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Welcome to the Cartophilic Society of Great Britain web site, a site dedicated to the promotion and advancement of cartophily throughout the world. Use the menus on the left of the screen to navigate through the pages of the site. For best results, this site should be viewed with Internet Explorer 7 or Firefox 2. Please note that due to bugs in some earlier browsers, it may be necessary to click on the buttons twice to make them work.

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The 2008 Convention in Norwich. Click here for some preliminary pictures.

Prophets of Zoom. First published Sept.2007 by Merrell, but still available to CN&N readers at the special concessionary price of £6.95 inc.p&p (telephone Marston Book Services on 01235 465 500, quoting ref. MER/CNN). Click here for a book review.

Hants and Surrey Branch are holding an all-day fair and quarterly auction on July 13th. Click here for more info.

Memberads: please click here for info about the new system for submitting them.

Cigarette Cards in Berlin. There will be a collectors' fair in Berlin on 17th May. For further info please see the attached flyer (in German).

The new 'Handbook of Worldwide Tobacco and Trade Silk Issues' is now available and copies for may be purchased from the Reference Book Controller. The book offers a comprehensive detailed listing of the Silk Issues by Manufacturers in twelve countries and contains over 2,000 scaled illustrations

The price to Members for the 342 page hardback book is £40.00 post free. An optional charge of £5.00 should be added if International Members require the book to be sent by Airmail. Please write stating that you are a Member of the Cartophilic Society and that you wish to purchase the book. No order form necessary but please enclose your cheque made payable in sterling to C.S.G.B. Ltd. and address the envelope to:-
Reference Book Controller,
Mr R. Parckar,
CSGB Ltd.,
Dawley House,
Ashburton Industrial Estate,
Ross-on-Wye,
Herefordshire.
HR9 7BW

The cost of the book to non-members is £50.00 including inland postage. If you would like to join the Society the Joining/Annual cost is £16.00 and joining now will cover your membership for 2008. A cheque for £56.00 will therefore cover your membership for 2008 plus a copy of the Handbook.

Book Updates. UPDATED! Updates to various society publications including the silks handbook are now available on the website. Click here for more info.

 

 

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