WIPSG Journal: West Indies Philately

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The WIPSG Journal West Indies Philately  commenced with Issue # 1 March 2023
ISSN 2753-4308 (Print), ISSN 2753-4316 (Online)

Cover Contents

Issue 007 2024 Sep

  • Programme of Events and Information
  • Message from the Chairman by Steve Jarvis
  • Editorial by Darryl Fuller
  • WIPSG AGM Minutes and Committee Reports 2024
  • Annual 2024 Auction Report by Simon Richards
  • All Aspects of British West Indies Mail (No. 7) by Michael Hamilton
  • Barbados: The Barbados .d Green Stamps on Blued Paper by Stephen Rose
  • Dominica: 2022 Dominica Town Cancels by Steven Zirinsky
  • Tobago: ‘Carteret’ Packet Letter Dated 26 January 1787 by Susan Taylor
  • Jamaica: The Packet Express (Part 3) by Paul Wright, Paul Farrimond, Steve Jarvis & Ray Stanton
  • Placido Ramon de Torres From Foundling to Master Forger by John Seidl
  • Jamaica: Jamaica Local Currency and the Effect on Jamaica Inland Postal Rates to the End of 1840 by Steve Jarvis
  • Membership, Webmaster’s, Librarian’s & Editor’s Reports
  • Officers & Contact Details

Issue 006 2024 Jun

  • Programme of Events and Information
  • Message from the Chairman by Steve Jarvis
  • Editorial by Darryl Fuller
  • Members’ News
  • All Aspects of British West Indies Mail (No. 6) by Michael Hamilton
  • Anguilla: 2024 Postmarks by Steve Zirinsky
  • Bahamas: The Emerald Beach Hotel 1954-1958 by James Gavin
  • De La Rue Specimens by Steve Jarvis
  • Barbados: The 1925-35 Definitives – Flat-bed and Curved Plates – Again by Patricia Capill
  • Leeward Islands: Rare KGV Airmail Postal Stationery Envelopes by Frederick Lutt & Darryl Fuller
  • Barbados: The Fitzherbert Correspondence from Barbados by Stephen Rose
  • The Caribbean Hutia by Juan Riera
  • Jamaica: The Packet Express (Part 2) by Paul Wright, Paul Farrimond, Steve Jarvis & Ray Stanton
  • Book Review: Rambling Notes of a Bermuda Philatelist by Horst Augustinovic by Paul Farrimond
  • Jamaica: The Circular Postal Censor Number Handstamps 1940-1942 by Paul Farrimond
  • St Lucia: Modern Revenues by Steven Zirinsky
  • Membership, Webmaster’s, Librarian’s & Editor’s Reports
  • Officers & Contact Details

Issue 005 2024 Mar

  • Society Programme of Events and Information
  • Message from the Chairman by Steve Jarvis
  • Editorial Darryl Fuller
  • Preview of the Annual Auction on 11 May 2024 by Simon Richards
  • Letters to the Editor
  • Members’ News
  • Anguilla: West Indian Postal Rates
  • All Aspects of British West Indies Mail (No. 5) by Michael Hamilton
  • De La Rue’s Early Curved Recess Plates – An Update by Peter Fernbank
  • Barbados: The 1925-35 Definitives – Flat-Bed and Curved Plates, Damp and Dry Papers by Patricia Capill
  • St Vincent and Grenadines: Revenue Usage by Steve Zirinsky
  • British Honduras: New Early Date for the 1893 Belize Double-Circle Postmark by John M Swales
  • Belize: COVID Cover Belize to Canada by Maj. Anthony Fulmes (Ret’d)
  • BWI Omnibus Series: Exclusions in the 1951 Inauguration of the University College of the West Indies by Susan Taylor
  • Jamaica: The Express packet (Part 1) by Paul Wright, Paul Farrimond, Steve Jarvis & Ray Stanton
  • Jamaica: Wrong Time, Wrong Place: September 1939 by Paul Farrimond
  • Trinidad: A Clandestine Censor Label – an attempt to evade British Censors in Trinidad by Edward Barrow
  • Trinidad: The Stacey Wise Watermarked Trinidad Purple-Brown, Block of 12 by Nigel Mohammed
  • Jamaica: 1935 Silver Jubilee Booklet
  • Membership, Webmaster’s, Librarian’s & Editor’s Reports
  • Officers & Contact Details

Issue 004 2023 Dec

  • Programme of Events and Information
  • Message from the Chairman by Steve Jarvis
  • Editorial by Darryl Fuller
  • The West Indies Philatelic Study Group Convention by Susan Taylor
  • The Collett Award by James Podger
  • Book Review: ‘The Stamp Cancelling Machine Slogan Postmarks of Trinidad and Tobago 1923-2023’ by Michael Medlicott
  • All Aspects of British West Indies Mail (No. 4) by Michael Hamilton
  • Bahamas: 1954 Definitive Series – Information Request by James Gavin
  • Bahamas: Columbus Memorial Festival by James Gavin
  • Barbados: Marine Life Varieties by Lawrence Grech
  • Dominica: First Inland Post Service by Michael Medlicott
  • Jamaica: Colour Trials and Printer Samples by Steve Jarvis
  • Leeward Islands: Inter-Island Postage Rates 1879-1882 by John Jordan
  • St Christopher: More Manuscript Cancellations, and Shortages by Julian Waldron
  • St Lucia: Flights to St Lucia by NYRBA by Alistair Kinnon
  • Auction Report: Graham Booth FRPSL Collection of West Indies, Transatlantic Mail and Ship Letters by James Podger
  • Membership, Webmaster’s, Librarian’s & Editor’s Reports
  • Officers & Contact Details

Issue 003 2023 Sep

  • Programme of Events and Information
  • Message from the Chairman by Steve Jarvis
  • Vale Peter Ford FRPSL
  • Annual AGM Auction Report by Simon Richards
  • Minutes of the 68th and Final Annual General Meeting of the BWISC and the first Joint Meeting of the WIPSG by Susan Taylor
  • All Aspects of British West Indies Mail (No. 3) by Michael Hamilton
  • Barbados: Another Barbados Cinderella Story: ‘Tourism’ & ‘Red Cross’ Labels by Lawrence Grech & Jonathan Guy
  • Guyana: Guyana and its Modern Overprinted Stamps: Their Listing and Identification – A Reappraisal (Part 3) by Nicholas Pertwee
  • Anguilla: Anguilla’s Quest for Identity – The Philatelic Story by Susan Taylor, Julian Waldron & Graham Stockdale
  • Auction Report: The Charles Freeland Collection of Virgin Islands by James Podger
  • Leeward Islands: Examples and Usage of the 1928 1½d Brown Leeward Islands Empire Rate Postal Stationery Envelope by John Spratt
  • Membership, Webmaster’s, Librarian’s & Editor’s Reports
  • Officers & Contact Details
  • Editorial

Issue 002 2023 Jun

  • Programme of Events and Information
  • Message from the Chairman by Steve Jarvis
  • Editorial by Darryl Fuller
  • Letter to the Editor
  • The West Indies Philatelic Convention
  • All Aspects of British West Indies Mail (No. 2) by Michael Hamilton
  • Antigua: A Possible Unrecorded Flight Cover by Darryl Fuller
  • Barbados: The Luard O.H.M.S. Covers from Barbados by Stephen Rose
  • Cayman Islands: Cayman Islands Manuscript Provisionals – An Update by Kevin Darcy
  • Barbados: A Rare Commercial Air Mail Cover by Darryl Fuller
  • Dominica: Registration of Mail in the Villages of Dominica by Simon Richards
  • Turks & Caicos Islands: The Importance of TIME or NOT in the Turks Islands? by Andrew Hearn
  • Guyana: Guyana and its Modern Overprinted Stamps: Their Listing and Identification – A Reappraisal (Part 2) by Nicholas Pertwee
  • Jamaica: Opened by Express Warrant of the Governor by Tony Walker
  • Jamaica: Airmail Letter Rates from Jamaica: Part 6 – to the Americas and Bermuda After 1948 Update by Steve Jarvis
  • Trinidad & Tobago: Trinidad’s Pitch Lake and the Stamp Story by Susan Taylor
  • Study Group Leaders
  • Membership, Webmaster’s, Librarian’s & Editor’s Reports
  • Officers & Contact Details
  • Vale

Issue 001 2023 Mar

  • Background
  • Programme of Events and Information
  • Message from the Chairman by Steve Jarvis
  • Editorial by Darryl Fuller
  • Preview of Our Annual Auction on 29 April 2023 by Simon Richards
  • Graham Booth and His Collections by James Podger
  • Around the Caribbean 11 by Michael Hamilton
  • Barbados: Unrecorded Barbados Tax Marks by Jonathon Guy
  • Dominica: Registration of Mail in Dominica by Simon Richards
  • Guyana: Guyana and its Modern Overprinted Stamps: Their Listing and Identification – A Reappraisal (Part 1) by Nicholas Pertwee
  • Jamaica: Airmail Letter Rates from Jamaica: Part 6 – to the Americas and Bermuda After 1948 by Steve Jarvis
  • Jamaica: Encyclopaedia of Jamaican Philately (EJP) Project by Steve Jarvis
  • Leeward Islands: Examples and Usage of the 1928 1½d Brown Leeward Islands Empire Rate Postal Stationery Envelope by John Spratt
  • Membership, Webmaster’s, Librarian’s & Editor’s Reports
  • Officers & Contact Details
  • Our First Journal Issues