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Welcome  Notes From The Editor
Meeting Reminder….Wednesday, July 9, 2008 6:30 PM at the Kent Recreation Center.
Effective May 1, there is a new combination on the Kent Recreation Center door. We can’t publish the numbers, so call one of the club officers.
We just received a large order of stamp mounts to replenish our supply cabinet. If you need mounts see me (Bill Parker) before the meeting. BESC Summer Show Mark your calendars Saturday July 19, 10 am to 6 pm & Sunday July 20, 10am to 4 pm for the BESC Summer Stamp Show at Kent Commons. Volunteers are needed to make our show a success. Help is needed to assist dealers, to man the club table, and serve refreshments. Sign up to help at the meeting.
July Program: Program for July 9, 2008
Roger Wells….Sharing his father’s collection.
BESC member Roger Wells plans to show his father’s collection and how he developed his own album pages. Your editor asked Roger to write a few words about himself and his presentation. Below is the write-up by Roger.
My father had been a collector all his life. As a child of the depression, he managed with limited expense well into his adult years and only started using professional albums in the 1950s. He was dissatisfied, however, as the general albums provided almost no information about the stamps. Around the mid-1960's, he started designing his own worldwide album to his tastes. Working with the technology of the time, he designed fairly nice, simple album pages using our portable typewriter. The rhythm of his regular typing--especially the few keys he used for the stamp borders--was a constant around the house for years. It took a little over a decade, just into his retirement, for him to complete the albums through the year he started. He then started updating for the stamps issued during those years. However, the flood of stamps was so great he never came close to completing this, to say nothing of those stamps issued in the past few decades.
I started collecting in my youth, encouraged by my father. By the age of ten I had graduated to the Minkus Supreme Global album--it was two volumes back then. Like my father, I was dissatisfied with commercial albums but chose to specialize, instead. For a long while, I specialized in the UN and related--including early Swiss, Netherlands, and French officials for the UN's predecessor, the League of Nations, and League and UN agencies. However, not long after I started, I got discouraged by the sudden flood of new UN issues; especially with the effort required for my pages.
I plan to show mainly how my father decided which stamps to include--up to the end, even with a good, secure income, he concentrated on inexpensive stamps--and how he then designed his various pages. It is an interesting approach that could still easily work either with a typewriter (anyone remember them?) or modern computer printer…….. It’s Your Stamp Club
Let us know if there is something you would like to see covered in the newsletter. Your editor is new at this and is actively seeking new ideas. You can email me at williamc.parker@comcast.net
Stamp Supplies
Your newsletter editor (Bill Parker) aka BESC Vice-President is the person that also handles ordering philatelic supplies (albums, supplement pages, ect.) for club members. Just ask for an order form. All special orders must be pre-paid.
Potpourri The club has purchased a 2008 Scott catalog for the library…See Bob Stubbs. The Club is in need of a Program Chairman, please contact Bill Geijsbeek. | EXPONET - a Virtual Philatelic Exhibition This is a very interesting website. It presents images of a number of philatelic exhibits in their entirety. Your topic may not be represented, but even if there is not be anything that interests you, it is worth seeing. Hopefully this idea will spread and even more exhibits covering more topics will be forthcoming. EXPONET currently shows 154 different exhibits from exhibitors in 25 different countries. You can access it at: http://www.japhila.cz/hof/index.htmThe main (home) page depicts 25 different national flags. By selecting one of the flags you will get a listing of on-line exhibits available from collectors living in that country. Unfortunately, that means that you will have to know your national flags (lucky for me I did recognize the flags from the US and from Canada). But this also means that you do not know where to look to find your area of interest. For example, if you want to see the exhibit on "Argentina's Post - Classic Issues - 1867-1890", you do not select the Argentina flag. You select the Swiss flag because that is where the owner of this Argentina exhibit lives. Thus you really need to scan the entire content of all 25 countries in order to find what's there. But is a manageable, if not well thought out approach. On the plus side, there is no airfare traveling to the exhibit, no travel time, no rental car, no exhibition entry fee, and no gas expense. All from the comfort of your den on a cold, gray winter evening. | Pacific NW Shows See an extensive list of Philatelic Expositions of interest to the Pacific Northwest Stamp Collector. The list includes shuch details, as the show type and location. |
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