Page 128 - 148 Years of the Royal Philatelic Society London

In 1993: Maastricht Treaty creates EU; Vaclav Havel elected Czech President; Michael

Jackson accused of child sex charges; Audrey Hepburn, Frederico Fellini and Frank Zappa die.

At the RPSL: Mrs Ad lndusphon donates £5,000 towards preservation of Perkins Bacon

archive. World revenue stamp display by Revenue Society of G.B.

RPSL President was Charles Goodwyn. Patron H.M. Queen Elizabeth II.

Membership 1591-1552.

GREAT BRITAIN:

FORGED 24p MACHIN POSTALLY USED

From the collection of Richard Husband FRPSL.

Member since 2010. Lives in England.

Royal Mail's change of policy permitting very small shops to sell stamps made it easier for these

forgeries to be sold in London from around the beginning of June 1993. Intended to deceive the

postal authorities, the stamps were printed by lithography instead of gravure and on non-

phosphorised paper instead of phosphorised (Advanced Coated) paper. They were line perforated 11

instead of rotary perf 15 x 14. A cover just bearing this forged first class stamp should have been

rejected by Royal Mail's automatic sorting machinery because the stamp had not been printed on

Advanced Coated Paper.