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SOLD OUT !!! The St. Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha Philatelic Society has published a book to celebrate the 30th anniversary of its founding. The society grew from a one-line letter from Mrs. Vivian W. Finne published in Linn’s Stamps News on March 1, 1976. Mrs. Finne asked if there was a study group specializing in St. Helena. The title of the book is Thirty Years of St. Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha Philately. The editors are Michael D. Mueller and Dr. Peter P. McCann. Both are past presidents of the society. Dr. McCann, the Immediate Past President of the American Philatelic Society, was one of the eight collectors brought together by Mrs. Finne’s letter. The founding group also included Dr. Russell V. Skavaril and James E. Kraemer. Dr. Parker has edited the South Atlantic Chronicle for the last eighteen years. Mr. Mueller, a frequent contributor to the quarterly, enjoys the distinction of being the only person known to have spent time on all three islands in a calendar year. The hardback 200-page book offers a collection of new, revised and reprinted articles. There are several pages of color photographs of island scenes, including photographs from the RMS St. Helena Tristan da Cunha Quincentenary Cruise. The book presents over forty articles by authors from the United States, England, Scotland, Canada, Australia, Sweden, the Aland Islands and Ascension Island. The authors include well-known names, such as Allan B. Crawford, Edward Hibbert, Trevor Hearl, Alec Page, Russell Skavaril, Rozell Smith and Roland Svennsson. Several distinguished philatelists and individuals with important links to the islands—including Robin Taylor, Ron Burn, Dr. Peter P. McCann, Sybil Innes of Learney, Dr. William L. Mayo, Richard Peck, Dr. Gale J. Raymond, Robert Richardson and Cynthia Solomon—contributed to the book. The topics are diverse, encompassing stamp designs, rare military mail from Ascension Island, scarce UPU cards, rarely seen postal markings, social philately, unique covers, Tin Can Mail at St. Helena, the creation of the Tristan da Cunha Potato Stamp, the first Tristan booklets and loads of island history. Members who have given strong support to the society are spotlighted. There is also a history of the society. Only 200 copies of the book were printed. The book is now sold out. It will not be reprinted. February 1, 2006 (rev. November 2006)
~~~~ Thirty Years of St. Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha Philately Edited by Michael D. Mueller and Dr. Peter
P. McCann
table of content President’s Message
Introduction
How the Society Got Its Name
History of the St. Helena, Ascension and Tristan
da Cunha Philatelic Society
Ascension Island Memories
Thomas Bruce: St. Helena Postmaster and Stamp
Designer
The 1927 Visit of RMSP Asturias to Tristan
da Cunha
A chat with Joy Forsyth Thompson, wife of 1950s
Tristan Administrator
The Last Tin Can Mail?—St. Helena 1968
Allan B. Crawford, MBE – In Service to Tristan da Cunha When potatoes served as postage on Tristan da CunhaFive 19th Century St. Helena Covers Robert C. Deakin, England The discovery of the only known HMS Dorsetshire
cover from Tristan da Cunha
The Ascension Island Post Office
Three South Atlantic Sister Islands: Bouvetoya, Ilha da Trindade and Fernando de Noronha Bouvet Island and FriendsPortraying Saint Helena on St. Helena Postage Stamps Trevor Hearl, England Was Joseph Cole using an unauthorized handstamp
at St. Helena?
Norwegian Visitors to the Waters of Tristan
da Cunha
William Farquharson Burnett, RN, CB, Governor
of Ascension, 1858 – 1861
Views of Ascension, St. Helena and Tristan
da Cunha, including photographs taken during the RMS St. Helena Quincentenary
Cruise to Tristan in 2006
St. Helena’s 1898 U.P.U. Postcards
A Closer Look at the Roland Svensson Views
of Tristan
Quentin Keynes: A life inspired by the postage
stamps of St. Helena
The Diana’s Peak Cachets of St. Helena
The Gough Island Tragedy of 1969
William L. Mayo and the first booklets of Tristan
da Cunha
South Atlantic MemoriesSouth Atlantic Ephemera A selection of Ascension, St. Helena and Tristan Ephemera... Scarce U.S. Military Mail from Ascension
The St. Helena – China Connection
I.D. Lampart’s St. Helena collection exhibited
at Stanley Gibbons
St. Helena historiography, philately and the
“Castella” controversy
In Memory of Dr. Russell V. Skavaril St. Helena’s first adhesive stamp on an 1856 cover to EnglandTristan da Cunha – Life & Times in the 1880s – Visit of HMS Thalia in 1886 Rozell Smith, Canada A Solomon visits the Island of St. Helena
Tristan da Cunha: Life on the tiny island during
the volcano period
Roland Svensson: Swedish Explorer, Painter, Writer and Tristan EnthusiastPhilatelic activity on Tristan da Cunha from 1927 to 1940 Robin Taylor, England The “ship” sets of Ascension and St. Helena:
The plates for the 5d. and 6d.
Appendix A: Table of contents for the South Atlantic Chronicle, January 1996 - October 2005 Appendix B: Recipients of Society Awards Appendix C: Financial support for Thirty Years of St. Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha Philately Appendix D: The Officers of the St. Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha Philatelic Society, 2006 – 2007 Appendix E: Presidents of the Society, 1976 –2006
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