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EUROPA NEWS SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER 2009 393-1 EUROPA NEWS APS - BULLETIN OF THE EUROPA STUDY UNIT - ATA SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2009 NUMBER 393 EUROPA STAMPS WHAT’S IN THIS ISSUE? EUROPA STAMPS MISSING AUCTION PAGES - It looks to ITEM PAGE can send copies free if folded. Unfolded for me that I sent them to the printed and it looks a buck. I inserted the new pages in the cop- to the printed that they were not received. New Issues 2-5 ies of the handbook I have here - in prepara- Nothing to be done now. Starting on page 24 Europa Briefs 6-16 tion for selling some at dues renewal time.” of this issue is auction #115. It should have been in the last issue. The Nov-Dec 2009 Article - The United 17-18 2006 GEORGIA EUROPA STAMP - Don issue will carry a mini-auction. States 3¢ NATO Stamp Smith also wrote that he is having “a prob- of 1952 - by Stephen lem with the 2006 Europa HB page: Scott MISSING EURO SYMBOL ON ANNUAL Luster says Georgia issued their set June 10, 2006, UPDATE - This one is entirely my fault. Don PostEurop press release 19 Michel says July 10, 2006. Can members Smith sent the correct pages to me but when I check their FDC's and let Don or I know uploaded them, the euro symbol was missing Article - The Franco- 20-21 what cancel date appears on them? and I did not catch it. British Exhibition of UPCOMING ELECTION - The official 1908 - by Stephen Luster ballot will be in the next issue of the Europa WEB SITE BEING UPDATED - Check out Postmarks 22 News. Don Smith, as the appointed slating http://[email protected]/. chairman, has reported interest by the fol- Forward Calendar 22 This is the new site going up. Check out the lowing people for the jobs indicated. new site to see how to become a member, re- Membership news 22 Stephen Luster for President; Don Smith for new dues on-line, order products (coming) and Executive Secretary; Dana Roper for Treas- Space filler 22 most important, register so you can have ac- urer; Caroline Scannell for Vice President; cess to the “members only” pages. There you Press release from San 23 Bob Locke for Second Vice President; Alan will find back issues of the Europa News in Marino about is stamps Cohen as Secretary; and, as Directors, The color. You can also make suggestions or re- commemorating 2009 as officers, Dan Shilcrat and Tonny van Loij. port problems using the Webmaster link on the European Year of If you want to run for office, or know the pages. I want to thank Chuck Hall and Creativity and Innovation someone who does, please contact Don Alex Wiekaloa for all their hard work. Smith. I want to thank Hank Klos for his Auction #115 - Illustrated 24 years of service to the Unit. HANDBOOK UPDATES - Don Smith Lots writes that he has “updated some of the hand- Auction #115 - Lots 25-26 AUCTION #115 - Don Smith has put to- book pages and have redone the 2007 (adding gether another 250-lot auction. It is full of the missing numbers and correcting a few Auction #115 - Auction 27 Europa material, at good opening bid prices. things) and am almost done with 2006. When Rules Take a look at the lots, which begin on page we issue the pages there are always blanks. Auction #115 - Bid Sheet 27 24 of this issue. Bid early and bid often! Anyway, if you want to mention it in the EN, I Unit Information 28 Here are some of the lots that Auction Manager Don Smith has included in auction #115, starting on page 24 of this issue. EUROPA NEWS SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER 2009 393-2 NEW ISSUES are collected these days by most Europa EUROPA 2009 - stamps collectors. I decided to publish ASTRONOMY them on my blog, from now on, even if they aren't official stamp issues. Labels: ÅLAND - There is an unusual aspect to Azerbaijan (Armenian post of Nagorno- this stamp. It is a “perfin.” In other Karabakh) words, the stars comprising the Big Dip- per are punched out. You will see what it is all about when you hold the stamp up to the light. AZERBAIJAN - In a letter to the editor of Linn’s Stamp News, a ma named Jeff Wussow points out that this stamp shows an astronomer, Nasir al-Din Tusi, using a telescope in the 13th century, more than 300 years before the telescope was No other information available. invented. BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA - 2 stamps and a souvenir sheet. GREAT BRITAIN - No other information available. NAGORNO-KARABAKH - NOTE : the stamps issued by the Nagorno- Karabakh Republic aren't recognized on an international level, not by the UPU nor by PostEurop. The “stamps” are listed in Most stamps catalogue No other information available. (Gibbons, Yvert & Tellier, Michel) and continued on page 3... EUROPA NEWS SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER 2009 393-3 continued from page 2... NEW ISSUES (continued) MEDITERRANIAN 10TH ANNIVERSARY CULTURAL CAPITAL GAMES OF THE EURO OF EUROPE ITALY - CYPRUS - POLAND - No other information available. DIRECT ELECTIONS TO No other information available. THE EUROPEAN No other information available. EUROPEAN SOCCER ROMANIA - CHAMPIONSHIPS ITALY - REPUBLIC OF GUINEE - No other information available. No other information available. SLOVAKIA - No other information available. DANTE ITALY - MAP OF EUROPE LEBANON - ] No other information available. No other information available. No other information available. continued on page 4... EUROPA NEWS SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER 2009 393-4 continued from page 3... NEW ISSUES (continued) MARIANNE OF EUROPE SAINT PIERRE & MIQUELON - French definitive stamps overprinted “SPM” for use in colony. No other information available. 60TH ANNIVERSARY COUNCIL OF EUROPE In the last issue I highlighted the stamps of Moldova, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Tur- key and France. Thanks to member Glenn Roehrig a new internet site has been located that has a section for stamps relating to the Council of Europe. While the site provides great images, there is no technical information about the stamp. It was there that I found all of the following images. Check out this site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ councilofeurope/. continued on page 5... EUROPA NEWS SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER 2009 393-5 continued from page 4... NEW ISSUES (continued) 50TH ANNIVERSARY - 13TH GAMES OF THE SEPAC EUROPEAN COURT SMALL STATES OF RIGHTS OF MAN EUROPE d San Marino Post. The Small European Postal Administra- tion Cooperation (SEPAC) is an organi- No information about these stamps. CYPRUS - Shown here is a set of three zation made up of the small postal ad- stamps with “specimen” overprints. ministrations in Europe: Aland, Faroe Islands, Gibraltar, Greenland, Guernsey, Iceland, Isle of Man, Jersey, Liechten- stein, Malta, Monaco, and Luxembourg. The goal of SEPAC is to promote philat- ely and to ensure the permanent use of postage stamps despite the proliferation of other means of postal franking. The joint issue for 2009 of the participat- ing members has the common theme of nature and, more particularly, the beauti- ful countryside's of the different coun- tries. P&T Luxembourg has selected the Vianden castle as the subject for its SEPAC 2009 stamp. GIBRALTAR - No other information available. LUXEMBOURG - A single stamp de- picting Vianden Castle. No other information available. 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CEPT BHUTAN - SEPAC No other information available. FAROE ISLANDS - continued on page 6... EUROPA NEWS SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER 2009 393-6 EUROPA BRIEFS EUROPA 1959, UNADOPTED DE- EUROA 1960, FRENCH “PROOF” - SIGNS - Below are three un-adopted The item at figure 4 was listed on eBay designs prepared by artists for the Eu- as a “1/6 Europa plate proof imperf with ropa 1959 issue. 4 clear margins photographic mono on fully gummed paper…” It is not. Rather it is a cutout from a sheet prepared for a British stamp show. As such, it is worth far less than what the seller hoped to get for it. Figure 4. Europa 1960 British “proof” that is not a proof. ADHESION TO THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE, LITHUANIA - I do not know what the item at figure 5 is. It Figure 2. Two un-adopted designs for an Italian stamps that was to commemorate the 5th anniver- looks live a Lithuanian stamp. However, sary of the CEPT. there is no denomination. Perhaps it is an early publicity release. In any event, EUROPA 2009, ITALIAN MISPER- I saw it on the internet. FORATION - The misperforation can be seen in the horizontal rows between the stamps. They are displaced down- ward. That shift creates stamps that are taller than normal. This is a nice variety. Figure 5. Lithuania’s adhesion to the Council of Europe in 1995. Unidentified item. ITALIAN SOUVENIR BOOKLET - I ran across this item on the internet. It is a privately produced booklet containing 24 pages, each one with a different Ital- Figure 1. Three un-adopted designs for Italy’s ian Europa stamp. 1959 Europa stamps. CEPT 5TH ANNIVERSARY - Shown at figure 2 in the next column are two examples of un-adopted artists designs. They were prepared for an Italian stamp that was to be released to commemorate Figure 6. Privately produced booklet containing the fifth anniversary of the Conference 24 pages of Europa stamps. Only 16 pages shown. of European Posts & Telecommunica- tions Administrations. Figure 3. Vertical strip of three Italian Europa 2009 stamps with a pronounced perforation shift. continued on page 7... EUROPA NEWS SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER 2009 393-7 continued from page 6... EUROPA BRIEFS (continued) BERLIN AIRLIFT - This card graphi- SPORT, BOXING - This is a piece of cally depicts the air routes into and out Russian Postal stationery.