The last published date of this document was August 19, 2018.
Geoffrey Morford was a renowned philatelist who worked as a deputy librarian at the Royal Institution. He also regularly published a wide variety of philatelic material. If you are interested in Japanese philatelic literature of the last century, this is the place to be.
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UK - Ringing up Paradise: A Stamp Collector's Journey
Monday, February 11, 2019, 7:30 p.m.
Victoria University, Wellington
Speaker: Phil Hargreaves, freelance reporter for ABC News, who was born in England but lived in the United States from age four to 12. This book tells the story of the British, mostly Victorian and Edwardian, expatriates who settled in what was once Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe. It traces their lives, their experiences in Africa, and their stamp collections. From the author: "Although I started collecting stamps when I was 12 years old, Ringing up Paradise was born in a nearby restaurant in 1986. On the wall above our table a picture of a small white bird on a black background. I picked it up and looked at the back. The bird was a stamp collector's bird. It was a Cape Rail or red-necked lapwing.
The Cape Rail is a striking bird with a scarlet crest, jet black neck and face, and a white belly. Red-necked Lapwings are similar to Cape Rails, but are brown on the neck, with streaks of black and white on their breasts and shoulders.
I became obsessed with this bird. I read all I could about it, and started collecting Cape Rail stamps myself. Then, one day, my obsession was answered. A plate of food was presented to me at the restaurant. Alongside the Cape Rail was a postcard of the bird. I tore the
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