Annual Auction saw some interesting items

As is now traditional, the last meeting of the season was our club auction which is open to anyone attending on the day. The material featured included a range of items prepared by our members, many of whom have spares or duplicates of material that need to find good homes. On top of this, there was a decent selection of items donated to the club, including a range of new and partially used stock books that a former member wanted us to have for club funds.

Needless to say, many of these items found a new home on the night and we raised a decent amount of cash for the club coffers.

The letter shown here was just one of the items on the night, a large, A4 size letter, send insured from Paris to London in 1952 with a declaration on the front of it containing “fifty thousand francs or five hundred and seventy-four francs”. I’m not sure which it was, but whatever it was a decent sum to send by post in 1952.

The next season’s dates are now available and can be found on this page.