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Meeting Reminder

Remember that the building where club meetings have been held for the last many years is no longer available.

 

For the near future, meetings will be held on the 3rd Wednesday of each month – EXCEPT FOR THIS MONTH’S MEETING.  The October club meeting will be held

 

TUESDAY  October 20  at

 

Kent Commons.

                                                                                                    

For at least the next several months after the October meeting, we will be meeting at the Tukwila Community Center, which is located at 12424 42nd Ave So. Tukwila—just one mile north of the main Boeing Credit Union office—just across the Duwamish River bridge. We will be meeting on the 3rd Wednesday of the month:

 

November 18, 2009—room A

December 16, 2009—room B (Christmas Party)

January 20, 2010—room B

February 17, 2010—room B

 

 

President's Message 

 

I am happy to report that the Boeing Employees Stamp Club has met the deadline of September 30th imposed by The Boeing Company to remove all of our effects from the Boeing Kent Recreation and Activity Building.  Several other Boeing Recreation Clubs were given deadlines of October 15th due to the impact of the move on their clubs.

 

We have rented a storage unit in Kent in which we have stored three empty cabinets plus our 22 boxes of exhibition frames. and accompanying legs.  The unit costs the club $110 per month.  Hopefully this will be an interim situation.

 

Dennis Fortney is storing the club's philatelic supplies.  Bill Messecar is storing the BESC Library.  Bill Geijsbeek is storing the club's coffee supplies.  All of this is without cost to the club.

 

I want to personally thank Dennis Fortney for packing up the BESC supplies and storing them at his home (at least temporarily).  I want to personally thank Bill Messecar for making an inventory of our club's library and for packing it up and storing it at his home (at least temporarily)..  And I want to thank Bob Stubbs for finding the storage facility, and for helping to coordinate the physical move by Boeing Company movers.  Without the effort of these people, our club would not exist today.  We owe them our heartfelt thanks.  Please thank them when you see them.

 

BESC elections are just around the corner.  The BESC Board is looking for potential candidates for all offices.  Please consider running for one of our offices and for volunteering for one of our appointed positions.  The club will not run by itself.  If we cannot generate enough interest among our members to run the club, then we will not have a club.  Be a PARTICIPANT.

 

Bill Geijsbeek, BESC President

 

 

SEAPEX Exhibit from BESC Club Members

 

Just a quick reminder (in case you have forgotten) to those of you who volunteered to contribute one or more pages to the club exhibit being put together for SEAPEX on Oct 30 thru Nov 1….

 

 

October APS Circuit Books  (thanks Gene Styer)

 

USA              #78-468; J32-68; 035-39; Ducks, Seals  used

USA              #732 AND ON   FULL BOOK  M/U

USA              #65 TO CURRENT, B.PANES; SPEC. H’DLG     M/U  FULL BOOK   

USA              POSS.  WEST INDIES; PHILLIPPINES; HAWAII    MOSTLY USED

G. BRIT         M/U     VICTORIA TO KGVI

CANADA        M/U  FULL BOOK; USED POSTAGE DUES

IRELAND        M – MOSTLY MNH  MANY SETS AND SHEETS    FULL BOOK

NEPAL           #4U; MOST MINT TO PRESENT

1840-1940     “S” COUNTRIES; SALVADOR, SEYCHELLES; SHANGHAI; SOMALIA   

AUSTRIA        MOST MINT - #1000 – B-400  NEW BOOK

FRANCE         B.O.B.    NEW BOOK 712; C5- CB3: J15-52  MOST MINT

IRAN             MOST USED  #53 - #1659

ITALY            NEW BOOK  #52-#774  MOST USED

KOREA          NEARLY FULL BOOK  -  M AND U  #379 – C – 38

LIECHTENSTEIN        M AND U   - SOME SETS  ALL BELOW ½  CATALOG

PORTGUAL AND COLONIES   M AND U  NEW BOOK  ANGOLA, C. VERDE, MACAO, MOZAMBIQUE ETC.

SWISS          MOST USED, #37 - #880  FULL BOOK

TURKEY         EARLY #2-#598; J33-55; P31-173    UNUSED 

 

 

Club Now Paying Shipping Charges for Supplies Ordered Through the Club

 

Reminder:  As noted in last month’s newsletter, members ordering supplies from Dennis Fortney, our supply chairman, will no longer have to pay inbound shipping charges.  The club will underwrite these.  This applies to all supplies including catalogs.  See Dennis for your orders.

 

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.