It has been decided to include the cancellations of the Republik Indonesia in the new classification system. A new draft of the classification for the Japanese occupation will soon be shown in the library.

Work has started on a new catalogue Japanese occupation. It is expected the catalogue will be available in the latter part of 2011. Anyone with stamps not listed in the current catalogue, please send a colour scan or photo copy to the Secretary, leo.vosse@planet.nl.

A project has been started to document and describe forgeries of Japanese occupation overprints. The first overprint to be studied is the Atjeh star. If you have information on the types of genuine or forged star overprints, please contact R.G. Ackerstaff, Jan van Goyenlaan 1, 3401 NM IJsselstein, The Netherlands; email rob@ackerstaff.com.

New bank accounts have been opened at the ABN AMRO bank. These accounts should be used to make payments going forward. You will find the details under Administration / Payment Options.