The Royal Philatelic Society London is pleased to announce the short list of six from which the Crawford Medal Committee will select the 2024 winner. The winner will be announced at the end of the Crawford Festival on 26th June.
This is a free two-day event of presentations and discussions on the theme of Philatelic Auction Catalogues, being held at the Royal Philatelic Society London at 15 Abchurch Lane.
The Crawford Festival is open to everyone, both RPSL members and non-members. The event is free to attend but tickets must be booked in advance. To book via Eventbrite, click here, or by telephone at 0207 486 1044 (Option 2).
The shortlisted books are:
Portuguese India: Postal History and the First Issues – From the ‘Natives’ to 1900 by Luis & Eduardo Barreiros.
Tête Bêche: Rarities from the Oval-Issue of Finland by Tomas Bjäringer & Mårten Sundberg.
The Postal Stationery of Nigeria by Peter Hørlyck.
Internal Mail Routes of Nigeria 1900-1960, Volume 1: by Water, Rail and Air by R. F. May.
The Malayan Postal Administration in the Dutch East Indies during the Japanese Occupation 1942-1945 by J.R. van Nieuwkerk.
The Rhodesias and Nyasaland – Colonial Rule to Majority Rule – Evolution of the Mails by Brian Trotter, Pat Flanagan & Keith Harrop.
Co-authors Robin Cassell FRPSL and Richard Hobbs FRPSL have provided us with the following brief introduction on the RPSL website:
When Rowland Hill introduced the Mulready Envelope and Lettersheet to the world on 6 May 1840 they were immediately ridiculed in the press. Some early users of the envelopes embellished the design with comic additions and the satirists and caricaturists of the time developed and published their own versions of the Mulready. Since its publication in 1984, the “bible” on this subject has been British Pictorial Envelopes of the 19th Century by Bodily Jarvis and Hahn (BJH). This new work sets out to update the information in the BJH book with much more detail on the varied states and printings of these caricatures by the different publishers. BJH listed 305 different copies in 145 different states; we now include 941 copies in 207 states and provide a census of all known recorded copies of Mulready caricatures.
Extensive research into the sale of these caricatures through examination of over 22,500 historical auction house catalogues and from handling many of these items over the past 20 years has enabled us to now record that around 10% of copies have been adjusted in some way. Victorians tended to collect stamps rather than covers, so some caricatures that were held in scrap books have had replacement stamps added, and our research enables the collector to see this “before and after” provenance for the first time. We include in this book 2392 images as colour illustrations of all known copies and an indication of where adjustments have been made to the envelopes. It is hoped that this new detailed information will provide the next “bible” for collection and understanding of these fascinating envelopes.
The 872-page work will be published in two volumes with a slipcase. Retail price £200, RPSL members’ price £180.
Prato (23 April 2024) – Two months on, it is safe to say that almost everything is ready for the International Conference “Postal History between Multidisciplinary and Diachronic Perspectives”, to be held in Prato between 20 and 22 June.
“This is the third edition of the conference that we are organising, knowing that, in recent years, there are no other similar proposals throughout Europe” announces Bruno Crevato-Selvaggi, director of the Istituto di studi storici postali “Aldo Cecchi” odv. “University professors, scholars and experts from America, Asia and Europe will meet in Prato to update participants on their respective studies, but also to get to know each other better and, if possible, to lay the foundations on which we can build something together”.
The programme is almost defined: around thirty short lectures hosted at the State Archives, the “Alessandro Lazzerini” Library, and the seat of the City Council. Depending on the case, the speeches will be in Italian, French or English. The entrance is free.
The topics will range from the Roman “cursus publicus” to communications between colonial Chile and the Spanish Crown, from mail orders to Cold War postcards, from the merchants of the Serenissima to the use of the camel for urgent mail in the ancient Caliphates, from couriers in imperial China to letters sent clandestinely from Romania, from the study on addresses to the Italian asylum system…
Crawford Festival 2024
We’ve picked this up from the website of the Association of British Philatelic Societies (ABPS):
The Royal Philatelic Society London is pleased to announce the short list of six from which the Crawford Medal Committee will select the 2024 winner. The winner will be announced at the end of the Crawford Festival on 26th June.
This is a free two-day event of presentations and discussions on the theme of Philatelic Auction Catalogues, being held at the Royal Philatelic Society London at 15 Abchurch Lane.
The Crawford Festival is open to everyone, both RPSL members and non-members. The event is free to attend but tickets must be booked in advance. To book via Eventbrite, click here, or by telephone at 0207 486 1044 (Option 2).
The shortlisted books are:
The programme: https://www.abps.org.uk/10660-2
[photo credit: ABPS]
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The Mulready Caricature
Co-authors Robin Cassell FRPSL and Richard Hobbs FRPSL have provided us with the following brief introduction on the RPSL website:
When Rowland Hill introduced the Mulready Envelope and Lettersheet to the world on 6 May 1840 they were immediately ridiculed in the press. Some early users of the envelopes embellished the design with comic additions and the satirists and caricaturists of the time developed and published their own versions of the Mulready. Since its publication in 1984, the “bible” on this subject has been British Pictorial Envelopes of the 19th Century by Bodily Jarvis and Hahn (BJH). This new work sets out to update the information in the BJH book with much more detail on the varied states and printings of these caricatures by the different publishers. BJH listed 305 different copies in 145 different states; we now include 941 copies in 207 states and provide a census of all known recorded copies of Mulready caricatures.
Extensive research into the sale of these caricatures through examination of over 22,500 historical auction house catalogues and from handling many of these items over the past 20 years has enabled us to now record that around 10% of copies have been adjusted in some way. Victorians tended to collect stamps rather than covers, so some caricatures that were held in scrap books have had replacement stamps added, and our research enables the collector to see this “before and after” provenance for the first time. We include in this book 2392 images as colour illustrations of all known copies and an indication of where adjustments have been made to the envelopes. It is hoped that this new detailed information will provide the next “bible” for collection and understanding of these fascinating envelopes.
The 872-page work will be published in two volumes with a slipcase. Retail price £200, RPSL members’ price £180.
Details and sample pages: https://www.rpsl.org.uk/language/en-US/Home/Publications/Books/Mulready-Caricatures
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An all-round view on mail: Prato, Italy, 20-22 June
Today, we received the following from the Istituto di studi storici postali “Aldo Cecchi” odv.
Prato (23 April 2024) – Two months on, it is safe to say that almost everything is ready for the International Conference “Postal History between Multidisciplinary and Diachronic Perspectives”, to be held in Prato between 20 and 22 June.
“This is the third edition of the conference that we are organising, knowing that, in recent years, there are no other similar proposals throughout Europe” announces Bruno Crevato-Selvaggi, director of the Istituto di studi storici postali “Aldo Cecchi” odv. “University professors, scholars and experts from America, Asia and Europe will meet in Prato to update participants on their respective studies, but also to get to know each other better and, if possible, to lay the foundations on which we can build something together”.
The programme is almost defined: around thirty short lectures hosted at the State Archives, the “Alessandro Lazzerini” Library, and the seat of the City Council. Depending on the case, the speeches will be in Italian, French or English. The entrance is free.
The topics will range from the Roman “cursus publicus” to communications between colonial Chile and the Spanish Crown, from mail orders to Cold War postcards, from the merchants of the Serenissima to the use of the camel for urgent mail in the ancient Caliphates, from couriers in imperial China to letters sent clandestinely from Romania, from the study on addresses to the Italian asylum system…
Please find attached the programme of the conference: https://fepanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/prato_2024.pdf
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