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The Journal Cup is awarded by vote of the Council of the Society for the best article published in "Postal History" in the previous year. The journal was awarded a large vermeil medal in the literature class at the Washington 2006 International Exhibition. The contents of recent issues of "Postal History" are set out below. December 2009 - No. 332 Azores - Internal & Foreign Postal Rates - 1910 to 1940 (Part 3) by John Dahl; Portuguese Rates on Mail to Portugal from the UK by British Packets 1810 to 1812 by David Stirrups; Suspension of Mail Services - Netherlands, Dutch East and West Indies by Robert Johnson; A postal Anomaly Part 1 by Tony Wiseman; A Norwegian Immigrants Letter Home by Harry Snarvlod; Mail from London via Hudson's Bay Company Ships, 1829 - 1860 (Part 3) by Randall E Burt; An Irish Happy Christmas by John Forbes-Nixon. September 2009 - No. 331 The Paris Post Offices by Ashley Lawrence; Azores - Internal & Foreign Rates - 1910 to 1940 (Part 2) by John Dahl; A Registered cover rejected by the Austrian Customs Authorities by Richard Stock; Mail from London via Hudson's Bay Company Ships 1829 - 1860 (Part 2) by Randall E Burt; Who knows a blind Sicilian fiddler? by John Scott. June 2009 - No. 330 Does anyone know Helen? By John Scott; U.S. Rail Road Contract Mails 1837 - 1875 (A new study) by Hugh Feldman; Azores - Internal & Foreign Postal Rates - 1910 - 1940 (Part 1) by John Dahl; Two Covers from the LaCroze Correspondence by Dave Savadge; The La Ville d'Orleans by Ashley Lawrence; An Austrian 1836 Postal Document by Paul Hirsch; Uruguay - the Problem with Terrestres by Jay Walmsley; Mail from London via Hudson's Bay Company Ships 1829 - 1860 (Part 1) by Randall E Burt. March 2009 - No. 329 Records for Early British Post Office Agents Abroad from 1812 by Philip Beale; Argentine to Uruguay - an interesting postcard by Jay Walmsley; Channel Island Civilian Prisoners 1940 - 1945 by Ron Brown; A letter from a Union Soldier during the American Civil War by Neil Prior; The Queensland Royal Mail Part 2 by Colin Tabeart; Early Steamboat Letters on Western Waters by Hugh Feldman; Ordinary Mail from Hawaii to Canada, 1864-1884 by Randall E Burt; Early Netherlands East Indies Airmail by Richard Wheatley. December 2008 - No. 328 The Torres Strait Route by David Ashby; L'Affaire Raynal' - The Story of a Ballon Monte by Ashley Lawrence; The New Hebrides Islands by John Yeomans; Post in the Early Years of the Royal Mail by Malcolm Ray-Smith. September 2008 No. 327 Hawaiian Mail to Nova Scotia in 1849 by Randall Burt - Part 2; Portugal 1912 to 1926 Ceres issues overprinted in 1928 and 1929 by Robert Johnson; The Queensland Royal Mail Part 1 by Colin Tabeart; Posted in advance of Christmas by Patrick Campbell; A 1954 Returned Letter from Czechoslovakia by Richard Wheatley; From Boston to Mazatlan via Panama, Oahu and Monterey by Hugh Feldman. June 2008 - No. 326 Maritime mail from Gibraltar to Portugal 1835 to 1858 by David Stirrups; Post Office Strikes and Disputes by Robert Johnson; The Art of the Inn-keeper - Royal Mail Inns in North-east England by John Scott; Eyewitness to a Revolution and Civil War by Gregg Todd. March 2008 - No. 325 Justice of the Day by John Forbes-Nixon; The Postal History of the Holy Island (Lindisfarne) - Part 2 by Al Hurst; The Last Invasion of Britain by the late Barrie Jay; "Agency" post and "Buoy's" post from the Azores by John Dahl; Letter from Henry Stanley, Earl of Derby, 1859, by Philip Beale; Hawaiian Mail to Nova Scotia in 1849 by Randall Burt - Part 1. December 2007 - No. 324 The Postal History of the Holy Island (Lindisfarne) - Part 1 by Al Hurst; The Wounded Soldier by Claire Scott; The German Occupation of the Channel Islands (Part 2) by Gerald Marriner; Service Suspended in WW2 by Robert Johnson; Sudan - Too late and Late Fee Mail by Richard Stock; Wreck mail from the Winfield Scott by Hugh Feldman. September 2007 - No. 323 Australia - UK Mails - the Accountancy period by Colin Tabeart; Envelope to Suriname in 1902 by Richard Wheatley; Mail between Britain and France, 1793-1815 (Part 3) by the late Barrie Jay; Hawaii's Parcel Post Conventions 1894-1896 (Part 2) by Randall Burt; The German Occupation of the Channel Islands (Part 1) by Gerald Marriner; Official Franking 1840-1890 by John Scott; Major Robert Bowen and the Siege of Ladysmith by Richard Stock; Datestamps of the First Romanian Railway Post Offices by Gabriel Sassower. June 2007 - No. 322 Mail between Britain and France, 1793-1815 (Part 2) by Barrie Jay; The Early Railway Postmarks of Romania by Paul Hirsch; The Sandbach Correspondence (Part 3) by Richard Stock; Via Nicaragua ahead of the Mails by Hugh Feldman; Hawaii's Parcel Post Conventions 1894-1896 (Part 1) by Randall Burt; A Letter from India by Neil Prior. March 2007 - No. 321 The "Post Office for America" Hamburg 1788-1800 by Fred Goatcher; Mail between Britain and Spain 1793-1815 (Part 2) by Carlos Celles and Barrie Jay; Postal Money Orders in Hawaii, 1882-1900 (Part 2) by Randall Burt; Mail between Britain and France, 1793-1815 (Part 1) Revolutionary Wars by Barrie Jay. |
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