September 2024 Club Meeting Notes
Rochdale Philatelic Society, 10th. September 2024 Club Meeting Press Release
This evening our guest speaker was David Brigden from Bolton Philatelic Society.
The subject covered was a first for our club, that of items, including philatelic, relating to the Egyptian Tobacco Industry.
Items included advertising stamps and seals used on stationery sent out by the tobacco firms , ornate headed invoices to clients and , picture post cards of premises and pre-printed post cards with the tobacco suppliers name endorsed on them.
Another member of the Bolton club showed a display of French definitive stamps where each stamp had a clear date cancel covering each day of the year, all 366 of them!!.
New members are always welcome at our meetings which are held at the Rochdale Unitarian Church on the second Tuesday of each month at 7.30 pm.