Czechout

Journal of the Czechoslovak Philatelic Society of Great Britain

Our library contains a complete run and the indexes. The numbering is 'issue/year'.

Issue 3/1986: Russian FPOs during the Austro-Russian campaign in Hungary in 1849 (with historical background)

Issue 3/1989: Carpatho-Ukraine mail; Czech (anti-Austrian) army in Siberia in WWI

Issue 4/1989: postal rate changing dates;

Issue 3/1990: Czechs and the Austrian field post 1914-18 (12pp)

Issue 4/1990: the first postcard; FPO46.

Issue 1/1991: the first postcard: its regulations

Issue 2/1991: Cross-[Czechoslovak]-border TPOs 1850 to 1988

Issue 3/1991: C-b TPOs part 2; Austro-Hungarian Navy field post 1914-18 (9pp)

Issue 4/1991: C-b TPOs part 3

Issue 1/1992: Postal history of Czechoslovakia to 1850 (10pp); C-b TPOs part 4

Issue 2/1992: C-b TPOs part 5

Issue 4/1992: Hyperinflation in Mitteleuropa

Issue 1/1993: [a polemic on] Postal History

Issue 2/1993: Hlučin; polemic cont

Issue 3/1993: Transatlantic air mail routes; Hlučin concl.

Issue 4/1993: Prussian occupation of Brünn 1866; field post of Austro-Hungarian river fleet in WWI

Issue 1/1994: Austrian-Prussian war 1866

Issue 1/1997: Payment of invoices via the post office; dumb cancels

Issue 4/1998: the districts of Prague and were

Issue 1/1999: Postal history of Hlučin/Hultschin.

Issue 2/1999: Hlučin (cont)

Issue 3/1999: Hlučin (cont); Prague pneumatic mail.

Issue 4/1999: Postal evolution in Hlučín (concl.); the Prague local posts.

Issue 1/2000: Pardubice overprints.

Issue 2/2000: Pardubice overprints (cont)

Issue 3/2000 (their 100th!): Austrian cancel commemorating the 1-day issue by Czechoslovakia for Carpatho-Ukraine; 100th anniversary of the still-used Prague pneumatic mail system.

Issue 4/2000: 2001 programme; meeting reports; book reviews; post-1918 articles etc

Issue 2/2001: Formation of Czech FPO Section of Union of Czech Philatelists (will also include the former Yugoslavia; coverage includes the WWI period); Czech TPOs part III; 1919 essays; and of course much else from modern times.

Issue 3/2001: Essays from 1919; TPOs and Pardubice; Sudetenland in 1938 (with office list); new issues; etc

Issue 4/2001: Essays from 1919; Interesting 1919 cover from Ciezin; Q'n'As and a list of those Questions still unanswered!; etc

Issue 1/2002: Siberian Legion material 'enhanced' (some illustrated in colour!); bisected 20H Karl; oddly marked 1887 card from Olmutz; etc

Issue 2/2002: Stamp shops in Prague; much of Czech and Slovak interest.

Issue 3/2002: fake Czech Legion stamps; Eastern Silesia 1918-20; many coloured illustrations.

Issue 4/2002: Meetings; letters; notes-from-pubs; Czech POW mail to/from Italy in 1917-19; Q&A; much on Czechoslovak Legions in WWI; many coloured illustrations.

Issue 1/2003: CPSGB 50th Anniversary: display in May at the Czech Embassy [the accompanying handbook describes the 140 frames they showed]; meetings; letters; notes-from-pubs; Monograph vol 20 on Post Office Names; 14 pages of illustrated articles on German WWII censorship including reference to Viennese practice [interesting divergences of opinion!]; etc

Issue 2/2003: [although numbered 1/2003] meetings; letters; notes-from-pubs; lengthy list of web sites of Czech/Slovak philatelic relevance; Railway Post to be phased out; more on 'German WWII censorship including reference to Viennese practice'; etc

Issue 3/2003: useful notes-from-pubs and book reviews; 3^rd & final part on "German WWII censorship including reference to Viennese practice"; pneumatic mail in Vienna & Prague

Issue 4/2003: meeting notes and book reviews; pneumatic mail in Vienna & Prague; WWII Airgraphs; Czech Republic's PTOs in 1999; Registration labels post-WWII; Q&A; new issues

Issue 1/2004: meeting notes and book reviews; "how accurate are historic records of perfs?"; review of "Rainer II"; reviews of vols 1 & 3 of "Cinderella Stamps of Bohemia & Czechoslovakia" much of post-WWI interest including a long article on pictures allegedly hidden in stamp designs; the German Enclave of Southern Moravia (by Sal Rizza); Q&A; new issues. With 2003's index.

Issue 2/2004: meeting notes and book reviews; UK national archives; much of post-WWI interest; Q&A; new issues.

Issue 3/2004: meeting notes and book reviews, including one of a book on the "AR" system; folded business postcards; the Budapest postal museum.

Issue 4/2004: meeting notes, auction reports, and book reviews; Sindelfingen 2004; the Royal Mail archive; expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia in 1945-48; Swedish & Budapest postal museums; Q&A; new issues

Issue 1/2005: meeting notes, auction reports, and book reviews; Petr Ginz;exhibition of forgeries in the Prague Postal Museum; ex-kuk battleships; the varied names of Deutsch Gabel; 1930s foreign airmail (some routes also carried Austrian airmail); Q&A; new issues.

Issue 2/2005: meeting notes, auction reports, and book reviews (including our Pneumatic Post!); Brno 2005 exhibition; 200th anniversary of Austerlitz; Nemecké Jablonné aliases; Czech and Slovak Republics Postal Museums; Vienna Military Museum; and as always much of great but purely post-WWI interest. Appendix: library listing update.

Issue 3/2005: meeting notes etc; posting of valuable items (eg cash), home and abroad, 1918-39; questions and answers; and much else of interest.

Issue 4/2005: meeting notes etc; the Austrian 1916/19 issue (in colour!), with its forgeries and overprints; interesting documents; posting of valuable items: JLW's illustrated comments; questions and answers; and as always much else of interest.

Issue 1/2006: meeting notes etc; the Austrian 1916/19 issue (in colour!) continued; posting of valuable items: JLW's illustrated comments; questions and answers; and as always much else of interest.

Issue 2/2006: meeting & society notes etc; 1938 Czech armed forces insignia (in colour!); Polish WWII POWs in Slovakia; the Soviet-era system for controlling stamp exchanges; questions and answers; and much else.

Issue 3/2006: reports of meetings and of Washington 2006; book reviews; news of current and deceased members; new issues; many short non-Austrian articles.

Issue 4/2006: reports of meetings and awards gained by members; book reviews; Czech forces in Russia in WWI; new issues; many non-Austrian articles.

Issue 1/2007: reports of meetings; book reviews; post-WWI Silesian plebiscite stamps (esp. Teschen); the Vienna Technical Museum; techniques of stamp printing; new issues; etc.

Issue 4/2007: Reports of meetings and of exchange-journal articles; book reviews; parcel card stickers; 'International mails in wartime' and similar articles from the 1945-8 UPU Magazine including the Austria-Czechoslovakia agreement effective 1.1.1947.

Issue 1/2008: Reports of meetings and of exchange-journal articles; book reviews; Postex-2007; The Break-up of Austria-Hungary

Issue 2/2008: Reports of meetings (one covers Czechoslovakia border closure in 1919 etc) and of exchange-journal articles.

Issue 3/2008: Reports of meetings and of exchange-journal articles; Ležáky, another Lidice; the East Bohemia 1945 Overprint (and fakes thereof).

Issue 4/2008: Reports of exhibitions at Prague and at the Czech Embassy; and of meetings and of exchange-journal articles; Czech army fieldpost and the BBC; Slovak army 1939-45. Supplement: Complete Index to Czechout, vols 1-25, 1975-2007.

Issue 1/2009: Much of interest from WWII and later; Q&A; etc.

Issue 2/2009: News'n'views; Q&A; Slovak Army in WWII (lovely map!); etc.

Issue 3/2009: Weekend-meeting report; News'n'views; Q&A; Czech FDCs from 1947; SO1920 overprints; Box 252, New York; Carpatho-Ukraine (includes a useful summary of its history); etc.

C.P.S.G.B. Monographs

Some are in our library.

Monograph 1: 'Czechoslovak Army And Air Force In Exile 1939-1945' & Supplement by W.A.Page FRPSL (1981 & 1982) (1994 re-issue in a single volume)

Monograph 3: 'Posta Ceskoslovensko Overprints' (1985) by Roy A.Dehn FRPSL (1994 re-issue)

Monograph 4: 'Carpatho Ukraine-Postalmarkings 1938-1945' (1985) by Juan E Page, Madrid (1994 re-issue)

Monograph 5: 'Czechoslovak Army In France' & Supplement by Roy E Reader (1987 & 1992) (1994 re-issue in a single volume)

Monograph 6: 'German Occupation Of Sudetenland 1938' (1988) by W.A.Dawson (1994 re-issue)

Publication 7: 'Index Of Articles On Czechoslovak Philately' (1989) by James Negus (1994 re-issue)

Monograph 8: 'Occupation of Czechoslovak Frontier Territories (1988) by Beck's Poland from the Postal History viewpoint' by Jirl Neumann. Cz Republic (1994 reprint)

Monograph 9: 'The Field Post Of The Czechoslovak & (1991) Allied Forces In Russia 1918-1920'. an anthology compiled by W.A.Page FRPSL (1994 re-issue)

Monograph 10: 'The 25th Anniversary Of Czechoslovak Independence (1996) - The 1943 London Exhibitions' by V J Kraliček & W A Page

Monograph 11: 'The Sokols in Philately - Postal (1996) Commemorative Postmarks & Postcards' by Brian C.Day

Monograph 12: 'Military Cards of the exiled Czechoslovak Forces in France and Great Britain (1939-45) by V J Kraliček and the late W A Page. Brings together a detailed listing of, and the background to, the Military Postal Cards provided for the Czechoslovak Forces in their exile. Many illustrations. Coloured front cover & 30pp b/w.

Monograph 13:, by Robert Bradford: The Hradčany Issue 1918-1920. vii+33pp A4 including 2 pages of colour illustrations. The many varieties are described, illustrated and listed. The 'impossible sun' is explained!

Monograph No. 14 The Liberation Of Olomouc May 1945. This is, published by the Czechoslovak Philatelic Society of Great Britain. Its scope is "Postal Arrangements, Including Local And Revolutionary Overprint Issues" and the author is Robert J Hill. 52 pages, several in colour. Price Ł10. The contents include foreword & preface, reviews of the historic background, and detailed sections on Post Offices, Cancellers, Registration and express labels, the overprints, and subsequent issues.

Monograph no 15: The Postal History Of The Free Czechoslovak Forces In Great Britain: 1940- 1945 by Richard Beith. This gives a detailed picture of the postal arrangements made for the Free Czechoslovak Forces (soldiers and airmen) in Great Britain from summer 1940 onwards. The 11 main sections include: The Escape from France; Military locations; Depots and Training centres; the Military Field Post; Registration; Censorship; Overseas mail; Commemorative postmarks and Czechoslovaks in the RAF. Included in the seven appendices are lists of patriotic postcards, and patriotic folders. This A4 publication runs to approx. 100 pages and is well illustrated. There are eight pages in colour and a full list of references. This work is intended to complement Roy Reader's monograph No 5 which covers the periods in France, 1939-40 and 1944-45.

Monograph no 16: "The Czechoslovak Legion in Poland and Russia 1939-1941; and Czechoslovaks in the Middle East 1940-1943" by the late Dr Vratislav Palkoska and Otto Hornung RDP. 60 pages A4, well illustrated, 9 colour pages plus cover. This latest monograph contains Otto Hornung's translations of two most important studies by the late Dr Vratislav Palkoska, the noted Czech postal historian. Otto Hornung has provided additional comments based on his own experiences in Poland, Russia and the Middle East and a fine selection of archival photographs to enhance the text. Much new information is included, particularly with regard to the story of the Czechoslovak Legion in Poland and Russia. The discussion of "communicating with enemy territories" is also relevant to other nationalities.

Monograph 17: Czechoslovak Field Post 1918-1921; a study of postal activities, by Brian C Day. 135pp A4, colour cover and several of the many illustrations. The chapters cover Introduction; WW1 Austro-Hungarian Field Posts on Czechoslovak lands; WWI Independent Czechoslovak Foreign Legions who also fought on Czechoslovak territory; Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia 1918-1920; Slovakia and Carpatho-Ukraine; Czechoslovak Field Post in Slovakia and Carpatho-Ukraine 1918-1920; Czechoslovak Mobilisation in 1921; Postage Tariffs; Maps; Czechoslovak Armoured Trains serving in Slovakia as at October 4, 1919; and a Bibliography. The work covers the historical sequence of events as Czechoslovakia disengaged from the Austrian Empire and settled its disputes with Poland, Hungary and Germany. Detailed calendars clarify the many towns occupied and re-occupied by various armies; the philatelic consequences are illustrated. The monograph will be of great interest to all interested in Fieldpost, as well as in Czechoslovakian history.

Monograph 18: "Postal Arrangements Following the Liberation of Prague in May 1945" by Robert J Hill; A4, xviii + 92 = 110 pages. Colour covers, fully illustrated, much in colour. This is their first monograph to be produced with a bilingual Czech-English text. The volume comes complete with a loose A3 period map of Prague and a numbered black-print.

Fiftieth Anniversary CD: The Czechoslovak Philatelic Society of Great Britain celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2003. On 21 May 1953 George Pearson FRPSL gave a display of Czechoslovakia to the Royal Philatelic Society London, and in October of that year elections were held for officers and a committee. To mark its 50th anniversary the Society mounted three major exhibitions of Czechoslovak philately. 94 frames at Spring Stampex from 26 February to 2 March, then a display to the Royal Philatelic Society London on 20 March, and finally 140 frames at the Embassy of the Czech Republic from 22 to 24 May. This CD has been made to provide a permanent record of the unprecedented assembly in the UK of so much fine Czechoslovak philatelic material.

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