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StampInsiderwww.nystampclubs.org January/February2007

Presidents& Wannabes

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January/February2007Vol.24No.3

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Albert W. Starkweather5520 Gunn Hwy. Apt. 1406, Tampa, FL 33624-2847813-962-7964; [email protected]

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ContentsPresident’s Viewpoint: 2007 Finances...........4Editor’s Perspective ..................................... 6George Fekete Pondering Philately: Time to Get Organized .............................. 8George McGowan’s Thrifty Philatelist: Collecting ‘Holey’ Stamps .......................10Ada Prill’s Newcomers’ Corner: Looking Very Closely ................................12Ruth L. Sabo: Presidents & Wannabes .......14

AbouttheCoverMany New Yorkers aspired to the presiden-cy. Some never made it. A few made it after unsuccessful tries. Others made it, but failed to be reëlected.

Daniel A. Piazza: Library Resources ........ 22New Yorkers at Blount Symposium ........... 28Texas Youth Art Contest Winners ........... 30 McLeod Block Sold for $75,000 ................ 31Robert Finnegan: Youth & Philately......... 32Glenn A. Estus: First Day Coverage...........33Daniel A. Piazza’s Stamp Stories Georgia “Howled” Over Sheridan ......... 36Communications: Future Worries .............37Club Pages ................................................38–61Fake Scout FDCs Appear .............................38James Darnell: In Other Words ............... 45Two Named To Advisory Committee ........ 49Stamp Camp USA Selling Calendars ......... 47Jenny Invert a Forgery ................................53Shows & Bourses.......................................... 62Correction ................................................... 64Heather Sweeting The Last Words: Who Might Get Bumped Off? ................. 66AdvertiserIndex............65

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StampInsiderFinancesFor2007

I have just completed the year-end accounting for the Stamp Insider’s income and dis-bursements for 2006. An accurate accounting of the Stamp Insider and Federation

finances is necessary to maintain our non-profit basis. As my last column indicated, we had an extremely positive year.2005SummaryIn 2005, income exceeded expenditures and the Stamp Insider realized a net of $504 or seven cents per issue.2006SummaryHowever, in 2006, even with a $500 donation from the New England American Stamp Dealers Association (NEASDA), we had a deficit of $1,901 or 17 cents per issue, primarily due to the postage rate increase. The Federation will contribute $1,812.77 from its cur-rent accumulated funds of $2,734.49 toward the deficit. Federation members clubs and advertisers will not be assessed for this shortfall.2007ProjectionFor the first time in 12 years, we will raise the subscription cost of the Stamp Insider to clubs and subscribers to offset last year’s postal increase and the anticipated additional increase coming this year. The changes are:

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But…IsItPoliticallyCorrect?

Ruth L. Sabo included a number of post cards

with her article on presiden-tial wannabes from New York State, including two possible future wannabes — former Republican New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and Demo-cratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. Produced by a writ-ers’ organization, the card emphasizes the similarities between the pair by switching their heads on their bodies.

She concluded her ar-ticle by saying, “One only can wonder if the next author writing about wannabes from New York will include Rudy Giuliani and Hillary Clinton.” Revisions to her text forced the elimination of the card from her article, which is reproduced here for your viewing pleasure.MoreChangesandAdditionsTotheInsiderWe welcome Glenn A. Estus of Westport as columnist of First Day Coverage, which appears on page 33 and succeeds the page of the defunct Central New York First Day Cover Society. Glenn is president of the Vermont Philatelic Society, as well as the new North Country Stamp Club in Plattsburgh. He is also editor of the Empire State Postal History Society Bulletin. His philatelic interests include first day covers, postal history, and the Olympics.

George T. Fekete has renamed his column from Site Seeing to Pondering Philately, which he says will give him more issues to explore rather than concentrating solely on Web sites.

Daniel A. Piazza’s Story Behind the Stamp has been given regular column status and is now a full page under the title Stamp Stories.

We have discontinued the Want & Exchange advertisements column, which was run-ning on a trial basis, for lack of interest.

The cover has been redesigned, eliminating the skybox promo at the top that had out-lived its usefulness. This creates a cleaner appearance and more space for artwork.

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PonderingPhilatelyGeorgeT.Fekete

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HappyNewYear:NowGetOrganized

The only New Year’s resolution I break each year is the only one I make: organizing my stamp accumulation. Every attempt to make good on my annual resolution has failed.

This shortcoming was painfully obvious recently when I visited one of my favorite dealers to fill some spaces in my U.S. specialized collection. Instead of taking an accurate want list

— I have several, but none is current — with me, I schlepped my four Scott National albums a few interchanges up the Thruway. I had finally hit bottom. Then it occurred to me: Even if my next attempt is doomed to failure, I may be able to squeeze a column out of my di-lemma. And, if the column is helpful to just one other person, the effort will be worth it.

I thought my problem was of the Ready, Fire, Aim variety, and by simply reordering the last two steps my problem would be solved. Au contraire — the root cause of my annual failure wasn’t the order of execution, it was that I always skipped the Ready step.

Although a clear goal won’t guarantee success, it will certainly improve the chances of success. My goal is to have an orderly way to know what I have and where to find it. Here’s my plan:

Physicalstorage— The first step is to sort the material and place it in a safe, acces-sible environment. Although some of us have boxes and bags of unsorted material, the average collector is most likely to be using albums, stock books, stock cards and glassines to store most material. The key here is to plan ahead and think like a librarian: put stuff where you can easily find it.

Imagestorage — The next step is to scan, copy or photograph the collection. Images are great for sorting material, exhibit storyboards and as supporting evidence for insur-ance claims. PDFs are easy to generate from a scanner or other digital images, and they have a smaller file size than other images, are easily transported on the internet and work on most any platform.

Inventorytracking — The final step is to create a mechanism that enables one to locate specific items without rummaging through the actual material or its images. Per-sonal preference will dictate the vehicle used to track inventory. A disciplined collector or someone with a small number of items to track could be served well by a handwritten document. Affordable standard or specialized software can be used to create anything from a simple want list to a relational database with sorting capabilities, acquisition pric-es, catalogue values and preloaded or user-supplied images.

So far, so good …

Editor’s note: George has decided to rename his column from Site Seeing to Pondering Philately, which he says will give him more issues to explore.

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Collecting‘Holey’Stamps

Toward the end of the 19th century a device came into use that personalized postage stamps and discouraged their theft by employees. To a worker making a few cents an hour

in wages, pilfering a few stamps once in a while could provide a substantial financial gain.We call these marked postage stamps perfins, an acronym of PERforated INsignias,

or PERforated INitials. A die, or set of pins, perforated the stamp with a letter, or letters, monogram, number, or design. Sometimes extra holes (or control holes) were added to the die to identify an office or city within an organization.

While some collectors consider a perfin to be a damaged stamp, others treasure them. Perfins identify where the stamps came from and who used them, giving the collector a little bit of philatelic history. A perfin on cover is more of a joy and, in the case of a previ-ously unknown user, can be used to identify its source.

There are two general types of perfins — private and official. Commercial enterprises used private perfins and government departments and agencies used official perfins. With the invention of postal meters, the use of perfins declined.

It is estimated that there are more than 6,000 different perfin designs on U.S. stamps. It is also estimated that there are more than 40,000 different designs from more than 200 countries, with Great Britain having the most. Postal agencies even developed mandatory guidelines for perfins such as size of design, diameter of pins, total number of holes, etc.

Collecting perfins is as diverse as many other philatelic areas: Collect by country, state, city, topic, commemoratives, back of the book and revenues, precancels, multiples, speci-mens, and many more. So if you are looking to rejuvenate your philatelic interests, why not give these holey little treasures a try?

Precanceled perfins for Cluett Peabody Co. of Troy, above. Perfin on Ayre & Sons cover, right, has the

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LookingVeryClosely…

Sometimes it’s fun to take a very close look at your stamps. Use a magnifying glass, and look at every detail. You will be amazed at the artistry this will reveal, especially if you look at

older engraved stamps. In fact, I’ve heard it said that the way to tell engraved stamps from sur-face-printed stamps is that the engraved stamps look better and better as they are magnified, while surface-printed stamps just look worse and worse with higher magnification.

One group of stamps that has little hidden surprises is Canadian stamps issued be-tween 1935 and 1962. Each stamp, except those which have a date as part of their design, has a date hidden someplace within the image. (After mid-1962, some, but not all stamps, have the hidden dates.)

Take a look at the stamp honoring the St. Lawrence Seaway, issued jointly by the U.S. and Canada in 1959. The design of the Canadian stamp has an element not found on the U.S. stamp: a tiny “1959” on the bit of Lake Erie that sticks below the frame around the United States’ Eagle. You won’t be able to see it in the image of the whole stamp, but the blowup shows where it is.

And how about the two-cent polar bear stamp of 1953? The date may be hard to find even in the blowup, but it’s there, just above the “TE” of “POSTES.” Take a really good look at any Canadian stamps you might have around the house and see if you can find the dates. Remember that they are only consistently found between 1935 and mid-1962 and never on stamps that have an open date.

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Not Everyone’s A Winner —Presidential Wannabes

By Ruth L. Sabo

Within the New York State Capitol in Albany, on the second of its five floors, is the Hall of Governors. Portraits of all past chief state executives hang there and, as one gazes

up at the paintings, there comes the realization that a number of these also depict U.S. presidents. Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his fifth cousin, Theodore — two of the best known and most highly regarded presidents — join others who went on to become Com-mander in Chief, including Martin Van Buren, who resigned as governor after serving only two months;William Henry Seward and Grover Cleveland. Of the governors who became president, only FDR never lost a presidential election. Even more of the portraits depict wannabes, those who unsuccessfully ran for president. In this article I will focus on those who lost their races, even if in other years they ascended to the highest office in the land.

The presidents from New York ran under the banners of a number of parties. Our eighth president, Martin Van Buren (Scott No. 813), was a Democrat when he became president in 1837, but ran and lost in 1840 under the banner of the Free Soil Party. Millard Fillmore (Scott No. 818), the last Whig president (1850–1853), refused to join the Republican Party when the Whig Party self-destructed in the 1850s, but ran and lost in 1856 under the banner of the Know Nothing Party, a designation some might believe ap-propriate for many of our presidential hopefuls. Fillmore lost the race for governor in 1844, but became comptroller in 1848. He was elected Zachary Taylor’s vice president the same year. When Taylor died in 1850, Fillmore became the 13th president.

Unlike Fillmore, Auburn lawyer Seward (Scott No. 370–371) was among the first to “jump ship” (in 1855) for the new Republican party, although his early political successes

— including two terms as governor of New York and one as a U.S. senator — were as a Whig. He twice sought and lost the Republican presidential nomination: in 1856 to John C. Frémont and in 1860 to Abraham Lincoln.

Continued on Page 16

Both Martin Van Buren and Millard Fillmore were New York politicians who had successful and unsuccessful runs for the White House.

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Wannabes — Continued from Page 14

He joined Lincoln’s cabinet as secretary of state, and when the president was assassi-nated, Seward — having narrowly escaped the same fate himself — continued in the post under the Andrew Johnson administration.

Democrat Grover Cleveland, the 22nd and 24th president (Scott No. 827), won with com-bined support of Democrats and reform Republicans — known as Mugwumps. The 26th pres-ident, Theodore Roosevelt (Scott No. 586, 602, 830, 1039), successfully ran as a Republican in 1904 after ascending to office following the 1901 assassination of William McKinley in Buffalo (Scott No. 559). Declining to run in 1908, he supported his Secretary of War, William Howard Taft. Unhappy with Taft’s performance, he ran again in 1912, running on the Progressive (Bull Moose) Party line against Taft, thus assuring victory for the Democrat, Woodrow Wilson.

New York’s presidents have an enormous number of firsts, onlys, and lasts to their credit. Turning first to those who were also gov-ernors: Martin Van Buren, a Democrat, was the first Commander in Chief who was not of English, Irish, or Scottish descent. His family was Dutch and he was the only president whose first language was not English. Chester A. Arthur, a Repub-lican, took the oath of office in his own home and faced the difficult problem of what to do with the enormous sur-plus of money in the treasury! Democrat Grover Cleveland was the only one to leave office and later return for another term. It should be noted that although he lost the presidency in 1888, he did win the popular vote, somehow managing to lose the Electoral College by a substantial margin. He was also the only president to be married in the White House, to his 21-year old-ward, Frances Fulsom, the youngest First Lady. Their daughter, Ruth, was known as Baby Ruth, and the popular candy bar was named after her. Tragically, she died of diphtheria as a child.

Theodore Roosevelt was the youngest president in our history when he was sworn into office at age 42 following McKinley’s assassination and one of our most admired. He was a sickly child who became a big-game hunter, conservationist, war hero, and had all those Teddy bears named after him. He also was the first American to win a Nobel Prize (for Peace after mediating the Russo–Japanese War).


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Wannabes — Continued from Page 16But as we gaze again on those portraits in the Hall of Governors, we also see many

presidential wannabes. Some ran, while others were unwillingly placed on a ballot, such as New York’s first and longest-serving governor, George Clinton, who was vice president un-der both Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, one of only two men to hold that position under different presidents. (John C. Calhoun was the other.) In 1808 Clinton was awarded six electoral votes from a faction of the Democratic–Republican Party that opposed James Madison. He came in third. He was the first vice president to die in office on April 20, 1812. His nephew, Governor DeWitt Clinton, often referred to as the Father of the Erie Canal, narrowly lost the presidency to Madison in 1812.

Horatio Seymour, twice Governor of New York, received the Democratic nomination for president in 1868, losing to Ulysses S. Grant.

In 1876 a most fascinating presidential election took place. Democratic Governor Sam-uel J. Tilden ran against Republican Rutherford B. Hayes, with Tilden winning the popular vote. There was turmoil, however, in the Electoral College. After the Civil War, Republicans had won state government offices in the South, but remained very unpopular with white, overwhelmingly Democratic southerners who blamed the Republicans for the war. This state of affairs resulted in Florida, Louisiana, and South Carolina submitting two sets of votes, one for Tilden and one for Hayes, to Congress. A constitutional crisis loomed. Congressional leadership tried to avoid the crisis with the appointment of an Electoral Commission to determine which set was valid. With Republicans out-numbering Democrats on the Commission, Hayes was declared the victor.

Governor Charles Evans Hughes (Scott No. 1195), a Re-publican, was appointed to the Supreme Court by Presi-dent Taft in 1910, but resigned in 1916 to accept the nomina-tion for the presidency.


This SecretBallot is a postal card addressed to the Editor of The Literary Digest in New York City and appears to be a forerunner of the telephone polls we have today. While it is stamped, this unused card carries the names of two New Yorkers, Alfred E. Smith (inset), and Norman Thomas.

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Woodrow Wilson defeated him. He later served as Secretary of State under two presidents and was a judge at the Permanent Court of International Justice in The Hague. In 1930 Presi-dent Herbert Hoover appointed him Chief Justice of the Supreme Court where he later had many run-ins with his fellow New Yorker, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Scott No. 930–933, 1284, 1298, 1305, 1950).

Progressive four-term Governor Alfred E. Smith, a Democrat (Scott No. 937), was the first Roman Catholic to run for president. A famous reformer who grew up in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, Smith was nominated for president in 1924, with the speech de-livered by none other than FDR. He was soundly defeated by Herbert Hoover, and later became estranged from Roosevelt, supporting Alf Landon and Wendell Wilkie in their runs against FDR.

Three-time Republican Governor Thomas E. Dewey, the first presidential candidate born in the 20th century, ran twice for the presidency, in 1944 and 1948, losing each time. The second time, of course, is when the famous headline in the Chicago Daily Tribune appeared, prematurely declaring Dewey the victor over Harry S. Truman. He also ran for the nomina-tion in 1940, losing to Wilkie, who lost to FDR in the general election. Reportedly, Dewey one of Donald Duck’s nephews (Huey, Dewey, and Louie), was named after the governor.

The last candidate from the pool of New York gov-ernors was Nelson A. Rock-efeller, four-time top official of the state. In 1960 he let it be known that he would ac-cept a draft nomination for the presidency at the Repub-lican convention, but it was not meant to be. In 1964 he campaigned against Barry Goldwater for the nomina-tion, but lost again. In 1968 he again was defeated in his search for the nomination, losing to Richard M. Nixon. When Spiro T. Agnew, Nixon’s vice president, was forced out of office, Gerald Ford became the first appointed veep. In turn, when Nixon resigned in disgrace,Ford appointed Rockefeller vice president. In November 1975, he dropped off the Ford ticket and was replaced by Robert Dole. Ford lost to Jimmy Carter.

Not all New Yorkers who sought the presidency have been governors. Eccentric New York publisher Horace Greeley (Scott No. 1177), supporter of the temperance and wom-en’s rights movements, received the nomination in 1872 of both the Liberal Republican


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PhilatelicHoldingsinUpstateLibrariesBy Daniel A. Piazza

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Every reader of the Stamp Insider knows — or should know — of the excellent phila-telic research libraries in New York and surrounding states, including the Collectors

Club (www.collectorsclub.org); the Spellman Museum Library (www.spellman.org); and the incomparable American Philatelic Research Library (www.stamplibrary.org). Less well known, however, is the fact that many public and academic libraries in upstate New York are philatelic treasure troves in their own right.

This occasional series of articles will inform readers of opportunities for philatelic re-search in their own backyard. It begins in the center of the state (with the author’s own university library) and will radiate outward in successive installments. Since most librar-ies now belong to an interlibrary loan service, readers in all parts of the state and nation can have these titles sent to their local library at little or no cost.

ErnestStevensonBirdLibrarySyracuse University222 Waverly Ave., Syracuse NY 13244Reference desk: 315-443-2093Hours recording: [email protected]://library.syr.edu

Bird Library is especially strong in monographs on the stamps and postal history of India. More than a quarter of the titles listed in its collection are not available from the APRL and are marked with an asterisk here. All items are located on the third floor unless stated otherwise.GeneralPhilatelicHoldingsTitlesbyCountryBangladesh: Siddique M. Rahman, Bangladesh Stamps and Postal History (1988, 64p.)

[HE6185.B2952 R34]Canada: *Victor P. Seary, A Postage Stamp History of Canada (1972, 168p.) [HE6185.C2

S4]; Georgette T. Vachon, Goggles, Helmets, and Airmail Stamps (1974, 150p.) [Sci/Tech TL523 .V26]

Dead Countries: Les Harding, Dead Countries of the Nineteenth and the Twentieth Centu-ries: Aden to Zululand (1998, 393p.) [HE6182 .H34]

Great Britain: Robson Lowe, The British Postage Stamp: Being the History of the Nineteenth Century Postage Stamps (1968, 272p.) [HE6185.G62 L6]; Chapman F. D. Marshall, The British Post Office from its Beginnings to the End of 1925 (1926, 354p.) [HE6935 .M3]; L. N. & M. Williams, Commemorative Postage Stamps of Great Britain: 1890-1966 (1967, 207p.) [HE6185.G62 W5]

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Philatelic Holdings — Continued from Page 22Israel: *I. Livni, Livni’s Encyclopedia of Israel Stamps (1969, 254p.) [Oversize HE6185.P14 L55];

*Catalogue of Jewish National Fund Stamps, 1902–1966 (1966, 100p.) [HE6185.P14 J4]Japan: ——. Japanese Postage Stamps (1962) [HE6185 .J352]Nepal: *Tek B. Khatri, The Postage Stamps of Nepal (1973, 176p.) [HE6185.N35 K5]; *Arjun

Shumsher, Ninety Years of Nepal Postage, 1875–1965 (1965, 114p.) [HE6185.N35 A74]Pakistan: Rustam S. Sidhwa, Sidhwa’s Catalogue of Pakistan Stamps, Errors and Varieties,

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South Africa: Eric Rosenthal and Eliezer Blum, Runner and Mailcoach: Postal History and Stamps of Southern Africa (1969, 280p.) [HE6185.A43 S64]

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TopicalTitlesBateman, Robert. Thematic Stamp Collecting (1972, 126p.) [HE6215 .B384]Carto-Philatelists. Map Stamps of the World (1982, 39p.) [HE6183 .M3 M3]

*Gandhi Birth Centenary Postage Stamps (1972, 58p.) [HE6183.G25 G35]Gottfried, Oscar. Doctors Philatelic – Supplement [4th Fl., HQ766.5.U5 C6]Matek, Ord. The Bible Through Stamps (1974, 230p.) [HE6183.B5 M37]Schaaf, William L. Mathematics and Science: An Adventure in Postage Stamps (1978, 152p.)

[Math Lib. QA21 .S35]*Stern, Milton F. Ancient Maps and Explorers’ Routes on Stamps (1964, 22p.) [5th Fl. Z6003

.M3 no.15]*Wilson, Robin J. Stamping Through Mathematics (2001, 126p.) [Math Lib. QA21 .W39]SpecializedPhilatelicHoldings:IndiaStampsandPostalStationeryCooper, Jal. Stamps of India (1968, 177p.) [HE6185.I5 C6]

*Gupta, Surendra P. Specialized Catalogue of Modern Indian Stamps: Post Independence Pe-riod, 1947 to 1982 (1983, 258p.) [HE6185.I52 G86]

*Jain, Manik. India Thematica (1991) [Oversize HE6204.I4 J35]——. Encyclopædia of Indian Postal Stationery (1973, 167p.) [HE6185.I52 J34]Know Your Stamps: Postage Stamps of India from 1852 to Date (1975, 104p.) [HE6185.I5 K56]Suresh, Sushma, ed. Who’s Who on Indian Stamps (1991, 451p.) [HE6185.I52 W46]



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Philatelic Holdings — Continued from Page 24PostalHistoryGiles, D. Hammond. The Handstruck Postage Stamps of India (1960, 256p.) [HE6184.C3 G55]

——. Companion to the Handstruck Postage Stamps of India (1967, 172p.) [HE6184.C3 G54]*Hamilton, Ivie G. J. An Outline of Postal History and Practice: With a History of the Post Of-

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(1983, 62p.) [HE7216.B66 I53]Jatia, D. N., comp. From the Diary of Stephen H. Smith (1980, 61p.) [HE6239.R6 S65]Majumdar, Mohini L. The Postal History of Zemindari Dawk, 1707–1906 (1984, 158p.)

[HE7216.B43 M35]——. Early History and Growth of the Postal System in India (1995, 263p.) [HE7215 .M32]*——. The Imperial Post Offices of British India, 1837–1914 (1990) [HE7215 .M33]Mooss, N. S. The Travancore Anchal (c1973, 221p.) [HE7216.T7 M66]

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Murray Abramson of the Collectors Club spoke on the development of U.S. air-mail service to Africa, Asia, and Oceania.

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from students aged 6 to 14 across the U.S. Entrants drew stamp designs combining philatelic and holiday themes for Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Ramadan, or the holiday that their family recognizes. San Antonio Philatelic Association members selected the winners.Firstplacewinners included Christopher Moore of Brooklyn, 7, Christmas Joy [1], 7, in the 6–8-year-old group; Addie Zoller of Clinton, Christmas Santa [2], in the 10-year-old group; and David Bashe, 15, of Rensselaer, Bad Dog Gets Coal [3], in the 11–15-year-old group.Secondplacewinners included Amber Yarter of Albany, who drew Hanukkah [4], tied with a Winter Park, FL, entrant in the 9-year-old group; Jessica Scoones of Deansboro, who drew Christmas, Kwanzaa, and Other Holidays [5] and tied with a Winter Park entrant in the 10-year-old group; and Sahir Jaggi, 11, of Cohoes, who depicted Hanukkah[6], and tied with a Houston entrant, in the 11–15-year-old group.Honorablemention was awarded to Grace Atik of Clinton, Santa on a Sled [7], in the 9-year-old group.

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Kellas noted that a 10-cent Mariner 10 plate block of four missing ultramarine and bistre (Scott No. 1556b) sold for $2,800 in the same auction. The block originally was part of a sheet of 50 that the late Andy Hale, who owned McLeod, acquired at Ropex in 1975. The block was estimat-ed at $7,000, but realized only $2,800.

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YourOwnMailbox — Most people get stamps every day in their mailbox. Young-sters should ask their parents if they can simply cut around the stamp leaving some enve-lope on each edge.

Grandparents,otherrelatives,andneighbors— Children should write to their grandparents, aunts and uncles to let them know to begin saving the stamps on envelopes too. Close neighbors can be contacted to ask the same.

Vacationers — Children know about their friends’ vacations and should ask for a postcard from those places so a stamp can be gotten. For those who might vacation over-seas, the budding collector would be receiving foreign stamps.

Trading — This is where a youth club really comes into play. Each and every meeting should involve time to trade duplicates. Trading with friends is exciting for the youth.

Internet — Go to Google.com and type in stamp collecting or philately and many sites abound with articles, but better yet, possible dealers to begin doing some business with.

Stamp Shows — Look at local papers and better yet, get a subscription from Linn’s weekly philatelic newspaper, and find out the nearest upcoming shows in your state. At most

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TimeCancelsforthe1�32LakePlacidFDCs

Check your first day covers of the two-cent III Olympic Winter Games stamp issued on Jan-uary 25, 1932 in Lake Placid and you probably will find all are postmarked 10:30 a.m. (1).

Over the past 25 years I have built a large collection of FDCs of this stamp, concentrating mainly on cachets and cachet varieties. I currently have about 100 examples and have found an interesting sideline to collecting the various cachets.

According to contemporary newspaper reports, 75,000 first day covers were canceled. Almost every first day cover seen has the same 10:30 a.m. cancellation time. However, a few covers show a different time cancel. Some covers show three other times: 11:30 a.m. (2), 7 p.m. (3), and 7:30 p.m. (4) I have no explanation for the 11:30 a.m. cancel. However, the 7 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. time cancels can be explained.

I have seen the 7 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. cancels on covers, which had gone through the cancellation machine earlier in the day where the cancel had missed the stamps. I believe that the late time cancels appear on these skipped covers as the post office workers at-tempted to make sure that all covers at hand were truly canceled on the first day of issue.

One of the most unusual first day cancels I’ve encountered has a time of 10 a.m. and the spacing of the wording in the dial is different from the other cancellations (5). The letters in “LAKEPLACID” are run together and there is no space between “N.” and “Y.” A similar machine cancel is known from Lake Placid both before and after the Olympic Games.

It is my belief that the 10:30 a.m. cancellation dial usually found on first day covers was a new machine placed in use for the Olympics. This would make sense: the post office ex-pected hundreds, if not thousands, of covers to be mailed throughout the Olympic period (February 2–14). Having a new machine in place would lessen the possibility of breakdown.

There is yet another 10 a.m. time/dial combination (6). The wording “LAKE PLACID” and “N.Y.” is spaced like the common 10:30 a.m. cancel found on most FDCs. There have been no other reports of this 10 a.m. time used on first day cover. In more than 35 years of collecting this issue, this is the only example of the time that I have seen. I have no explana-tion for this time variety. Perhaps it was an initial test of the new canceling machine before beginning the complete run using the 10:30 a.m. time.

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Georgia“Howled”OverStampwithSherman

When the U.S. Post Office Department issued a stamp on February 18, 1937 (Scott No. 787), depicting Gen. Wil-

liam Tecumseh Sherman, who vowed to “make Georgia howl” with his 1864 March to the Sea, many southerners received it with equanimity. Sherman had once presented the city of Savannah to President Lincoln as a Christmas present,

Col. James W. Culpeper, a member of the Georgia House of Representatives, said acceptance of the stamp by Geor-gians would demonstrate that the wounds of the Ameri-can Civil War “have long since been healed.” William G. Key, a reporter for the Atlanta Constitution, wrote that Sherman was “a man as human as you and I … [with] an intense sympathy for the South.” Key also noted that after his victory over Confederate General Joseph Johnston, Sherman had offered surrender terms so generous that the authorities in Washington refused to honor them.

Others were less sanguine. Even Key was forced to admit that most southerners regarded Sherman as “a blackguard of the first water, who pillaged and burned Atlanta; ransacked Georgia to the sea; ravaged South Carolina and burned Columbia.” A resolution passed by the South Carolina state legislature railed that “the military career of General Sherman is a histo-ry of rapine, carnage, destruction, and murder waged principally against defenseless women and little children.” Other organizations, notably the United Daughters of the Confederacy and various southern veterans’ associations, attempted to organize boycotts of the stamp.

Reaction from postal officials was varied. Atlanta postmaster Lon Livingston told the press that “They [the USPOD] sent them down here, and all I can do . . . is issue them.” Deputy Third Assistant Postmaster General Roy M. North suggested that the protests had backfired and were “great for sales.” Others in the post office attempted to pacify the southern protestors by assuring them that the Sherman stamp was just one value in a series honoring American military heroes, and that next issue would honor Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson.

Far from quelling the controversy, the four-cent Lee and Jackson stamp (No. 788) caused an uproar of its own. That story will be told in the March-April installment of this column. Sources: Culled from contemporary newspaper reports, including “Sherman in Atlanta Again” by William G. Key, Atlanta Constitution (c. February 20, 1937); “The Sherman Stamp,” Oakland (CA) Tribune, February 20, 1937, page 22; and untitled pieces in the Fitchburg (MA) Sentinel, March 11, 1937, page 1; and Florence (SC) Morning News, February, 24 1937, page 3.

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WorriedAbouttheFuture

Recently I had the opportunity to attend a Federation meeting. The meeting was quick, decisive, positive, etc., but left me very worried about the longer-term future

of the Federation. This same feeling has concerned me for some time about the Stamp Insider. This publication has grown to be one of the finest in the philatelic field, but what is its future?

As long as John Nunes is president of the Federation, I am confident we will see a grow-ing vibrant organization. As editor of the Stamp Insider, Al Starkweather will certainly continue to make this a premiere publication. However, with the quality and growth of these entities, comes the greater difficulty of finding comparable replacements when you both decide to go fishing.

I challenge you both to find and develop the replacements to fill your shoes. This, of course, is the primary duty of any great leader — secession planning. It tends to be easily overlooked in a volunteer organization, where enjoyment of the hobby and its people are primary goals. I recognize that some limited work has been done in this area, however it does not appear to meet the potential significant need, and this need grows with the organization.

I must be certain that you understand that I am not a candidate for these positions. My interests lie in different directions. Also, I am hopeful that both of you remain in these jobs for many more years; fishing is really not that great.

AlSwift,Secretary,SyracuseStampClubEditor’s note: I have put a great deal of thought into the future of the Stamp Insider, particularly in ensuring its unbroken continuity. That is why I have appointed an associ-ate editor and a contributing editor, both of whom are familiarizing themselves with the publishing package I use. They also see the page layouts for each issue before publishing.StoryReallyGreatThe story is really great. (Communications, November/December 2006) I put a link to the page on my home page (http://www.ibdcure.org). I had no idea that people wrote in about the postmaster general’s speech and the proposed inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) stamp.

The University of California, Berkeley issued a news release on Sept. 25 with the PMG’s speech: www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2006/09/25_ibd_stamp.shtml. That re-lease also highlights the proposed IBD stamp design that is before the committee as well.

Thanks for everything; this really means the world to me.GideonSofer,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley

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APSChapter1276Meets at 7:30 p.m. on the 1st & 3rd Fridays most months at Glens Falls National Bank Community Room, 13 South St.

Dr.W.R.Hanson,78W.NotreDame,GlensFalls,[email protected],518-798-9592

Directions—CallJoeKopczakbefore9p.m.at518-761-0020

ClubReportDelayed

Club president William R. Hanson was unable to prepare a column for this issue of the Stamp Insider. Watch for more information about the club in the March–April issue

of the journal.

FakeScoutU.S.FirstDayCoversAppearBy Jay L. Rogers © 2006

Scout U.S. first day covers are being counterfeited on a computer and ink jet printer. One dealer has sold at least

10 on eBay during the last year. The 1948 Girl Scout (Scott No. 974) Sanders and Savannah Chamber of Commerce cachets were the targets. In both instances, unused stamps were applied to new cream color envelopes. Genuine covers were scanned and the stamps were removed from the image with a photo editing application. The remaining cancel and cachet, were then printed on the stamped covers.

Low-resolution eBay auction images appeared real and the covers still looked real when I first held them. Howev-er, I wasn’t looking for fakes. A six or 10 power magnifier shows the cachets are composed entirely of small dots of four different colors and the cancels of small black dots — the characteristic signature of an ink jet image. The genuine cachets under the same magnification are continuous and monochromatic.

Similarly, the cachet on a 1960 Canal Zone Boy Scout stamp (Scott No. 151) FDC have been altered and reproduced as a fake FDC of the U.S. counterpart (Scott No. 1145), along with a counterfeit Washington, DC machine cancel. This counterfeit is easy to detect with the naked eye as parts of the cachet design were removed from with the Balboa cancella-tion. Although the U.S. cancel is a counterfeit, this is classified as a fake cover as the cachet does not actually exist on the U.S. covers.

Counterfeiting U.S. cancellations is a Federal crime, while use of the U.S. mail con-stitutes mail fraud. Under provisions of United States Code, Title 18, Part I, Chapter 25, Subsection 503, it is a Federal crime to counterfeit any postal marking.

If you unknowingly bought any of these please be proactive. Notify your Postal Inspec-tor and fill out a PS Form 8165 Mail Fraud Report. Let your dealer know that he has com-mitted a Federal crime. If they came to you via eBay, let eBay know.

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APSChapter37Meets at 7:30 p.m. twice monthly on Fridays at VFW Leonard Post,

2450 Walden Ave., Cheektowaga, except June, July, and August

AlfredCarroccia,152WindmillRoad,WestSeneca,[email protected],716-674-0302

FallStampFestivalSuccessful

The Autumn Stamp Festival was a huge success despite three dealers pulling out at the last minute. Bourse traffic was brisk throughout the day as the nine remaining dealers

reported strong sales. There was strong, quality material, particularly from those dealers specializing in topical stamps and covers.

The club hospitality table received frequent visitors, including people bringing their collections and accumulations for informal appraisals and referral to one of the bourse dealers.

Thanks to Bob Meegan, Tim Cary, and Al Carroccia for manning the club table and thanks to all the dealers. We even signed up a few new members. With the success of the fall bourse it has been decided make the Autumn Stamp Festival an annual event. Origi-nally planned as a three-year trial, it probably will be extended beyond 2008.RecallingtheBlizzardof’77Just as Old Man Winter sets his icy grip on western New York, the city prepares to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Blizzard of ’77. Most club members will remember (or forget?) that perilous last week of January 1977 as the wind blew most of the snow off of frozen Lake Erie and deposited it over the Buffalo area. It was this misfortune that iced, so to speak, Buffalo’s winter reputation.

Regardless of the notoriety numerous celebrations are planned to commemorate the event including a blizzard ball and an exhibit at the Buffalo Museum of Science. Perhaps someone will create a 30th anniver-sary cover with suitable cachet.Programs

Jan. 5 — Monthly AuctionJan. 19 — Exhibiting by Bob MeeganFeb. 2 — Monthly AuctionFeb. 16 — Fundamentals of Stamp Collecting by Al Carroccia

The club commemorated the first anniversa-ry of the Blizzard of ‘77 with a cover issued for the 46th anniversary of the Hamilton– Buffalo Reunion.

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APSChapter7�1Meets at 7:45 p.m. on the 1st Monday September–June at Hamilton Public Library on the Green, 13 Broad St.

BradenHouston,President,2063SpringSt.Hamilton,[email protected],315-824-2237

TheHistoryoftheSt.LawrenceSeaway

At the club’s November meeting, Braden Houston gave a presentation on the his-

tory of the St. Lawrence Seaway. This ma-rine highway of 2,340 miles from Montreal to Duluth, MN, opened the Great Lakes to the world. Here are some interesting facts:

• 1689 — A five-foot deep canal was begun to bypass the Lachine rapids near Montreal. After more than a century of failure, it was completed in 1824;

• 1895 — The first joint U.S.–Canada Deep Waterway Commission was formed to study the feasibility of a Seaway;

• 1932 — Canada and the U.S. signed the Great Lakes–St. Lawrence Deep Waterway Treaty, but no action was taken. The U.S. Senate objected as a Seaway would cut into U.S. railroads’ profits;

• 1954 — Construction began in September;• Approximately 6,500 people living along the St. Lawrence were relocated;• The four-year project employed 22,000 construction workers;• Seven locks were constructed from Montreal to Lake Ontario and six locks

between Lake Ontario and Lake Erie. Canada owns 11 of the 13 locks;• Profits were shared proportionately;• Locks are: 766 feet long, 80 feet wide and 30 feet deep;• Twenty million gallons of water fill a lock in nine minutes, and it takes approximately

45 minutes for a vessel to transit a lock, including approach and departure;• A lock can accommodate 32 large vessels a day;• Approximately 4,000 ships pass through during the shipping season of March to

late December;• Fifty percent of the shipping traffic is from Europe, the Middle East, and Africa;• Lock fees are based on type of cargo per ton;• 1978 — The Canadian Seaway became self-sufficient due to tolls and investments;• 1984 — The Seaway celebrated its 25th anniversary and President Reagan

declared it the Year of the Seaway; and• The Great Lakes and St. Lawrence are now branded Highway H¤O. So

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APSChapter11�6Meets at 2 p.m. on the 3rd Sunday at Dansville Town

Hall, 14 Clara Barton St., September through June

SusanEdwards,P.O.Box574,Dansville,[email protected],585-335-8663

DansvilleAreaCoin&StampClub

RareWashingtonButtonShownatMeeting

President Ed Perry called the regular monthly meeting of Dansville Area Coin and Stamp club to order on November 19 with 31 members present. We had a good turn-

out for the meeting because one of our life members made a presentation. In his spare time, Dennis Gould of Dansville does metal detecting. He has found a 1789 George Washington inaugural button. There were eight of these known in the country and this one makes nine. It will be featured in Treasures magazine’s December issue. This was found with a metal detector in the village of Dansville at the site of the 18th century Hartman Inn, which is no longer standing. It is bronze and valued at $12,000.

The George Washington Inaugural button is listed as No. WI 8 in Alphaeus H. Al-bert’s Record of American Uniform and Historical Buttons. In 2003, two of them were sold in Stack’s auction of the J. Harold Cobb collection of Washington Inaugurals, and each brought $12,000.OfficersReëlectedWe had our election of officers and they all remained the same: Edward Perry, president; David Wilkinson, vice president; Susan Edwards, secretary and editor; and Gerald Free-man, Jr., treasurer.

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APSChapter237Meets at 8 p.m. (doors open at 7) the 3rd Tuesday at Five Star

Bank Community Room, 351 N. Main St. (rear entrance)Stamp circuit available

AlanParsons,809HolleyRoad,Elmira,[email protected],607-732-0181

StepexFeaturedinSeals’Publication

Stepex 2006 was the subject of an illustrated article by Florence Wright of Rochester in the fall 2006 issue of The Seal News, official publication of the Christmas Seal & Charity

Stamp Society. The illustrations show Florence with her three-frame display exhibit, What Are Christmas Seals, at Stepex, where it received a silver award.

The annual show at Arnot Mall, Horseheads, marked our 31st consecutive year at this location. Although we were forced to move to a different location within the mall at the last minute, the show still generated good results compared to 2005. There were 22 exhibits in 54 frames, compared with 15 exhibits in 45 frames in 2005. Club members exhibiting increased from seven to eight and youth exhibitors from two to five. Ballots for the most popular exhibit doubled from 32 to 64. Sales of our show cover honoring Watkins Glen State Park’s centen-nial substantially increased and almost sold out; approximately 140 were sold. At least 100 requests for the cancel were received by Elmira Post Office within the 30-day grace period.

Members, Clayton Spangenberg, Gordon Stratton, and Randy Smith, as well as prospec-tive member Lou Devillers, joined the APS in response to its fall 2006 membership drive.

Dues for 2007 of $10 for adults and $5 for youth should be paid to Harold von Hagn at meetings or mailed to him at 9 Cobbles W., Elmira, NY 14905. Make checks payable to Elmira Stamp Club.Programs

Jan. 16 —Auction Feb. 20 —Slide program: Errors, Varieties, Freaks and Oddities on U.S. Stamps

MeetingNotesOctober — 18 attended. Don Dolan gave his treasurer’s report for the third quarter; Judy Stewart solicited sign-ups for our annual awards banquet at El Monte Inn on October 21; and Alan Parsons reported on Stepex. The meeting concluded with the APS slide program, Postal Rarities from the National Postage Stamp Collection.November — 24 attended. Marlin Stewart reviewed the new Encyclopedia of United States Stamps and Stamp Collecting published by the United States Stamp Society, and recom-mended it highly. Parsons presented Stepex awards to two youth members, siblings Michelle (gold) and Ben Smith (silver), who were unable to attend the banquet. He also distributed copies of the APS press release on the Florida absentee ballot inverted Jenny franking, stimulating lively discussion. Auctioneers Don Dolan and Mike Breed called a Super Auction of 36 lots, selling 11 for gross of $269.50. The club took in $28.95 from commissions and sale of a single club lot, and the consignors went home with $240.55.


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OnceaVillage—NowaStationBy Maris Tirums

Kingston is one of the oldest cities in New York State; only Manhattan and Fort Orange (Albany) were settled earlier. Located in Ulster County on the west side of the Hudson

River about midway between New York City and Albany, it was originally settled by Dutch people. Kingston was founded in 1652 although Dutch lived in the area before that year.

At about the same time in 1614, a Dutch trading post was established at Rondout. Rondout was a separate community on the Rondout Creek several miles southeast of Kingston. A steep hill separated the two communities with Rondout being by the Creek which shared its name and Kingston being on the higher ground. As time went by, both towns became larger until there was no empty land between them.

The post office at Kingston was founded on June 12, 1792, and the Rondout post office was established on March 1, 1832. Cancellations from the 19th century are relatively com-mon from both towns as both were prosperous and active areas from which a fair amount of correspondence emanated.

The first illustration is a U.S. postal card Scott No. UX8 postmarked RONDOUT / DEC 7 / 130PM /1886 / N.Y. with a duplex canceler. The card is addressed to Griffins Corners in Delaware County. The second illustration has an altogether different cancella-tion which reads KINGSTON, N.Y. / OCT 30 / 130A / 1909 / RONDOUT STATION on a postal card UX19 addressed to Esopus.

On April 30, 1895, the post office at Rondout was discontinued to reflect the annexa-tion of Rondout into Kingston which had occurred 23 years earlier in 1872. Then on Janu-ary 1, 1898, it was reopened as a station of the Kingston post office. Thus we see cancella-tions with RONDOUT STATION in the killer bars.

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APSChapter42�Meets at 8 p.m. on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays at the Sawdust Cafe, New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva

JamesDarnell,136LockSt.,Clyde,[email protected],315-923-7355

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At a recent meeting, our present officers were reëlected for 2007. Returning are Don Grover of Fairport for his second year as president, Dave Himes of Newark for his

second year as vice president, Shirley Stowell of Newark for her first full year as treasurer, and Jim Darnell of Clyde for his fifth year as secretary.

Our planned club trip to the American Philatelic Center in Bellefonte, PA, was post-poned. Members had their bags packed when unforeseen circumstances intervened. We will try again later.

Many club members were pleased to receive greetings from Antarctica mailed by member, John Bourke. John left for Antarctica on November 21 and stayed for about three weeks. Dur-ing that time he was able to post letters to members remaining in warmer climes.

Stamp club member Jim Darnell was instrumental in arranging a display of interest-ing philatelic items at the public library in Clyde. The display was enjoyed by the public during October — Stamp Collecting Month. It included a display of the tools of a stamp col-lector and some philatelic history, including stampless covers and stamps ranging from a Penny Black to personalized photo stamps. Also displayed were the various types of collections, including country collections, topicals, first day covers, etc.

After our December 13 meeting we enjoyed our annual Christmas get together. Every-one brought ample amounts of different Christmas treats to the party and all were able to fill plates with goodies to bring home afterwards.Programs

Jan. 10 — Linn’s Stamp Poll Jan. 24 — APS slide show Feb. 14 — Philatelic Show & Tell Feb. 28 — Stampo: Philatelic Bingo


APSChapter13�IncorporatingWomen’sSealandStampClub

Meets at 7:30 p.m. on the 2nd & 4th Tuesday at Bethany Reformed Church Community Center, 760 New Scotland Ave., Albany

MarisTirums,P.O.Box5475,[email protected],518-438-1657

TongaandIrelandProgramsPresented

The club had the good fortune on October 10 to host well-known speaker Steve Gray, who presented an historic, geographic, cultural, and philatelic story of Tonga, the

Friendly Islands. Tonga is the only monarchy in the Polynesian chain. On October 24, Tom Hanley, the capital

region’s best known Ireland collector, gave a very well assembled talk on The First Irish Overprints. In the early years of the Repub-lic, Ireland used British stamps up until February 1922. However, before the pro-visional government could have stamps designed and printed, existing British stamps were overprinted. These stamps, Scott numbers 162, 7779, and 9395 have proven difficult for the average collector to identify. Tom managed to simplify the pro-cess by identifying printers, watermarks, and subtle differences in the overprints.

On November 14 we hosted the Tri-Club Auction, (Fort Orange, Uncle Sam, and Sche-nectady). This was one of the best-attended auctions in recent memory. A quantity of very attractive items and collections encouraged lots of active bidding. Through donation lots and commissions, the club realized about $90. Thanks to all who attended.Programs

Jan. 9 — Single Page NightJan. 23 — Something from Albany by Jack HaefeliFeb. 13 — Norman Rockwell on Stamps by Vicki MillerFeb. 27 — APS slide program: In Violation of the Rules by Stephen Suffet

HowManyWordsCanYouMake?By James Darnell

Try to make as many words as you can from the letters in the word stamp. If you allow (1) no plurals, (2) no proper nouns, and (3) no abbreviations, I found that you should

be able to get 24 words. See answers on next page.

Tom Hanley

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APSChapter1227IncorporatingCommunityStampClub

Meets at 7 p.m. on the 4th Thursday except July and August at Rome Municipal Building, Second Floor

LaviniaA.Tilton,8081PasserRoad,Blossvale,NY13308-2232315-337-8841

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The club has elected new officers for 2007. They are Don Luzack, president; John Ba-ran Jr., vice president; and Patricia Hash, secretary. Lavinia A. Tilton was reëlected

as treasurer. The annual Christmas party was held on December 7 at Bucky’s Restaurant in Rome, with 18 members and guests attending and having a good time.

Joe and Yon Christofaro were in Texas on December 8 to see their daughter, Emily, graduate from Air Force basic training at Lackland Air Force Base.Program

Jan. 25 — APS slide show TBA

You May Notice Something Missing — The Date

Scotia’s post office, a branch of the Schenect-

ady post office, used a Holi-day on the Avenue cancella-tion on Sunday, December 3, 2006, that did not bear the date. On Monday, December 4, I stopped at the main post office in Schenectady and asked the customer relations representative about this and was told that first-class mail cannot be left in the Scotia office overnight, but is brought to the large Albany mail processing facility in the town of Colonie. Although a date was included in the previous years’ special post-marks, a decision was made to use a canceling device without a postmark date this year.

Is anyone aware of this being done elsewhere? The Saratoga Springs Victorian Street-walk cancellation shown here is dated as it was issued on Thursday, November 30, as is the Troy Victorian Stroll’s Sunday postmark shown on page 59.

—RonaldRatchford

StampWordsSolution• One-letter -— a (1)• Two-letter — am, as, at, ma, pa (5)• Three-letter — amp, asp, apt, map, mat, pas, pat, sap, sat, spa, tam, tap (12)• Four-letter — mast, past, spam, spat, tamp (5)• Five-letter — stamp (1)

Scoring23+ words = super; 21–22 words = good; 19–20 words = average; 18 or less = nice try


APSChapter11�3Meets at 7 p.m. on the 3rd Wednesday except July and August;

contact John A. Cali for location

JohnA.Cali,613W.4thSt.,Fulton,[email protected],315-592-4441

ClubContinuesToRotateMeetings

The Fulton Stamp Club is continuing its rotating meetings at various members’ homes. These meetings occur on the third Wednesday of each month except July and August

at 7 p.m. Anyone interested may contact the secretary.A planned publicity blitz is expected to occur sometime between the reading of this page

and a future issue. The previously mentioned pictorial cancel to mark our 25th anniversary as an American Philatelic Society chapter has been submitted to the U.S. Postal Service, with another expected in the summer. This endeavor and the cachet sales that are projected should allow us to continue operation in the black for a while longer. Our membership has been renewed with APS and we expect a continued relationship. Time will tell whether our efforts will provide us with the needed membership to continue serving the community.RecallingaForgottenIndustryFlour mills were once a thriving industry in central New York, but declined when better transportation and larger operations made the smaller operations redundant. One such business in Fulton was described in Land-marks of Oswego County New York, edited by John C. Churchill, assisted by H. Perry Smith and W. Stanley Child and published by D. Mason & Company of Syracuse in 1895:

“In 1856 the Riverside Mills, then known as the Oswego River Mills, were built on the site of Quartus Rust’s blacksmith shop by H. H. and H. N. Gilbert, who were succeeded in 1857 by Van Wagenen & Gilbert. They were burned in 1861 and rebuilt by H. H. Gilbert, who named them the Empire Mills. Afterward they were owned in part by H. N. Gilbert, Rufus Downs, and I. A. Graves, and in 1869 became the property of William G. Gage and D. M. Perine, who were succeeded in 1871 by W. G. and F. A. Gage and E. J. Carrington as Gage, Carrington & Co., who rebuilt them. In 1874 the firm of W. G. Gage & Co., composed of W. G. and F. A. Gage and Orrin Henderson, was formed and became the proprietors, and the name was changed to the Riverside Mills. W. G. Gage died July 5, 1893, but the firm style remains unchanged. This was one of the first flouring mills in the county to discard the old stones and adopt the roller process for grinding. They grind 500 barrels per day, and have an elevator with a storing capacity of 70,000 bushels of grain. William G. Gage formed a partnership with Chauncey B. Hancock in 1857 and engaged in grocery business on Oneida street.”

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APSChapter210Meets from 7:30–9:30 p.m. on the 2nd & 4th Wednesday

in Room 384, Morrison Hall at Cornell University

YoramB.Szekely,104KlinewoodsRd.,Ithaca,[email protected],607-257-5346

What’sonOurMinds—Part2

Along with APS sales circuits and our monthly club auctions, kiloware mixtures have been an important source of stamps for our members. In recent years we have been

fortunate to secure a source that provides us on average with six or seven shipments each year. Since most of our members collect specific countries and/or topics and look pri-marily for recent issues in these areas, these mixtures offer many advantages. The typical shipment contains stamps from several countries, invariably including at least a few of the more popular ones. Within individual country lots there is usually good variety and multiple copies, sufficient to satisfy both country and topical collectors.

Kiloware offers an excellent way of purchasing individual stamps at the low- to medium-price range, the type of material our members are primarily seeking. Prices typically range from three cents to $1 per stamp, a small fraction of Scott catalogue values. Higher-priced stamps are offered occasionally, but even they are priced at a significant discount from Scott. Unit pricing adds to the attractiveness by sparing us the labor of looking up individual cata-logue valuations. Kiloware is probably one of the few ways of obtaining individually a large variety of low- to medium-priced stamps. Most mail order and bourse dealers cannot afford to offer such low-value stamps individually for obvious economic reasons. The few who do offer them do so at considerably higher prices, often approaching full catalogue value.

Kiloware mixtures also appeal because they contain predominantly issues of recent years and thus provide a good way of keeping one’s collection up to date. Lots and collec-tions, which offer the only other way of acquiring stamps at a comparably low per unit cost, typically do not contain many recent issues.

Finally, sorting through mountains of stamps in pursuit of those elusive couple of stamps still needed to complete the album page, or of bargains to replenish one’s trading stock, has provided our members many hours of sheer philatelic fun.

Naturally, mixtures are not totally problem free. The stamps are almost always on paper and must be soaked off; the more one buys, the more time consuming this becomes. Compo-sition of individual shipments can vary in terms of the number of different countries repre-sented and the variety within those lots. Different members look for different things, and it happens that some come away from a given shipment disappointed. Excessive duplication can be particularly frustrating. Still, these issues are relatively minor and far outweighed by the many benefits. In our experience, there has been no better way of obtaining a steady stream of desirable modern material at moderate prices. Kiloware mixtures have become one of our main activities. They keep our members interested and thereby help to keep our club going.

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APSChapter1334Meets at 7:30 p.m. on the 1st Tuesday at the Tillapaugh home,

28 Pioneer St., Cooperstown, except in July and August

EllenTillapaugh,28PioneerSt.,Cooperstown,[email protected],607-547-5646

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The Leatherstocking Stamp Club will have its annual holiday party from 1 to 3 p.m. on January 7 at the Cooperstown Fire Hall.

ProgramsFeb. 6 — How to Make Your Own Pages: members will share pages they have createdMarch 6 — TBA by Bill Highfield

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Former Olympic swimming champion Donna de Varona and former Postmaster General Benjamin Franklin Bailar have been appointed to the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Commit-

tee, which recommends the subjects to appear on U.S. postage stamps, Postmaster General John E. Potter has announced. Bailar is the first former PMG to serve on the committee.

Donna de Varona, at 13, was the youngest competitor at the 1960 Rome Olympic games. Within the next four years, she won 37 national swimming championships, broke 18 world-swimming records, and won two Olympic gold medals at the 1964 Tokyo Olympic games. In 1965, she joined ABC Sports to become the first woman network television sports broadcaster. In 1968, she was the first female commentator at the Olympics.

She has served in advisory positions to five U.S. Presidents since 1966, and has also worked with the Special Olympics since its inception. As a consultant to the U.S. Senate from 1976 through 1978, she helped pass the 1988 Amateur Sports Act and landmark Title IX legislation that no one, based on gender, can be denied participation in any educational program — in-cluding sports programs at educational institutions — that receive direct Federal aid.

De Varona serves on a Senate-appointed committee to restructure the U.S. Olympic Com-mittee. Earlier this year she was reëlected as a select director of the board of the U.S. Soccer Foundation. She was inducted into the Women’s Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls on Oct. 4, 2004,

Bailar joined the Postal Service in 1972 as a Senior Assistant Postmaster General. He became Postmaster General in 1975 and left in 1978 to return to private business.

An avid postal history collector, Bailar maintains a comprehensive collection of Benja-min Franklin postal history that includes two Postmaster’s Commissions signed by Frank-lin, envelopes franked by Franklin, a letter addressed and franked by George Washington to Franklin, and several examples of the first U.S. stamp, the five-cent 1847 Franklin. His collection was showcased during the Washington 2006 World Philatelic Exhibition. He is also a member of the American Philatelic Society, the Collectors Club of Chicago, the Col-lectors Club of New York, and a trustee of the Philatelic Foundation of New York City.

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Plattsburgh,NewYorkMeets at 1 p.m. on the second Saturday of each month in the second

floor meeting room of Plattsburgh Public Library, 19 Oak St.

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Early last year, the price of mailing a one-ounce letter in the United States rose from 37 to 39 cents and probably soon will increase to 42 cents. Inflation keeps hitting us in

the pocketbooks little by little as the years progress.The lowest Express Mail rate for up to a half-pound increased to $14.40, which trans-

lated into a new Express Mail stamp that is the highest face value U.S. postage stamp issued in the 160 years of stamps available to the general public.

However, a $14.40 stamp comes nowhere near meeting the criterion for a small collec-tion that you could create: Stamps With A Denomination Greater Than One Million.

Most stamp collectors are familiar with the inflation stamps issued by Germany in the 1920s. However, there are also inflation stamps with denominations higher than one mil-lion from many other countries including China (1940s), Danzig (1920s), Greece (1940s), Poland (1920s), and Hungary (1940s). Even in the 1990s, inflation plagued Yugoslavia, Angola, Turkey, Turkish Cyprus, and Zaire. Each of these countries issued stamps with million plus denominations.

The three stamps shown in the accompanying illustration have the highest denomination of any of the inflation stamps. The stamps read 50,000; 100,000; and 500,000 billio’-pengo and were issued in 1946. However, billion in European terms is really trillion in North Ameri-can terms, so the true denominations are 50 thousand trillion (50,000,000,000,000,000), 100 thousand trillion (100,000,000,000,000,000), and 500 thousand trillion (500,000,000,000, 000,000). Nonetheless, in terms of exchange rates, the stamps were really worth just a few pennies in American money in 1946.

We won’t have to worry about million dollar stamps from the U.S. for a few more years, or, at least, let’s hope we don’t!Programs

Jan. 13 — Linn’s 2006 Stamp PollFeb. 10 — 1932 Winter Olympics


APSChapter1442Meets at 7:30 p.m. on the 2nd Monday at the Elks Club, 209 W.

State St. (Entrance is from the parking lot on the 2nd Street side)

JackSearles,733FrontSt.,Olean,[email protected],716-392-1072

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Burning Well, Hutchins, Olivedale, Guffey, Indian Creek, Rixford, Duke Center, Myr-tle, Haymaker, Bingham, Aiken, Alton, Taintor, Kanesholm, Wetmore, and Allegany

Bridge cancellations on cover are recent acquisitions by Ron Yeager in his search for McK-ean County postal history, and presented at our October meeting.

In 1799, Thomas McKean became Pennsylvania governor. At the time there was a land dispute with Connecticut for 70 miles on the border between Pennsylvania and New York. McKean settled the dispute, encouraged settlement, and organized the government under Pennsylvania law. In 1804, he established Kean County. Cerestown was the first post office established — in 1817. Prior to this, the nearest post office was 140 miles away, at Miles-burg, PA. Early mail was delivered from Williamsport, but not always on a regular basis.

The 1810 census showed 142 residents in McKean County. In 1870, there were 8,826 peo-ple. By 1880, the population had increased to 42,578, due largely to the discovery and produc-tion of oil. The first drilled well at Titusville in 1859 sparked oil fever in northwest Pennsyl-vania. There were only 17 producing wells in the Bradford Oil District in 1875, but discov-ery of more, higher quality oil, coupled with better drilling methods, led to an increased production of more than one million barrels in 1880, with nearly 4,000 wells in existence. Today, McKean County has about 45,000 resi-dents, and still is involved in oil production.

Ron’s presentation, including other paper material related to McKean County history, was a good example of how one occasionally can fill a lot of holes in a hurry, but in most cases, one is lucky to find one example in perhaps several years to add to one’s collection! NewOfficersIn November, a slate of officers for 2007 was presented: Steve Teachman, president; Les Crane, vice president; Richard Heiser, treasurer; and Jack Searles, secretary/newsletter editor.ProgramsJan. 8 — What and why do we collect? Everyone should be prepared to say a few words about what, when, why they collect; their goals; what they propose to do with their collec-tion when they come to the last page. Do they expect to ever stop collecting? How has their collecting changed over time? Please bring in an example of your specialty.

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APSChapter72�Meets at 6 p.m. on the 4th Monday at Faith United Church,

12 Mark Fitzgibbons Drive

LeighLeClair,212MurraySt.,Oswego,[email protected],315-342-5653

ClubDiscussesMergerWithFulton

Discussion at a recent meeting included talk of a merger with the Fulton club, which has dwindled to a handful of members and currently has no meeting place. Oswego

members in attendance had no opposition to the idea. Some Fulton members expressed concerns about losing the autonomy of the group and transportation.

The club held its annual holiday celebration at Canale’s Restaurant on December 18. The party was also a bon voyage event for our snowbird members. Topic for the Janu-ary meeting will be watching a History Channel DVD presentation on stamps that was recently received by John A. Cali. Oswego President Leigh LeClair suggested that the club create a historical calendar and sell it as a fundraiser.OswegoPrecancelsPrecancels, stamps that are cancelled before mailing, were available to mailers of large quantities of mail or printed items. Many businesses and advertisers took advantage of the reduced rate offered by the U.S. Post Office Department for sorted/precancelled third class mail. The use of precancels in-stead of hand cancels for large mailings also saved postal employees time.

The first cover, mailed by Frederick Fen-ske, advertised Philco radios, Maytag wash-ers, and General Electric refrigerators. It was mailed with a one-cent Franklin type 531 precancel. Precancel types are generally de-termined by text style and variations such as N.Y. or NY, etc. and the width between the parallel cancellation lines.

The second cover, used by Schine’s The-atre, also bears a type 531 precancel on Scott No. 899. This cover also carries other adver-tising on the reverse. Schine’s theater was mailing at a reduced rate and they were likely selling ad space on their envelopes as well. A clever business practice indeed.


APSChapter207www.geocities.com/rpastamps

Meets at 7 p.m. on the 2nd & 4th Thursday at Twelve Corners Presbyterian Church, 1200 S. Winton Road

JosephDoles,P.O.Box10206,BrightonSta.,Rochester,[email protected],585-621-3012

APSCircuitsCaterToSpecialInterests

A part of every RPA meeting is the APS cir-cuit books coordinated by Ray Stone. If

you have any special interests, let him know and he will try to have books sent which will match your needs. Shown are, from left, Stone, Jim Piecuch, and Jim Trenton.SilentAuctionsAll members are encouraged to bring up to seven items for the silent auctions held at most meetings. No fees are charged for this activity, although donation lots to benefit the association are always appreciated.Programs

Jan. 11 — Ray Stone will have another of his very popular stamp quizzes.Jan. 25 — Rick Kase will present a program on early U.S.

revenue stamps. Feb. 8 — Swap & Sell Social NightFeb. 22 — The Evolution of the Mails and Postage Stamps by

Tom Fortunato.Tom has been working on this web presentation for some time.

The members of the Kodak Stamp Club had a chance to preview and critique Tom’s efforts at their November meeting. Many thoughts were exchanged. It is an exciting program and will hold everyone’s interest whether a novice collector or a well seasoned philatelist.

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Mercer Bristow, director of the APS expertizing service, has declared the Inverted Jenny that turned up on a Broward County, Florida absentee ballot during the November

election season an “obvious” forgery. The real Jenny is perf 11 and was engraved, while the Florida specimen was perf 10, lithographed, and probably ungummed as it was taped to the ballot. Postal inspectors have decided that there is not enough evidence to open a rev-enue fraud investigation. Florida elections law requires that absentee ballots be retained for 22 months after an election; Broward’s supervisor of elections has indicated that once that deadline is past, the county probably will donate the ballot to the National Postal Museum.

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APSChapter153Meets at 7:30 p.m. on the 1st Monday

at Union Presbyterian Church, 1068 Park Ave.

RonaldK.Ratchford,1105UnionSt.,Schenectady,[email protected],518-374-3776

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John J. Nunes provided some significant news concerning the opportunity to dispose of a substantial stamp collection for Charles H. Boucher of Scotia at the December 4, 2006

meeting. Apparently, Boucher’s father was once associated with the Schenectady Stamp Club and desired that the club be involved in the dispersal of his collection. Ten percent of the proceeds will to go to the club and the remaining 90 percent of the proceeds will be divided equally between the Sunnyview Hospital Sunshine Fund of Schenectady and the Clothe-a-Child organization of Troy.

Nunes and Dr. Joe Rudnick were involved in breaking up the collection and also in promot-ing an interest in the sale of the stamps. Numerous lots were sold at the November 14 Tri-Club auction. The two principal buyers were from the Boston area and apparently planned to ship the choice philatelic items to China for resale.

As of the December 4 meeting, proceeds from the col-lection were more than $3,197. Items valued at more than $1,125 were still awaiting sale. Special thanks go to Boucher and also to Nunes and Rudnick for their help in this regard. The club’s share of the proceeds will be a substantial addi-tion to the treasury. Nunes has asked Steve Gray to send a thank you message on behalf of the club to Boucher.

This was also the single-page night for members; the ex-hibits followed the formal meeting. Bob Scott displayed an album of Canadian stamps. Carl Pieper showed some pages of early German stamps and also his copy of the Michel color guidebook for use with such stamps. Nunes brought various Portuguese stamps bearing the overprint for Madeira. Ron Ratchford displayed some United States covers with mul-tiple postmarks and/or multiple varieties of related stamps.

Waiting for MarthaThe December 9, 1902 Schenectady Daily Union incor-rectly reported that the eight-cent Martha Washington stamp was the first to depict a woman. Queen Isabella of Spain was shown on the 1893 Columbian series.


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APSChapter�14Meets at 7:30 p.m. on the 1st & 3rd Monday except July and August at the Rev. Paul Kroon Center of Messiah Lutheran

Church, 195 Jefferson Blvd., Annadale, Staten Island

CharlesR.Carlson,30HoppingAve.,StatenIsland,[email protected],718-984-7880

MachinMadness

Machins are one of my favorites, but my madness is limited to denomination, color, perfs,and phosphor. I have accumulated a few hundred, although I no longer frequent-

ly get to the UK. The Royal Mail philatelic service has been spotty in providing the varieties listed even in Gibbons, while some they have sent I can’t find in Gibbons. I try to buy the stamps that the Royal Mail doesn’t offer from dealers, but many command excessive prices.

Our other Machin collecting member has them by the thousands, and has still not found every straight edge variety from the early ’90s. I haven’t very many of them either, although I do have most of them in booklets. I’m just reluctant to break up booklets to provide singles for my main collection. I have a devil of a time sorting out the lithographed items from the typogravure. I generally don’t use Scotts to classify my Machins, because I’m not sure their list is particularly authoritative, but neither is Gibbons.

Forget gum varieties. I have enough trouble with printing varieties. I have a lot of Machins mint, but if I wanted to check the gum of every one, I’d be handling the stamps enough to do some damage. I try to limit my madness to what is viewable from the front of the stamp. Not very scientific, perhaps, but it is enough to keep me happy and still playing. I bought a pound of stamps, on paper, recently, and got several hundred Machins, which I am trying to classify to compare with my main collection. I found the 1997 Enschede printing £3, which I had not bought from the philatelic service. The Gibbons price is heading for the sky, and I have not found it locally, so I’ll have to be content with a used example. There’s nothing wrong with used stamps, but an elderly collector once told me that my collection of Sweden was no good because I mixed mint and used on the same page. My Swedish collection is very good. I’m not embarrassed to have a few mint 1858 issues on the same page.

From the pound mixture, I picked up several commemoratives and Christmas stamps from the ’90s. Of the hundreds of stamps with values up to £5 stamps, there was not a sin-gle regional issue, which was interesting to me. Most of our members are not interested in Machins,but finding out something about a non-specialty area is good for philately.

The member who had the $10 State Department official with a facsimile marking sent it to Linn’s Stamp News, which reported on November 27 that it is a late 19th century German forgery. It’s a good thing the forger was honest, because it’s the best forgery I’ve ever seen.

As this is being written in December, we still have one more meeting this year. We usu-ally end the year, and our summers, at a local pizzeria, which has great pizza, but is not conducive to passing stamps around. Strictly a non-philatelic event, but also fun. Having fun is what SIPS is all about. Best wishes for a successful 2007!

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APSChapter1357Meets at 7 p.m. the second Monday, except July, August, October,

at Kanestio Historical Society Building, 23 Main St., Canisteo

SueBabbitt,1990SquareWoodsDrive,Canisteo,[email protected],607-698-2062S

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On October 19, 2006, the Steuben Stamp Club lost one of its charter members and a good friend, Dr. John Kelly, 86, of the Town of Fremont. He was born in Hornell and resided

in the area all his life. Dr. Kelly was a World War II veteran and served with the Army Medical Corps as a surgeon with the 80th Field Artillery with the Army of Occupation in Korea.

He practiced for 35 years as a member of the OB/GYN staff at St. James Mercy Hospital in Hornell and the former Bethes-da Community Hospital in North Hornell, where he also was a past president of the medical staff. During the course of his career he delivered many thousands of ba-bies. Besides himself, his grandfather, fa-ther, three brothers, and several nephews were all physicians.

A member of the club since its incep-tion in 1987, Dr. Kelly was an enthusiastic philatelist who loved sharing his enthusi-asm with his fellow collectors. His sense of humor, generosity and friendship will be greatly missed.

His other memberships included His-toric Hornell, Inc.; the Howard, Almond, Kanisteo, and Canisteo Valley historical so-cieties; the Rochester Memorial Art Muse-um, the Rockwell Museum in Corning; and

the Genesee Country Museum at Mumford. For more than 40 years, he served as a trustee for the Fremont Volunteer Fire Department.

The first executive director of the Bethesda Foundation, Dr. Kelly was also a former member of the Board of Directors of the Hornell Chapter of the American Red Cross, the Hornell Children’s Home and Maple City Savings Bank.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Hornell Area Humane Society, P. O. Box 533, Hornell, NY 14843 or the Fremont Volunteer Fire Department, P. O. Box 462, Ark-port, NY 14807. Burial was in the Bath National Cemetery.

Dr. John Kelly


APSChapter50www.syracusestampclub.org

Meets at 8 p.m. the 1st & 3rd Friday at the Reformed Church of Syracuse, 1228 Teall Ave.

AllenSwift,P.O.Box593,EastSyracuse,[email protected],315-457-3201

Organized 1919APS Chapter 50

AuctionsHighlight2007Programs

Stamps and covers. That’s what the club will see in 2007. A new box of fresh stamps will be tossed on a table every two months at three cents a stamp. After the two

months, the stamps will be bagged and members can take a bag home to review the stamps at their leisure. Also, we expect to have an auction every month. Fifty to 75 lots are usually sold.LifetimeMemberDiesFrederick A. Brunner, 74, of East Syracuse, a lifetime club member, died on October 25, 2006. He had not been an active member the past several years. He was a lifelong Syracuse area resident. He was a tool and die maker with Knise & Krick Company for 35 years, retiring in 1998. Brunner was a member of the Arion Singing Society and a member of St. Stephen’s Lutheran Church.BaileyDonatesCataloguesEd Bailey recently donated a full set of 2006 Scott catalogues. Thanks were expressed from the entire club. Also, John Smigel donated a new copy of the Encyclopedia of U.S. Stamps and Stamp Collecting for our library. Thanks John.PiazzaResignsasVicePresidentandWebmasterDaniel A. Piazza has resigned as vice president and Webmaster of the club.Programs

Jan. 5 — Swap and ShopJan. 19 — AuctionFeb. 2 — Stamps — An American Journey on CD by Jim SteeleFeb. 16 — Members Share Collecting Interests with Allen SwiftMarch 2 — Auction

Auction ActionDick Nuhn displays his auc-tioneer skills while Lewis Jo-sephs displays the item be-ing sold at the November 17, 2006 meeting.

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APSChapter2�2Meets at 7 p.m. except July and August on the 3rd Monday

at Sidney Civic Center, 21 Liberty St.

RobertFinnegan,10O’NeillDrive,Oneonta,[email protected],607-432-8141

PennySaleIsaHit

The Tri-County Stamp Club had its first Penny Sale ever this past November and it was a hit. Members were able to discard duplicates to help others in the club with each and

every item costing a penny. The pennies were thus donated to the treasury of the club. It was fun for all. The club did have a member visit for the evening and he, too, took advan-tage of the penny sale for his wife who has difficulty getting out of the home.

The program for January will be the annual Linn’s Stamp Poll where club members take a look at the various stamp issues of 2006 and vote on their favorites and least favorites, as well as most necessary and least necessary. Stamp designs are also looked over care-fully and scrutinized by its members. This meeting also doubles as the club’s Show and Tell Night where each member brings in one or two items of interest and spends up to five minutes telling about the item and why it is of interest to them. Over the years members have learned many interesting tidbits of information in this format.

The Sidney Elementary School’s Stamp Club will begin its collecting year with Robert Finnegan spearheading some enthusiastic beginners again. He will be working with third, fourth, and fifth graders again this year. The club sponsors a night later in May with his students in attendance to play stamp games and utilize stamp-collecting tools.

At this point in writing the program for February was still being considered and mem-bers will be notified early in January as to the topic for the evening.

Sixty Years AgoSyracuse Stamp Club member Harry A. Dunsmoor, standing left, addresses the club about the 1947 Centennial International Philatelic Exhibition (CIPEX), held in New York City’s Grand Central Palace May 17–25. Dunsmoor received a first award for his exhibit of stampless covers at the show. Ph

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APSChapter240Social hour at 6:30 p.m., meeting at 7 on the 1st & 3rd Tuesday

at Mahr’s Place, 334 First St., South Troy

TerrillS.Miller,P.O.Box335,Troy,[email protected],518-869-6872

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For the 24th annual Troy Victorian Stroll, the Uncle Sam Stamp Club produced two cov-ers commemorating the event. Covers are available at $2 each from George McGowan,

P. O. Box 482, East Schodack, NY 12093-0482.On October 3, the club’s guest speaker was

well-known area philatelist Steve Grey. This year’s subject was Tonga, The Friendly Islands, a monarchy in the Polynesian chain. Tonga consists of 180 islands in three clusters, with Nukualofa as its capital. Collectors like Tonga for a number of reasons, not the least of which is its conservative stamp issuing policy.

We had our annual fall auction on October 17. Many of our members look forward to this event, which is an excellent way to add to their collections, and this year was no excep-tion. Although single items sold well, collections and box lots were very hot items.

November 7 saw member Vicki Miller present a very well done program on Norman Rockwell. Vicki is a member of the Norman Rockwell Museum and has a wealth of knowl-edge and memorabilia of one of America’s best-loved artists. Rockwell also has a long philatelic connection of stamp designs and appearing on commemorative stamps.Programs

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APSChapter1537Meets informally at noon Tuesdays at the Masonic Community Center, 2379 Union Rd., Cheektowaga

JohnL.Leszak,2379UnionRd.,Cheektowaga,[email protected],716-668-2755

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WashingtonFirstof15MasonicPresidents

George Washington is the U.S. General most often depicted on a United States

stamp. While he is frequently remembered as our first president, many United States stamps depict him in a military uniform. Scott No. 1704 is perhaps the best example of this. Scott No. 645 depicts Washing-ton praying at Valley Forge, PA during the Revolutionary War. This same theme was used again for Scott No. 1729, one of the Christmas stamps issued in 1977. Most re-cently, Washington’s military connection is depicted on the 37- and 39-cent Purple Heart stamps.

Fourteen other U.S. Presidents are defi-nitely known to have been Masons: James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, James Polk, James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, James Garfield, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Warren G. Harding, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Tru-man, Lyndon Johnson, and Gerald Ford.

James Madison was probably a Mason, but there is no surviving documentary proof of it. Lyndon B. Johnson took the Entered Apprentice degree in 1937, but never continued to become a Master Mason. In 1988, Ronald Reagan was made an honorary Scottish Rite Mason jointly by the Northern and Southern Masonic Jurisdictions of the Scottish Rite, but he never received the first three degrees of Masonry and had no privileges of Masonic membership. Bill Clinton joined the Masonic Order of DeMolay as a teenager, but never went on to become a Mason.

Abraham Lincoln applied for membership in a lodge in Springfield, Illinois, shortly after he was nominated for the presidency in 1860. Lincoln withdrew his application be-cause he was concerned that it would be construed as a political ploy to win votes. Lincoln told the lodge that he intended to resubmit his application again when he returned to private life.

Washington Masonic Memorial FDCThis special FDC was cancelled on the Ded-ication Day of the George Washington Ma-sonic National Memorial and bears all 12 of the George Washington stamps in circu-lation at the time. The memorial stands on a 36-acre tract above the Potomac River in Alexandria, VA.


APSChapter66Meets at 7 p.m. on the 1st Tuesday of the month (except July

and August) at New Hartford Town Library, 2 Library Lane

JeromeF.Wagner,160ProctorBlvd.,Utica,NY13501-6119315-732-0219

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Ed Hacker will speak on German Semi-Postal Stamps at the January meeting. The Feb-ruary meeting will be announced later.

InterestingCoverThis cover was mailed at the Adrean Post American Legion Air Show in Utica on May 15, 1939 as part of the National Air Mail (NAMW) week, which was celebrated from May 15 to 21. The week celebrated the 20th anniver-sary of the first regular gov-ernment mail flights in 1918.

The cachet was sponsored by the Utica Chamber of Commerce. The six-cent flat plate, bi-colored eagle airmail stamp (Scott No. C23) had been issued on May 14. However, as indicat-ed by the line above the city seal, NAMW covers from Utica were not dispatched until May 19 by feeder service. Many communities in central and northern New York did not have airmail service until NAMW. Commercial Travelers, which co-sponsored the cover with the Utica Chamber of Commerce, was founded in Utica in 1883 and is the oldest insurance company of its type in the United States. The company specializes in accident and health insurance.

GreetingsThe Stamp Insider wishes all of its loyal readers the Hap-piest New Year ever! May your collections ever grow.

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Prestige Covers Shows& Bourses

January12–14—NewYorkCity

Metropolitan Stamp Expo, Hilton Washington Dulles Airport, 13869 Park Center Rd., Herndon, VA. Friday noon–6, Saturday 10–6, Sunday 10–4. John J. Nunes, 518-399-8395, e-mail: [email protected].

12–14—TorontoUnipex stamp show, Rameses Temple Shrine Club, 3100 Keele St. (between Wilson & Sheppard at Maryport). Friday 11–6, Saturday 10–5, Sunday 10–4. Bourse. e-mail: [email protected]; Web: www.unitradeassoc.com/events.htm

21—AlbanyCapital District Stamp Show, Clarion Hotel, 3 Watervliet Ave. 10–4. Bourse. John J. Nunes, 518-399-8395, e-mail: [email protected].

20–21—St.CatharinesSt. Catharines, Ontario, Stamp Club’s 57th Cathex show, Fairview Mall, Geneva St. Saturday 9–5, Sunday 10–5. 14 dealers.e-mail: [email protected]; Web: http://home.cogeco.ca/~stampclub/home.htm

21—CheektowagaBuffalo Numismatic Assn. Monthly Bourse. 10–5. Knights of Columbus, 2735 Union Rd. 716-663-4104. Bill Witschard, 716-826-1242.

28—WestSenecaStamp, Coin, Postcard & Collectibles Show, Harvey D. Morin VFW Post 2940, 965 Center Rd. 10–4. Bourse. Vic-tor Drajem, 716-656-8080.

Suburban Stamps, Coins & Collectibles

Always Buying315•452•0593

Open: Tuesday 10–5, Wednesday 10–7Thursday & Friday 10–5, Saturday 9–1

120 Kreischer RoadNorth Syracuse, NY 13212-3251

Just off Taft Road 1⁄2 mile east of Rt. 81

Mark Szuba Julian Szuba Edward Bailey


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George McGowanCovers and Stamps

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Wannabes — Continued from Page 20and Democratic parties. He was unsuccessful and died a few weeks after the election. By the end of his term, Chester Alan Arthur, a Republican and the 21st president (Scott No. 826), was highly re-garded as an effective leader, yet his name never had appeared on a ballot. He became president when James Garfield was assassinated and, after serving out that term, half-heartedly tried for the nomi-nation, but his party rejected him.

Alton Brooks Parker, who managed Governor David Hill’s cam-paign, later resigned as Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals to accept the Democratic Party nomination in 1904. He was defeated overwhelmingly by Theodore Roosevelt. Nor-man Thomas, an ordained Presbyterian minister working in East Harlem, was the Social-ist Party of America’s presidential nominee six times after Eugene Debs’ death. He ran in every election from 1928 to 1948.

In more recent times, U.S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy of New York (Scott No. 1770) sought the Democratic nomination for president and was assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles in June 1968, moments after declaring victory in the California primary.

One only can wonder if the next author writing about wannabes from New York will include Rudy Giuliani and Hillary Clinton.Editor’s note: All the presidents also appear on the 22-cent sheets (Scott No. 2216–2219).

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The inverted Jenny stamp placed on the election ballot in Florida, wich has proved to be a fake, should be lauded for bringing philately into the national news limelight. If

you’ve watched television at all in the last few months you have likely seen the ads from the U.S. Mint about numismatists. They are clever and humorous, but it makes me wonder why the USPS isn’t doing the same to promote our hobby.

The USPS did make the news recently when it announced that the waiting period for no-table Americans to be pictured on a stamp will change. For the past 30 years, subjects had to wait 10 years after their death before they could be on a stamp. In January, that will be shortened to five years. Postmaster General John E. Potter said this would allow us to “honor a subject’s lifetime achievements while their memory is still relatively fresh in the public’s eye.”

There are both good and bad points to this change. Honoring a person shortly after death will likely ensure that the subject’s families and relatives will be alive to witness and participate in the first day ceremonies. I still think that waiting to honor the subject might be prudent. Is this rule being changed strictly for marketing purposes?

My immediate sympathies lie with the families and proponents of worthy subjects who already have waited nine years to see their loved ones’ achievements recognized on a stamp. Will they be bumped off the new issues list by notable Americans who died more recently?

For example, Alan Shepard, Mercury Astronaut, the first American in space, died in 1998. NASA, his family, and space enthusiasts/astronomers already have waited nine years for him to be honored. There is no question that he is a worthy subject. The list of other notables who died around 1997–1998 include Frank Sinatra, Gene Autry, Roy Rog-ers, and Henny Youngman, to name a few obvious choices. Less popular choices might include Olympic athlete Florence Griffiths Joyner, Congressman/musician Sonny Bono, author James Michener, comedian Red Skelton, and songwriter John Denver.

Will these folks be bumped off the list by the more recent 2001–2002 deaths of Mil-ton “Mr. Television” Berle, Animator Chuck Jones, Peggy Lee, Waylon Jennings, Rose-mary Clooney, football legend Johnny Unitas, or NASCAR favorite Dale Earnhardt, each of whom are worthy of recognition. Will the potential profitability of a NASCAR stamp for Earnhardt lead to him getting a stamp issued more quickly? On the other hand, Dale Evans died in 2001; her husband Roy Rogers, in 1998; now they both could appear on one cowboy/cowgirl stamp together!

Will the change in this rule lead to a flood of commemorative stamps in the next five years now that many more possible subjects are eligible? The new issues have already been an-nounced for 2007 so we will have to wait until 2008 to see if the change has any impact.

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