held at Guildhall in the City of London, a few hundred meters from 15 Abchurch Lane , on Friday 25th February 2022 at 7.00pm.

The Great Hall is sited above the remains of the largest Roman Amphitheatre in Britain and was originally finished in 1440. Since then it has been variously burnt down, bombed out and the roof rebuilt in different structural styles, the current roof dating from the 1950s. However the grandeur of this vast space has not been compromised and it is the home of the Lord Mayor’s Banquet since 1502.

We are therefore privileged to dine there and visitors to London who have not before seen this wonderful medieval structure are especially welcome.

THIS TICKET IS FOR THE DINNER ONLY.

The President’s Dinner will be held at the Guildhall in the City of London, EC2P 2EJ on Friday the 19th February 2021. Dinner in the Great Hall will follow at 7.30 pm

THIS TICKET IS FOR THE RECEPTION ONLY.

The President’s Dinner will be held at the Guildhall in the City of London, EC2P 2EJ on Friday the 19th February 2021. It will be preceded by a reception in the Old Library at 6 p.m. which includes presentation of the major awards for the London 2020 International Exhibition

Described as “tons of interesting stuff from one of the masters of his subject”, and “authoritative and well researched” by two philatelists who have read it, this 432-page hardback book, the first in-depth study of the inks used by De La Rue for postage stamps, as well as other materials, will be published in March 2021.

The initial identification of bank notes, stamps or postal stationery is primarily by colour. Obviously, their denominations or reasons to exist are also provided, but it is colour that the eyes identify first. That colour is determined by the inks used which, in turn, are determined by their ingredients and recipes.

Pan American Airways Wartime Transatlantic Air Mail: Censorship and the LATI Substitute is a fascinating account of how the USA and UK co-operated during World War II to run a censorship and intelligence-gathering operation on mail travelling between the Axis countries in Europe and countries in Latin America with pro-Axis sympathies.

In 1889 a general opinion was expressed that the fiftieth anniversary of the introduction of Uniform Penny Postage in Great Britain “ought not to be allowed to pass without some indication of the feelings, which must actuate all who looked back at the great reform introduced in 1840”. Arrangements were made for various Jubilee celebrations to be held in 1890. Although a plan for a commemorative stamp was initiated, it was later abandoned.

Volume 1: Postal Reforms and the Historical Background to the Postage Stamp 1550-1839
Volume 2: The Birth of the Postage Stamp and its International Effects 1840 to 1898

Volume 1: Postal Reforms and the Historical Background to the Postage Stamp 1550-1839
Volume 2: The Birth of the Postage Stamp and its International Effects 1840 to 1898

This is a slipcase to hold the two volume copy of International Postal Reform (above)

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the stamps of Ceylon, their uses, their printings and varieties. It also covers the postal stationery, being the earliest stationery issued by any of the British Colonies, as well as the revenue stamps, reprints and forgeries.