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New Training School Book
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      In November 1996 the book "History of Post Office Training" was published by Sarum Publications. (ISBN 0 947868 05 4)

      This was the first time that a listing of this type of material had ever been compiled - however - due to various reasons, not least of all the publishers wish to leave things out and 'just get the basics listed and in place' a number of items were missing from the listings. Also, due to the rushed situation, no illustrations were included in the book and this makes the listing harder to use than they would otherwise be.

      With it now being over 14 years since the book was originally published we felt that an updated version would be useful. We decided that as the information (as far as it goes) in the original was for the most part correct, that this would be as good a starting point for the new version as any other - it also saved a lot of re-typing. The intention with the new version is to produce it in two forms ...

A4 perfect bound - black and white and
A4 perfect bound - full colour
      Both version will be the same but the black & white version, by nature of the production costs, will be a lot cheaper than the colour version. At this time we estimate that the black and white version will retail about Ł15 - only a few pounds higher than the original version cost in 1999 - and this with a book that we estimate at being twice the size ...

      The table below gives details of what work has been done ... the most recent revisions are at the top

Date Revisions

18 Mar 2010 Pictures added to the QE2 commemeratives
The listing is being revised as each set is checked

15 Mar 2010 Pictures added to the list of overprint types

10 Mar 2010 Pictures added to all the basic sets of stamps
Some additional prices added
These may be adjustments to the price shown or additions when a
mint / used example has been reported

1 Mar 2010 The work in progress document placed on-line
Select dealers and collectors given the link to the file for review / comments

28 Feb 2010 Prices are replaceing the scarcity rateings ...
All the early material from King George V to pre-decimal Elizabeth 2 priced
Prices are based on auction sales from 2007

7 Feb 2010 The new version laid out with a new numbering system

1 Feb 2010 The original book converted to a document file
Dealers and collectors contacted and informed of the intended revised version
New information recieved stored ready for inclussion

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