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Come and meet us in 2024
We will be at SWINPEX 8th June 2024, Grange Leisure & Community Centre, Stratton St Margaret, Swindon SN3 4JY
Looking forward to seeing you all there.
Not only are we here to meet members and new faces but we bring items to sell:
covers and books to satisfy a wide variety of collecting interests. Make sure you stop by our table.
Current TPO Journal
The Spring 2024 Journal, number 364, has been mailed.
The contents are listed below.
The Spring 2024 auction
closes on the 15th April 2024.
Publications 2024
United Fruit Co. by Mike Dovey and Ken Bottoms. See details on our publications page.
Recent Publications 2023
British Long Distance Mail Packets Volume 2, The Harwich Packets 1816-1834, by Colin Tabeart is a detailed study of Harwich packets based on original research from newspapers of the time. This book aims to show how packet mails between the United Kingdom and northern Europe travelled during the final years of the sailing packets era, and how such letters were rated. See the flyer on our publications page.
Recent Website Updates
Member Keith Morris has provided a new article listing marks of Travelling Post Offices and Postal Agencies of British Guiana
Ever prolific, Keith has also just published The Orient Express – its History and its Postal History, available to download here.
Visit our Research Resources Page
Research and Survey / Census projects carried out by our members and articles of note published elsewhere by our members. Click to go to our Research Resources Page.
Postcard of Gibraltar Signal Station and Rock Gun addressed to Whitstable with Melbourne/Victoria single circle handstamp from 1910 and with the South Australia one penny stamp cancelled by boxed rare LOOSE SHIP LETTER M&D 1435 of Melbourne. See lot 166 in the current auction.
The Spring 2024 edition of the TPO Journal is now available with the following content: |
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Germany - The Rhine Patrol Flotilla, 1918 - 1926 | Netherlands - An Island Tramway |
Submarine Covers Telling a Story - 3 | Army Post Office "R" Postmarks |
The Postal History of SS Great Britain - an Introductory Overview - 2 | Plymouth to Bristol TPO - Going in the Wrong Direction |
The Transatlantic Freight Money Period 1838-1848 - 2 | RPOs on Chesapeake Bay |
Southampton Oxford ST. | An Invitation to the RPG Convention 2024 |
The Society Library | |
Next Auction | Copy and Publishing dates for the Journal |
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