Lundy Collectors Club

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• Our latest publication is the Winter 2025 issue of Lundy Collectors News. Download it here (PDF 394kB).

• Your Club membership subscription for 2026 is now due. You will receive details in the post, or you can renew online here. Please use the reference [your name] and 'renew2026'.

Most recent update:
20 March 2026

Who are we?

The Lundy Collectors’ Club (LCC) is based in the UK and has a membership of approximately 100 from many parts of the world. The Club invites membership from anyone interested in collecting anything connected with Lundy: stamps, postal history, postcards, books, ephemera, artwork and artefacts. People with a non-philatelic interest in Lundy are very welcome.

We publish The New Puffin Journal, a glossy, fully-illustrated magazine, twice a year and a shorter newsletter in the summer. Our publications report on new stamp issues, research into Lundy’s postal history, news of Club activities and anything else to do with Lundy which will interest our members, including new developments on the island. We have meetings, usually in north Devon, with displays, demonstrations, and a very popular auction of Lundy material. And lots of socialising and Lundy gossip! Individual members often bring surplus items from their collections to sell at modest prices or other Lundy collectables such as new privately-published books. We also arrange a four-night visit to Lundy for members every other year.

To join the Lundy Collectors’ Club click here, or for more information, please click here.

Something about Lundy Collecting

The Lundy Collectors’ Club was founded in May 1977 in Chicago in the USA. In May 1979, the first edition of their Philatelic Quarterly was published and this continued for an impressive 20 years and 80 editions. During that time, membership expanded to many countries around the world, but the largest group of members outside the US was in the UK. In 1996, the ‘UK Chapter’ of the Club was formed, and began publishing The New Puffin Journal in spring 1997. Initially under the editorship of Stanley Newman and then James Thomas, TNPJ is still going strong as the Club’s main publication. It equalled the Philatelic Quarterly’s record of 80 issues in spring 2025. With the publication of the Autumn 2025 issue (no. 81), James Thomas retired as editor and handed over to Andrew James. For more about TNPJ, including the latest edition, see here.

The first Philatelic Quarterly

The first edition of
The New Puffin Journal

When the US committee couldn’t continue, the UK Chapter was able to take responsibility for running the Club, which thus became a UK-based organisation, but still with a world-wide membership.

The LCC wasn’t the first organisation set up by enthusiasts for Lundy philately. The Lundy Specialists’ Society (LSS) was formed in November 1956 by Michael Windeatt, a stamp dealer. January 1957 saw the first edition of The Puffin, then a simple four-side, foolscap cyclostyled sheet. Michael Windeatt moved on to other things and the LSS was taken over by Barry Chinchen, then a young student, who became a doyen of Lundy philately. He developed The Puffin into a substantial magazine, later edited by Bryan Sherwood and renamed The Puffin Journal, which continued until 1986. It was in recognition of this name that the UK Chapter of the Lundy Collectors’ Club called its magazine The New Puffin Journal.

Something about Lundy

Lundy is an island in the Bristol Channel in south-west England (UK). You can read about the island at the website of the Lundy Field Society at https://lundy.org.uk/about-lundy (opens in a new tab). Its history is covered at https://lundy.org.uk/about-lundy/history (opens in a new tab). In 1969 it was acquired by the National Trust, thanks to Jack Hayward (later Sir Jack) who bought the island and gifted it to the National Trust. They then leased it to the Landmark Trust to run on their behalf. The Landmark Trust have done a tremendous amount of work over the decades to restore buildings as letting properties for holidays, repair and develop infrastructure and conserve the island’s wildlife and habitats. The Landmark Trust now run the Lundy Postal Service and the Lundy Collectors’ Club enjoys a close and positive relationship with the island management.