JULY 2016 CL172 Cover Lover The magazine for first day and commemorative cover collectors BEATRIX POTTER 28th July 2016 BC544 £17.95 FDC Club Customers £16.95 Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the birth of Beatrix Potter, this beautiful cover features a painting of Yew Tree Farm and a portrait of Beatrix Potter herself, complementing perfectly the Beatrix Potter character stamps. The stamps are se-tenant pairs and are cancelled with our Yew Tree Farm, Coniston postmark on her birthday, 28.07.2016, the first day of issue. BC544S £26.95 Signed by Patricia Routledge CBE BC544M £16.95 FDC Club Customers £15.95 The miniature sheet features 4 stamps from ‘The Tale of Peter Rabbit’ and we offer it on our pretty cover, designed by Clair especially for the miniature sheet. Cancelled with our FDI ‘watering can’ postmark, London SW5 (where she was born) on her birthday, 28th July. BC544MS £TBC Signed version available, TBC. BC544MB £16.95 The miniature sheet cover featuring the barcoded miniature sheet BC544MBS £TBC Signed barcoded miniature sheet cover More beautiful covers available in the Beatrix Potter issue - see page 3 Apollo 16 Insurance Cover We are very pleased to be able to offer for the first time a stunning Apollo 16 insurance cover signed by the whole crew - John Young, Charlie Duke, and Ken Mattingly. The cover has been postmarked at Kennedy Space Centre on the missions launch day and was part of John Young’s personal collection; as confirmed on the reverse of the cover. This is truly a wonderful cover which would enhance any space collection. SP(A16)01A £3500 £350 per month over 10 months See page 5 for details of our new Tim Peake cover! A word from Brian Dear Collector, As I mentioned above about carrying on, we have our stand already booked at the London 2020 Firstly I must pass on International! One of the covers I did not buy in Cath and Ellie’s thanks for New York was a Benham ‘Do not bend or Crush’ all the cards, letters and envelope, from Hythe at $7.50, which dates it to messages, Tony’s Just before 1985, but I think the dealer would do very Giving page is still open well to sell it, or three other boxes of similar used at www.justgiving.com/ postal envelopes he wanted me to go through. tonybuckingham raising funds for The British Lung Foundation. I thought I would share the fantastic view of the Exhibition Centre (or Center) where I sat and had a A few of you were worried that we would not be terrible sandwich for lunch, I know it’s a hard life. carrying on, and the answer is of course we are. Over the last couple of years Tony had insisted we all step up and we have lots of secret plans for great covers well into next year and beyond. As I write this we have already been discussing how many Gold medals we will win at the Olympics and will they sign for us. At the end of May I was lucky enough to attend the World Stamp Show in New York (yes it was work!). I managed to buy a few nice items some of which will be in the next Cover Lover, after Best wishes travelling thousands of miles, I settled down at my first dealer with a long box of covers, looked up and found a dealer from Liverpool and another collector I had met at Stampex in February, but I guess it was Brian Austin still an International. June 2016 The Buckingham Cover Club Guarantee your covers In 2001 we launched the Buckingham First Day • Each main cover will be automatically reserved Cover series and over the last 15 years we have become world famous for the fantastic signatures • Complete Flexibility we offer to club members. You can make changes to your order at any time • Priority Ordering Each year we produce around 15 British First Day You hear about new issues first Covers, each with a limited edition signed option, Free Albums - Club members join our token scheme so why collect anything else? • which builds towards free albums You can also choose to have other types of cover reserved automatically, like prestige booklet covers, smilers covers etc. TO JOIN TELEPHONE 01303 278137 email: [email protected] OR RETURN THIS FORM TO FREEPOST RRGJ-THAJ-YZAG, Buckingham Covers, Folkestone, Kent CT19 4BF ACCOUNT No (If Known) please use my usual payment method NAME please debit £________ from my credit/debit card number: ADDRESS Expiry Date Security Code: *Last 3 digits on back of POST CODE card. We cannot process your order without it. 2 TEL No: WARREN HOUSE, SHEARWAY ROAD, FOLKESTONE, KENT CT19 4BF CL172 TEL 01303 278137 FAX 01303 279429 email [email protected] Buckingham Silver Email: Signature BEATRIX POTTER CONTINUED 28th July 2016 BC544MA £16.95 The stamps from the miniature sheet sit perfectly on our cover, cancelled with our London postmark FDI . BC544MAS £26.95 Signed by Patricia Routledge CBE. BC544R £16.95 The retail booklet features two of Beatrix Potter’s most iconic characters: Peter Rabbit and Mrs Tiggywinkle. We present the booklet on our lovely 150th Anniversary cover, cancelled with our ‘watering can’ FDI postmark, London SW1, her birthplace. Signing for us: Our covers will be signed by Patricia Routledge CBE, the patron of the Beatrix Potter Society. She also produced a Channel 4 documentary, ‘Beatrix Potter with Patricia Routledge’. Set of 4 covers, each featuring a pane from the prestige stamp booklet. BC544PSB £63.80 Set of 4 covers postmarked on the first day of issue with mixed postmarks. BC544PSB2 £63.80 Set of 4 covers, postmarked with our own handstamps. History in the making EU REFERENDUM 24th June 2016 On the 23rd June 2016 a referendum took place and Britain voted to leave the European Union. To mark this historic occasion we have produced this stunning cover. Featuring a Union Jack Flag blowing in the breeze, with a 1st class Union Jack Flag stamp. Postmarked on the day of the result with a Royal Mail, London SW1 postmark (24th June, 2016) BCSP40 £9.95 CL172 www.buckinghamcovers.com 3 MUSIC GIANTS 7th July 2016 Celebrating British Rock Legends PINK FLOYD 10 years ago, musician and Pink Floyd co-founder Syd Barrett passed away. To commemorate him and the remarkable achievements of this ground breaking, iconic British group, Royal Mail will be releasing a set of six stamps on 7th July. Each stamp features the artwork of the band’s most famous albums - Piper at the Gates of Dawn, Atom Heart Mother, Dark Side of the Moon, Animals, Wish You Were Here and The Endless River. Clair has designed this tribute cover BC543 £17.95 Unsigned Bob Harris combining the distinctive landmark of Renowned music presenter Bob Harris, FDC Club Customers £16.95 Battersea Power station and the rainbow, best known for being a host of the BBC2 famously used on the Animals and Dark Side BC543S £26.95 Signed by Bob Harris music programme The Old Grey Whistle cover artwork. It features the full set of six Test, and as a co-founder of the listings stamps and our special Pink Green postmark. magazine Time Out. There will also a be a miniature sheet celebrating Pink Floyd’s prowess as a live act featuring images from famous tours such as The Wall and the Division Bell. Our miniature sheet cover 7 July 2016 features our special Floyd Road postmark. MUSIC GIANTS Floyd Road London SE7 FDC Club Customers £15.95 BC543M £16.95 Signed by Mark Ellen BC543MS £26.95 7 July 2016 MUSIC Barcoded miniature sheet BC543MB £16.95 GIANTS Floyd Road London SE7 Signed by Bob Harris BC543MBS £26.95 Mark Ellen 7 July 2016 Editor, journalist and broadcaster Mark Ellen wrote for, MUSIC GIANTS Floyd Road among others, NME and Smash Hits. He was launch Editor London SE7 for music magazines ‘Q’, Select and Mojo. He has presented ‘Whistle Test’ and co presented Live Aid in 1985. BC543MA £16.95 Stamps from the miniature sheet Signed by Mark Ellen BC543MAS £26.95 The Beatles The 5th August this year sees the 50th Anniversary of the release of Yellow Submarine. We mark the date with our very own Beatles cover featuringArtists a Yellow impression Submarine stamp from the 2007 Beatles miniature sheet. This will be the first in a set of 4 covers celebrating key dates in the next year. 4 WARREN HOUSE, SHEARWAY ROAD, FOLKESTONE, KENT CT19 £10.954BF perCL172 cover TEL 01303 278137 FAX 01303 279429 email [email protected] our Beatles Club - Quote BCBE Tim Peake fantastic treble postmarked cover! On the 18th June Tim Peake returned BCU03 £13.95 to Earth after 185 days 22 hours 11 minutes in space. Peake was launched to the International Space Station (ISS), on 15 December 2015, for Expeditions 46 and 47. He launched successfully at 11:03 GMT from Baikonur Cosmodrome on board Soyuz TMA-19M. On the 15th Jan we postmarked the cover for his space walk, then, adding Isle of Man ISS stamp with a special IOM postmark for his return. Also Available BCU05A £9.95 The 18th May was the 25th LIMITED EDITION Anniversary since Helen Sharman became the first Briton BCU01 £9.95 Postmarked on the 50th anniversary of the first space in space as well as the first woman to visit the Mir space walk by Alexey Leonov, 18th March 2015. This cover features a Firework station in 1991. stamp and special commemorative cachet.