The Revealer July, 1979 the REVEALER SECRETARY's REPORT
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e1Re PhltACeLlC The AsSOCIAClOn Revealer1 '~. QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE EIRE PHILATELIC ASSOCIATION VOL. XXIX, NO. 1 WHOLE NO. 135 JULY, 1979 TABLE OF CONTENTS The Versatile Id Map Stamp 4 Irish Postmarks 1922 Onwards, Part 5 8 Experimental Registration Label? .. No 5 Catalogue of Irish Perfins, Part 2 12 Saorstat OP Settings vs C.B. Base Plates 6 Irish Headline Events Through the Ages 14 Scrolled Serif P .PAID Marking 7 NOR-CAL Chapter Notes 15 Literature Notes 7 An Interesting Cover... To Ireland 15 Page 2 The Revealer July, 1979 THE REVEALER SECRETARY'S REPORT WHOLE NO. 135 JULY, 1979 Our thanks go out to those members who have been writing to us requesting membership applications. We never become tired Published quarterly by the Eire Philatelic Association at $5.00 per of answering requests for information. If you wish, just drop us a year, which includes membership and all the privileges of the note and we'll mail an application directly to your friend's home. associa tion. On the home front, we want to express our congratulations to Tom McLaughlan on his winning the Grand Award at Stamp STAFF Drama with his superb collection of overprints and early Editor: Associate Editor: definitives. It created interest in Ireland among the visitors and John J. Blessington Joseph E. Foley hopefully we shall add new members because of the exhibit. 4302 St. Clair Ave. P.O. Box 33112 The two most important things you can do at this time is vote Studio City, Ca!. 91604 USA Denver, Co!. 80233 USA and send in your dues. Please mark your ballot and forward it to Bill McCaw and mail your dues check in the enclosed envelope. RevealerBack Issues: Advertising Manager: We have jumped the gun and printed $7.00 on the envelope in Robert E. Moskowitz Tom McLaughlan anticipation that the ballot proposal will pass. If it does not pass, P.O. Box 644 902 Fawn Street we shall refund any overpayment requested. St. Clair Shores, Mi. 48080 USA Baltimore, Md. 21202 USA Back issues of The Revealer are available through Tom McLaughlan at $1.00 each for members and $1.25 each for non members, plus postage and handling. NEW MEMBERS EIRE PHILATELIC ASSOCIATION Affiliate No. 21 - The American Philatelic Society 1435 Akin, Kevin, 20212 HarvardWay, Riverside. CA. 92507 1435J Goss, Kcnneth, 807 31st. Ave .. San Francisco, CA. 94121 Affiliated Member - The British Philatelic Federation 1437 Serbins. Martin c., 4725 W. 97th Place, Oak Lawn. ILL. 60453 1438 Schultz, Waiter G .. 175 Hartnell Place, Sacramento, CA. 95825 - OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS - 1439 O'Beirne, Maj. James H., 253 Tunisia Road, Fort Ord, CA. 93941 1440 Crimlisk, John c., 10 Belle Vue Crescent. Filey, North Yorkshire President: Auction Manager: YOl49AD England Garvin F. Lohman Bill Zellers Apt. 3, 1541 Sacramento St. Historian: San Francisco, Ca!. 94109 USA William P. Hickey Vice Presidents: 60 Georgia Avenue James J. Brady Providence, R.1. 20905 USA MEMBERSHIP STATUS: 55 Lockwood St. Committee on Forged and Newark, N.J. 07105 USA Bogus Material: Members as of February 28, 1979 589 Michael H. Priestley Robert Gray (Chairman) New Members 6 2 Rothesay Place 831 San Pablo Drive Members as of May 31, 1979 595 Edinburgh, Scotland, EH3 75L Hemet, Ca!. 92343 USA Secretary-Treasurer: Members: Michael M. Lenane F. E. Dixon 166 N. Glenhurst J. E. Foley Birmingham, Mich. 48009 USA V. A. Linnell Treasurer (Sterling Area): Directors: Michael P. Giffney Director-at-Large: ELECTIONS 16 Gracepark Heights B. B. Zellers Drumcondra Eastern North America: Dublin 9, Ireland William T. McCaw You will find an election ballot enclosed in this issue of "The Librarian: Central North America: Revealer." John J. Blessington Edward T. Sullivan The ballot received in your April issue has been declared E.P.A. Trading Post: Western North America: invalid as the closing date was June 1. 1979 yet the issue had not Bill Zellers James J. Lawless even been mailed at that date. Consequently, because many P.O. Box 1381 Overseas: members would assume the voting deadline had passed, the Riverside, Ca!. 92502 USA Padraig O. Mathuna election ballot was declared invalid. A.P.S. Representative: Immediate Past President: More importantly your Nominating Committee has received J. E. Foley Preston A. Pope numerous complaints that the ballot we prepared in April was geographically unbalanced and also that one proposed director REVEALER ADVERTISING would be living outside his designated area by September I, 1979. All advertising should be sent to the Advertising Manager Although the candidates proposed in April were among the best along with a check payable to the Eire Philatelic Association at members in the Association, the Nominating Committee has least 6 weeks prior to the next issue. listened to the complaints and requests and has substituted four ADVERTISING RATES new members and retained four of the original nominees. The four members replaced will be on future ballots as they are Size of Ad One Insertion Yearly Rate (4) outstanding members. We apologize for not being responsive to Full Page $40.00 $140.00 the desires of our members and hope the more balanced slate meets Half Page 30.00 100.00 with your approval and will help us retain and maintain the Quarter Page 20.00 70.00 vibrancy of the Association. Eighth Page 10.00 35.00 July, 1979 The Revealer Page 3 Speaking of closing dates, as noted on the Election Ballot From The Editor's Desk • • • with this issue your votes must be in the mails in time to reach Bill McCaw by August 31st. Don't miss the opportunity to cast your My apologies for the lateness of the April issue. The issue got ballot. If something happens and your copy doesn't reach you in started early enough but it still managed to get delivered late. A time, send your ballot to Bill anyway, with a note indicating the number of things contributed. I suspect the post office was date of receipt of your Revealer. responsible for some of it. One of our members suggested that The •••••••••••• Revealer now goes through the distribution center in central M~ssachusetts (Springfield?) which doesn't have the reputation of Vince Linnell, Ex President of the E.P.A. has an article in this bemg the fastest center. The July issue will be late because I wasn't issue that is recommended reading. He has taken historical data able to get started in time. After thirteen years with Litton and philatelic data and blended them into a chronological listing Indu~tries your editor left to join another company on May 1st. of dates important to Ireland up to 1840. He has written each event My fIrst task was to move the company into a new facility and re as though it were the headline of a news report for a contemporary establish production, so my spare time for May and June was .news bureau. It is well researched and interesting reading. pretty much non-existent. I'm writing this on the 4th of July •••••••••••• which makes me a little over a month late. However work seems to We welcome another long time member of the E.P.A. to the be settling in to a pattern and barring any major problems, and if pages of the Revealer once again. Hans G. Moxter shares with us some articles come in from our members we'll see the October ·exerpts from a book recently acquired. Supplement No. 45 with issue on schedule. July 1970 Revealer published the English language translation of •••••••••••• his article "The Irish Mileage Postmarks 1808-1839" which had !he postal strike in Ireland drags on .. .it started February 18th first been pu blished, in German, by the German Society for Postal and It seems to be anyone's guess when it will end. Perhaps by the History, Inc. time.you read this it will be over (I won't bet on it). At any rate it is •••••••••••• causmg problems not only in Ireland but outside of Ireland as well. For the first time in many years Fred Dixon's "Random E.P.A. members in Southern California held a meeting at Notes" doesn't appear in an issue of The Revealer. When the BECKPEX in June. We had a good meeting, well attended. A slide strike does end it will be a long time before service gets back to program was shown utilizing slides made of the collection of the normal. It has been reported that there are tons of mail being late Fred Gommo. This was the first time this program had been stored in Ireland awaiting delivery. From the mail, we find that shown and seemed to be well received although more work needs EPA members in Ireland didn't receive their January Revealer and to be done on it before it can be turned over to Slide Program the April issue is still sitting at the printers in Maine waiting for Chairman Bill McCaw for inclusion in the E.P.A. slide library. It the strike to end. It remains to be seen when this July issue will is hoped that some additional slides of varieties may be secured to reach them. broaden the scope of the program. Scott catalog is followed and No. I through 22 are covered. Additional programs will be worked Unlike the last English postal strike, this Irish strike seems to up to utilize the remaining existing slides as time allows. have very little to offer phllatelically, either local post markings or stamps. Elsewhere in this issue is a review of the new David •••••••••••• Feldman catalog.