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Who's who in the Astro Space Stamp Society

Chairperson - Ian Ridpath,

Ian has been a full-time writer and broadcaster on astronomy and space since 1972 and is editor of the Oxford Dictionary of Astronomy. He has to his credit over 40 book titles as author or editor including the Collins Guide to Stars and Planets, a standard field guide for amateur astronomers; The Monthly Sky Guide, a month-by-month introduction to the stars; and Gem Stars, a pocket guide to the constellations. This year he received the Klumpke-Roberts Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific for "outstanding contributions to the public understanding and appreciation of astronomy".

E-mail:ian(at)ianridpath.com

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Peter Talbot-Ashby

Peter is the immediate past editor of Orbit and was appointed chairman in autumn 1995. He has been an avid collector of just about everything since, as a young boy, he collected bits of shrapnel from the streets of Morden in Surrey. His collection includes covers, cards, photographs and autographs. He collects purely for his own interests and does not exhibit. He now lives in Hintlesham, Suffolk.

E-mail: aroco(at)tesco.net

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Postal Auction Organiser - David Saunders

David has recently retired early, to spend more time on his collection of Autographed Covers. His main interest is Crew Signed Space Covers, but he also collects Political, Film & Theatre, Heads of State and Inventors and Designers autographed covers. He is an Autograph Consultant for Tony Buckingham’s ‘Internet Stamps’, and regularly visits Folkestone to inspect their newly bought stock of signed material.
He has written several articles for ‘Autograph Magazine’ and the ‘Collect British First Day Covers’ catalogue. He won a Stampex Silver medal in the 2001 Astrophilately Class with his display of ‘Manned Russian Space Flights’, and often gives talks and displays of his collection to local Philatelic Societies.

E-mail: davidsaunders1(at)hotmail.co.uk

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Editor of Orbit - Jeff Dugdale

Jeff is a school teacher and lives in Elgin, Scotland. Apart from collecting space he has a keen interest in stamps on The Cinema, English Literature and European Literature. He contributes occasional

articles to 'Spaceflight', 'Topical Time', 'The Astrophile' and 'Capcom'. President, Moray P.S.

E-mail: jefforbited(at)aol.com

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Hon. Secretary - Brian Lockyer

Brian Lockyer has been Hon Secretary since 1993 and as such is one of the busiest members of the Society regularly dealing with competition entries and applications to join. He began collecting stamps as a schoolboy but rekindled his interest on being de-mobbed from the Army and he caught the space stamp bug in the 1960s, since when he has amassed a large collection but never can find the time to do it justice.

E-mail: b.lockyer365(at)btinternet.com

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Webmaster - Derek Clarke

Derek is from New Zealand and has been collecting stamps since the early 60's. At that time I collected every stamp I could get, but that soon went out the door and I then started my New Zealand collection. In the late 60's I saw a TV programme called Star Trek and I was hooked and I'm still a Star Trek fan today. I started to collect space stamps and I get great joy and pleasure out of my New Zealand and Space collections.

E-mail: dclarke36(at)gmail.com

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Some well known members

Pierre Bauduin - Editor of the WEEBAU Catalogue - Belgium.
Charles Bromser - Australia - Avid collector/exhibitor of Rocket Mails, philatelic writer, Member the FIP Astro Commission. E-Mail: chaste@switchboard.net
Bert van Eijck - Well known Dutch stamp journalist.
Juergen P. Esders - German astrophilatelist and space journalist.
George Fox - Editor of the forthcoming Gibbons publication - Collect Space Stamps.
Dr. Ross Smith - Australian expert on covers for Challenger Disaster.
A.W. Swanston - British philatelic writer.
George Spiteri and Mike Lewis - Fellows of the British Interplanetary Society.

 

 

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