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9. CLUBS
American Air Mail Society
Contact: Stephen Reinhard
PO Box 110
Mineola, NY 11501-0110
Specializes in all phases of aerophilately. Membership services include Advance
Bulletin Service, Auction Service, free want ads, Sales Department, monthly
journal, discounts on Society publications, translation service.
American First Day Cover Society Contact: Douglas Kelsey
PO Box 65730
Tucson, AZ 85728-5730
http://www.afdcs.org/
email: afdcs@aol.com
A full-service, not-for-profit, noncommercial society devoted exclusively to
First Day Covers and First Day Cover collecting. Publishes 90-page magazine,
First Days, eight times per year. Offers information on 300 current cachet
producers, expertizing, foreign covers, translation service, color slide
programs and archives covering First Day Covers.
American Philatelic Society
Contact: Robert E. Lamb
PO Box 8000 Dept. PG
State College, PA 16803-8000
http://www.stamps.org/
A full complement of services and resources for stamp collectors. Annual
membership offers: library services, eductations seminars and correspondence
courses, expertizing service, estate advisory service, translation service, a
stamp theft committee that functions as a clearinghouse for philatelic crime
information, intramember sales service, a stamp and monthly journal, The
American Philatelist, sent to all members. Membership 57,000 worldwide.
American Society for Philatelic Pages and Panels
Contact: Gerald Blankenship
PO Box 475
Crosby, TX 77532-0475
http://www.jpastamps.org/gblank1941@aol.com
Focuses on souvenir pages and commemorative panels. Free ads, member auction,
publishes a quarterly journal sent to all members with reports on new issues,
varieties, errors, oddities and discoveries.
American Stamp Dealers' Association
Contact: Joseph B. Savarese
3 School St.
Glen Cove, NY 11542-2517
(516) 759-7000
Fax- (516) 759-7014
http://www.asdaonline.com/
Email: asdashows@erols.com
Association of dealers engaged in every facet of philately, with 11 regional
chapters nationwide. Sponsors national and local shows. Will send you a complete
listing of dealers in your area or collecting specialty. A #10 SASE must
accompany your request.
American Topical Association
Contact: Paul Tyler
PO Box 50820
Albuquerque, NM 87181-0820
http://home.prcn.org/~pauld/ata/
A service organization concentrating on the specialty of topical stamp
collecting. Offershandbooks and checklists on specific topics; exhibition
awards; Topical Time, a bimonthly publication dealing with topical interest
areas; a slide loan service, and information, translationand sales services.
Booklet Collectors Club
Contact: Jim Natele
PO Box 2461-U
Cinnaminson, NJ 08077-2461
Devoted to the study of world wide booklets and booklet collecting, with special
emphasis on U.S.booklets. Publishes The Interleaf, a quarterly journal.
Bureau Issues Association
PO Box 2641
Reston, VA 20195
http://usstamps.org/
Society for collectors of U.S. stamps with emphasis on the issues of the Bureau
of Engraving and Printing. $25 annual dues for USA addresses, includes a monthly
journal. Publishers of the Durland Plate Number Catalog and other reference
materials.
Collectors Club of Chicago
1029 North Dearborn St.
Chicago, IL 60610
http://www.askphil.org/
This web site was established to reply via email to stamp collecting questions.
Answers are based on the interests of both casual collector and experienced
philatelists. Questions may be sent to
info@askphil.org, or you may visit our site at http://www.askphil.org. The
club is dedicated to promoting stamp collecting throughout the world, and is not
soliciting funds or new members.
ESPER (Ebony Society of Philatelic Events and Reflections)
Contact: Sanford L. Byrd
PO Box 1864
Midland, MI 48641-1864
E-Mail: byrd2@ibm.net
This organization is for anyone interested in the collecting of African-American
Philatelic material.
Junior Philatelists of America
Central Office
P.O. Box 2625
Albany, OR 97321
http://www.jpastamps.org/index.html
Email: exec.sec@jpastamps.org
Publishes a bimonthly newsletter, The Philatelic Observer, and offers auction,
exchange, pen pal and other services to young stamp collectors. Adult supporting
membership and gift memberships are available. The Society also publishes
various brochures on stamp collecting.
Mailer's Postmark Permit Club
MPPC Central Office
Charlie Myers
P.O. Box 3
Portland, TN 27148-0003
Publishes bimonthly newsletter, Permit Patter, which covers all aspects of
mailer's precancel postmarks, as well as a catalog and two checklists.
Modern Postal History Society
Contact: Bill DiPaolo
404 Dorado Ct
High Point, NC 27265-9650
Emphasizes the collection and study of postal history, procedures and rates
beginning with the early 20th century and including rates as shown by use of
definitive stamps on commercial covers, modern markings such as bar codes and
ink-jet postmarks, and auxiliary markings such as "Return to Sender, " etc.
Publishes the quarterly Modern Postal History Journal.
Philatelic Foundation
501 Fifth Ave. Rm.1901
New York, NY 10017-6103
A nonprofit organization known for its excellent expertization service. The
Foundation's broad resources, including extensive reference collections,
5,000-volume library and Expert Committee, provide collectors with comprehensive
consumer protection. Slide and cassette programs are available on such subjects
as the Pony Express, classic U.S. stamps, Confederate Postal History and
collecting basics for beginners. Book series include expertizing case histories
in Opinions, Foundation seminar subjects in "textbooks" and specialized U.S.
subjects in monographs.
Postal History Society
Contact: Kalman V. Illyefalvi
8207 Daren Ct
Pikesville, MD 21208-2211
Devoted to the study of various aspects of the development of the mails and
local, national and international postal systems; UPU treaties; and means of
transporting mail.
Souvenir Card Collectors Society
Contact: Dana M. Marr
PO Box 4155
Tulsa, OK 74159-4155
Provides member auctions, a quarterly journal and access to limited-edition
souvenir cards.
United Postal Stationery Society
Contact: Mrs. Joann Thomas
PO Box 48
Redlands, CA 92373-0601
Universal Ship Cancellation Society
Contact: David Kent
PO Box 127
New Britain, CT 06050-0127
Specializes in naval ship postmarks.
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