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Dayton Stamp Club newsletter Vol. 49 No. 3 March 2021 Newfoundland Dogs on Stamps By Douglas S. Files Meetings and Activities Meetings begin at 7:30 pm "A man is not a good man to me because he will feed me if I should be starving, or warm me if I should be freezing, or pull Mar 1—ZOOM 7:00 pm Board me out of a ditch if I should ever fall into one. I can find you a Meeting—All are welcome Newfoundland dog that will do as much." Henry David Thoreau, Walden Mar 1—ZOOM 7:30 pm DSC Newfoundlands (or Newfies) are dark-colored meeting and Stamp Buck Auction dogs bred to help fishermen in eastern Cana- da. They are famous for their large size, Mar 6-7 — McKinley Club Stamp strength and loyalty. Due to their anatomy – Show, St. George Serbian Orthodox that is, their muscles, lung capacity, water- Social Hall, 4667 Applegrove St. NW resistant coat and webbed feet, they are 1932 stamp depicting North Canton a Newfoundland dog made for swimming and water rescue. They Image by Jcmurphy at English Wikipedia. - Transferred from Mar 15—ZOOM 7:30 DSC meeting can even swim underwater. en.wikipedia to Commons., Public Domain, https:// commons.wikimedia.org/w/ and program; Is your your stamp The dogs are known for their gentleness and index.php?curid=2989262 for getting along with other animals. The pre- room messy or neat? cise origin of Newfoundlands is cloudy, but Apr 5 —ZOOM 7:00 pm Board they are probably descended from Alpine mastiffs or Pyrenees Meeting & 7:30 DSC Meeting and dogs brought from Europe by Basque fishermen. Some aca- demics think the dogs may descend from Viking “bear dogs” Program Baseball and Philately since explorer John Cabot wrote of dogs “native to Newfound- Apr 8-11 — Garfield-Perry Exibition land” upon his arrival 500 years ago. St. Bernards and Newfies and Bourse, Holiday Inn, Strongs- share many features because Newfoundlands were ville “introduced to” St. Bernards in the 1700s after an epidemic of distemper destroyed much of the native population in Canada. Apr 19—ZOOM 7:30 DSC meeting Newfoundlands were used by fisherman in prior centuries to and CLUB AUCTION #2 pull fish nets and haul sleds and carts. Their size and fondness for mud and water render them difficult May 3 —ZOOM 7:00 pm Board housepets, but the breed has flour- Meeting & 7:30 DSC Meeting and ished since World War II when they Program; Stamporama The Stamp pulled carts of ammunition through bliz- Club for People Who Love Stamps zards in the Aleutians. They have often gained fame for maritime rescues – May 17—ZOOM 7:30 DSC meeting part of their strong propensity to res- and program; Stamp Tells and Tales cue people from the water. One even Member Participation A Newfie at home in the water mage by Bobby Mikul - http:// saved the Emperor Napoleon after his June 7 —ZOOM 7:00 pm Board www.publicdomainpictures.net/view- removal from power. In 1815 Napoleon image.php?image=5266&picture=dog, Meeting & 7:30 DSC Meeting and CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/ Bonaparte fell overboard while attempt- index.php?curid=26026580 ing to escape from exile on the island Program of Elba. A Newfie kept him afloat until he could reach safety. June 21—ZOOM 7:30 DSC meeting 17 years later Ann Harvey, her father and a dog named Hairy- and CLUB AUCTION #3 man saved 180 Irish immigrants from drowning in the wreck of a brig named Dispatch. In the early 20th century a Newfound- land saved 92 people from a sinking ship during a blizzard. The panicked passengers threw a rope into the water — CONTINUED ON PAGE 5 continued on Page 2 Dayton Stamp Club Newsletter March 2021 Page 1 DSC NEWSLETTER Published by: DAYTON STAMP CLUB, INC., PO Box 1574, Dayton, OH 45401 (Meetings by ZOOM for 2021) Club Meetings: Christ United Methodist Church, 3440 Shroyer Rd, Kettering OH ---- 7:30 PM Editor: Bill Smith, 329 East 1st St., Suite 311, Dayton, OH 45402 Phone (937) 344-3155 Newsletter email: [email protected] DSC email: [email protected] Website: www.daytonstampclub.com Contents of the DSC NEWSLETTER are copyright @ 2009 by the Dayton Stamp Club, Inc Permission for reproduction in whole or part is granted to other philatelic organizations for internal nonprofit use provided that credit is given to the DSC NEWSLETTER and the authors of the reproduced material. A copy of the publica- tion in which the material is printed is requested. CLUB OFFICERS 2021 President - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - Mike Komiensky First Vice President - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Frank Miller Second Vice President - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Clay Goffinet Secretary - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Doug Files Treasurer - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dennis Rose Chairman, Board of Directors - - - - - - - - - - - Susan Diamond #82 #80083 continued from Page 2—Newfoundland Dogs and the dog carried it to people on the shore so that all the passengers could be reeled in. Without any training in water rescue, a Newfoundland named Boo saved a deaf-mute man from drowning in the Yuba River in California in 1995. While walking with his master along the shore, the dog dove into the water, grasped his arm and pulled the drowning man to shore. Other Newfoundlands have also gained fame. Lewis and Clark took a dog named Seaman on their famous 1803 expedition through the American West. Swansea Jack was famous for his lifesaving exploits. Others have gained fame due to the celebrity of their own- ers. Emily Dickinson owned a Newfie named Carlo, Robert Kennedy had one named Brumus and composer Richard Wagner had one named Russ. U.S. Presi- dents James Buchanan, Ulysses S. Grant and Rutherford B. Hayes all owned New- foundland dogs. But what does all this have to do with stamps? 1887 Newfoundland Newfoundland Dogs on Stamps Stamp based on an 1838 painting by Some sources claim that the Newfoundland dog was the first animal of any kind to Edwin Henry Land- be specifically honored on a stamp. In 1887 the dominion of Newfoundland seer Image from Arpin philately, (Canada) issued a series of stamps, one of which depicted its favorite native dog newfoundland-stamp-56a- (Scott #56). newfoundland-dog-1887.jpg Almost 50 years later Saint-Pierre & Miquelon (SPM) honored the Newfoundland dog on stamps. (Note that the islands of St.-Pierre and Miquelon lie just south of Newfoundland.) On the 5th of December 1932 the SPM post office issued a series of 11 postage dues depicting a Newfoundland dog on a rocky coastline staring out to sea. The stamps were printed in Paris in sheets of 75 each divided into 3 panes of 25. Gutter pairs exist for each denomination, ranging from 5 centimes to 3 francs. Bicolor die proofs on thick India paper catalogue for more than $300.00 each. These same postage due stamps were over- printed during World War II: “Noel 1941 France Libre, F. N. F. L.” (Forces Newfoundland dog on a 1932 St.- Navales Francaises Libres - Free French Naval Forces). Pierre & Miquelon postage due stamp designed by Georges Gimel In 1938 SPM issued its third pictorial series, of which the 8 stamps of low- (Scott #J21) Image from Share your dogs on stamps from all est value (2 centimes to 25 centimes) show a Newfoundland dogsled team. countries, Stamp Boards website, https:// The dogs are harnessed and waiting in front of a row of fishermen’s homes www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?t=57651 on the Ile aux Marins (Sailor Island). All the dogsled stamps in this series catalogue for 25 cents. In a homage to the older postage dues, a set of 5 issued January 1, 1973 also featured Newfound- land dogs and a shipwreck rescue scene. The set contained a 2c brown and black, a 10c purple and black, a 20c green-blue and black, a 30c red and black and a 1 franc blue and black. Imperfo- rate stamps were issued for each stamp. A set of 5 perforated stamps catalogues for about $15 and a complete set of 5 imperforate pairs is valued at more than $200.00. —continued on Page 3 Dayton Stamp Club Newsletter March 2021 Page 2 tured at the Massachusetts Institute of Technolo- gy and Columbia University. In 1921, the U.S .Army Air Service hired de Bothezat to build a prototype helicopter. The quadrotor helicopter, known simply as the de Bothezat helicopter, was built by de Bothezat and Ivan Jerome in the hangars of Wright Field From the Dayton Stamp Club Archives near Dayton, Ohio. The first flight turned out to By Steven Solomon, DSC Historian be surprisingly successful for a machine that had been built without prototyping. In 1922, their AIRPEX I in 1976 sang praises for first Army heli- "flying octopus" flew many times, although slowly copter ever built, right here in Dayton. and at low altitudes. In fact, its horizontal motion The Dayton Stamp Club held its first annual Phil- was induced by Flying Octopus atelic Exhibition, Nov. 27-28, 1976, at the Dayton wind more than by Convention Center. The event was designated the pilot's controls. DAYTON AIRPEX I. He was granted A special cachet honoring Prof. U.S. Patent num- George de Bothezat, inventor of the ber 1,749,471 for first Army helicopter, was issued in his design. He conjunction with the show. The cachet died in 1940, age 57, in Boston. sold for $1.50. The Dayton Daily News described AIRPEX I as In May 1918, with his homeland in the “unique,” because it featured only Air Mail throes of the Russian Revolution, de stamps and stamps honoring aviatlon.