A.S.S.S. Info

Who's who in the Astro Space Stamp Society

Chairperson - Margaret Morris

As members will know Margaret Morris of Glasgow received the honour of becoming Distinguished Topical Philatelist - the first person outside North America to be so acclaimed - during PACIFIC 97 held in San Francisco in late May/early June. Margaret also gave the keynote address at an ATA sponsored breakfast during the exhibition. However, the following text about Margaret is taken from the Stamp 97 brochure Ladies Displays. Margaret was displaying "Greenland" and "Sky Wonders" at this exhibition held in London in late April.

Margaret Morris FRPSL started collecting nearly sixty years ago whilst at school and as a hobby it proved ideal during prolonged periods of ill health. While primarily known for interest and accomplishments in thematic philately -she has collections covering Astronomy, Man and the Whale and Pre-Columbian Art, Margaret also has a traditional collection of Greenland.

As might be expected from her long enthusiasm for philately she has become very involved with local societies in her native Scotland but also belongs to the NPS, the RPSL, as well (as) to many other organisations, a number specifically concerned with thematic philately such as the American Topical Association, the BTA, the Captain Cook Study Unit and the Philatelic Music Circle.

E-mail : mmorris671(at)aol.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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Treasurer / Compiler of Checklist - Harvey Duncan

Harvey is a retired Principal Teacher of Guidance who currently lives in Falkirk, Scotland. He is a former President of Falkirk PS and still an active committee member, exhibitor and judge. In addition to space themes he collects all the issues of St. Lucia, the Tokelau Islands and The Isle of Man.

E-mail: duncan1975(at)btinternet.com

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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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Features Editor - John Berry

John Berry, Features Editor of Orbit, is a retired police fingerprint expert, having served in the police in Northern Ireland. He is a writer of sci-fi stories and also edits Fingerprint Whorld, the journal for fingerprint experts. He is a talented artist and is responsible for several airmail labels and cachets made available to members. John regularly contributes items to Orbit and has a very keen interest in the German A4/V2 project based in Peenemunde before and during WWII.

E-mail: diane(at)berry11.freeserve.co.uk

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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: dclarke(at)utvinternet.com

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Some well known members

Pierre Bauduin - Editor of the WEEBAU Catalogue - Belgium.
John Berry - Features Editor and expert on A4/V2 history on stamps.
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.
Yuri Kvasnikov - Celebrated Russian philatelic writer.
Mohammed Safder - President of the Saudi Arabian Philatelic Society.
Dr. Ross Smith - Australian expert on covers for Challenger Disaster.
A.W. Swanston - British philatelic writer.
Francis Kiddle - British philatelic writer and exhibitor.
Beatrice Bachmann - Internationally known Swiss exhibitor and judge.
Rex Hall, George Spiteri and Mike Lewis - All Fellows of the British Interplanetary Society.

 

 

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