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LPS prehistory: a curiosity
I have just been ambling around the journal archive’s earlier years (don’t ask), and something surprised me.
In an early LPS Letter (for September 1967, #15), O. E. Lynch writes: “In my specializing in Liberia since 1933, I have yet to meet face to face another collector of same”. That is not what surprised me.
This did. He also writes: “Before 1st of new year I hope to get a complete numerical list of members from beginning of club which will be 30 years old next year, many distinguished names on that list.”
Did the LPS really start from 1938?
In an early LPS Letter (for September 1967, #15), O. E. Lynch writes: “In my specializing in Liberia since 1933, I have yet to meet face to face another collector of same”. That is not what surprised me.
This did. He also writes: “Before 1st of new year I hope to get a complete numerical list of members from beginning of club which will be 30 years old next year, many distinguished names on that list.”
Did the LPS really start from 1938?
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Rogers states the LPS was founded in 1955
http://philib.org/data/LPS_Journal/LPS_1990_07-09.pdf
I'm wondering however whether there was an earlier incarnation of the Liberian Philatelic Society, whose previous existence had been known to people at that time.
In addition to the commentary from O.E. Lynch that I quoted above regarding a 1938 foundation, Frederick Farr also wrote in his Newsletter of February 1969 (#31):
- “It was the intentlon of the original LPS in 1938 to have all members numbers 100 and below to be considered Charter members, so most of you are now Chater [sic] members. Well it took 30 years to get this but let's all hope it won’t take that long for next [sic] 100 names.“
Just curious in case anybody has evidence of earlier society activity.