Atlanta Stamp Collectors Club
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Meeting Dates: 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of each month (Except December and November election conflicts)
Meeting Times: 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Meeting Location(s): Atlanta-Fulton Public Library, 980 Ponce de Leon Avenue, Atlanta, GA (Back Room)
Officers:
President: Scott Holmberg, MD sdholmberg1@gmail.com
Treasurer: Barbara Asher bjasher@yahoo.com
Secretary: LeA Coe leacoe@bellsouth.net
Contact: LeA Coe
Club History
The club of origin, The U.S. Stamp Club, was founded in the early part of 1947, and originally met at the office of William Naff's Georgia Stamp & Coin Company. The primary purpose of the club was to bring members together on Saturday afternoons for a stamp auction at the stamp shop, obviating the need for a license or licensed auctioneer. The name of the club was changed to its current name to signify the inclusion of collectors of foreign stamps in the membership. In the 1950's the meeting place was changed to Dr. Fowler's office on 8th Street where meetings were to be held for the next twelve years. Other meeting places have included the NBG Building at Pershing Point, the Red Cross Building at 7th and Peachtree Street, the First United Methodist Church of Atlanta at 360 Peachtree Street, All Saints' Episcopal Church at 634 West Peachtree Street.
Meeting Times: 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Meeting Location(s): Atlanta-Fulton Public Library, 980 Ponce de Leon Avenue, Atlanta, GA (Back Room)
Officers:
President: Scott Holmberg, MD sdholmberg1@gmail.com
Treasurer: Barbara Asher bjasher@yahoo.com
Secretary: LeA Coe leacoe@bellsouth.net
Contact: LeA Coe
Club History
The club of origin, The U.S. Stamp Club, was founded in the early part of 1947, and originally met at the office of William Naff's Georgia Stamp & Coin Company. The primary purpose of the club was to bring members together on Saturday afternoons for a stamp auction at the stamp shop, obviating the need for a license or licensed auctioneer. The name of the club was changed to its current name to signify the inclusion of collectors of foreign stamps in the membership. In the 1950's the meeting place was changed to Dr. Fowler's office on 8th Street where meetings were to be held for the next twelve years. Other meeting places have included the NBG Building at Pershing Point, the Red Cross Building at 7th and Peachtree Street, the First United Methodist Church of Atlanta at 360 Peachtree Street, All Saints' Episcopal Church at 634 West Peachtree Street.
Atlanta Club Membership Details
Stamp collectors of all ages, interests, and expertise are cordially invited to join the Atlanta Stamp Collectors Club. The ASCC is the oldest philatelic organization in Georgia and has a membership of about 40 with interests ranging from general worldwide to classic United States to mainly single countries (e.g., Germany, New Zealand, Tonga, etc), and topical collectors (butterflies on stamps, dogs on stamps).
The club meets in downtown Atlanta to chat informally, hold a brief business meeting, and conduct an auction of members' philatelic materials. In addition, a presentation on a stamp collecting topic is given at least every other meeting. Regardless of collecting interests, participation in ASCC meetings is a pleasant and efficient way to increase knowledge of philately and to acquire new material at very low cost. The club auction is the highlight of each meeting and offers many items of interest at low prices. This is an excellent opportunity to acquire new material, and to dispose of duplicates. Membership is $12 a year (prorated), which includes a subscription to the club's monthly newsletter, Postmark Atlanta.
Stamp collectors of all ages, interests, and expertise are cordially invited to join the Atlanta Stamp Collectors Club. The ASCC is the oldest philatelic organization in Georgia and has a membership of about 40 with interests ranging from general worldwide to classic United States to mainly single countries (e.g., Germany, New Zealand, Tonga, etc), and topical collectors (butterflies on stamps, dogs on stamps).
The club meets in downtown Atlanta to chat informally, hold a brief business meeting, and conduct an auction of members' philatelic materials. In addition, a presentation on a stamp collecting topic is given at least every other meeting. Regardless of collecting interests, participation in ASCC meetings is a pleasant and efficient way to increase knowledge of philately and to acquire new material at very low cost. The club auction is the highlight of each meeting and offers many items of interest at low prices. This is an excellent opportunity to acquire new material, and to dispose of duplicates. Membership is $12 a year (prorated), which includes a subscription to the club's monthly newsletter, Postmark Atlanta.
Member Presentations
Several times during the year at regular club meetings, a member will provide a presentation of a favorite stamp collecting topic or interest. Offered here for your viewing and enjoyment are some recent presentations.
Several times during the year at regular club meetings, a member will provide a presentation of a favorite stamp collecting topic or interest. Offered here for your viewing and enjoyment are some recent presentations.
| LeA Coe - Depiction of Women on Early US Stamps |
| Mel Coe - Everything I Learned About Perfins.... |
| Steve Swain - Postal Systems and the Public React to the American Civil War |
| Steve Swain - Bittersweet Family Postal History |
Philatelic Creativity and Fun
- Steve Swain
At the January Southeastern Stamp Expo, fellow club member Richard Benjamin and I were talking about my 1938 National Air Mail Week cover collection and how I had been fortunate to purchase from a dealer at the show two South Carolina covers/cachets for which I had been looking for quite some time. Richard mentioned that he had recently purchased a collection that included interesting cachets on 1938 covers that also used the 6-cent Eagle multi-colored air mail stamp (Scott C23) specifically issued for the 1938 National Air Mail Week celebration. Richard brought the covers to the show the next day for me to examine.
No, they were not covers mailed as part of the April, 1938 national event. The seventy covers were mailed in June and July of 1938. But I quickly agreed on a price for all the covers because they represented a little slice of philatelic creativity and fun.
The covers were mailed to Francis J. Bandi, Bloomington, Illinois, proprietor of Coins, Stamps & Paper Money, according to the address label. Mr. Bandi had identified cities in the U.S. with unusual names, such as England, Secretary, Redcross, Radio, TipTop, Quick, Twin Sisters, Mohawk, New Zealand, Ceylon, Crow, Fork, Corn, and Rat. Mr. Bandi prepared covers having his mailing address and somehow had the covers mailed from the cities with unusual names.
- Steve Swain
At the January Southeastern Stamp Expo, fellow club member Richard Benjamin and I were talking about my 1938 National Air Mail Week cover collection and how I had been fortunate to purchase from a dealer at the show two South Carolina covers/cachets for which I had been looking for quite some time. Richard mentioned that he had recently purchased a collection that included interesting cachets on 1938 covers that also used the 6-cent Eagle multi-colored air mail stamp (Scott C23) specifically issued for the 1938 National Air Mail Week celebration. Richard brought the covers to the show the next day for me to examine.
No, they were not covers mailed as part of the April, 1938 national event. The seventy covers were mailed in June and July of 1938. But I quickly agreed on a price for all the covers because they represented a little slice of philatelic creativity and fun.
The covers were mailed to Francis J. Bandi, Bloomington, Illinois, proprietor of Coins, Stamps & Paper Money, according to the address label. Mr. Bandi had identified cities in the U.S. with unusual names, such as England, Secretary, Redcross, Radio, TipTop, Quick, Twin Sisters, Mohawk, New Zealand, Ceylon, Crow, Fork, Corn, and Rat. Mr. Bandi prepared covers having his mailing address and somehow had the covers mailed from the cities with unusual names.
The cachets? When Mr. Bandi received the mailings, he cut images from magazines, books, posters, etc., that matched/represented the name of the cities from which the mailings came. He then pasted those images on the covers, creating what we call “add on” cachets.
The reason I’m sure Mr. Bandi pasted the images on the covers after he received them is none of the pasted images show ink from the postmark, which would have surely happened if the images had been affixed to the cover before mailing. But even more evidence is that some images were obviously cut to be positioned such as not to overlay or interfere with the postmark and obscure the unique city name. The covers from England, Arkansas (showing the young Princess Elizabeth) and Newfoundland, Kentucky are good examples.
The reason I’m sure Mr. Bandi pasted the images on the covers after he received them is none of the pasted images show ink from the postmark, which would have surely happened if the images had been affixed to the cover before mailing. But even more evidence is that some images were obviously cut to be positioned such as not to overlay or interfere with the postmark and obscure the unique city name. The covers from England, Arkansas (showing the young Princess Elizabeth) and Newfoundland, Kentucky are good examples.
I really don’t have a favorite cover in the group of seventy. They are all quite clever. But, as a stamp collector, I will reserve a prominent place in my collection for the cover from Stamps, Arkansas!
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