By BESG Speakers – British Empire Study Group

“Air Crash Mail of Imperial Airways” with Kendall C. Sanford – Book Link

Joan Harmer — Fri, 10 May 2024 04:43:21 +0000

Books about Crash Covers and links are available at: http://www.aerophilately.net

Michel Catalogue Distributor in the United States

Joan Harmer — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 00:18:55 +0000

Information on ordering the Michel Catalogues:

The Michel partner in the USA is Kurt Braun of SAFE Collecting Supplies in Hatboro, Pennsylvania, whose contact details can be found here:

https://www.safepub.com/contact-us/

Our catalogues are also offered there in SAFE’s own online shop:

https://www.safepub.com/stamp-collecting-supplies/stamp-accessories-tools/books-on-stamps-michel-catalogs/

If you would like to order the Michel catalogs directly:

https://www.briefmarken.de/michelshop/en

As Marion mentioned during her presentation, we also offer e-books and the online database MICHEL-Online. The coupon code can also be used here.

In the case of MICHEL-Online, the subscription is self-renewing and the voucher is valid for the first year.

They a flat rate for shipping and handling, it is of course also possible to place a collective order in our shop. Send us an email if you are interested in pooling orders.

De-Mystifying the Line-Engraved Cape of Good Hope Triangles Presentation by Christopher DORN

Joan Harmer — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 16:56:31 +0000

The following is a link to Chris Dorn’s Slides

BESG Pres – COGH Triangles – C DORN 2023.03.09 R2

Espionage and Counterfeit Bibliography by Ken Pugh

Joan Harmer — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 13:51:22 +0000

If I told you – Ken Pugh – Krueger’s Men: The Secret Nazi Counterfeit Plot and the Prisoners of Block 19 by Lawrence Malkin

Joan Harmer — Sat, 06 Nov 2021 19:14:01 +0000

The true story of the greatest counterfeiting scheme in history and the men the Nazis called upon to help it succeed-a group of concentration-camp Jews. Only a fortnight after the start of World War II, at a meeting that has remained a secret for more than half a century, Nazi leaders and officials of the German Reichsbank approved an audacious plot to counterfeit millions of British pounds. Now, drawing upon top-secret bank records, German and British correspondence, and interrogation transcripts, award-winning journalist and author Lawrence Malkin reveals how an unremarkable SS officer named Bernhard Krueger attempted to bring down the world financial system. But when Krueger discovered that forging pounds, and later dollars, was no easy task, he made a crucial decision: he would seek out the greatest counterfeiters of prewar Europe and enlist them in the effort. He found them in an unexpected place: a Nazi concentration camp.

– from Amazon

If I told you – Ken Pugh – the Counterfeiters

Joan Harmer — Sat, 06 Nov 2021 18:58:15 +0000

The movie, The Counterfeiters provides interesting background. The trailer is linked here and can be rented through Netflix.

2021-09 Stephen Zirinsky The Road Untravelled

Joan Harmer — Tue, 21 Sep 2021 22:57:07 +0000

2021-07-08 – Peter McCann – British Virgin Islands Postal History: A Grand Award Winning Exhibit (Grand Award Stamp Exhibits) (Volume 6)

Joan Harmer — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 20:28:14 +0000

British Virgin Islands Postal History: A Grand Award Winning Exhibit (Grand Award Stamp Exhibits) (Volume 6) by Peter P McCann PhD, RDP (Author), Steven Zwillinger (Editor)

The British Virgin Islands (Leeward Islands) play a role in the overall postal history of the Caribbean that is much more important than almost any of the other small British islands due to their close proximity to the Danish West Indies, e.g., St. Thomas, which was a major transshipping point for all of the Caribbean postal systems.The exhibit is structured as a classic postal history study with an organization by markings and rates and encompasses the known postal markings used in the British Virgin Islands from 1787 to 1944 as well as all the postal rates applicable in the colony from 1711 through 1944. The markings shown are the most comprehensive examples in one collection of the entire array of BVI postmarks and other ancillary marks ever assembled. It is unlikely to be ever duplicated.The exhibit was first shown in 1988 and then periodically at other national exhibitions over a 15 year period, receiving 9 Gold medals and two Grand Awards. It also received one international Gold medal at New Zealand 1990. Another great exhibit published by Exhibitors Press

2021-07-08 McCann – Montserrat: Postal History of a Caribbean Island (Grand Award Stamp Exhibits) (Volume 3)

Joan Harmer — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 20:22:48 +0000

Montserrat: Postal History of a Caribbean Island (Grand Award Stamp Exhibits) (Volume 3) by Peter P. McCann PhD (Author), Steven Zwillinger (Editor)

Usually Postal History means the study of rates, routes, and markings of an area or country. But such islands as Montserrat are small enough in every sense of the word that that my exhibit can also cover when various stamps issues as well as postal stationery were introduced, and the political factors that influenced these issues. Thus, the exhibit shows the first mails from and to Montserrat before a formal Post Office was opened in 1790 and then the development of such a separate Post Office within the complex structure of the Leeward Islands Colony. The exhibit finishes with the unusual mail censorship practices of Montserrat during World War II. Although a small island, the broad scope of the period from the 1760’s to 1945 allow Montserrat’s postal history to be a useful model for the development of the postal systems of many of the islands within the British Caribbean area.A note on the availability and scarcity of the material in the exhibit – the literate population in Montserrat was estimated to be 240 in 1881 and dropped in succeeding decades. The exhibit has received nine Gold Medals and two Grand Awards in national competition since it was first shown in 2008.
Another great exhibit published by Exhibitors Press

2021-07-08 Peter McCann – Turks & Caicos Islands Postal History 1810-1945: A Grand Award Winning Exhibit (Grand Award Stamp Exhibits)

Joan Harmer — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 20:16:12 +0000

Turks & Caicos Islands Postal History 1810-1945: A Grand Award Winning Exhibit (Grand Award Stamp Exhibits) by Peter P McCann PhD (Author), Steven Zwillinger (Editor)

The Turks and Caicos Islands were truly one of the tiny “backwaters” of the British Empire and even today are still a British Dependent Territory under the ultimate authority of a Governor appointed by London.The obvious postal history implication of this is that commercial mail from the earliest period known- the early 1800’s to the mid-20th Century only exists in very small quantities. Thus, the difficulty of acquisition is extremely high no matter what the price.The exhibit is divided into three chronological periods: 1810 -1899 covering the early and middle Victorian era, 1900-1936 with the late Victorian, Edward VII, and George V eras, and 1937-1945 George VI and World War II. Within each of the three sections postmarks, registration, postal cachets and official mail are shown with the last section also covering wartime censorship.Another great exhibit from Exhibitors Press.