Atlanta Stamp Collectors Club

The Club meets twice each month: An on-site meeting and a virtual meeting.

First Monthly Meeting: On-site
2nd Sunday of each month
Meeting Time: 3:00 - 5:00 PM

Beginning May 12, 2024:
Meeting Location: Intown Community Church 2059 LaVista Road Atlanta, Ga. 30329

Second Monthly Meeting: Zoom Virtual Meeting
The 4th Monday of each month
Meeting Time: 7:00 - 9:00 PM

Officers:
President: Scott Holmberg, MD [email protected]
Treasurer: Barbara Asher [email protected]
Secretary: LeA Coe leacoe3002@gmail.com

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 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.

Barbara Asher Receives the 2024 APS Nicholas G. Carter
Volunteer Recognition Award for National Service

Congratulations to Barbara Asher as the 2024 recipient of the APS Nicholas G. Carter Volunteer
Recognition Award for National Service.

The award recognized the outstanding efforts of American Philatelic Society volunteers at the national, regional, and local levels, and also recognized younger members whose contributions
and abundant talents are crucial to the future of the hobby.

In 2020, Barbara received the ATA Volunteer of the Year award.

In addition to her current position as Treasurer of the Atlanta Stamp Collectors Club, Barbara
participates as a member of the annual Southeastern Stamp Expo's planning committee and
offers her time and efforts to ensure the success of the Expo's youth area and hospitality suite.

Barbara joined the American Topical Association in 2012 and has helped as an ATA ambassador
at many stamp shows. Since 2019, she has been the Taste of Topicals coordinator spending countless hours sorting stamps, making topical packets for more than 400 topics, and assembling them into Taste of Topical kits. These are sold at a nominal fee to promote topical stamp collecting with youth, new collectors, and/or collectors who want to start collecting a new topic.

Congratulations again to Barbara Asher for a well-deserved award.

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 of those presentations.

LeA Coe - Depiction of Women on Early US Stamps
File Size:	3216 kb
File Type:	pdf

Mel Coe - Everything I Learned About Perfins....
File Size:	137 kb
File Type:	pdf

Steve Swain - Postal Systems and the Public React to the American Civil War
File Size:	13666 kb
File Type:	ppt

Steve Swain - Bittersweet Family Postal History
File Size:	2980 kb
File Type:	ppt

Atlanta Stamp Collectors Club

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