The Postal Stationery Society was formed on 26 September 1992 at an inaugural meeting held at the

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, London.,''

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'', July 2013. Starting in February 1993 the Society has published a ''Journal'' containing Society news and articles on all aspects of

postal stationery A piece of postal stationery is a stationery item, such as a stamped envelope, letter sheet, postal card, lettercard, aerogram or wrapper, with an imprinted stamp or inscription indicating that a specific rate of postage or related servi ...

. Initially the ''Journal'' was bi-annual and since 2002 it has been published quarterly.

Publications

* ''Victorian Private Stationery Impressed with Embossed Stamps'' * ''The Mulready Postal Stationery'' * ''The Real Cost of the Penny Post'' * ''A British Georgian Stamp Banned by the Postmaster General'' (a reprint of a pamphlet by

Herbert Edgar Weston Herbert Edgar Weston (28 October 1874 in Chichester – 21 November 1961 in Twickenham),"The man who never was" by Colin Baker in ''The Postal Stationery Society Journal'', Vol 19 No 3, August 2011, pp.18–20 or H. Edgar Weston, was a stamp deale ...

) * ''The Jubilee of the Uniform Penny Post'' * ''Great Britain Postage Rates Prepaid by Postal Stationery 1840 - 2004''

References

External links

The Postal Stationery Society website
Postal stationery Philatelic organisations based in the United Kingdom 1992 establishments in the United Kingdom {{Philately-stub