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Did You Know?

Between June 1972 and December 2009 a monthly Did You Know column appeared in the Helvetia Philatelic Society's Newsletter. Edited by the late Michael Rutherfoord, our member in Zurich, the column contained snippets of topical news and views from Switzerland, and included information about many diverse subjects, such as postal rate changes; railways and TPOs; postmarks; reviews of books and other philatelic publications; new stamp and postal stationery issues; changes to the postal system, and many more. Michael continued to contribute thought-provoking articles regularly in the Society's Newsletter up until his death early in 2011.

The Did You Know articles have been converted into portable document format (PDF), and grouped in year order.

To view these compilations, click on a 'year' button below to open the PDF document containing the monthly entries for that particular year.


1972 1973 1974
1975 1976 1977 1978 1979
1980 1981 1982 1983 1984
1985 1986 1987 1988 1989
1990 1991 1992 1993 1994
1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009


Between 1972 and 1986, Michael also included a monthly "Question" in his DYK column, with the "Answer" appearing the following month. The questions are sequentially numbered to enable easy location of the corresponding answer. However, the numbering differs from that found in the original copies of the Newsletter, where a miscalculation in the sequence was discovered whilst converting the documents to PDF.

If you would like to keep up-to-date with what's happening philatelically in Switzerland, and read the many other interesting articles published in current issues of the Newsletter, please contact the Society's Hon. Secretary on 01296 621159 or email: secretary@swiss-philately.co.uk


 

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