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The August 2010 BESC meeting will be held on Wednesday, August 18 from 6 to 8pm at KENT COMMONS.  If you have not yet attended any meetings at this location, ask at the desk to find out which room we are in.

 

New Club Members

 

With the club’s decision to leave Boeing Recreation, we have begun signing up new members for the club.  Members new this month are the following:

 

                           Jim Flynn (Seattle)                   Donald Anderson (Seattle)

                     R H Carlson (Maple Valley)                    Paul Craul (Kent)

 

All club members should be encouraged to invite their collector friends to join the club, now that we are moving away from the restrictions on membership imposed by Boeing Recreation.

 

August program

 

There is no speaker or program for the August meeting.  It will be a show and tell meeting – bring something of interest to share with other club members.

 

Note:  Especially now that we are signing up new members to the club, everybody should be thinking about what they can do individually to make club meetings more interesting.

 

Donated Material

 

I will no longer be bringing the material to the club meetings that was donated to the club a few months ago.  What is left I will be giving to Carol Edholm for her youth collectors the next time I see her.

 

As reported in last month’s newsletter, proceeds to the club from the donated material (after my compensation for handling the sales) amounted to nearly $700.  A bit of additional sales since then brings the total to a bit over $700.

 

Another large donation was made to the club just before the July show.  The primary item is a 6-volume Scott International album set covering the years 1940 to 1970.  The albums and pages are in very good shape; but there are not many stamps – probably only a couple of thousand scattered through the 6 large albums.

 

These would be a great gift to a novice collector.  These albums new would probably cost a couple of hundred dollars.  If anybody in the club is interested in making a donation to the club of $50 or $100 for these albums, please let me know.

 

I will bring them to the club for this meeting only – it is a lot of weight to carry around for a small number of stamps.

 

Future Shows

 

As noted in last month’s newsletter, club president Bill Geijsbeek has announced dates for next year’s shows to be put on by the club:

 

Spring 2011 show dates:  APR 16-17, 2011

 

Summer 2011 show dates:  JUL 16-17, 2011


Message from the president

 

BESC JULY STAMP SHOW:

 

The show was uneventful and was successful.  There were 20 dealers which was normal.  Two of our regular dealers went to a Minnesota show instead.  One was ill and we had one new dealer.  Attendance was within normal expectations, but we would also like to see more.  We will probably do a little more advertising for the Spring 2011 show.

 

2010 CHRISTMAS PARTY

 

There will be a Christmas Potluck dinner at our December meeting.  The Parkers have graciously offered to host it again.  PLEASE SAVE THE DATE - DECEMBER 15TH.

 

August APS Circuit Books

 

Gene Styer has provided the following list of APS circuit books to be available at this month’s meeting:

 

U.S. POSS - FULL BOOK - ALL THE PLAYERS PLUS P.RICO “RECTIFIED SPIRITS”

U.S.A. – 19TH C. 182 N.H., 189, 71 O.C.

U.S. – EARLY CANCELS, #397 N.H.

U.S. – EARLY 20TH CENT. AUXILIARY MARKINGS FULL BOOK

GLOBAL - 1840-1940 MECKLENBURG – SCHWEREIN (2 STAMPS)

MEXICO - M/U #174 TO DATE; C 2 XX TO DATE

AUSTRALIA - #1 – 291 USED ALMOST FULL BOOK

LIECHTENSTEIN -USED - FULL BOOK #8 TO CURRENT

SAUDI ARABIA - FULL BOOK #205-7 TO #823

TURKEY - M/U 9XX TO 0-258

GREECE - MINT EARLY TO CURRENT

SOUTH AFRICA - S.W.AFR M/U SOME PAIRS FULL BOOK

ITALY - USED #107 - #701 FULL BOOK

BELGIUM, NETH. & COLONIES - M/U SOUV. SHTS (BELG.)

KOREA - M/U REGULAR, B, C NEW FULL BOOK

GREAT BRITAIN - USED VICTORIA, E VII, G V, G VI SOME PERF. INITS

 

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.