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 |
Monaco FDR Stamp is NOT an Error
- Steve Swain
While recently doing some internet research on stamps described as errors, freaks and oddities (EFOs), I was confronted with website after website highlighting and bemoaning the “error” on Monaco’s 1947 50¢ philatelic exposition airmail issue (Scott C16). The National Postal Musuem. Linn’s Stamp News. The American Phillatelist. eBay offerings. Stamp collecting blogs and forums. On and on. “If you get out your magnifying glass to look at this stamp, you will see that President Roosevelt has an extra finger on his left hand. It is an obvious error.”
Shown here is the Monaco issue with FDR’s left hand enlarged. On the enlargement, the presumed six fingers are numbered, with the first finger being the thumb. FDR is using a magnifying glass to look at a stamp he is holding between his thumb (1) and third fingers (3).
- Steve Swain
While recently doing some internet research on stamps described as errors, freaks and oddities (EFOs), I was confronted with website after website highlighting and bemoaning the “error” on Monaco’s 1947 50¢ philatelic exposition airmail issue (Scott C16). The National Postal Musuem. Linn’s Stamp News. The American Phillatelist. eBay offerings. Stamp collecting blogs and forums. On and on. “If you get out your magnifying glass to look at this stamp, you will see that President Roosevelt has an extra finger on his left hand. It is an obvious error.”
Shown here is the Monaco issue with FDR’s left hand enlarged. On the enlargement, the presumed six fingers are numbered, with the first finger being the thumb. FDR is using a magnifying glass to look at a stamp he is holding between his thumb (1) and third fingers (3).
The key to understanding that the Monaco stamp does NOT show FDR’s hand having six fingers is the photograph used to create the stamp’s design, shown below on the left. The image in the middle is an enlargement of of FDR’s left hand holding the stamp. The right most image is the enlargement of the Monaco stamp, previously shown.
The photo enlargement clearly shows that FDR does not have six fingers on his left hand. He has a ring on his little finger (encircled in red). The area to the immediate left of that finger is FDR’s shirt sleeve cuff that has been buttoned and shows creases in the material.
Compare the photo enlargement to the enlargement of FDR’s hand from the Monaco stamp. Same ring on his little finger (encircled in red). No “sixth finger” to the left of the ringed little finger. Instead, it is FDR’s shirt sleeve cuff. The stamp’s engraving process simply was not able to duplicate the clarity of the photograph.
Several years ago, a Linn’s columnist wasn’t satisfied with focusing only on the presumed six-fingers. “Giving the president 11 digits is bad enough,” he wrote. “But having America’s best-known philatelist pick up a stamp by pinching it with his oily fingers? Come on, Monaco — where did you leave his stamp tongs?”
The columnist obviously had not seen the photo used for the stamp’s design. Not only did the photo not show FDR with six fingers on his left hand, he was not using tongs to handle the stamp. Shame on FDR, not the designer of the Monaco stamp!
Compare the photo enlargement to the enlargement of FDR’s hand from the Monaco stamp. Same ring on his little finger (encircled in red). No “sixth finger” to the left of the ringed little finger. Instead, it is FDR’s shirt sleeve cuff. The stamp’s engraving process simply was not able to duplicate the clarity of the photograph.
Several years ago, a Linn’s columnist wasn’t satisfied with focusing only on the presumed six-fingers. “Giving the president 11 digits is bad enough,” he wrote. “But having America’s best-known philatelist pick up a stamp by pinching it with his oily fingers? Come on, Monaco — where did you leave his stamp tongs?”
The columnist obviously had not seen the photo used for the stamp’s design. Not only did the photo not show FDR with six fingers on his left hand, he was not using tongs to handle the stamp. Shame on FDR, not the designer of the Monaco stamp!
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