September the 20th (Saturday) from 9.30am to 3pm

 It is this time of the year for our annual Society Stamp Fair 

at Barton Village Hall, 
852 Garstang Road, Barton, Lancashire. PR3 5AZ 

on Saturday 20th September 2025: 9.30am to 3pm.

• Free admission 
• Plenty of free parking alongside the Hall
• Hot and cold refreshments will be available all day 
• with over twenty dealers covering all aspects of philately and stamp collecting.

The City of Preston Philatelic Society will be there, with a table of members material for sale and details about the society and membership.

The Postal History of Preston

 Paul Gaywood Lecture at OLSE Fulwood on the 15th May 2025

 

MEETINGS 2025 update

March 6th	New Acquisitions
March 20th	Ian Williams - Great Britain Postage Dues
April 3rd	Andrew Brooks - Stamps and Postal History of the Third Reich
April 17th	COMPETITIONS
	·  Society Cup - 16 p any topic
	·  Gregson Trophy - 10 p or fewer
	·  Stamps Cusack Trophy - 9 p Thematic
	·  Spencer Trophy - 9 p Postal History
May 1st	Geoff Dyer - Overprinted Stamps of SWA
May 15th	Paul Gaywood Lecture at OLSE Fulwood
May 29th	Barry Evans 150years of UPU
June 12th	Paul Walton "Odd Goings On"
June 26th	The Roger Blackburn Collection
July 10th	A.G.M. and Pizza
September 4th	Members' Evening - up to 10 sheets
September 18th	Eddie Dunn - Something French
October 2nd	Rufus Barnes - Christmas and Easter Islands
October 16th	COMPETITIONS
	·  Roger Blackburn Cup  - 6 p any topic
	·  President Trophy - 1 p Letter N
October 30th	Chris Jackson - Philatelic Journey Through Ancient Histories
November 13th	Postal History - all members
November 27th	Bernard Walmsley - Robins and a Few Turkeys
December 11th	Christmas Event

Chairman Ian Williams, Treasure Chris Jackson
Secretary Bernard Walmsley

What’s it worth ?

     Please note – the Society itself does not purchase or sell stamps, covers, etc. nor do we provide valuations – for this you may care to visit one of the local stamp fairs, held at Barton and Bilsborrow village halls, details of which are on Local Stamp Fairs tab. Participating stamp dealers here may be able to help with these requests – generally the dealer will need to see the collections of stamps to give an advice.   

 To help:

•  Stamps torn off letters over the years and thrown into a shoebox have little commercial value. However if the stamps are still on the envelopes, there just might be some value.
•  British and Worldwide First Day Covers (FDC’s) from the 1970's, 80's and 90's with hand written addresses are generally not of interest, unaddressed might be, depending on collector/dealer (only worth 10p-50p each unless from about 2015 onwards).
•  "School Boy" collections – a kind of collection started by a child, containing odd random stamps off the mail and packets of 100 different, usually are of low value.
• Complete sets of stamps of all countries, Great Britain and British Commonwealth in an album(s), mint (unused) or nicely used stamps, booklets of stamps and similar - might have some value, depending on collector/dealer.

     If you find the value of your collection is low and not worth the effort of taking it to an auction house and would like to donate it to the Society, someone from The City of Preston Philatelic Society could arrange to collect, for the purpose of selling internally to stamp collecting members and donating all funds to the Society. 

    Please leave a name, e-mail address/contact telephone number and are you live and someone from the Society will make a contact.

Philatelic Competitions 2025 (North Western Federation )