May 2018 The Portfolio Issue 8 SPM08 Signed SGA092 £600 £120 per month for 5 months Set of 10 Multi-signed 1968 single stamp Anniversary covers (mainly TUC with a few Votes for Women). Signatures include Dorothy Hodgkin, Vic Feather, Jimmy Knapp & Tom Jackson John Edmonds is a former trade union official in the United Kingdom. On graduation, Rodney Kevan Bickerstaffe (1945 -2017) was a British trade unionist. He he found work as a research assistant with the National Union of General and was General Secretary of the National Union of Public Employees (1982-1993) Municipal Workers, moving on to become a field officer, then a National Industrial and UNISON (1996-2001), Britain’s largest trade union at the time. He later Officer. In 1986, Edmonds became General Secretary of the union, by then known became president of the UK National Pensioners Convention (2001-2005). as the GMB. In this role, he became known as a critic of Tony Blair’s leadership of the Elizabeth Conway Symons, Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean, PC is a Labour Party. He stood down as leader in 2003, one year ahead of schedule. British politician and former General Secretary of the FDA Trade Union and John Stephen Monks, Baron Monks is a Labour Co-operative member of the a Minister of State. She was created a Labour life peer as Baroness Symons House of Lords and was the General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress of Vernham Dean, of Vernham Dean in the County of Hampshire on 7 October (TUC) in the UK from 1993 until 2003, when he became the General Secretary 1996. From 2010, Baroness Symons has served as the Chairman of the Arab of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC). British Chamber of Commerce (ABCC). Victor Grayson Hardie Feather, Baron Feather, CBE (1908 -1976) was General Doug McAvoy is a retired British trade union leader. He was General Secretary Secretary of the Trade Union Congress in Great Britain from 1969 to 1973. of the National Union of Teachers from 1989 to 2004. A teacher, McAvoy was James Knapp (1940 -2001) was a British trades unionist. He was successively secretary of Newcastle-upon-Tyne NUT and became a member of the National General Secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen (NUR) from 1983, and Executive of the Union in 1970. He was appointed Deputy General-Secretary then of the merged National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers designate in 1974, a post he held until 1989 when he became the first directly (RMT) from 1990 to his death in 2001. He served on the executive board of the elected General Secretary in 1989. International Transport Workers’ Federation from 1983 to 2001, the General Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin OM FRS FRIC (1910 - 1994) was a British Council of the Trades Union Congress from 1983 to 2001, and was President chemist who developed protein crystallography, for which she won the Nobel of the Trades Union Congress in 1994. Prize in Chemistry in 1964. Why not spread the cost of your order using FlexiPay ? FlexiPay is a great way of getting covers or collections that you want but can’t pay the full amount straight away. It’s simple and INTEREST FREE. Simply divide the total by up to 12 months. Our minimum monthly payment is £10. We will then hold your order safely for you. Talk to any of our team to find a payment plan that suits you. tel: 01303 278137 | email: [email protected] Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent Ct19 4BF Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] SGA001N £110 £22 per month for 5 months 80th Anniversary of the First Aeroplane Flight in Britain. Signed by Richard Todd, Michael Denison, George Cole, Joanna Lumley, Dulcie Gray, and Sir Richard Attenborough. W H Auden was an Anglo-American poet and is frequently held to be one of the 20th century’s greatest writers. He also wrote plays, librettos, and hundreds of essays on literary, theological and psychological themes. His poems have become a significant part of popular culture since his passing, most notably with his poem “Funeral Blues”, which gained renewed fame after being read in the film “Four Weddings and a Funeral”. He completed over 400 poems during his life, including two that were book length. 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She stayed at the top of the British theatrical profession throughout her career, with highlights including the Three Sisters (1937), The Heiress (1949), Antony and Cleopatra (1953), The Taming of the Shrew (1960), The War of the Roses, and the Royal Shakespeare Company’s massive landmark compendium of the three Henry VI Sir Frederick Ashton signed 50th Anniversary of the Royal Academy of plays and Richard III, directed by Peter Hall for the RSC in 1963. A perfect cover Dancing cover to house a British Theatre icon. Dame Peggy Ashcroft, signed 1982 Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Theatre cover SGA055A £100 £25 per month for 4 months (BOCS(2)11) SGA017A £150 £30 per month for 5 months IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A PARTICULAR SIGNATURE PLEASE LET US KNOW! 01303 278137 CALL TODAY! EMAIL: [email protected] Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent Ct19 4BF 2 Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] SPM08 SGA022K £400 £100 per month for 4 months Wilbert Vere Awdry, OBE (1911-1997) was an English Anglican cleric, railway enthusiast, and children’s author. Better known as the Reverend W. Awdry, he was the creator of Thomas the Tank Engine, the central figure in his Railway Series. 22nd January 1985 set of 5 Benham small silk rail covers, each one signed by Rev. W Awdry Caroline Mary Aherne was an English comedian and BAFTA-winning writer and actress, best known for performing as the acerbic chat show host Mrs Merton, various roles in the The Fast Show, and as the lead role in the The Royle Family, which she also co-wrote. She was also known for narrating the Channel 4 reality television series Gogglebox, a role she held from its inception in 2013 until she became too ill in April 2016. Caroline Aherne, signed 1978 25th Anniversary of the Coronation Post Office cover with London SW1 FDI postmark £30 per month for 5 months SGA088A £150 1977 Wildlife, full set carried cover, Port Lympne postmark signed by John Aspinall, founder of Howletts & Port Lympne wildlife parks SGA073A £100 £20 per month for 5 months Louis Charles Joseph Blèriot (1872- 1936) was a French aviator, inventor and engineer. He developed the first practical headlamp for cars and established a profitable business manufacturing them, using much of the money he made to finance his attempts to build a successful aircraft. In 1909 he became world-famous for making the first flight across the English Channel, winning the prize of £1,000 offered by the Daily Mail newspaper. BlÈriot was also the first to make a working, powered, piloted monoplane and was the founder of a successful aircraft manufacturing company. Louis Blèriot signed 6 x 9.5’ album page with French stamp affixed honouring him, very clear signature, scarce £99.50 per month for 10 months SGB097D £995 Lloyd Bridges signed 1976 UN cover SGB100A£100 £10 per month for 10 months www.buckinghamcovers.com 3 Peter Blake & Quentin Blake signed 1990 Royal Mail cover for the Penny Black anniversary. SGB109J £100 £20 per month for 5 months Anthony Frederick Blunt (1907-1983), known as Sir Anthony Blunt, KCVO, from 1956 to 1979, was Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures and a leading British art historian who in 1964, after being offered immunity from prosecution, confessed to having been a Soviet spy. His confession, a closely held secret for many years, was revealed publicly by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in November 1979. He was stripped of his knighthood immediately thereafter. Anthony Blunt signed handwritten letter dated July 7th on University of London headed paper £75 per month for 10 months SGB212 £750 Terence Cuneo, OBE, was an English painter. He is best known for his portrayals of the British railway as well as military action, but also painted landscapes and famous portraits too. His big break came when he was appointed official artist for the Coronation of Elizabeth II. Cuneo’s trademark is to include a small mouse hidden somewhere in his paintings. The statue of him (originally unveiled in Waterloo Station concourse), honours this - a mouse peers out from beneath a book at his feet, and another is carved into the plinth. The statue now stands at Brompton Barracks, Chatham, home to the Royal Engineers. Terence Cuneo, signed 1989 Industrial Architecture East Pool Whim cover (BLCS44). Dame Barbara Cartland, DBE, CStJ was an author of romance novels, one of the best- SGC022G £150 £30 per month for 5 months selling authors as well as one of the most prolific and commercially successful worldwide of the twentieth century. Her 723 novels were translated into 38 languages and she continues to be referenced in the Guinness World Records for the most novels published in a single year in 1976.