Philatelic Society Malaysia (Persatuan Filateli Malaysia)

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Philatelic Society Malaysia will be organising 5 stamp fairs for 2018
at the Petaling Jaya Community Library, Lot 389, Jalan Selangor,
Section 3, 46050 Petaling Jaya, Selangor as follows:

1. 13th & 14th January
2. 10th & 11th March
3. 9th & 10th June
4. 8th & 9th September
5. 8th & 9th December

There will be the usual:
1. Display Exhibits
2. Stamp dealears
3. Talks on Stamp Collecting
4. Colouring Competition
5. Lucky Draws

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The Malaysian Philatelist (Volume 2 2017) will be coming out by the end of December 2017.

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The Society will be having its 4th Auction Sale on the 22nd of April 2018 at the club premises at Sentul, Selangor. Most items have reserve prices at about half of less than their Malaysian catalogue value (which is of course much lower than Stanley Gibbons). The auction is open to members only.

We are also accepting articles for the June 2018 journal, The Malaysian Philatelist. Contributions of articles or space fillers are most welcome. You don't have to be a member to contribute to articles.

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The Society will be having its AGM on the 24th of June 2018 at the Kuala Lumpur International Hotel from 10 - 12 noon. Lunch will be provided. There will be an auction for members from 2.00 to 4.00 p.m. There will be voting for the new Council at this AGM.

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Everything went well. We have a new Council. We have a couple of new faces. The auction went on nicely too.

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Our next fair will be on 8th & 9th September.
There will be the usual bunch of stamp dealers.
It will be held at the Petaling Jaya Library Community Centre.

We are planning a year end National Stamp Exhibition.
Members interested in exhibiting do not have to pay any frame fees.

All are welcome.

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The Malaysian Philatelist Volume 1 2018 is already out.
Members in Malaysia have already received their copies.
Those overseas will receive them hopefully in a week's time.
All those posted overseas have beautiful miniature sheets on them.

The contents of this issues are:
1. Malaysia's Myriad Miniature Sheets as the cover article - Andrew Leong Fook Chee
2. Space - the Final Frontier - Part 2 - SKY (pseudonym for one of the authors)
3. German Cover with Miniature Sheet and Full Set of Stamps Commemorating Two Separate Events in 1949 Germany - Melissa Leong Shi Mei
4. Philatelic Society Malaysia (PSM) Council 2016 - 2018 Setemku Cover - Fiona Chin Bitt Nyuk
5. Commemorating GE14 - A Historic Day in the Making - Eric Ng Kim Fuat
6. Double and Single Ring Date Stamps with Same Device Number for Meter Cancellations of NMC Shah Alam - Hin Wai Yip
7. 1949 Registered Cover from Brunei to Canada - Tan Lai Imm
8. PSM Study Group Corner - Hor Ket Soo, Adam Malik, Loo Yoon Ngen, Ngoh See Jam, Tee Kok Chun
9. Garden Flowers Cover made with Corner Traffic Light Definitive Stamps - Michael Leong Choon Meng
10. Concordance at its Best - Eric Ng Kim Fuat
11. 29th SEA Games Private Covers - Fiona Chin Bitt Nyuk
12. Malaysian Stamp Issues of 2017 - Andrew Leong Fook Chee
13. NABA 1934 ZURICH MS on Cover - Michelle Leong Shi Min

Front and Back of cover has photographs of Malaysia's myriad miniature sheets (Pos Malaysia has produced over 200 Miniature sheets from the 1982 to mid-June 2018).

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The Society will be having its 4th Stamp Show for the year at the usual place at the PJ Library Community Centre with the usual bunch of stamp dealers.

Mr. Ngoh See Jam, a FIAP and FIP Juror will be giving a talk on the "One Frame Exhibit"(16 pages).

Admission is free.

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Volume 2 of 2018 The Malaysian Philatelist has been posted to all its members.
Malaysian members would have received them by now while overseas ones should be receiving them anytime now.
Contents are as follows:

1. Malaysian Stamps on Schools - KY Shum (SKY)
2. FIP (Federation of International Philately) Guidelines on Maximaphily Exhibits Rule 3: Principles of Exhibit Composition Series 1 (illustrated with examples ) - Ye Choh San
3. Injet Spray-on Meter Cancellation of NMC Shah Alam 01: Some Observations - Hin Wai Yip
4. An official envelope of Selangor StampClub - Hin Wai Yip
5. 1998 XVI Commonwealth Games (Part 1 or 3) - Lim Lik
6. PSM Study Group Corner - Hor ket Soo, Adam Malek, Loo Yoon Ngen, Ngoh See Jam, Tee Kok Chun
7. Rhein- and Ruhr- Assistance Stamps on Cover - Andrew Leong Fook Chee
8. Mao Zedong or Mao Tse-Tung - A.P. Subramaniam
9. What Does 'Catalogue Value' Really Mean? 'Sapiens' Look at the Stamp Market ...(reproduced from The Malaysian Philatelist Volume 2 Number 3, 1971)
10. Stamps Commemorating the Centgenary of the First Spanish Stamps - Andrew Leong Fook Chee
11. Fashion is a Flight of a Butterfly - Vladimir Kachan
12. Postcrossing - Khor Kok Keong

The Malaysian Philatelist is the official journal of Philatelic Society Malaysia whose patron is His Royal Highness, the Sultan of Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia. The journal is a full 48 fully-coloured pages publication sent only to members of Philatelic Society Malaysia and is issued twice a year (June and December).

Articles are always welcome from anyone. Non-members who contribute will be sent a copy of the journal that carries their articles.

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Philatelic Society Malaysia will be organising the 4Nations Stamp Exhibition this year.
The tentative date is 29-31 March 2019. The venue will be announced later.

This 4Nations Stamp Exhibition was first started by Malaysia and the 4 nations now cover Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Singapore.

This exhibition is open to exhibitors from the respective recognised Philatelic societies in the 4 nations mentioned. Jurors and national commissioners are invited but all expenses are borne by them.

This idea was mooted to encourage more exhibitions among these 4 nations.
It originally stared with 3 Nations (Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand).

Each country will be invited to exhibit 50 frames. Jurors will come from all the four nations.
A commemorative stamp is being suggested to Pos Malaysia for this event.

More details will be given when available.

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The Society will be having its first stamp fair for the year (4 in all) on the 2-3 March 2019 at the Petaling Jaya Library Community Centre. Admission is free. Opens from 10.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. There will be lucky draws and a children's colouring competition as well.

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The June 2019 volume of The Malaysian Philatelist has just been printed.
They will be sent out in the following week. Overseas members will of course get it a little later
but as always I use beautiful miniature sheets and stamps on the A4 envelopes.

We also had our annual general meeting on the 23rd of June 2019. It was attended by the largest number of attendees (compared to the last 10 years). It was followed by a lunch and an auction sale.

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We will be having our second stamp fair at the Petaling Jaya Library Community Centre this weekend - 6-7th of July 2019. As usual we will be having stamp dealers, some exhibits, a lucky draw, a talk on stamp collecting, a colouring competition for children and sale of past journals (The Malaysian Philatelist).

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Just a quick update on the World Stamp Exhibition 2018 in Malaysia; this has been postponed to 2020. Will update if there is any further development.

What is the current status on Malaysia 2020 world stamp exhibition? It is no longer listed on FIP and FIAP websites. Has it been cancelled?

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