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BML & BS
Benefits to Joining

Benefits of Membership:

The BML & BS magazine Match Label News is posted free to members by surface mail six times a year.  The Match Label News contains illustrated articles of interest to beginners as well as enabling the experts to discuss the finer points of the hobby.  Announcements of all events and reports of meetings in the Match Label News keeps you in touch with the Society and the hobby.

Members outside United Kingdom can receive Match Label News by air mail for the extra postage.

Only members receive the free world-wide Membership List listing details of the members and their collecting preferences. This allows you to get in touch with other members for exchange of matchbox labels and match covers and correspond about the hobby, where members have indicated a willingness to correspond.

A postal auction insert accompanies every issue of Match Label News.   However, only BML & BS members may sell or buy in the postal auctions.

Frequent amendments to the Membership List are published with the Match Label News to keep the Membership List up-to-date.   When you join, your name and details are included on an amendment sheet which is sent with the "News" so that your details are brought to the notice of other collectors.

The BML & BS organises events in London and other towns throughout the year to which you are cordially invited.   These events attract many visitors from home and abroad.   All these events are staged by members, and new members are especially welcome.

The events include an auction for members to buy and sell items for their collection.   Details of lots in forthcoming auctions and prices of lots sold in previous auctions are included with the Match Label News.   Visitors are allowed to buy in the auctions but only members may sell.   Only members may place proxy bids by post or e-mail.

Dealers are usually present at events to give you the opportunity to increase your collection by sorting through their stocks

Areas are set aside at events for members to exchange matchbox labels and matchbook covers.

The BML & BS Approval Service is available to help seekers of "odd" or special labels at fair prices.   Labels can be sent to you from which you can make your selections.

The BML & BS Book Shop is run for those who want to obtain books and catalogues pertaining to the hobby.   Purchases can be made by post or at London events. A price list of publications currently available is published in the Match Label News.

The BML & BS Library holds catalogues, magazines from other clubs, press cuttings and other archive material.   The BML & BS Library seeks to be the foremost comprehensive library of Phillumeny related publications.   Members are eligible to borrow items from the Library.

Page History:
This page updated on 12th November 2005,
18th November 2007 & 5th February 2008

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