Page 8 - 148 Years of the Royal Philatelic Society London

In 1874: Britain annexes Gold Coast/ Ashanti, first Impressionist exhibition, birth of lawn

tennis, Mussorgsky composes 'Pictures in an Exhibition', barbed wire invented.

At the PSL: Part 1 of Pemberton's catalogue was published on lst January. Over the next

year members compared their collections to the list. It took a year to cover Alsace to Chile.

PSL President was Sir Daniel Cooper, Bart., F.R.G.S. Membership low and struggling.

LOURINHAA: PHILATELIC MARK WITH

ORTHOGRAPHIC IRREGULARITY

From the collection of Jose Miranda da Mota AIEP.

Member since 2009. Lives in Portugal.

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The name "Lourinha" may have its origin in a Roman villa "Laurinium", derived from

"Laurius, Laurii", meaning laurel, or come from "Lou rim". The spelling used in official

documents in the last centuries was " Lourinha", but the local post office used the rare

postmark LOURINHAA, known since the pre-adhesive period. This commercial letter, dated

2nd March 1874, was sent from Lourinha to Lisbon with a 25 reis King Luis I stamp to pay the

single rate. This was eleven years after the first dinosaur fossil was discovered in this region,

one of the richest in the world for dinosaur fossils from the Upper Jurassic.