Item 1.
Peter Sharrock writes:
The VHC logo was designed while I was living at Highmore in Hailsham (in 1985/1986) because I wanted to create an authorisation stamp for my projects.
I drew this logo on a sheet of A4 paper. Around the edge I wrote alpha nu alpha gamma kappa eta, which spells the Greek word ’ANÁΓKH (in the sense of fate or destiny) from Victor Hugo’s preface to his novel, Notre-Dame de Paris, published in 1831.
Inside the circle is a symbol I’d invented and called ‘the approximate target’ for the cover of our 007 magazine (Oldham, 1979). As the name suggests, it was an approximation of the crosshair sights on the spy’s gun. Another vague meaning was Not L 7 (not square) as in Paul McCartney’s C Moon: How come no one older than me ever seems to understand the things I wanna do? It will be L7, and I'd never get to heaven if I filled my head with gloom.
I took that A4 to Kall-Kwik Printing in Eastbourne. On their photocopier, they reduced the image to the right size and made that image into a rubber stamp. It lasted many years until the rubber perished. I now have a new stamp that incorporates the letters VHC.
Most authorisations (accompanying a VHC catalogue number) are stamped in red, signed across that stamp in purple, numbered and dated.
