South Wales Echo 10th July 1899

Half Penny Postal Stationery card NO 4 (18)99 with
notice of Cardiff Philatelic Society inaugural meeting

A Halfpenny Postal Stationery Card giving notice of the inaugural meeting of Cardiff Philatelic Society. The Stanley Gibbons Monthly Journal 30th November 1899 reported that the inaugural meeting of Cardiff Philatelic Society was held in the Town Hall, Cardiff on 6th November where the President Mr Walter Scott “gave a very interesting and instructive address, showing the wonderful growth of stamp collecting, and the advantages to be derived from the study of stamps.” at this meeting W.A. Jutsum, the sender of the card, became Hon. Secretary.

The inaugural meeting was called following a notice in the South Wales Echo 10th July 1899 inviting stamp collectors “ ...to a meeting which is to be held to-morrow (Tuesday) evening at 8 o’clock in the Town Hall, Cardiff (by kind permission of the Mayor). with the object of considering the desirability of forming a Philatelic Society for Cardiff and the district similar to societies already established in most other large towns.”

Stanley Gibbons Monthly Journal 30th November 1899
report of inaugural meeting