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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 the last four issues of "Postal History" are set out below. December 2006 - No. 320 Contents: Mail between Britain and Spain 1793-1815 (Part 1) by Carlos Celles & Barrie Jay; Postal money Orders in Hawaii (Part 1) by Randall E. Burt; The First Flight from Australia to Cape Town via Cairo by Richard Stock; Early Postmen's Difficulties by J.W.M. Stone; A Mourning Puzzle in Black and Blue by John Forbes-Nixon; A Delightful Mexican Cover by Jay Walmsley; The French in India 1693-1842 by John Yeomans; Registered Franking Practice by Paul Hirsch. September 2006 - No. 319 Contents: Missionary Mail from China 1901-1903 by Stewart Gardiner; The Recusants by Philip Beale; Crossing the Channel, 1797, by Barrie Jay; The Sandbach Correspondence (Part 2) by Richard Stock; Service Suspended to Malaya via the USA by Robert Johnson; An Early California Gold Rush Letter by Hugh Feldman; Potential Changes in Postage 1828-1829 by reference to Mail Coach Mileages by John Rawlins. June 2006 - No. 318 Contents: Post Office Savings Banks by Robert Johnson; A New Holyhead Ship Letter by Paul Davey; Moldavian Postal Manifests by Paul Hirsch; A Letter from the Second Dutch War by Barrie Jay; A Bikini Correspondence by Gregg Todd; Yorkshire Practice by Richard Wheatley; A New letter Forwarding Agent in Southampton handling mails to the Channel Islands? by David Gurney. March 2006 - No. 317 Contents: Mails from Civilian Labourers on the Burma-Thailand Railway by David Tett; The Sandbach Correspondence (Part 1) by Richard Stock; Thomas McDermott - mercenary and prisoner of war by Barrie Jay; A brief introduction to German Free Post, 1870 - 1922 by David Trapnell; More on "Service Suspended" by Derek Smeathers. |
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