At our last meeting of the New York Chapter USPCS on March 9, Dan Ryterband gave a fabulous presentation on his single frame "Civil War prisoner mail" exhibit. The exhibit focused on prisoner of war mail that crossed the lines through flag of truce exchanges, including covers from CSA prisons that traveled northbound and ones from Union prisons that traveled southbound. Dan provided u...
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Civil War Patriotic Labels and Seals
At our last New York Chapter USPCS Zoom meeting on February 9, Chip Gliedman gave us a fascination presentation on "Civil War Patriotic Labels and Seals." While many of us are familiar with printed illustrated Civil War Patriotic covers, Chip showed us a great many examples of covers that had an illustrated label or seal used as a form of patriotic sentiment. Many of these labels showed single an...
Member’s One-Frame Exhibit
We had a great group of presenters at our last New York Chapter USPCS meeting, held on January 12. This was our annual Member's Exhibit and no less than 8 individuals showed a variety of fascinating material. Here is a summary of their presentations:
Wade Saadi showed a number of covers that were free-franked by U.S. presidents, their widows or by other famous people. A highlight was a cover f...
Establishing EDU’s for U.S. Stamps
Henry Scheuer and Ed Siskin were our co-speakers on
December 8, on the topic "The Basis For First Day and Earliest Use
Dates." Ed started out by describing the genesis of this project that
began in the mid-1970s, including the importance of defining what a
first day or earliest documented use actually meant. He then showed a
long list of stamps with designated first days a...
School & College Illustrated Advertising Covers
Michael Heller was the speaker at the November 10 (Zoom) meeting of the New York Chapter USPCS on the topic "College and School Illustrated Advertising Covers, 1851-1869." In the presentation, Michael commented on the history of each of the schools and colleges that were depicted on these early envelopes. It was noted that some of these institutions were eventually merged with other schools ...
FDC’s to Foreign Destinations
Henry Scheuer was our speaker at the October 13 (Zoom)
meeting of the New York Chapter USPCS on the topic "First Day Covers
mailed to Foreign Destinations." As always, Henry provided us with a
fascinating story of the covers he showed that evening, which focused on
FDCs sent to rather uncommon destinations.
Henry started his presentation with a 65 cent Zeppelin FDC mailed to
Peru in 1...
Civil War Postal History
Dan Ryterband, our speaker for March, brought an astounding
array of Civil War postal history material (that were not part of Dan’s
eight-frame Civil War exhibit), essentially covering most every philatelic
aspect of that period of time. This
included Union and Confederate patriotic covers (including rare foreign
destination uses), adversity covers, Confederate Postmaster Provisionals, Unio...
The USA as seen through Postal History
Our speaker for February was Chip Gliedman, who presented a
unique exhibit entitled “The USA as seen through Postal History.” Shown as a large map of the US, the exhibit
included an outstanding cover from every state of the union.
Highlights of this exhibit included: Transcontinental Pony Express cover from San
Francisco to Boston (California, 1861); Carson City straight-lin...
Member’s One-Frame Exhibit
Our January meeting featured the popular Members One-Frame
Exhibit and we had presentations from four members. Michael Laurence presented first with his
exhibit of the ten cent 1869 issue used on postal stationery. He noted that there are only 23 different
known examples of this issue on postal stationery. The exhibit started with four unique Lincoln
imprint essays on different ...
U.S. Revenues donated to the Philatelic Foundation by the National Postal Museum
Bob Rose was our speaker in December on the topic “U.S.
Revenues donated to the Philatelic Foundation by the National Postal Museum.” Bob
started out with a detailed history of the NPM’s effort to sell the millions of
excess revenue stamps it held, including a review of the two Matthew Bennett
revenue stamp auctions. He also showed
an extensive listing of the many thousands of stamps donate...
Parcel Post Postage Due, Postal History
Our November speaker was Wade Saadi, who presented his
wonderful exhibit on “Parcel Post Postage Due Postal History.” Wade first gave us a brief history of the use
of Parcel Post Postage Due (PPPD) stamps and how their use spanned from 1913 to
the 1920s. He then showed many examples of PPPD stamps used for both domestic
and foreign mail.
His domestic uses included: bisected stamp (not ac...
School and College Advertising Covers
Michael Heller was our October speaker on the topic “School
and College Advertising Covers.” He
brought about 60 covers that encompassed a wide range of private schools,
seminaries, colleges and universities, each showing a picture of the school
building and often the surrounding grounds.
The covers were dated between the 1850s and the 1880s.
With each school, Michael gave a brief ...
Exploring the Back of the Book
Roger
Brody presented on June 11 on the topic “Exploring the Back of the Book.” While much of the material represented
various uses of revenue stamps on their original documents, Roger also brought
interesting examples of postage currency and International Reply Coupons.
The presentation began with a number of examples of
revenue stamps used on railroad stock certificates and other docum...
S. Allen Taylor forgeries of U.S. Carriers & Locals, Part II
Our September speaker was Larry Lyons, who presented Part II
of his fascinating talk on S. Allen Taylor forgeries of U.S. Carriers &
Locals. Larry started his talk with an
overview of the early history of individuals who created forgeries or
facsimiles of local and carrier stamps, in order to satisfy the growing
interest in stamp collecting.
Apparently, the collecting of these spu...
Free Franks
Our
May speaker was Ed Siskin, who gave us a fascinating PowerPoint presentation on
“Free Franks”. Ed first defined the
franking privilege and then provided a concise history of such franks. He then
went on to show many free franked covers, ranging from the 17th to
the 20th century.
To
help understand 17th century writing, one of the slides showed the
various 17th century letters corresp...