Philatelic Exhibition & Stamp Show Labels & Poster Stamps

Barcelona, November, 28th, 1980. Exfilarq'80. Architecture philatelic exhibition. The stamp reproduction on the upper left corner is embosed and shows the Gothic (14th century) City Hall door.

Barcelona, October 1977, Espamer'77. Europe and America Philatelic Exhibition. Two cards showing a cinderella of the Catalan Philatelic Society.

Beautiful !

Are you a member ?

I have just returned from a trip to the UK and managed to add some items to my GB Exhibition collection. I'll get scanning tomorrow.

How are you Cursus ?

Londonbus1

Hi Mike! I'm fine, thank you. I hope that you and your familiy are also doing well.

The Catalan Philatelic Society was active on the early decades of the 20th century. It desapeared around 1930. I belong to a society, the Barcelona Philathelic and Numismatic Circle, founded in 1924 by former members of the CPS. It's the oldest Catalan Philathelic Society.

Looking forward to see your new treasures.

Barcelona, May 1975. Card for the Philatelic Exhibition of the Sants-Hostafrancs (two Barcelona districts) Philatelic Society, commemorating the 125th an. of the first Spanish stamp, engraved by Bartomeu Tomàs Coromina (Barcelona, Catalonia, 1808 - Madrid, Spain, 1867). Postmarked on the 135 aniv. of the first stamp official use. It was also the centenary of the first horse tramways of the area, hence the (incorrect!) postmark.

As promised, a few Exhibition items I picked up during my recent UK trip.
Cinderellas in general were hard to find even though I went to 5 Stamp 'events', I just didn't have the luck this time.

But some lovely items were found. Others will be shown elsewhere...here are a few of the Exhibition items. More to come when time allows.

First up is an addition to the 1912 International Stamp Exhibition in London, aka the 'Ideal' stamp. Always hard to find at a decent price and I rarely add to this lot.
This one, and the two following items were gifts from member Stampstudy with whom I spent a lovely 24 hours.I owe him !
Thanks Drew !



Next is a label from the 1928 Pageant of Postage at the Memorial Hall in Farringdon, London, and this is followed by a show cancel from the first British Philatelic Congress in Manchester in 1909. A lovely piece.
EDIT: Edited to say that the label from 1928 is the Grey-Blue variety. I am still looking for the black.





More later

Londonbus1

March 21-24, 1980. First Senior Philately Exhibition, held in Valencia (330 km South of Barcelona).

Two embosed stamps: a 1938 civil war stamp (Sagunto's steel workers) and a 1930's charity stamp (Valencia main Post Office). A "Day of the stamp" stamp, with a pm showing a tipical Valencia tatched cottage.

Barcelona, November 16th, 1979. 50 years of 1929 Barcelona City Council tax stamp. View of a tax stamp showing the Gothic (XIV century) Barcelona City Hall door(on the card) and Barcelona's arms bearer (post-mark).

I have just been united with my purchase of the year in the form of these 4 Exhibition sheets.

THE THIRD ANNUAL LONDON STAMP EXHIBITION.

21-28 January 1939 at Central Hall, Westminster, London.

Listed in the Morgan-Wilson catalogue as sheets of 12 [6 ships and 6 planes], I found these back in March and had them sent to a friend in the UK. My recent trip found them at last in my possession and they are real beauties.
These sheets of 18 are not listed and my attempts to find out more have proved fruitless. I hope Glenn may be popping by sometime to offer his views !
The listed sheets, which are themselves scarce, are noted as perf 14½ x 14 while these are 15 x 14.
Printed by Harrison and Sons.









Londonbus1

P.S. Click on scans for better view. Close-ups of designs coming later.

Very nice!

I don't know how (or if) this fit into the theme in anyway, but I came upon this listing for another set of Poster Stamps that are described as:






http://www.ebay.com/itm/1939-KGVI-L...054897.l4275

That's funny wt. last weekend I found some of those in a cigar box I've had here for some time and never went though. I have 7 of them (strip of 4 and one of 3).

hadn't gotten around to scanning them yet to try and find out what they were - thanks!

yes wt1, it fits in very well. This is a block that UK seller Candlish McCleery has been trying to sell for many years [it seems]. it was on display on their stand at the 2011 Stafford Stamp show so I got a good look at it.
Thought to have been printed by Polystamps as it has similarities to a propaganda issue of the same year with similar style.
The show was due to have taken place at the Central Hall in London, 7-14 October.
I have no idea how many sheets were printed. It seems the price for this block is a little high but my lower offer at Stafford was turned down !

Time will tell.

Londonbus1

here's a couple more.
This first was posted way back early in the thread, in a group, so here it is close up.
Front



and back.



And here's one from Paris 1964

I guess this is a very common stuff, but I got it just today , and I thought that it could be useful to revive this thread.

Common it may be Cursus, but it's a very nice Harrison sheet.