Epping Forest & District Stamp Club (formed 1943).

Welcome

Our next meeting is Tuesday.  November 12th.  Featuring Len Stanway presenting on Singapore Postage

MEETINGS

Most meetings are held at the MainHall, Roding Valley High School, Loughton. IG10 3JA (we sometimes meet in the Music room)

Come in off Alderton Hill, facing the main entrance, to the left is a sign for staff car parking, take that and look for the main hall to your right, white windows, and a blue door. The Music room is to the left of the main hall up a slope.


Tuesday evening meetings 7:45pm for 8pm start, meetings end about 9:45pm

Saturday auctions viewing from 2pm, auction starts 3.00 pm

PROGRAMME

2024

  • Tuesday.  October 8th.          Featuring Stan Challis presenting Irish Postal History

  • Tuesday.  November 12th.  Featuring Len Stanway presenting on Singapore Postage

  • Tuesday. December 10th.    Featuring "Tools of the Trade" presentation and Xmas drinks & nibbles 

2025

  • Saturday. January 25th.         GRAND AUCTION: Viewing from 2pm.  Auction starts at 3pm

  • Tuesday February 11th.          Featuring Chris & Birthe King presenting Aspects of Danish postal history.

  • Tuesday. March 11th.               Featuring Cliff Cashman presenting subject TBC

  • Tuesday. April 8th.                     All Members. Combined competition evening (except the Kimber Trophy), now                                                                  at AGM. Also Closing Date for the June auction lots 

  • Tuesday. May 13th                    Kimber Trophy letters X, Y & Z. Annual General Meeting and Bring & Buy

  • Saturday. June 14th                  GRAND AUCTION: Viewing from 2pm. Auction starts at 3pm.

Competition Rules
Forest Trophy: This consists of a minimum of 8 and a maximum of 16 sheets. Each entry is to cover, Postal History, Postal Stationary or Postcards
Forest Cup: This consists of a minimum of 8 and a maximum of 16 sheets. Each entry is to cover a Single Country Exhibit or a Closely Connected Group of Countries.
Thematic Trophy: This consists of a minimum of 8 and a maximum of 16 sheets. Each entry is to be a Themed in stamps of a Specific Subject.
A E JONES SALVER: This consists of a single sheet of Philatelic Interest.
H E KIMBER TROPHY: This consists of a maximum of 8 sheets. Each entry is to be based on a Letter(s) printed in the Club's programme.

  • Each member may only enter a single entry into each class

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Benefits of membership

  • Meetings with guest speakers
  • Beginners welcome
  • Circulating stamp packets
  • Competitions
  • Auctions


IMPORTANT DATES FOR YOUR DIARY: 2024-2025
AUTUMN STAMPEX. 23rd -26th October 2024.
STAMPERSHAM           22th Oct 2023, 10am-3:30pm, Chiltern Lifestyle Center, HP5 5AH (5min walk from Amersham Station) 13 dealer

EUROPHILEX                  7th - 11th May 2025. NEC Birmingham


Chairman Colin Banfield makes his presentation on the earliest mail in the Epping Forest Area

The Loughton town Mayor shown exhibits by Stuart Henderson

The Royal Mail’s very own Mail Rail that, up to 2003, linked underground most of London’s major mainline stations with the Central London sorting office at Mount Pleasant