The Malaya Study Group
The Malaya Study Group exists for
collectors of the stamps, postal stationery and postal history of the states of
Peninsular Malaysia which until 1963 formed the Federation of Malaya, including
the Straits Settlements of Malacca, Penang and Singapore, the Federated Malay
States, Negri Sembilan and Sungei Ujong, Pahang, Perak and Selangor and the
Unfederated States, Johor, Kedah, Kelantan, Perlis and Trengganu.
The Society has a JOURNAL, "The Malayan Philatelist"
and a NEWSLETTER supplied free to members, EXCHANGE PACKETS, AUCTIONS and has
produced a number of significant PUBLICATIONS on the stamps and postal
history of the area.
THE
AGRICULTURAL DEFINITIVES OF MALAYSIA, DATING THE CHANGES – Part I
by Mac McClaren THE
AGRICULTURAL DEFINITIVES OF MALAYSIA, DATING THE CHANGES – Part II
by Mac McClaren, AN
ECHO OF A COLONIAL WAR – A SAILOR'S LETTER FROM SINGAPORE by D.R.M.
Holley, its
the story of Majeedi - a detention camp in the earlyish days of the
Emergency as told by covers going into it from Malaya, Singapore,
China and from the detention camp on St John's Island. Plenty
of illustrations, 5 pages .Gibbons Stamp Monthly
Articles on the Stamps and Postal History of Malaya
Subject
Issue/Page
Singapore
9/95 p. 77
Malaya during
the Reign of Queen Victoria
8/96 p. 62
9/96 p. 64
The Malayan Federation
after Independence 1957-63
10/96 p. 34
The Federated Malay States
11/96 p. 54
Introduction to the Stamps
of the Straits Settlements
12/96 p. 58
The Stamps and Postal History
of the Straits Settlements
1/97 p. 70
The Japanese
Occupation of Malaya 1942-45
2/97 p. 27
3/97 p. 72
Modern Malaysia - More
than meets the Eye
4/97 p. 68
Malayan Airmails
1928-42
5/98 p. 61
6/98 p. 73
7/98 p. 31
The Unfederated Malay States:
Johore
8/98 p. 86
The Four Northern States
of Malaya
10/98 p. 76
The Stamps of the British
Military Administration of Malaya
12/98 p. 57
Straits Settlements - The
Malaya-Borneo Exhibition 1922 -
Part 17/00 p. 99
The Malaya-Borneo Exhibition
Stamps -
Part 2 - Kedah, Kelantan and Trengganu8/00 p. 71
A 1931 Crash Cover from
Perlis
07/01
Railway Mail Sorting in
the Federated Malay States
10/01 p. 63
Queen Elizabeth Definitives:
Part 29 - Singapore 1955-59
12/02 p. 56
A Tiger from Siamese Trengganu
06/03
A Russian in Trengganu?
by
D.R.M. Holley
06/04
Malaysia's 'Agro' Definitives
Come of Age by
Len Stanway
07/04
08/04 p. 65
The Jersey Lily and a Shipwreck
in Singapore by
D.R.M. Holley
08/04 p. 68
Murder in Malaya by
D.R.M. Holley
01/05 p. 98
The Stamps of the Federated
Malay States used in the Unfederated States of Malaya
1909-1912 by
D.R.M. Holley09/05 p. 54
Malaya - A Fraudulent Design;
the background to the Kedah Ploughing definitives by
D.R.M. Holley
11/05 p. 87
AUSTRALIA'S
'ISLANDS IN THE SUN' – THE STAMPS AND POSTAL HISTORY OF THE COCOS (KEELING)
ISLANDS 1955-1969 by Richard Breckon,
December, 2005
Man Overboard - By Accident
or Design? - The 1960 Johore 20c Definitive by
D.R.M. Holley
01/06
The Pahang 1935-41 Issue
by
Low Kiat Siong
02/06 p. 80
03/06 p. 48
Pahang: A Fresh Look at
the 1897 Bisects by
D.R.M. Holley
05/06
06/06 p. 46
August 2006
September 2006
Malacca/Melaka:
An Historic Malaysian City by
Barry Floyd
11/06 p. 72
The 1941 HRH Sultan Sir
Hisammudin issue of Selangor by
Low Kiat Siong
01/07 p. 64
SS RAINBOW
AND SS BENTAN – CACHETS OR CANCELS by D.R.M. Holley,
February 2007
THE
SULTANA OF JOHORE – THE STORY BEHIND THE STAMP by Susan McEwen,
September 2007
QUEEN
ELIZABETH DEFINITIVES 1954-57 ISSUES OF MALACCA AND PENANG by Nick Halewood,
December 2007
January 2008
BANGKOK,
THE BRITISH POST OFFICE IN 1882 by Andrew Norris,
February 2008
Majeedi Camp,
Johore Bahru, Malaya' by Susan McEwen
June 2008
Special Malaya Study Group 50th Anniversary
issue, with five articles by MSG members
April 2009
The Butterfly Definitives of Malaysia, 1971 to 1978 —
Part 2 Mac McClaren
May 2009
The Federation of Malaya—Not Just 36 Stamps! Len Stanway
April 2010
Malaya’s One and Only Comprehensive Set of Stamps and
Postal Stationery part 1 D R M Holley
May 2010
Malaya's One and Only Comprehensive Set of Stamps and
Postal Stationery—Part 2 D R M Holley
June 2010
Unissued Victory stamps for Singapore and
Malaya, Susan McEwen
Nov 2010
Malaya and the UPU colour scheme Rob Holley
Jan + Feb 2011
Flowers and Animals of Malaysia Mac McClaren
March + April 2011