Page 22 - 148 Years of the Royal Philatelic Society London

In 1888: British East Africa Company given charter to administer Kenya and Uganda,

Benjamin Harrison elected U.S. President, Jack the Ripper murders in London.

At the PSL: Bacon resigns as Secretary and is presented with a silver tea-tray. C. Neville Biggs

becomes first Librarian and is granted twenty pounds for the purchase and binding of books.

PSL President was Judge F. A. Philbrick. Membership stood at 82.

LOCAL POST IN STOCKHOLM

From the collection of Andrew Riddell.

Member since 2015. Lives in England.

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The Stadspost was set up in 1887 to undercut what were seen as high Post Office rates for the

delivery of local letters within the city of Stockholm. It was suppressed at the behest of the Post

Office on lst October 1889. The unsealed letter rate was 36 and the extra 16 made it up to the

sealed rate of 46. We will never know whether the sender initially franked the letter for the

unsealed rate and changed their mind or was simply using whatever stamps were to hand! Covers

bearing more than one stamp are unusual.