Great Britain : On Steiner Pages.

1966
Steiner Page 21.



1966
Steiner Page 23.



1967
Steiner Page 25.

Do you remember the bubble around the "England Winners" stamp? It sneaked out - just about the only overprinted British stamp I can think of - and many people, including me, didn't get one. Worth about tuppence now, I presume!

Not at all, Geoff, that information failed to reach the Antipodes.




I have tens, IR, ARMY OFFICIAL, MOROCCO AGENCIES etc& etc

I guess GeoffHa had UK stamps overprinted for regular postage use within UK in mind? Not many of them

The GB Victorian 3d/3d and 6d/6d surcharges are the only ones I can think of.

Sorry, Rod, I didn't realise you'd become a £10 Pom by then.

..........Hmmm, now I am worth about 1/6d

1967
Steiner Page 28.



1967
Steiner Page 29.

Apex 1934
THE INTERNATIONAL AIR POST EXHIBITION

"APEX."

LONDON, MAY 7th— 12th, 1934.
PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENTS.

An International Air Post Exhibition will be held in London from Mondav
May 7th, to Saturday, May 12th, 1934. '"

The Royal Horticultural Hall in Vincent Square, Westminster which
has been the scene of great stamp exhibitions in 1906, 1912 and 1923 will again
be the venue of the first International Air Post Exhibition ever held in London
The mam hall has a floor area of about 10,000 square feet.

Preliminaries of organisation, the formation of the General Council and
Committees, wdl be proceeded with immediately ; Brigadier-General R
Ridgway, C.B., President of the Aero Philatelic Club, will be the President of the
General Council, and Mrs. H. P. Terry will be the Hon. Secretary to the Council
Mr. Fred. J. Melville is the Organising Director.

In order to afford air stamp and air post collectors abroad ample time to
prepare their collections for sending to the Exhibition, a detailed plan of the
Competitive Classes has already been drawn up and examined by a provisional
Programme Committee. This is printed in full below. Although it has been
made as complete and comprehensive as possible from the start, this Scheme
of Competitions is tentative and subject to revision, pending the issue of the
Prospectus of the Exhibition.

Although there have been two International Air Post Exhibitions held in
Europe— Paris 1930, and Danzig, 1932, this is the first attempt to map out a
fully comprehensive scheme of competitions for a first-class international
exhibition. In the circumstances one or two explanatory notes may be useful.

The geographical grouping in Classes G to K appears to be the only practical
way of grouping, although many air post collections may be formed rather
on the basis of routes. The great diversity of routes and services defies any
simple form of classification by route. However, the geographical grouping
admits of covers, etc., of any route having its base in the country specified
If you receive a letter from, say, Argentina in London, whether it comes bv
ordinary mail or by air post, it takes its philatelic classification from the country
of origin, i.e., Argentina, not from the country of destination (Great Britain)

The Royal Horticultural Halls are still there - indeed, hired rooms there for meetings when I worked in Whitehall. Vincent Square is dominated by the rather grand cricket field owned by Westminster School. The square was also the home of Somerset Maugham when he was a doctor at St Thomas's, and it was where he began his writing career.

On a technical note... the England "WINNERS" stamp was not an overprint.A new plate with the added lettering was made.

One learns something new, every day.
Thank you.

Revenues. c1930
Health and Pensions.
Typo Wmk
Perf 13¾x14

Barefoot Catalogue.

Rod, I must admit that I've never been a fan of album pages but all your threads on Steiner pages certainly have changed my mind and I find myself checking your Steiner page threads daily for updates. You've done a wonderful job, thank you for sharing these with us.

Wow!
what a wonderful thing to say. Thank you very much Stallzer.
Boy, you have made my day.

I often think how Bill Steiner, and Amos (Scott) turned my hobby around.
I had this huge mess, as a worldwide collector, stuff in boxes, envelopes, Hagners
I just couldn't control it.
Now, gradually, things are getting in shape, with an added bonus, I use my Steiner pages, as sort ID, when I get a bunch of stamps of a country, I can flip through
my pages, identify the duplicates, and get them off to the Red Cross Stamp shop.

Just referring back to the Prussian Blue discussion earlier in the thread, this was included in the current Gibbons Stamp Monthly:



What with the magazine print, my scanner and your PC screen, the colours can't be seen as true, but they do give an idea of the kind of difference. Prussian blue is less 'purple' than the standard stamp.