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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): JavaVino, 579 North Highland Avenue NE, Atlanta, Ga. 30307. Upstairs, stairway in back of room.
MARTA Bus 102 has a stop almost ​in front of JavaVino.
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.
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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.

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.

LeA Coe - Depiction of Women on Early US Stamps
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Mel Coe - Everything I Learned About Perfins....
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Steve Swain - Postal Systems and the Public React to the American Civil War
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Steve Swain - Bittersweet Family Postal History
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​Literature Competition Awards - Club Member Steve Swain

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Congratulations are extended to club member Steve Swain for his October 3, 2020 literature competition awards at the Stamp Exhibition of Southern California (SESCAL) 2020.
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    Steve received a Large Vermeil for "Thrilling Adventures in Stamps Comics - A Look at the Golden Age      of Stamp Collecting and Comic Books", originally published in the November 2017 issue of the                    American Philatelist.  
The article explores a young boy’s or girl’s joy and excitement of combining their        passions for stamp collecting and comic books made available in the early-1950s issues of Thrilling
    Adventures in Stamps Comics. Sheer innocence, educational nuggets and support for good old
    fashion values were offered in each issue. The article’s intent is to provide an opportunity for such dual      collectors of that era to relive a slice of their excitement and for contemporary, young collectors to have      an awareness of how it was in the “golden age.”

Swain - Thrilling Adventures in Stamps Comics
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   ​Steve was also awarded a Large Vermeil for his "Fake Town Spanish-American War Postal History",         originally published in the 3rd Quarter 2017 issue of La Posta, The Journal of American Postal
   History. The article explores the intriguing story of Lytle, Georgia, a town near Camp Thomas, Georgia       of only several shanties and shelters that quickly expanded and flourished due to hastily created
   military training sites associated with the US involvement in the 1898 Spanish-American War.
   The article’s intent is to examine the curious postal history of “Fake Town,” as the soldiers dubbed
   Lytle, given that Lytle was specifically declared in a Post Office Department’s directive as not an
   officially sanctioned military postal facility. Lytle covers, postmarks, cachets and letter contents are pre-     sented to support the unique postal history of “Fake Town.”​

Swain - 'Fake Town' Spanish-American war Postal History
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​British Blooms on Oxford Street
      - Colin Clark

Circular hand stamps have been in use since the beginning of the British postal system, and they continue to be used today. Modern post office counters were equipped with Self Inking Datestamps (SIDs), which did not carry the time, in the mid-1980s. The SIDs are used for all counter paperwork, including pension books.

Trials for SIDs were conducted from 1985, and they became operational from 1987. These counter datestamps became generally used where computerization of counter work had taken place, which was followed by massive countrywide spread from 1993 to 1997. The SIDs are consistently 23 mm in diameter with a fancy “petal-style” edge. This flowering style was largely used from 1987.
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The images below show examples of contemporary SIDs usage.
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​All of the SIDs image examples above are derived from the OXFORD ST SUNDERLAND Post Office, which was a town sub-office. The city of Sunderland is located in the North East of England. This post office was opened in 1892 and subsequently closed on January 19th 2015.

​Newsletters - 2021
Postmark Atlanta January 2021
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Postmark Atlanta March 2021
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Postmark Atlanta February 2021
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Postmark Atlanta April 2021
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Newsletters - 2020
Postmark Atlanta January 2020
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Postmark Atlanta February 2020
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Postmark Atlanta March 2020
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Postmark Atlanta April 2020
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Postmark Atlanta May 2020
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Postmark Atlanta July 2020
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Postmark Atlanta August 2020
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Postmark Atlanta September 2020
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Postmark Atlanta November 2020
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Postmark Atlanta October 2020
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Postmark Atlanta December 2020
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​Newsletters - 2019
Postmark Atlanta January 2019
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Postmark Atlanta February 2019
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Postmark Atlanta March 2019
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Postmark Atlanta April 2019
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Postmark Atlanta May 2019
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Postmark Atlanta June 2019
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Postmark Atlanta July 2019
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Postmark Atlanta September 2019
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Postmark Atlanta October 2019
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Postmark Atlanta November 2019
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Postmark Atlanta December 2019
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​All ​​Newsletters - 2018
Postmark Atlanta Newsletters - 2018
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All ​​Newsletters - 2017
Postmark Atlanta Newsletters - 2017
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All ​Newsletters - 2016
Postmark Atlanta Newsletters - 2016
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All Newsletters - 2015
Postmark Atlanta Newsletters - 2015
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All Newsletters - 2014

Postmark Atlanta Newsletters - 2014
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