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 sdh1@cdc.gov
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 sdh1@cdc.gov
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.
| 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 |
3-Cent Liberty "Rainbow" Essay Experiment
- Steve Swain
Can a rainbow colored stamp prevent removal of a cancellation and the illegal reuse of the stamp?
Soon after the end of the American Civil War, there was significant concern that cancellations would be removed from postage stamps and the stamps would be reused, resulting in considerable revenue loss to the government. A solution was needed and inventors and creative paper experts conceived numerous possible methods to prevent the removal of cancellations:
- Steve Swain
Can a rainbow colored stamp prevent removal of a cancellation and the illegal reuse of the stamp?
Soon after the end of the American Civil War, there was significant concern that cancellations would be removed from postage stamps and the stamps would be reused, resulting in considerable revenue loss to the government. A solution was needed and inventors and creative paper experts conceived numerous possible methods to prevent the removal of cancellations:
- Printing the stamp’s design in alkali ink on paper sensitized with acid ink resulting in the cancellation ink discoloring the stamp’s primary color.
- Applying pulverized starch to the upper surface of the stamp so when the stamp was soaked in attempts to remove the cancellation, the starch dissolved and the stamp’s design disappeared.
- Embedding grills in the paper, i.e., making breaks in the paper used to print the stamps so that the cancelling ink would deeply penetrate the paper. This was the method most commonly adopted and provides an intriguing collection theme.
The grilling machine, which was invented and patented by Charles F. Steel, used a roller pitted with small depressions (which created a "points up" pattern) or with small raised pyramids (which created a "points down" pattern) to break the fibers in the paper. These broken fibers allowed cancellation ink to thoroughly penetrate the paper. This meant even regular pen ink, which was used to cancel stamps at smaller post offices, would be impossible to completely remove.
For some ideas to prevent removal of cancellations, essays were made to illustrate the working of the inventor’s proposed solution. An essay is a design for a stamp submitted to a government for approval but was neither accepted nor issued, as explained by Clarence W. Brazer who in 1941 wrote, Essays for U. S. Adhesive Postage Stamps, the definitive work on U.S. stamp essays.
One of the most fascinating of these essays is the 3-cent Liberty “Rainbow”. The idea for the rainbow variety was to print various portions of the stamp in different colors so that any color cancellation would show on some part of the stamp. The colors on the stamp blended from one to another, like a rainbow.
The Scott catalog numbers for the Liberty head essays are varieties of 79-E30 (a through w) and 79-E31 (a through h). Examples of the various non-rainbow E30 and E31 essays are shown here.
For some ideas to prevent removal of cancellations, essays were made to illustrate the working of the inventor’s proposed solution. An essay is a design for a stamp submitted to a government for approval but was neither accepted nor issued, as explained by Clarence W. Brazer who in 1941 wrote, Essays for U. S. Adhesive Postage Stamps, the definitive work on U.S. stamp essays.
One of the most fascinating of these essays is the 3-cent Liberty “Rainbow”. The idea for the rainbow variety was to print various portions of the stamp in different colors so that any color cancellation would show on some part of the stamp. The colors on the stamp blended from one to another, like a rainbow.
The Scott catalog numbers for the Liberty head essays are varieties of 79-E30 (a through w) and 79-E31 (a through h). Examples of the various non-rainbow E30 and E31 essays are shown here.
Scott 79-E30o-r are the rainbow varieties. For the 79-E30o variety, Scott has 13 catalog listings for the various color shadings on each: red brown into dark orange, dark orange into brown red, yellow green into dull carmine, orange to deep blue, deep blue to orange brown, etc. Examples of several of the
79-E30o essays are shown here.
79-E30o essays are shown here.
Over the years, the Scott 79-E30p block of eight shown below - that has all 8 of the Scott listed color combinations for the p type - has been offered in various auctions. This is a truly unique piece.
Why wasn’t the rainbow essay adopted as a viable solution to the potential removal of cancellations on postage and revenue stamps?
As with most of the ideas submitted to the government, the rainbow color solution was too expensive to adopt and maintain for the ongoing issuance of stamps. And, regardless of the number of color shadings that were tested, the removal of cancellation ink on any color combination was still possible.
Why wasn’t the rainbow essay adopted as a viable solution to the potential removal of cancellations on postage and revenue stamps?
As with most of the ideas submitted to the government, the rainbow color solution was too expensive to adopt and maintain for the ongoing issuance of stamps. And, regardless of the number of color shadings that were tested, the removal of cancellation ink on any color combination was still possible.
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