The Museum Of Philatelic History & Rpsl Library

There's still space for the Heritage Open Days guided tour on Sunday 9th September.
Email museum@rpsl.org.uk or call 0207 486 1044, Option 3 to book your place.

There's still space for the Heritage Open Days guided tour on Friday 7th September.
Email museum@rpsl.org.uk or call 0207 486 1044, Option 3 to book your place.

Don't miss your chance to see our 'Women in Philately' exhibition which closes on Friday 20th July.
Full details including how to arrange a visit can be found on the website: http://www.rpsl.org.uk/museum.asp.

Medal Monday
Today's medal is the Third Award medal awarded by the American Topical Association (A.T.A) at the Sarasota National Stamp Exhibition in Florida, 2004.

It’s been a busy day as we start to dismantle the Permanent Display ready for our last Temporary Exhibition at No. 41 Devonshire Place.

Medal Monday
Today's medal is the Award of Excellence medal awarded by the American Philatelic Society. It was donated to the Museum in 2012 by Francis Kiddle RDP Hon FRPSL.

Apologies for the break in our glass plate negative collection posts but we've had to take a short interlude while we stock up on more conservation supplies.
Here's a selection from a box of 81 lantern slides about the Cayman Islands.

Medal Monday
Today's medal is the City of London Philatelic Society Brandt prize awarded to Mrs Doris M. Green for her display on Saar Booklets.

Medal Monday
Today's medal is the silver Bepitec Belgium medal awarded to Harry Green in 1949.

Today was #bringyourdogtoworkday! Here’s Lola enjoying the displays and having a look at the enormous library.

Today we start cleaning and repackaging our bound archive collection for the move. This week we are working on the Society’s Minute Books dating from 1876.
But don’t worry, we are still available for research visits and enquiries, and the collection is still available for consultation.

Medal Monday
Today's medal is the IMABA 1948 gold medal awarded to Sir Nicholas Waterhouse KBE for his USA display at the International Philatelic Exhibition in Basel, Switzerland.

Here's another selection from Harry Green's Belgium 5FR 1878 Forgery Study. All 39 slides have now been digitised, cleaned and repackaged ready for the move.

Here's a wonderful selection of lantern slides from Harry Green's 'Belgium 5FR 1878 Forgery Study'.

Medal Monday
Today's medal is the gold medal awarded to Alma Lee, Jury Secretariat, at Stamp World London 1990.
Alma Lee is one of the female members of The Royal Philatelic Society London highlighted in our current exhibition, 'Women in Philately'. The exhibition runs until the 20th July. For more information, visit our website: http://www.rpsl.org.uk/museum.asp.

Medal Monday
Today's medal is the British Air Mail Society's bronze medal awarded to C.W.E. Coles in 1979.

The end of another great week repackaging and digitising the glass plate negative collection. Here are some beauties we uncovered.

Medal Monday
Today's medal is the A.P.S. Writers Unit No.30 silver medal awarded to W. Alec Page FRPSL at Stampshow '96 in Orlando.
William Page (1921-1997), joined the Society in 1954 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Philatelic Society London in 1966.

It's the end of our seventh week repackaging and digitising the glass plate negative collection. We have completed 250 glass plates with many more to go. Here's some to enjoy over the bank holiday weekend!

suggest those who are interested in philatelic history to visit the Royal!

This is a great Museum! The Curator is very helpful, and the range of things they have, going all the way back through the history of stamp collecting and organised philately is just amazing. Anyone wanting to research the Society's archives or the items in the museum just needs to tell the Curator at the time they arrange their visit, and then the items are made available. Such nice personalised attention!

suggest those who are interested in philatelic history to visit the Royal!

This is a great Museum! The Curator is very helpful, and the range of things they have, going all the way back through the history of stamp collecting and organised philately is just amazing. Anyone wanting to research the Society's archives or the items in the museum just needs to tell the Curator at the time they arrange their visit, and then the items are made available. Such nice personalised attention!