I not long ago acquired a large album of UK
exhibition related material, all apparently assembled by a Mr P. L. Jackson of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire (I would like to know something about him if anyone knows anything?). The album covers almost every UK
philatelic event from the early 70s through to the 90s, with some earlier material and including provincial events as well as the major London shows. Mr Jackson was obviously involved with the running of events as many of the album pages include examples of very small print run items of presentation forms. Many of the pages bear labels on the reverse indicating that the pages were themselves exhibited on several occasions. I have imaged just two pages for here and now. The first is the page for the British
Philatelic Exhibition of 1975, including the green version of the miniature sheet of which only 632 copies were apparently printed for presentation to stewards:
The second page is for the
Philatelic Congress of 1989 held at Brighton and shows the Cinderella Stamp Club sheets of 12 labels issued for that event, reproducing the Congress labels for 1932, in red and black versions (the blue sheet is present too, on the reverse of the page):
Perhaps, when I get the time, it would be worth scanning all of the pages for a new topic. Needless to say, I was very glad to obtain this comprehensive collection. Chris Wren
Posted 01/13/2012 9:08 pm
