News & Events
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.
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……..
BESC Summer Picnic
Date is Saturday July 26, 2008 from 3:30 to 7:00 PM. Richard and Ann Odell are hosting the picnic at their home. The address is 8527 NE 127th St. Kirkland, WA 98034. Use Yahoo or Map quest for driving directions. The club will provide hamburgers, hot dogs, buns, condiments, chips, dips as well as sodas and bottled water. Members are asked to bring (your choice) a casserole, chili, potato salad, fried chicken, a leaf salad, coleslaw, or a pie, cake or cookies. Please coordinate your choice with Richard or Ann. The Odell’s are well known for their hospitality. The Odell’s phone number is: 425-823-8701. Please RSVP.
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. |