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ZOOM Meeting 31 October
Here's a link to our mystery guest's Zoom meeting on 31 October: https://youtu.be/CZfDzjXzA4M
ZOOM Meeting 17 Oct
on 17 October, Gary Watson presented a fascinating review of his postal histyory collecting interests via ZOOM. Here is the link: https://youtu.be/LT5eFk4GN1c
Postal History Group ZOOM
On 9 October, the Postal History Group held a meeting via ZOOM. The subject was "The Mediterranean". Here's a link: https://youtu.be/17gNbDhEo6E
Auctions Update
Recently, Gary Diffen made his collection of auction catalogues available to the library. We were able to fill quite a few gaps in our stock - especially Hong Kong and Singapore auctions from Spink. The…
CORINPHILA PRESENTATION
Corinphila's presentation to the Royal Philatelic Society of London discussed provenance and old auction catalogues. View the presentation here: Final_Crawford_2024_Louis_&_Hallstrom 2
Annual General Meeting - Be There!
Our AGM is on Thursday, 19 September. We need a quorum so PLEASE ATTEND!!!
Library Update
The library has gained quite a few new books over the past year or so. The catalogue of non-Australian books has been updated - you can check it out here: The Library
Books: Pre-Publication Offers
Two new books are being released soon: The Crowned Oval Date Stamps of Victoria 1839−1866 by Robert Hillman, and The Railway Parcel Stamps of Victoria by John Tiernan. Check out our Books page for special pre-publication…
Download: Trafficking in Stamps
One of several innovations the Society is introducing is a means to electronically publish articles on its website that might not otherwise go into Philately from Australia or be published as a monograph or other…
Library Update
Merilyn and Alan Gray have completed the very large task of adding to the library all of the auctions featuring noteworthy collections. These are now available on our Library page, or you can click below:…
Fifty-Year Lunch
The Royal will hold a lunch on Monday 17 June, to celebrate Edward Brentnall's 50 years of membership. Edward has been a stalwart member of the Postal History Group, unearthing very old items of correspondence.…
Annual Competition
A reminder, that annual competition entries need to be submitted to the Secretary (Bill Clark) by Thursday 16 May. If you have any problems with delivery by that date, contact Bill at bill@cattani.com.au Entrants should…
New: Specialised Census Data
We have added a new tab and page to the website: Specialised Census Data under Resources. The new page will give you access to census data. At the moment we have a census of Australian…