Volume 43, Number 1 General Society Suggestions 52 Whole Number 316 USA Envelopes: Earliest uses. 52 January – February 2001 IN THIS ISSUE Volume 43, Number 4 Editor’s Notes, by Wayne Menuz 2 Whole Number 319 Italy - THE SUMMER SURPRISE – THE PRIORITY POSTAL July - August 2001 CARD [Reprinted from L’Intero Postale, No.71, September 1999 By IN THIS ISSUE: Carlo Sopracordevole] Translated by Salvatore J. Rizza 3 Editor’s Notes, by Wayne Menuz 53 U.S Envelopes - THE 1½¢ CIRCULAR DIE REVALUED 6¢, by President’s Message, by Leroy Collins III 53 Dan Undersander 7 A PROOF OF DIE 3 OF THE FIRST NESBITT ISSUE? by Dan Falkland Islands and South Georgia - UNCOMMON Undersander and Gary Starkey 55 AEROGRAMME, by Dr. Felix Martinez Dacosta 10 THE AEROGRAMMES OF BECHUANALAND by Peter Thy 55 U.S. Postal Card - A SHORTPAID 1¢ POSTAL CARD TO U.S. U.P.U. PIONEER POSTAL CARDS by Alex Gundel 60 ENGLAND, by Charles A. Fricke 11 AUSTRALIA’S PTPO ENVELOPES 62 UPSS Membership 12 LEEWARD ISLANDS ENVELOPES 64 Leeward Islands – ENVELOPES KNOWN AND UNKNOWN, by ITALY’S "FIECCHI-RODE MARRIAGE" POSTAL CARD By Wayne Menuz 13 Carlo Sopracordevole 65 SHOEBOX & STATIONERY FORUM Volume 43, Number 2 US Postal Card, MR30 66 Whole Number 317 Illustration Quality 67 March - April 2001 SWEDEN POSTAL SCHOOL STATIONERY by Paul A. Nelson 67 WHAT’S LISTABLE? by Joe Pryluck 68 IN THIS ISSUE: U.S. POSTAL STATIONERY MISUSE by Charles A. Fricke 72 Editor’s Notes, by Wayne Menuz 18 President’s Message, by Leroy Collins III 18 NORFOLK ISLAND'S FIRST POSTAL CARDS AND NEW Volume 43, Number 5 AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND STATIONERY, by Ian Whole Number 320 McMahon 19 September - October 2001 FIRST POSTAL STATIONERY EXHIBIT TO WIN FIP’S IN THIS ISSUE: HIGHEST AWARD 22 Editor’s Notes, by Wayne Menuz 74 U.S.A. POSTAL CARD: S4A AND S4C REVISTED, by Bill Hart 23 President’s Message, by Leroy Collins III 74 UPSS US POSTAL CARD CATALOG UPDATES FOR YEAR NETHERLANDS INDIES – THE LUX SOAP CARDS, by Stuart 2000, By Terry R. Young 25 Leven & Wayne Menuz 76 SHOEBOX & STATIONERY FORUM THE 1933 VIEWCARDS OF BRAZIL, by Wayne Menuz 79 Dominican Republic Tourist Postal Cards 26 THE U.S.A 1907-1919 OVAL DIE STAMPED ENVELOPES, by USA Envelopes: 4c Dies 79 & 80 26 Ross A. Towle 80 USA Postal Cards: MR5 - Second Dented Message Vignette Card SHOEBOX & STATIONERY FORUM Found 26 U.S. Postal Card Revalues 82 USA Envelopes: Size 23 26 Stolen Hawaii Postal Card 83 USA Envelopes: The 2c Postal Treaty Letter Rate to England. 27 The Missing 20th Century Envelopes 83 Nicaragua: A 6c Reply Postal Card 27 The Nineteenth Century Postal Stationery Catalogue – United States of USA ENVELOPES: COUNTERFEITS OF STAR DIES II, By America 83 Dan Undersander 29 U.S.A. Postcard, Full Face McKinley 84 HONDURAS POST CARD: INVERTED CENTER, By Wayne Postal Card Patent 84 Menuz 31 U.S. Envelope UC8a Forgery 84 U.S.A. Cinderella Postal Card 85 Volume 43, Number 3 U.S.A. 33c Official Envelopes 85 Whole Number 318 U.S.A. S37e Last Day of Use 86 May - June 2001 Russian Card – More Questions Than Answers 86 U.S.A. “SMART” ENVELOPE, by Wayne Menuz 88 IN THIS ISSUE: SHANGHAI VOLUNTEER CORPS POSTAL CARD, by Wayne Editor’s Notes, by Wayne Menuz 34 Menuz 90 President’s Message, by Leroy Collins III 34 LITERATURE REVIEWS Marcus White Showcase CHICAGOPEX 01 34 Catalogo Especializado de los Enteros Postales de Espana, Colonias UPSS and International Future Exhibitions 35 Espanolas, y Dependencias Postales 92 Australia’s Printed to Private Order Envelopes, by Wayne Menuz The Collectors’ Guide to Postal Stationery 93 and Stephen Schumann 36 Webb’s Postal Stationery Catalogue of Canada and Newfoundland 94 SHOEBOX & STATIONERY FORUM USA Postcard: UX14 foreign rate 50 USA Envelope: UC8A Forgery? 50 Volume 43, Number 6 USA Postcard: UX27 Clipper rate 50 Whole Number 321 USA Postcard: Full Face McKinley 51 November - December 2001 USA Postcard: Leavitt Cancel 51 IN THIS ISSUE: USA Postcard: UX18 unravels Civil War Mystery? 51 Editor’s Notes, by Wayne Menuz 98 USA Postcards: Faster Numbering suggestion 52

THE SAALBURG POSTAL STATIONERY OF GERMANY, by IN THIS ISSUE: James Bowman 99 Editor’s Notes, by Wayne Menuz 25 SWEDEN ENVELOPES FOR THE BLIND, President’s Message, by Leroy Collins III 25 by Paul Nelson 101 Obituary – Robert Samuel 102 LIBERIA AIRMAIL ENVELOPES, by Wayne Menuz 27 US POSTAL CARDS WITH AUXILIARY MARKINGS THE NESBITT SEAL ON THE FIRST ISSUE OF U.S. RELATING TO MAIL RECEPTACLES, by H.J. Berthelot 102 ENVELOPES, by Dan Undersander 30 US ANTHRAX ENVELOPES, by Ross A. Towle 104 WHERE HAVE ALL THESE THORP NUMBERS GONE? (I), by ANOTHER VIEW OF THE S14 & S17 1902 LOUIS SMITH Allen Mintz 33 COUNTERFEITS, by William Falberg 104 Revision of the 20th Century Stamped NICARAGUA – UNUSUAL ENVELOPE USAGE TO GAMBIA, Envelope Catalog 35 by Neal West 109 A COLOMBIA POSTAL CARD MAJOR ERROR AND A US Postal Card Number Assignments, POSTAL STATIONERY COLLECTION REDISCOVERED, by Terry R. Young 110 by Deborah Friedman 37 SHOEBOX & STATIONERY FORUM COMMENTS ON THE UPSS 19TH CENTURY CATALOG, by E. PTPO Austria Post Card Revisited 111 Norman Lurch 41 Plating S4, S6 & S8 US Cards 111 U.S. POSTCARDS – PLATE TYPE MEASUREMENT TOPICS, US Postal Card Revalues 112 by Bill Falberg 42 US Envelopes & Wrappers – Various 112 “UNCLAIMED” COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION POSTAL CARD US Envelopes – Earliest Known Uses 113 – WHY?, by Charles US Airmail Rate During WWII 113 A. Fricke 44 RECENT AUSTRALIAN, NORFOLK ISLAND, AND NEW MORE NEW DANISH STATIONERY, by Paul A. Nelson 45 ZEALAND STATIONERY by Ian McMahon 114 S. AFRICAN ACTIVE SERVICE LETTER CARDS USED IN LITERATURE REVIEWS BECHUANALAND, by Peter Thy 46 Victoria Postal Stationery 1869-1917 117 FAKE AND BOGUS STATIONERY ON EBAY, by Wayne FLOYD SALE OF US STATIONERY, by Wayne Menuz 47 Menuz 119 Volume 44, Number 3 Volume 44, Number 1 Whole Number 324 Whole Number 321 May - June 2002 January - February 2002 IN THIS ISSUE: IN THIS ISSUE: Editor’s Notes, by Wayne Menuz 50 Editor’s Notes, by Wayne Menuz 1 President’s Message, by Leroy Collins III 51 President’s Message, by Leroy Collins III 2 U.S. ENVELOPE DIE 12 FORGERY REVISTED, by Bill Lehr 53 UPSS Conventions & Meetings 3 GUATAMALA’S 10 CENTAVOS ENVELOPES FOR 1897 EXPO, USA ENVELOPES: REPRINTS OF THE NESBIT ISSUES, by by Wayne Menuz 54 Dan Undersander & Gary Starkey 4 UPSS Membership, Obituaries 57 NEW DANISH POST CARDS, by Paul Nelson 6 FOLLOW UP ON THE LOUIS SMITH COUNTERFEITS OF US First UPSS Lewandowski Award 9 POSTAL CARDS, by Bill Falberg 58 2001 Marcus White Showcase Winners 9 SHOEBOX & STATIONERY FORUM SHOEBOX & STATIONERY FORUM U.S. Postal Card Measurements: Errata & Praise 62 Palestine – How to Differentiate the Printings 9 New York City Chapter? 62 Tear Sheets Available 10 Floyd Sale Report Errata 62 th U.S. 19 Century Envelope Catalog 10 Liberia: Airmail Envelope Error 62 U.S. – THE PORTOLA, CALIFORNIA REVALUED POSTAL A New US Multiple Ad/Discount Card? 63 CARD OF 1968, by Rocco Caponi 11 Another U.S.A. Anthrax Envelope 63 GREAT BRITAIN TELEGRAPH FORM – ANOTHER South West Africa Aerogramme 63 DISCOVERED AFTER 31 YEARS, by Steve Schumann 14 USA Precancelled Postal Cards 63 UPSS Sales Circuits News 15 Hong Kong OHMS Card 64 THE TWO TYPES OF THE KING HUMBERT MESSAGE- PHILADELPHIA NATIONAL STAMP EXHIBITION 2002 and REPLY POSTAL CARDS, by Salvatore J. Rizza 16 UPSS CONVENTION 65 LITERATURE REVIEWS, by Wayne Menuz AUSTRALIAN DESERT FLOWERS AND OTHER NEW PSE’S Special Post 17 AND NORFOLK ISLAND POSTAL CARDS, by Ian McMahon 65 Postal Stationery Associated with Railways, Rumania 1928-2000 18 NEW ZEALAND LOCAL ENVELOPES, by Ian McMahon 67 Catalog of Belgium Postal Stationery with Advertising 19 UPSS MAIL BID AUCTION 69 Stationery Catalog of Yugoslavia Area: Volume I/I Serbia 1873- 1921 20 FLOYD SALE OF U.S. STATIONERY 21 Volume 44, Number 4 Whole Number 326 Volume 44, Number 2 July - Aug 2002 Whole Number 323 IN THIS ISSUE: Editor’s Notes, by Wayne Menuz 74 March - April 2002 President’s Message, by Leroy Collins III 74 SOURCE OF 1870 USA ENVELOPE ESSAY, by Dan IN THIS ISSUE: Undersander 76 Editor’s Notes, by Wayne Menuz 2 Col. Carl Stieg Receives Research Award 77 President’s Message, by Leroy Collins III 2 SCANDINAVIAN STATIONERY, by Paul A. USA Post Card - Interesting Similarity and a Short Changed Nelson 79 Variety, by Theodore H. Weiss 3 AUSTRALIA CENTENARY OF FEDERATION PROJECT 90 Irish Telegram Forms and Pre-Decimal Registered Envelope Survey LITERATURE REVIEWS, by Wayne Menuz Results, by Otto Jung, Barney Clancy & Wayne Menuz 5 A Priced Catalogue of Postal Stationery of the Australian Obituaries: Jeanette Knoll Adams 9 Colonies/States, Part One, WESTERN AUSTRALIA 90 John H. (Jack) Beachboard 9 Ganzsachen Schweiz (Swiss Stationery) 91 2002 UPSS U.S. Postal Card Number Postal Stationery of Ireland 92 Assignments, by Terry R. Young 10 THE FRIENDS OF THE WESTERN PHILATELIC LIBRARY Victoria Promotional Advertising Envelope DONATION 93 Scheme, Wayne Menuz 11 MAIL BID AUCTION 94 Individuals Making Contributions to the UPSS during Calendar Year 2002 20 Volume 44, Number 5 Previously Unreported 1874 Plimpton Specimen Envelopes, by Dan Undersander 21 Whole Number 326 SHOEBOX & POSTAL STATIONERY FORUM 22 September - October 2002 Bolivia B15 with Earlier EKU, by Norman Lurch 24 IN THIS ISSUE: Literature Reviews, by Wayne Menuz Editor’s Notes, by Wayne Menuz 98 Overprints on British Stamps for Use Abroad 24 President’s Message, by Leroy Collins III 98 MICHEL, Ganzsachen- Katalog Deutschland 2002 25 MORE ABOUT U.S.A. ENVELOPE KNIVES, THE 1899 ISSUE L’Entier Aerogramme et ses Precurseurs dans le Monde en France DISCOVERIES, Howard Ness 99 26 FAKE GERMAN STATIONERY, Wayne Menuz 101 Philadelphia National Stamp Exhibition 27 TO CONSOLIDATE OR NOT TO CONSOLIDATE, THAT IS Volume 45, Number 2 THE QUESTION, Stanley Abel and Allen Mintz 105 Whole Number 329 THE PUZZLING SIDE OF CATALOG PRICING AND March - April 2003 AUCTION PRICES, William Falberg 105 IN THIS ISSUE: NESBITT TRIAL PRINTING METHOD? Wayne Menuz 106 Editor’s Notes, by Wayne Menuz 30 BRITISH EAST AFRICA POSTAL STATIONERY; 1890-1902, President’s Message, by Leroy Collins III 30 George T. Krieger 108 USA -Registered Postal Card, by Robert Schlesinger 31 LITERATURE REVIEWS, by Wayne Menuz USA Envelope Promotion, by Howard Ness 31 The Postal Stationery of Natal 118 Indian States KGV 1A and 1A3P Envelopes, by Ajeet A Priced Catalogue of Postal Stationery of the Australian Singhee 32 Colonies/States, Part One, WESTERN AUSTRALIA (further Membership Report 36 information) 119 Marcus White Showcase Exhibitors 36 MICHEL, Bildpostkarten- und Motivganzsachen- Katalog The 1925 Santa Ana Provisionals, by Joe Pryluck 37 Deutschland 2002 119 Bulgarian Form 243, by Ross A. Towle 43 Costa Rica – New Post Card 46 Volume 44, Number 6 Recent New Zealand and Ireland Propaganda Post Cards, by Wayne Whole Number 327A Menuz 47 November - December 2002 Albert Daggett, by Ray Johnston 49 IN THIS ISSUE: UPSS Auction 03-1 50 Editor’s Notes, by Wayne Menuz 122 President’s Message, by Leroy Collins III 122 Volume 45, Number 3 Philakorea 2002, by Lewis E. Busse 123 Whole Number 330 Newly Recognized Single Card Copies of M23 & R23 with 1952 May - June 2003 Tickometer Surcharges, by Charles A. Fricke 126 IN THIS ISSUE: The Puzzling Side of Catalog Pricing, by Bill Falberg 127 Editor’s Notes, by Wayne Menuz 58 The Definitive Postal Stationery of the Italian Social Republic, by President’s Message, by Leroy Collins III 58 Carlo Sopracordevole 128 Update: UPSS 19th Century Envelopes Catalog 59 The Handling/Mishandling of Two U.S. International Air Mail Australia and New Zealand New Issues, by Ian McMahon 63 Cards, by H.J. Berthelot 136 SHOEBOX & STATIONERY FORUM The Smith Counterfeit S17 USA Cards, by Robert Stendel U.S. Postal Card “wild hair” varieties, Hal Taylor 67 137 U.S. S46-1 Postal Card, Hal Taylor 67 Errata for the Catalog of the 19th Century Stamped Envelopes, “Postal Card”, “Post Card”, “Entire”, Cecile Gruson 67 Wrappers, Cut Squares and Full Corners of the United States 140 U.S. Post Office Penalty Stationery, Allen Hopkinson 68 AUCTION 02-2 141 Arthur Woodward’s death, Kirk & Else Wolford 68 AUCTION 02-1, PRICES REALIZED 148 Railway Theme Stationery, Don Lewis 68 Bulgarian and Other Phonecards, Lazar Lazarov 68 Volume 45, Number 1 Lack of References in Articles, Richard D. Zallen 68 Whole Number 328 An Insider’s View of those “False-Franked” Hugo Cards, by James January – February 2003 Majka 70 UPSS Auction 02-2, Prices Realized 74

U.S. Envelope “Accidental” Fakes, by Bill Lehr 77 Contract, Howard Ness 134 CHICAGOPEX 2003 77 Postcards of India – 2002, Ranes C. Chakravorty 137 LITERATURE REVIEWS, by Wayne Menuz More Accidental Fakes, and an Accidental Indonesia Postal Stationery, Japanese occupation 1942-1945, Forgery, Too!, Bill Lehr 140 Republic Indonesia 1945-1949 78 The Postal Stationery of Iran 79 Volume 45, Number 6 Hellas 2003 80 Whole Number 333 Handbook of Modern Ukrainian Philately 81 November - December 2003 Privatganzsachen Katalog 2002 82 IN THIS ISSUE: A Philatelic Footnote to History, by Charles A. Fricke 83 Editor’s Notes, Wayne Menuz 142 President’s Message, Leroy Collins III 142 Volume 45, Number 4 Obituary: Bill Maisel 142 Whole Number 331 "Yours truly," with "SAMPLES" as requested, July - August 2003 by Charles A. Fricke 143 IN THIS ISSUE: Merry Christmas, by Irwin J. Gibbs 144 Editor’s Notes, Wayne Menuz 86 Executive Director’s Membership Report 151 President’s Message, Leroy Collins III 86 A Long Time Ago Part 3, by Bill Falberg 152 A 30-Year Challenge, Charles A. Fricke 87 The 100th Anniversary of the Floral Postal Stationery of Italy, by Thailand's WWII Provisional Stationery, Al Shumsky 88 Carlo Sopracordevole 154 Discovery of 1873 Chilean Envelope, Ross A. Towle 91 LITERATURE REVIEWS, Wayne Menuz A Long Time Ago. (Part 1), Bill Falberg 92 Katalog Prangko INDONESIA 2001 159 Queensland – A New Discovery, Wayne Menuz 95 Catalogo Especializado de Enteros Postales de Cuba de la Epoca Correction to May-June 2003 Article 97 Socialista, Edicion 2000 159 Solving A Goldsmith "Riddle", Kenneth C. Sobres Postales usados en el Peru, 1875-1902 160 Wukasch 98 Cjeline Jugoslavije Katalog 2002 161 US Administration of Cuba Envelopes Plus Ganzsachenkatalog Deutschland, 1998-April 2002 161 E. Norman Lurch 99 UPSS Auction 04-1 163 Forged British Bechuanaland Newspaper Wrappers UPSS Auction 03-2, Prices Realized 167 Peter Thy and John Inglefield-Watson 102 SHOEBOX & STATIONERY FORUM Volume 46, Number 1 Discontinue Listing USA Postal Cards S46-1, S44-12, S44-17, S44-19 Whole Number 334 and S45-30?, Porter Venn 104 January - February 2004 More on Postal Cards S46-1 & S44-1, Karl H. Klemmer 104 IN THIS ISSUE: UPSS Expertizing Service?, Jerry Phillips & Leroy P. Editor’s Notes, Wayne Menuz 2 Collins 104 President’s Message, Leroy Collins III 2 USA Envelope Idea Jerry Phillips & Leroy P. Collins 104 New ERP/EKU’s for Postal Cards S4ab and S58-2, Russian Essay Envelopes, Jean Walton 105 John Hardy 3 More Editing Needed, Jack Harwood 105 Trinidad & Tobago Issues Prepaid Envelopes, Canada Post Discounting, Wayne Menuz 106 Dr. Reuben A. Ramkissoon 4 Soviet Use of Russian China Envelope, Edy Leewards Islands - The “Size F” Envelope, Pockele & George Shalimoff 106 Wayne Menuz 5 UPSS MAIL BID AUCTION 108 The First USA Envelope Issue Revisited, Allen Mintz 8 Volume 45, Number 5 Rediscovering the 42 Perf Grant Letter Sheet, Whole Number 332 Patrick M. Crosby 9 September - October 2003 Mafia Island Overprints, George T. Krieger 11 IN THIS ISSUE: Searching the UPSS Website, James Majka 13 Editor’s Notes, Wayne Menuz 114 Postal Stationery of Georgia, Theo Jansen 18 President’s Message, Leroy Collins III 114 Correction to Canal Zone Article in last Issue 22 Zanzibar – Overprinted Postal Stationery of India, George T. Bidder Specimen Family Update Krieger 116 Howard Ness 23 A Long Time Ago (Part 2), Bill Falberg 121 Executive Director’s Membership Report 23 Soviet Union Payment-by-Mail Rent Forms with Advertisements, Individuals Making Contributions to the UPSS During Calendar George Shalimoff 124 Year 2003r 24 Italy’s Cavallini’s: True and False, Erich von Hungen 128 SHOEBOX & STATIONERY FORUM SHOEBOX & STATIONERY FORUM South Australia Wrapper, Tom Herinckx 25 APS Summer Seminar 132 Envelope Past-Ups, Charles Riley, Jr. 25 Unlisted Official Envelopes, Stanley Snyder 132 Australian Printed to Private Order, S.D. Schumann 25 A German Fieldpost “Use” of USA Card S1?, Roger Rhodes 132 A Response Regarding Unlisted Official Envelopes, Cary Finder25 Indian Watermark, Ajeet Singhee 133 Card With Undecipherable Message, Peter Fowke 28 Postal Card Used as Check, John DeStefanis & Charles Thrower 133 Costa Rica Stationery Album 28 Content of Postal Stationery, Patrick Crosby 133 Special Indian Stationery, Paul Nelson 28 Bidder Samples – Revised: The 1890 Postal Stationery LITERATURE REVIEWS, Wayne Menuz Plusbrief Katalog Deutschland, 2nd edition 28 Volume 46, Number 4 Whole Number 337 Volume 46, Number 2 July - August 2004 Whole Number 335 IN THIS ISSUE: March - April 2004 Editor’s Notes, Wayne Menuz 86 IN THIS ISSUE: President’s Message, Leroy Collins III 86 Editor’s Notes, Wayne Menuz 30 The Many Faces of the Die 12 Forgeries, Bill Lehr 87 President’s Message, Leroy Collins III 30 Early Uses of the 1903 Hartford Postal Stationery, Douglas N. Clark, The Story of the House of Nesbitt 31 Nancy B. Clark, Ken Lawrence 90 Geo. F. Nesbitt & Co. – Subcontractor to American Bank Note Co. 1¢ "PICTURE" Postal Cards, Charles A. Fricke 93 by Ross A. Towle 34 SHOEBOX & STATIONERY FORUM Joint Issue Postal Stationery by Richard Zimmerman 35 Republish Old Articles?, William R. Geijsbeek 94 SHOEBOX & STATIONERY FORUM U.S. Envelope Editor Needed, William R. Geijsbeek 95 New Italian Handbook, Vittorio Coscia 40 Gibraltar Wrapper, John Dempsey 95 Leewards Islands Size F Envelopes, Barry Friedman 40 China Post Card, John Dempsey 95 New Postal Stationery Book, Peter Thy 40 China Envelope, John Demsey 96 Card with Secret Message, Charles Riley, Jr., Ross Earliest Date for USA Card S20a, Raymond Hadley 96 Towle, Jonathan Topper, Robert Beasecker 41 Ryukyu Cards and Album Pages, Joseph A. DeSanzo 96 UPSS Literature, Stephen Schumann 42 Gene Fricks 96 Additions to Article, Bill Falberg 42 USA Official Business Cards, Howard Ness 97 Gibraltar Wrapper – New Discovery, Wayne Menuz 42 More on the 42 Perf Grant Letter Sheet, Patrick Crosby 97 U.S. Postal Card Auction Sale Topics By Bill Falberg 43 Fake USA Colombian Envelope, Bill Lehr 97 Corrections 45 S. Richard Prothero, M.D. 97 LITERATURE REVIEWS, Wayne Menuz Modern Pakistan Stationery Envelopes, Jafar (“Jeff”) H. Postcards of Hitler’s Germany, James Bender 46 Siddiqui and Wayne Menuz 98 The Nile Post, Joseph H. Chalhoub 46 Executive Director’s Membership Report 107 Paraguay Postal Stationery Catalogue, Brian Moorhouse 47 UPSS Auction 04-3 108 UPSS Auction 04-2 46 04-2, Prices Realized 112 UPSS Auction 04-1, Prices Realized 56 UPSS Election – Candidates’ Biographies 113 NAPEX Philatelic Literature Awards 113 Volume 46, Number 3 Australian Official Perfin Stationery, Wayne Menuz 115 Whole Number 336 British Levant Stationery, Dr. Alan Huggins, FRPSL 118 Halves and Sides Revisited, Bill Falberg 118 May - June 2004 IN THIS ISSUE: Editor’s Notes, Wayne Menuz 58 Volume 46, Number 5 President’s Message, Leroy Collins III 58 Whole Number 338 When was the First USA Stamped Envelope Issued? Gary L. Starkey September - October 2004 and Dan Undersander 59 IN THIS ISSUE: Canal Zone 1918 Registration Envelopes, Irwin J. Gibbs 61 Editor’s Notes, Wayne Menuz 122 Ryukyu Postal Cards and the Pages To Mount Them On, Bill President’s Message, Leroy Collins III 122 Fallberg. 65 Multiplicity - A first Issue Postal Card, Charles A. Fricke 123 U.S.A. Special Usage Envelopes and Mailers, D. John Shultz 69 The Viewcards of Peru, Part 1: The 1899 Issue, Wayne George H. Reay, James Logan 70 Menuz. 124 New and Rediscovered Great Britain Postal Stationery , Dr. Russian Privately Printed Money Order Forms with Alan K. Huggins, FRPSL 75 Advertisements, George V. Shalimoff. 135 Finland Post EasyMail Envelopes, Paul A. Nelson 76 Plimpton Mfg. Co., James Logan 140 Plimpton and Morgan Issue of 1890, SPECIMEN Form 39 . Family (revisited), Howard Ness 77 Sweden Postal Card No. 1 Albino, by Jim Burgeson 145 SHOEBOX & STATIONERY FORUM SHOEBOX & STATIONERY FORUM Stanley A. Snyder Recent Zaire (Congo) Post Cards, E. Norman Lurch 80 USA Envelope Knife Listings, 145 North Korean “Aerogrammes”, Wayne Menuz 145 USA Envelopes - Amber-manila Paper, Porter Venn 80 Used Full-Face McKinley, Wayne Menuz 146 Russian Post Card Errors, V. A. Katranovsky 80 Executive Director’s Membership Report. 148 Catalog Error Regarding Envelope UPSS #1102, Keven Belmont 81 LITERATURE REVIEWS, Alan Warren, Jack Harwood and Wayne Menuz Volume 46, Number 6 Denmark’s Fri-Correspondance Kort 81 Whole Number 339 Queensland Postal Notes 1880-1996 82 November - December 2004 Standard Catalogue of Malaysia Singapore Brunei Revenue IN THIS ISSUE: Stamps and Postal Stationery 82 Editor’s Notes, Wayne Menuz 150 The Postal Services of the Gold Coast to 1901 83 President’s Message, Lewis E. Bussey 150 The Telegraph Stamps and Stationery of Great Britain 1851-1954 The UPSS at SESCAL 151 83 2003 USA Postal Card Issues, Terry Young 153 The Postal Stationery of the Bechuanalands and Botswana 84 Fake and Bogus Australian Perfin Stationery, Wayne Menuz 155 NSW Government Punctures on Australian Postcards – Buyer Alert,

John Sinfield 155 USA Scott UC-1 with Defective Watermark, Tony Conyers 47 A World War I "ARSENAL" Slogan Postal Marking, Charles A. Boyd’s Locals in Scott’s, John D. Bowman 48 Fricke 159 Comments on the UPSS 20th Century Catalog, Stan Anderson 48 SHOEBOX & STATIONERY FORUM A Survey of a Danish Stationery Collection, E. Norman USA Envelope Earliest Dates, Stephen Schumann 160 Lurch 49 UX10 with Unknown Language, Karl Haas 160 LITERATURE REVIEWS, Wayne Menuz American Bank Note Co., Ross Towle 160 Chinese Imperial Third-Issue Postal Cards 53 Danish and French Web sites, Paul Nelson 161 Las Tarjetas Postales de C. Galli Franco y Cia. Montevideo (1898- The Viewcards of Peru, Part 2: The 1900 Issues, Wayne Menuz 162 1906) 54 UPSS Auction 04-4 170 Michel Ganzsachen-Katalog Europa West 2003/04 54 Michel Ganzsachen-Katalog Europa Ost 2004/05 54 Volume 47, Number 1 Ganzsachenkatalog der deutschen Privatpost 1873 bis 1914, Teil: Whole Number 340 Magdeburg bis Zwickau 55 Katalog der Aerogramme von Australien und Ozeanien 55 January - February 2005 Die Ganzsachen der Schwiz 55 IN THIS ISSUE: Editor’s Notes, Wayne Menuz 2 President’s Message, James E. Bussey 2 Volume 47, Number 3 Used Full-Face McKinley Cards, Bill Falberg 3 Whole Number 342 Revalued Stamped Envelopes of Chile. 1915-1929, Ross A. Towle 8 May - June 2005 Thailand’s Provisional Aerogram, Wayne Menuz 9 IN THIS ISSUE: Mother Nature Fools Experts! Bill Lehr 10 Editor’s Notes, Wayne Menuz 58 Perkins Bacon Archive, Francis Kiddle 12 President’s Message, James E. Bussey 58 Contemporary U.S. Envelopes – Why Collect Them?, William R. Can You Tell the Difference Between Gloucester, Mass. and Geijsbeek 14 Monument Valley? Bill Falberg 59 The Viewcards of Peru, Part 3: Conclusion and Catalog, Chilean Parcel Cards of 1920-1931, Ross A. Towle 60 Wayne Menuz 16 Administrative Changes at UPSS 63 SHOEBOX & STATIONERY FORUM UPSS Auctions – Prices Realized, sales 2004-A3, -A4 63 Some P.S. corrections, Cary Finder 20 Die 12 Counterfeit Entire #2, Bill Lehr 64 Possible U.S.A. Envelope editor, John C. Petersam 20 Great Britain’s North Eastern Railway Stamped Envelopes, Fred P.S. Delivery & Perfin of Australia, Jack Brandt 20 Taylor and Roger de Lacy Spencer 66 2004 U.S.A. Postal Cards 21 Back door means of winning the game in 1909, Charles A. Fricke 68 LITERATURE REVIEWS, Wayne Menuz Essay Origins of UX17: The Full Face McKinley USA Postal Card, Irish Postal Stationery Stamped to Order 23 Robert Stendel 69 A Guide to Modern Indian Postal Stationery 1947-2003 Vol. 1 War Department Stamps on UO14 Official Envelope – a New Envelopes 23 Discovery, Dr. Dennis W. Schmidt 74 Catalogue des Entiers “Pret-A-Poster” de France et de Monaco 23 SHOEBOX & STATIONERY FORUM Listing of Australian Non-Denominated and Flat Rate Postal Stationery24 Correction to Article in #340, pg 10, Bill Lehr 75 Early Canada Post Cards 1871-1911 24 Thai Postal Stationery Catalog 2004 25 Danish stationery Article in #341, Paul Nelson 75 Ecuador Postal Stationery Catalog, Part 1, Postal Cards, Letter Cards, Discovery of Unissued British Bechuanaland Wrapper, Peter Thy and Municipal Cards and View Cards 25 John Inglefield-Watson 76 Zanzibar 1895-1904 26 Queensland Registration Envelopes, Wayne Menuz 77 Philatelic Atlas of British India 26 LITERATURE REVIEWS, Wayne Menuz Marcus White Showcase to be at NOJEX 27 Die Postkartenheftchen der Schweizer Post 1912-1992 80 Exhibition Report – Espana 2004, Tim Bartshe 27 Die Bildpostkarten P132 und ihre Klischeeunterschiede 80 Les Entiers Postaux de France et de Monaco 2005 7th Edition 80 Classified Ads 28 Catalogul Intregurilor Postale Romanesti 81 Weihnachts Ganzsachen Katalog, 12 Lieferung (2003) 81 Volume 47, Number 2 Cartoline e Biglietti Postali Militari in Franchigia, Edizioni di Stato e Private, Whole Number 341 Catalogo Specializzato 2000 81 March-April 2005 Specialized Catalogue of Postage Stamps and Postal Stationery of Latvia, 10th edition, 2004 82 IN THIS ISSUE: Specializovany Katalog 2001 Slovensko, 1939 – 1945 a 1993 –2000, Editor’s Notes, Wayne Menuz 29 Postove znamky a celiny 82 President’s Message, James E. Bussey 29 Katalog Slovensko 1993 – 2002, postovych znamak, celin a USA Postal Card S46-2b – The UPSS Catalog Note, Bill Falberg 31 filatelistickych materialov 83 USA Postal Cards - Those Pesky Press Printed Surcharges of 1920, Catalogue, Advertising and Agitational Postcards and Envelopes, One- Lewis Bussey 32 sided Postcards USSR 1924-1980 83 Individuals Making Contributions to the UPSS During the 2004 Dutch Postcards During King Willem III 83 Calendar Year 34 Irish Aerogrammes and Airgraphs 83 Is “Extra Fine” in the Mind of the Beholder? Marvin Schiller a/k/a cutsquareguy 35 Volume 47, Number 4 Executive Director’s Membership Report 36 Whole Number 343 Cuba’s Aerogrammes, Mark Piper 37 July – August 2005 Bands and Notes from Black Jack Envelopes and Wrappers, Jerry IN THIS ISSUE: Summers 45 Editor’s Notes, Wayne Menuz 85 President’s Message, Lewis E. Bussey 85 Statue Identification on Exposition Card, Heiko Deckert 151 Fall 2006 Board of Directors Meeting, Tim Bartshe 86 China Card used, Wayne Menuz 151 USA Advertising Collars, Allen Mintz 86 Subscription Site for Indian Stamp News, Paul Nelson 151 A Capsule History of the UPSS, John Adkins 89 Finnish New Issues, Paul Nelson 151 US Postal Service Issues Letter Sheet 91 USA Card S37/UX27 Questions, Bob Watson 151 Bands of Brothers, Part 1, Marvin Schiller 92 USA Envelope Articles on Website, Fran Adams 151 NOJEX Wrap-Up 93 Follow-up to the Article Follow-ups, Bill Falberg 152 NOJEX 2005 Awards List, Glen Spies 95 More About SPECIMEN Forms, Howard Ness 154 Tin Can Canadian Card, Wayne Menuz 95 Varieties on S37/UX27, Richard Gluckman 158 Republic of Trinidad & Tobago Postal Stationery, Dr. The 1874-1875 Envelope Bid Forms, Wayne Menuz 159 Reuben A. Ramkissoon 96 The Prepaid Letter Envelopes 168 UPSS Sales Circuit Department, Bob Combs 100 UX12/S14 Postal Card Varieties, Bill Hardy 101 Volume 48, Number 1 More About 4th Nesbitt Series Advertising Specimens, Howard Whole Number 346 Ness 104 January -February 2006 SHOEBOX & STATIONERY FORUM IN THIS ISSUE: Fake Perf T Tasmania Stationery, David McNamee 105 Editor’s Notes, Wayne Menuz 2 UX 48 Locally Surcharged to 9¢, Mike Davis 105 President’s Message, Lewis E. Bussey 2 Sweden Card with Second Albino Stamp, Jim Burgeson 105 The Hartford 2¢ Recuts Revisited, Allen Mintz 3 Tasmania 1912 Registration Envelope, Malcolm Groom 105 UPSS Board of Directors Meeting at Atlanta Show 3 S37/UX 27-A Neglected Postal Card, Allen Mintz 106 Great Britain’s First Stationery Post Card, Mike Layne 4 Envelope Double Impressions, Rocco Caponi 108 20th Century Catalog Discrepancies?, Bob Thompson 5 British Embossed Stamp Collars, Wayne Menuz 110 Unlisted GB Official Letter Sheets, Wayne Menuz 6 SHOEBOX & STATIONERY FORUM Volume 47, Number 5 Prepaid Priority Mail Envelope, Charles A. Fricke 11 Whole Number 344 USA tagging and Other Errors, Wil Thornthwaite 11 September - October 2005 USA Card Used from Marshall Islands, Charles A. Fricke 11 IN THIS ISSUE: Request for Mulready Ads Information, Tom Slemons 11 Editor’s Notes, Wayne Menuz 114 More UX27 varieties, Dick Borkowski 12 President’s Message, Lewis E. Bussey 114 S14 Dented Frames, John Hardy 12 Article Follow-Ups, William Falberg 115 St. Vincent Registration Envelope, Wayne Menuz 12 Post Card Libel, Dale Speirs 119 Membership Report 13 Belgium Stop Smoking Cards, Wayne Menuz 123 Denmark: Letter Card Essays 1888, Lars Engelbrecht A Mostly Illustrated Brief History of US Postal Stationery, Bill Lehr 124 15 SHOEBOX & STATIONERY FORUM Many Faces of the Die 11 Forgeries, Bill Lehr 17 Comments about Locally Surcharged USA Postal Cards, Ken Martin Bands129 of Brothers, Part 2, Marvin Schiller 19 Chuck McFarlane Newspaper Clipping reveals "Football Free-for-All”. in 1905. 129 Charles A. Fricke 22 Comments about 1913 Registration Envelopes, Bernard Beston 129 UPSS Auction 06-1, 23 Library Size Postal Cards Used As Forerunners to the Airmail UPSS Auction 05-1, Prices Realized 32 Card of 1949, Charles A. Fricke 130 Envelope Embossing Press 131 Volume 48, Number 2 UPSS Mail Auction 05-1 133 Whole Number 347 March - April 2006 Volume 47, Number 5 IN THIS ISSUE: Whole Number 345 Editor’s Notes, Wayne Menuz 34 November - December 2005 President’s Message, Lewis E. Bussey 34 IN THIS ISSUE: Why the Extra Line?, Brady Hunt 35 Editor’s Notes, Wayne Menuz 141 Census of Mercantile Envelopes, Jerry Summers 39 President’s Message, Lewis E. Bussey 141 The Kolomyia Provisional Postal Cards of 1941, Ingert Kuzych 40 Certificate Topics, Bill Falberg 142 The Allentown Adpostals on S33 & S37, Bill Fallberg 43 UGANDA Overprinted on British East Africa, 1902, George T. SHOEBOX & STATIONERY FORUM Krieger 145 Unusual S54b Plate Variety, James Majka 45 UPSS 2005 Literature Award 149 Swiss Post Internet Post Cards, Wayne Menuz 45 Stationery Exhibit Awards at Houston Show 149 20th Century Catalog Discrepancies, Porter Venn 46 SHOEBOX & STATIONERY FORUM Existence of Amber-Manila Envelopes, Porter Venn 46 Correction: Author’s name 149 Nesbitt Newspaper Ad, Tim Burgess 47 USA card S14 Varieties, Bill Hart 149 Philatelic Foolishness #1, Porter Venn 47 Color In Postal Stationery magazine Philatelic Foolishness #2, Porter Venn 47 Board of Directors Decision 149 2005 USA Postal Card Issues 48 Comments: Jim Napier, Bob Thompson, Gene Feicks, Jack Additional Postal Card S7 Varieties, John Hardy 52 Harwood, Jack Brandt 149-150 LITERATURE REVIEWS, Wayne Menuz Dutch Language, Jack Brandt 150 Ecuador: The Philately of the Seebeck Era 56 Philippine Exhibition and Donation Request, A. Alcala 150 History of Portuguese Military Postal Service 56 APS Sales Examiners, Thomas W. Horn 150

Aerogrammes of the Union of South Africa 1942-1961 57 New Postal Stationery Column Editors Appointed 106 Postal Stationery Associated with Railways, Asia 1893-2000 57 U.S.A. 20/21st Century Column, William Geijsbeek 107 Indian Airmail Letter Cards with Ads and Slogans 58 U.S.A. 19th Century Column, Dan Undersander 108 Indian Inland Letter Cards with Ads and Slogans 58 In Memoriam: Ted Bozarth 109 Indian Inland Post Cards with Ads and Slogans 58 SHOEBOX & STATIONERY FORUM The Stamps of Barbados, Vol I and II. 58 U.S.A. S66b Miscut or Double Print? Wil Thornthwaite 109 MICHEL Ganzsachen- Katalog Deutschland 2005 59 How to Determine Measurement of S37, Ladd Faszold 109 MICHEL Bildpostkarten- und Motivganzsachen- Katalog Negative Number Cancels, Art Ranta 109 Deutschland 2005/2006 59 Perforated S57 Card, Josh Furman 110 Ganzsachenkatalog der deutschen Privatpost 1873 bis 1914, Cover Mounts Needed, Alberto Alcala 110 Teil: Duren bis Lubeck 59 Typewriter Post Cards, Paul Nelson 110 Barbados Registration Envelope, John Hardy 111 Volume 48, Number 3 Philatelic Ponzi Scheme, Glen Stephens 111 Whole Number 348 SA7/UXC7 Errors, Randall Frank 111 May - June 2006 Negative Number Cancels, Art Ranta 111 IN THIS ISSUE: U.S. Air Letter Sheets Returned to Sender, C. Fricke 112 Editor’s Notes, Wayne Menuz 62 Newly Discovered Wada Tourist Sheet for Forged Wrappers, Ron President’s Message, Lewis E. Bussey 62 Casey 113 A Non-existent 30¢ International UPU Surface Postal Card Cape of Good Hope Perf Error, Wayne Menuz 118 Rate, Charles E. Fricke 63 Election – Candidates’ Biographies 119 Seychelles, a Rediscovery, Wayne Menuz 64 American Bank Note Company Archival Specimens for Hawaiian Volume 48, Number 5, Whole Number 350 Postal Cards: A Beginning, Sept-Oct 2006 Dr. Elizabeth J. Nettles and David L. Straight 64 IN THIS ISSUE: Hawaii Postal Stationery, Catalog & Prices 68 Editor’s Notes, Wayne Menuz 122 G. B. Official Lettersheet, Addendum, Wayne Menuz 69 President’s Message, Lewis E. Bussey 122 More about Advertising Specimen Envelope A-59 Markings, Howard Bidder Sample Specimen Samples, Specimen Code and Contracts, Ness 70 Howard Ness 123 What Really Happened With These Cards?, Bill Falberg 72 Advertising on Wrappers - The Centennial of the Incorporation of Watermark Orientations and Printing of Bechuanaland and Syracuse, Allen Mintz 131 Botswana Aerograms, Peter Thy, Jerome Kasper, and John Bands of Brothers, Part 3, Marvin Schiller 132 Inglefield-Watson 74 SHOEBOX & STATIONERY FORUM Two S10 Postal Card Varieties, John T. Hardy, Jr. 77 Washington 2006, Wayne Menuz 133 Barbados Reg. Envelope Error, Wayne Menuz 78 Boston negative cancels, Gene Fricks 133 SHOEBOX & STATIONERY FORUM Boston negative cancels, Roger Rhodes 133 USA Postal Card S8 Flaw, Ken Higgins 79 Perforated S57 Card, Hank Berthelot 134 Fake USA Envelope Surcharge, Bill Lehr 79 Perforated S57 Card, Joe Prylock 134 ERP for Postal Card S46-2?, Stephen E. Cooper 79 Typewriter Post Cards, Leroy Collins 135 India’s Meghdoot Post Cards, Stephen Schumann 79 U.S. Postal Card Catalog Price, Wayne Menuz 136 Br. North Borneo Proof Post Card, Stephen Schumann 80 Zanzibar Inverted Specimen, Ronald Strawser 136 LITERATURE REVIEWS, Wayne Menuz U.S.A. 20th/21st Century Column, William Geijsbeek 137 British Postal Orders 81 U.S.A. Postal Cards, Bill Falberg 138 Afghanistan Revisited 81 Watermarked Chilean Formular Cards, Ross Towle 141 1d Red, Kangaroo and Map Series 81 The S6 Miscut Postal Cards Charles A. Fricke 144 The Pneumatic Post in Vienna, 82 UPSS Auction 06-3 145 Filagrano I. P. 2006-2007, XXVI Edizione 82 UPSS Auction 06-2, Prices Realized 151 Katalog der Privatganzsachen Deutschland bis 1945 83 UPSS Auction 06-2, 84 Volume 48, Number 6, Whole Number 351 UPSS Auction 06-1, Prices Realized 92 November - December 2006 IN THIS ISSUE: Volume 48, Number 4, Whole Number 349 Editor’s Notes, Wayne Menuz 154 July - August 2006 President’s Message, Lewis E. Bussey 154 IN THIS ISSUE: UPSS Convention in San Jose 155 Editor’s Notes, Wayne Menuz 94 Marcus White Showcase 155 President’s Message, Lewis E. Bussey 94 USA Card S37/UX 27 Revisited – Again, Allen Mintz 156 Washington 2006 Show Report 95 Carpatho-Ukrainian Postal Stationery, 1939 and 1945, Ingert The 10+10 Øre Red Double Postal Cards of Sweden 1890-1905, Kuzych and Jay Carrigan 157 James Burgeson 97 The Beginnings of the Envelope Industry In Springfield, Mass, James Afghanistan: Fakes and Unlisted, Wayne Menuz 100 Logan. 162 Fall 2006 UPSS Convention Tim Bartshe 101 Membership Manager’s Report, Stuart Leven 169 Finds and Comments on UX18/S22, John T. Hardy 102 Many Faces of the Die 9 Forgeries, Bill Lehr 170 Membership Coordinator’s Report 105 U.S.A. 20th/21st Century Column, Bill Geijsbeek 173 New Membership Coordinator Appointed 105 U.S.A. 19th Century Column, Dan Undersander 175 U.S.A. Postal Stationery New Issues, Bill Geijsbeek 176 EXPONET Virtual Philatelic Exhibition, Bill Geijsbeek 47 SHOEBOX & STATIONERY FORUM SHOEBOX & STATIONERY FORUM Turkish Envelope Error, Wayne Menuz 176 New ERP for S99?, James H. Carmack, Jr., M.D. 48 U85 & U86 Specimens, Ron Demery, Howard Ness 177 USA Card Surcharged on Reverse, Rodney A. Juell 48 UPSS Publications Receive Awards, Harold Stral 177 New USA Postal Cards, Hank J. Berthelot 48 Mounting Postal Stationery in Album, Dr. Kenneth Kornblum and Lewis Sale of Classic Philatelics, Patricia Feiner 49 Bussey 177 Ceylon 50¢ Airgraph, Jerome V. V. Kasper 49 Postal Stationery Journal Dates, Ross Towle and Larry Parks 178 Lewandowski 2006 Awards, Eddie Bridges 50 Unusual 1½ ¢ Surcharge, Wayne Menuz and Jerry Summers 178 Lewandowski 2006 Awards, Eduardo & Luis Barreiros 50 1996 Lewandowski Awards, Larry Parks 178 USA International Rate Cards, Henry Fisher 50 Australian Post Card Miscues, Wayne Menuz 179 Epirus Post Cards, Wayne Menuz 50 LITERATURE REVIEWS, Wayne Menuz Albania Post Card, Wayne Menuz 50 Charity Letters Bearing Advertisements for the Benefit of Orphans (1898-1901) USPS Philatelic Orders, Hans Hilbers 51 182 USA 2¢ Sesquicentennial Envelope Printing Flaw, Raymnd The Postal Issues of Syria, Lebanon and the Alaouites 1919-1945 183 Longobardi 51 British East Africa, Stamps, Postal Stationery & Cancellations 183 Pseudo Stationery, Wayne Menuz 52 Individuals Making Contributions to the UPSS During Calendar Volume 49, Number 1, Whole Number 352 Year 2006 63 January – February 2007 IN THIS ISSUE: Editor’s Notes, Wayne Menuz 2 Volume 49, Number 3, Whole Number 354 President’s Message, Lewis E. Bussey 2 May - June 2007 Southern Florida Wetland Postal Cards, Lewis E. Bussey and Bill IN THIS ISSUE: Geijsbeek 3 Editor’s Notes, Wayne Menuz 66 2006 USA Postal Card Issues, Lewis E. Bussey 4 President’s Message, Lewis E. Bussey 66 The 1889 Swedish Reply Card, James Burgeson 8 Zanzibar Overprint Variety, George Krieger 10 Has the USPS Gone Too Far??, Bill Geijsbeek 67 Essays for 1888 British Bechuanaland Newspaper Wrappers, Peter Classic US Postal Stationery, Ken Lawrence 68 Thy and John Inglefield-Watson 10 USA Postal Stationery New Issues, Bill Geijsbeek 70 U.S.A. 20th/21st Century Column, Bill Geijsbeek 12 British East Africa ‘On India’ Postal Stationery; New Discoveries, U.S.A. Stationery 2007New Issues, Bill Geijsbeek 13 George T. Krieger and John Minns 71 UPSS 20th Century Envelopes, etc. – New Issue Catalog Numbers, D. John Shultz 14 Ceylon Envelope Used with Indian Stamp, Sandeep Jaiswal 72 Official Use of non-Official Postal Cards, Cary Finder 18 U.S.A. 20th/21st Century Column, Bill Geijsbeek 73 SHOEBOX & STATIONERY FORUM China Card Breaks Record, Wayne Menuz 74 U.S.A. Double Stamp Impressions, Rocco Capon, Bill Geijsbeek, SHOEBOX & STATIONERY FORUM and Wayne Menuz 19 UPSS New Envelope Listing, Stanley A. Snyder 75 Higgins & Gage bought by Christoph Gaertner, Wayne Menuz 19 Responses: D. John Shultz, Wayne Menuz 75 39¢ Franklin Envelope Flaw, Rafael Gijon y Robles 20 Bechuanaland Stationery Book Offer, Peter Thy 75 U.S.A. Multiple Ad & Discount Card Handbook, Bill Falberg 20 USA die AM-9 Die Differences, Robert Beasecker 76 U.S.A. Reply Card UPSS #MR23-1b, Bill Falberg 20 Ceylon Airgraphs, Wayne Menuz 20 Southern Florida Wetlands Card Update, Bill Geijsbeek 76 LITERATURE REVIEWS, Wayne Menuz Canadian Stationery, Howard Ness 76 Specialized Catalog of the Postal Stationery of Spain, Colonies and UPSS 2004 Financial Statement, Porter Venn 77 Dependencies 24 Switzerland’s Postal Cards 1870-1905, Harlan Stone 78 An Illustrated Trial Listing of Imperial Reply Coupons & Commonwealth Reply Coupons 24 In Memoriam (John R. Weimer) 81 Gibraltar Postal Stationery 25 Buyer Beware, Bill Geijsbeek and Porter Venn 82 The West Berlin Postal Stationery Card of Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport 25 Pseudo Stationery Part 2, Wayne Menuz 83 UPSS Auction 07-1 26 UPSS Auction 06-3, Prices Realized 32 UPSS Auction 07-2

Volume 49, Number 2, Whole Number 353 Volume 49, Number 4, Whole Number 355 March - April 2007 July-August 2007 IN THIS ISSUE: IN THIS ISSUE: Editor’s Notes, Wayne Menuz 34 Editor’s Notes, Wayne Menuz 98 President’s Message, Lewis E. Bussey 34 Never Issued USA Special Delivery, Robert Markovits 35 UPSS Convention and Marcus White Showcase at Boxborough 99 Switzerland’s Postal Wrapper Bands 1871-1902, Harlan F. Stone 36 APS Acknowledgement 100 U.S.A. 19th Century Column, Dan Undersander 39 U.S.A. 20th/21st Century Column, Bill Geijsbeek 101 UPSS Election Results 39 U.S.A. 19th Century Column, Dan Undersander 101 U.S.A. 20th/21st Century Column, Bill Geijsbeek 40 New Chile Surcharge Discovery, Ross A. Towle 42 U.S.A. Postal Stationery New Issues, Bill Geijsbeek 103 The Serial Numbers on Bechuanaland Air Letter Sheets, Peter Thy Bechuanalands Postal Stationery in Public and Archival Collections, and John Inglefield-Watson 43 John Inglefield-Watson and Peter Thy 103 UPSS Spring 2007 Convention, Tim Bartshe 46 Membership Manager’s Report, Stuart Leven 106

Postal Buddy Change of Address Card Essays, Jim Knoll and Pseudo Postal Stationery, Part 4, Wayne Menuz 153 Wayne Menuz 107 Zauzibar, an Overprint Error, George Krieger 159 SHOEBOX & STATIONERY FORUM French Postal Rate Correction, John Jennison 115 Volume 49, Number 6, Whole Number 357 Certificate Extensions, Allen Mintz 115 Availability of Florida Wetlands Cards, Richard Parslow 115 November - December 2007 Response: Bill Geijsbeek 115 IN THIS ISSUE: Pseudo USA Post Cards. Bill Lehr 115 Editor’s Notes, Wayne Menuz 162 Special Delivery Essay, Gene Fricks 116 President’s Message, Lewis E. Bussey 162 SA7/UXC7 Errors. Ben Adams 116 UPSS Publications Preview, Bill Falberg 163 The Airmail Envelopes of the U.S. Envelope Company, Bill Geijsbeek 117 Switzerland’s Postal Envelope Production 1867-1886, Harlan F. Stone 164 Official Printed-to-Private-Order Cards For Two Millers in Zurich, By Harlan F. Stone 119 Surcharge Essays and Proofs of Stationery Issues for 1958 Rate Increase, Dan Undersander and Bill Geijsbeek 168 Pseudo Stationery Part 3, Wayne Menuz 123 Chasing the Ogden 2000 to 2007, Bill Falberg 171 LITERATURE REVIEWS, Wayne Menuz Bulgarian Postal Stationeries Catalogue, Part 1, Postcards 128 U.S.A. 20th/21st Century Column, Bill Geijsbeek 173 The Postage Stamps of New Zealand, Volume IX. 128 U.S.A. 19th Century Column, Dan Undersander 174 Catalogue des Cartes Postales Précurseurs de France et des Colonies 129 Postal Stationery Associated with Railways, Latin America and the West SHOEBOX & STATIONERY FORUM Indies 129 Corrections and Errata – Lebanon, Jerry Kasper 176 Iran Classic Philatelic Reference, Vol. 1 – Qajar Dynasty 129 Corrections and Errata – Gibraltar, Larry Parks 176 Katalog der modernen Privatpost Deutschlands, Band 2, Ganzsachen 130 Fake PRC Envelopes, Wayne Menuz 176 An Illustrated Guide to Imperial Reply Coupons & Commonwealth Reply Pseudo Russian Stationery, George Shalimoff 177 Coupons 130 Paper Making & U.S.A. Card S1h, Josh Furman 177 Handbuch der ArGeAlliierter Kontrollrat 1946-1948 e. V, 2, “Die Ganzsachen Folded Typewriter Cards, Rob Bell 178 130 Spezialkatalog der provisorischen Postwertzeichen der Republik Belarus 1991- Pseudo Postal Stationery, Part 5, Wayne Menuz 179 1995, Band 1, Stadt Minsk 131 Study of postal Stationery [of China] (Vol 2) 131 Volume 50, Number 1, Whole Number 358 Volume 49, Number 5, Whole Number 356 January – February 2008 September-October 2007 IN THIS ISSUE: IN THIS ISSUE: Editor’s Notes, Wayne Menuz 2 Editor’s Notes, Wayne Menuz 134 President’s Message, Lewis E. Bussey 2 President’s Message, Lewis E. Bussey 134 UPSS First Day Cachets, Bill Hart 3 EDUs - UPSS Letter to APS 135 U.S.A. 20th/21st Century Column, Bill Geijsbeek 6 EDUs - APS Response 135 U.S.A. 19th Century Column, Dan Undersander 7 The Specimen Code 1, 2, 3, & 4 Confusion, Edmund McGovern 136 Colombia’s Registration Envelopes, Wayne Menuz 8 Switzerland's Postal Envelope Essays and Proofs, Harlan Stone 137 2007 USA Postal Card Issues, Lewis Bussey 14 Togo Occupation – Postal Stationery, The One Penny “Error”, UPSS Auction 08-1, 18 Gernot H. Reiners 138 SHOEBOX & STATIONERY FORUM United States Postal Card Catalogue, Lewis Bussey 141 Salvador Post Card Overprint, Edy Pockele 27 U.S.A. 19th Century Column, Dan Undersander 143 Swiss Envelopes Article Correction, Harlan Stone 27 U.S.A. 20th/21st Century Column, Bill Geijsbeek 144 2007 Lewandowski Award, Larry Parks 27 First USA Postal Card Issue Topics, Bill Falberg 145 Bi-colored Airmail Borders, Robert Hunt 27 SHOEBOX & STATIONERY FORUM USA “Stationery”?, Bernard Rio 27 Postal Stationery Delivery Dates, Howard Ness 148 Pseudo Stationery, Pt. 6 (Conclusion), Wayne Menuz 28 Pseudo Stationery, Robert Bracken 148 Postal Card Collecting - An Appreciation, Allen Mintz 35 USA Airmail Envelopes Article, Correction, John Peter Mattila 148 Mike Davis 148 Volume 50, Number 2, Whole Number 359 Swiss Article Correction, Harlan Stone 148 March - April 2008 Discovered GB PTPO Card, Dave Britton 148 IN THIS ISSUE: Wrappers with Legal Notices, Cemil Betanov 148 Great Britain P. O. Recognized Error, Wayne Menuz 150 Editor’s Notes, Wayne Menuz 38 Zanzibar Overprint Variety, George Krieger 151 President’s Message, Lewis E. Bussey 38 USA 26¢ Reply Cards, Michael Marks Cohen 151 U.S.A. 19th Century Column, Dan Undersander 39 Unlisted Seirra Leone Aerograms, Jerry Kasper 152 Gibraltar Provisional Does Exist, Wayne Menuz 152 U.S.A. 20th/21st Century Column, Bill Geijsbeek 39 U.S.A. Postal Stationery New Issues, Bill Geijsbeek 40 USA 4¢ over 5¢ Oval Die Envelope, Bill Geijsbeek, Wil Thornthwaite, British Artillery Company Envelopes, Wayne Menuz 40 Jim Schmelz, Don Koontz, and Gary Blackmore 79 Pseudo Pseudo Stationery, Wayne Menuz 41 UX 24/S33 Broken Line, Gary Blackmore, Karl Klemmer 80 Individuals Making Contributions to the UPSS During Calendar Fake USA Airmail Envelope Surcharge, K. David Steidley, Porter Venn, Year 2007 43 Bill Geijsbeek 80 1997 Love Swans Postal Card Errors Surface.Lewis E. Bussey 44 Pseudo Japanese Stationery, Jack Brandt 81 The Danish Letter Cards of 1964-1965, E. N. Lurch 46 Chile Envelope Double Surcharge, Ross Towle 82 Hindsight Is 20-20, The 2¢ Postal Card Rate, Charles E. Doll, Jr. 48 Somali Coast’s Only Stationery, Wayne Menuz 82 Spring 2008 UPSS AGM and MWS, Timothy Bartshe 49 LITERATURE REVIEWS, Wayne Menuz Postal Cards of Japan 1873-1874 84 Many Faces of the Die 10 Forgeries, Bill Lehr 50 Cent Ans de Coupons-Reponse en France 1907-2007 84 South African “Easy Letter”, Wayne Menuz 53 Sobres Postales usados en el Perú 1875-1902 84 British Aerogram Essay, Jerry Kasper & W. Menuz 54 Entiers Postaux Prét-á-Poster émis en France depuis 85 A really, really short communication, Charles Fricke 55 The Postal Stationery of the British South Africa Company 1890-1924 85 Poland 1918 Locals 86 Officially Imprinted Advertising on Swiss Postal Envelopes, Harlan Postal Stationery Associated with Railways F. Stone 55 Africa 86 SHOEBOX & STATIONERY FORUM Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific 86 Pseudo Stationery 1, Paul Nelson 58 Southern Europe 86 Pseudo Stationery 2, John Jennison 59 Turkish Stamps & Postal Stationery Catalog 2007 87 Parcel Cards, John Tollan 59 Neuer Ganzsachen-Katalog, Afrika 2007 87 Where to List What, Jack Brandt 60 Amtliche Ganzsachen mit privaten Zudrucken der SBZ / DDR 87 Does USA Card S59-1a Exist?, Charles Doll 60 Filagrano I. P. 2008-2009, XXVII Edizione 88 New UX24 Card Variety, Gary Blackmore 61 Interitalia, il nuovo nuovo Pertile 88 Local Troy Bilt 1¢Surcharge on UX153 61 Ganzsachenkatalog der deutschen Privatepost 1873 bis 1914: Magdeburg bis Local Harris 1¢Surcharge on UX153 62 Zwickau 89 New Multiple Ad USA Postal Card, Edy Pockele 62 Collect British Postal Stationery 89 O6/UZ6 Used Card, Wayne Menuz 63 Catalogue of Singapore Stamp & Postal Stationery 90 Double Envelope Die Error, Wayne Menuz 63 Specialized Catalogue of Postage Stamps and Postal Stationery of Latvia 90 Slime Spots, Bill Geijsbeek 63 Catalog of Ukraine Postal Cards 1991-2006 90 Indian Overprint Error, Wayne Menuz 63 Stamped Envelopes of Ukraine 2003-2006 90 Franked! The Official Mail of Victoria 18964-1902 90 Volume 50, Number 3, Whole Number 360 Victoria The 1895 Havelock-Foster’s Postcard 91 May-June 2008 IN THIS ISSUE: Volume 50, Number 4, Whole Number 361 July-August 2008 Editor’s Notes, Wayne Menuz 66

President’s Message, Lewis E. Bussey 66 IN THIS ISSUE: USA Wrappers: Analysis of Relative Scarcity, Sales Prices and Editor’s Notes, Wayne Menuz 94 Market Size, John K. Courtis 67 President’s Message, Lewis E. Bussey 94 Cinderella Airmail Postal Stationery, Bill Lehr 70 Analysis of US Wrappers Bearing Private Printing, John K. Courtis, Two Countries on One Card, Wayne Menuz 70 95 UPSS Auction 2008-1, Prices Realized 71 Swiss Postal Envelope Production Errors, Harlan F. Stone 100 U.S.A. 19th Century Column, Dan Undersander 72 S8 – An Interesting Plate Variety, Walter Manson 102 U.S.A. 20th/21st Century Column, Bill Geijsbeek 73 U.S.A. 20th/21st Century Column, Bill Geijsbeek 103 U.S.A. Postal Stationery New Issues, Bill Geijsbeek 74 U.S.A. Postal Stationery New Issues, Bill Geijsbeek 103 When What You See Is Not what You Get, Bill Falberg 74 U.S.A. 19th Century Column, Dan Undersander 104 Foreign Postal Stationery Societies 75 SHOEBOX & STATIONERY FORUM UPSS Election – Candidates 76 Spanish Essay?, José Manuel Rodríguez 105 SHOEBOX & STATIONERY FORUM UX24/S33 Broken Line, Walter Manson, Walter Taggart 105 Pseudo Japanese Stationery, Leroy Collins 106 Meaning of message on USA card S1, Larry Parks 77 Wayne Menuz 107 USA Swans Postal Card Error Article, Lewis Bussey 77 What’s Listable? (part 2),Joe Pryluck 109 India Post Card Surcharge Error, Sandeep Jaiswal 77 Modern USA Card Values, Walter Taggart 110 UPSS Philippines Catalogue, Stephen T. Taylor 77 S22 Variety?, Walter Manson 111 Peru Postmaster’s Notice, German Baschwitz 111 British Aerogram Essay Error, Timothy Burgess 78 Selected British Forces Aerograms from the Thomas A. Matthews The 2¢ USA Postal Card Rate, Charles E. Doll 78 Collection, Jerry Kasper 112 Postal vs. Post Card, Ellen s. Peachy, Lewis Bussey, Civia Tuteur, and Wayne UPSS Auction 08-2, 115 Menuz 78 USA 1920 Envelope Surcharge Errors, Chris Masters 79

Volume 50, Number 5, Whole Number 362 SHOEBOX & STATIONERY FORUM September – October 2008 Mexican Card Printing Varieties, Peter Bamert, Roberto Liera, IN THIS ISSUE: Wayne Menuz 168 Editor’s Notes, Wayne Menuz 126 USA Rates for Card S85, Alan Crosby 169 UPU Specimen Stationery, James Bendon 169 President’s Message, Lewis E. Bussey 126 USA UX41/S57k Information Sought, Charles Doll 170 UPSS Annual Meeting USA Envelopes, correction, Samuel Liss, Bill Geijsbeek 170 UPSS election results 127 USA Card S8 Missing Leaf Variety, Anthony Fandino, Larry Parks 170 Marcus White Showcase 127 Shoebox Communications, Walter W. Manson 171 Lewandowski Award 127 Indian Card with Reversed 4, Sandeep Jaiswal 171 Annual General Meeting 127 Cochin Envelope Error, Deepka Jaiswal 172 SHOEBOX & STATIONERY FORUM Surface Rate Card w/ Airmail Border, Chuck McFarlane 172 U.S. Card S8 Missing Leaf Variety, Wil Thornthwaite 128 New Multiple Advertising Postal Card, Cary Finder 173 Ed Ferber, Anthony Fandino, Lewis Bussey 128 Selected British Forces Aerograms from the Thomas A. Matthews Swiss Folded Typewriter Card, Wayne Menuz 129 Collection, Part 2, Jerry Kasper 174 Dr. Winfried Leist 130 U. S. Card UX154/S167 for Elvis Ballot, Terry R. Young 130 A Mexico – New S. Wales Connection, W. Menuz 176 UX24/S33 Broken Line, Larry Grafton 130 Modern Postal Card Values, Henry Fisher 131 Volume 51, Number 1, Whole Number 364 Domestic Postal Card Rates Note for S85, Bill Falberg 132 January - February 2009 Auction Realizations, Porter Venn 132 IN THIS ISSUE: Chinese Post Card, Jim Parmiter 132 Editor’s Notes, Wayne Menuz 2 U.S. Card S26a Cracked Plate, Terry Young 133 President’s Message, Dan Undersander 2 S. W. Africa Error, Francis Kiddle 133 U.S.A. 19th Century Column, Dan Undersander 134 US Postal Card S57k – The Diagonal Surcharge Errors, Lewis Bussey 3 U.S.A. 20th/21st Century Column, Bill Geijsbeek 135 USA 19th Century Column, Dan Undersander 7 U.S. Envelope AM-5 Watermark 30, Michael Davis 136 New US Stamped Envelopes and Wrappers Paper Color Chart, Kirk The 1969 7 Paisa Card of Pakistan, Jeff Siddiqui 137 Wolford 7 Br. Central Africa – Rhodesia Mix-up, Wayne Menuz 139 USA 20th/21st Century Column, Bill Geijsbeek 8 All the way for only 2¢, Charles A. Fricke 142 USA Postal Stationery New Issues, Bill Geijsbeek 10 Demonetized Reply Cards, Wayne Menuz 142 Help Needed! New USA Possessions Catalog 10 Selected British Forces Aerograms from the Thomas A. Matthews Mexico -An Unrecorded Private Card, Gerhard Haas 11 Collection, Part 2, Jerry Kasper 143 A Collectible by Marriage, Charles A. Fricke 12 Historical Catalog of U.S. Postal Card Essays and Proofs, Bill Falberg 149 Financial Report, Porter Venn 13 Meet Clifford Washington Kissinger, Bill Falberg 150 Varieties of the New Zealand 2d King George VI Social Size Envelope, Bob Watson 14 LITERATURE REVIEWS, Wayne Menuz Folded Typewriter Postcards 151 Columbian Envelopes of 1893, Marvin & Judith Platt 16 MICHEL Ganzsachen- Katalog Deutschland 2007 151 US Aerogram Color Changeling-UC16b, Bill Lehr 17 Catalogue des Entiers Postaux Belges avec annonces 151 Die Victoria National Invaliden-Stiftung 152 SHOEBOX & STATIONERY FORUM Romania PTPO Envelope, Larry Parks 17 Lewandowski 2008 Award, Franco Filanci, Carlo Sopracordevole, and Volume 50, Number 6, Whole Number 363 Domenico Tagliente 17 November - December 2008 USA Card S8 Missing Leaf variety, Larry Parks 17 IN THIS ISSUE: U561 Inverted Surcharge, Bill Geijsbeek 18 Editor’s Notes, Wayne Menuz 154 Locally revalued US cards, Lewis Bussey 18 1920 Surcharge on S33, Gary Blackmore 18 President’s Message, Dan Undersander 154 Japanese Card Forgeries, Wayne Menuz 18 A New Canal Zone Postal Card Variety, Bill Falberg 155 Czechoslovakia Misspelling, Wayne Menuz 19 UPSS Auction 2008-2, Prices Realized 156 Swedish Railroad Cards, Paul Nelson 19 Gerald W. King and Pseudo Postal Stationery, Harold M. Stral Bundi Essay Post Card, Sandeep Jaiswal 20 156 US Envelope AM-10, Howard Kristol 20 Marcus White Award, Josh Furman 20 Black Jack Forgeries: 4th Nesbitt 2¢, Bill Lear 159 Stationery Bands, Michael Moore 21 Indian POW Card, Wayne Menuz 161 Mexico Registered Wells Fargo, Francis Kiddle 21 The 1925 USA Surcharge on a Philippine Envelope, William Oliver Selected British Forces Aerograms from the Thomas A. Matthews 163 Collection, Part 4, Jerry Kasper 22 U.S.A. 19th Century Column, Dan Undersander 164 UPSS Auction 09-1 24 U.S.A. 20th/21st Century Column, Bill Geijsbeek 166 Bechuanaland Post Card Essays, Peter Thy 167 Volume 51, Number 2, Whole Number 365 March -April 2009 USA MR27c and MR28Ac, Bill Weiss, Lewis Bussey 71 IN THIS ISSUE: USA MR26e, Bill Weiss, Lewis Bussey 71 Editor’s Notes, Wayne Menuz 30 New Zealand KG VI Envelope, Ian McMahon 72 Postal Stationery Electronically?, Leo Warda 72 President’s Message, Dan Undersander 30 Varieties of Cuban 1880 - 1882 U.P.U. Postal Cards, Robert Littrell Br. E. Africa Reg. Letter Envelope with Protectorate Handstamp – a and Octavio Cabrera 72 New Discovery, George Krieger 31 New Information about Cook Island Postal Cards, Robert E. Persia Official Envelope, Behruz Nassre 33 Shoemaker 74 U.S.A. 19th Century Column, Dan Undersander 33 Selected British Forces Aerograms from the Thomas A. Matthews UPSS General Meeting at PIPEX 2009 34 Collection, Part 6 Jerry Kasper 78 U.S.A. 20th/21st Century Column, Bill Geijsbeek 34 LITERATURE REVIEWS, Wayne Menuz Thai Postal Stationery Catalog 81 U.S. Postal Card Catalog Update, Lewis Bussey 37 Postal Stationery of Russia and Dependencies (1845-1922) 81 Elizabethan-era Election Envelopes of Canada, Dale Spears 38 Geuzendam’s - Postal Stationery of The Netherlands 82 USA Airmail Card SA3 – Purple Lozenges and Reconstructions, The Postal History of the Lesser Sunda Islands, Moluccas, Lewis Bussey 44 and New Guinea and after the Japanese Occupation 82 Air Mail Letter Sheets of Ceylon/Sri Lanka 83 SHOEBOX & STATIONERY FORUM Michel Postal Stationery Catalog of Europe to 1960 83 Jefferson's Vision on S17, Anthony Fandino 46 Michel Pictorial Postcards and Thematic Stationery Catalog 84 Digital Philately, Fran Adams 46 The Postal Stationery of Belgium 84 Unique Swiss Postal Card Essay, Harlan F. Stone 46 (North) Korea Stamp Catalog 84 S8 -Missing Leaf Variety, Anthony Fandino 47 Austrian Postal Stationery Catalog 85 S22 variety?, Larry Parks 47 China Letter Sheets 85 The British Postal Service in Morocco 85 Unlisted Mauritius Envelope?, Peter Bamert 47 Malaya Postal Stationery 1937 to 1947 86 USA U198 & U199, Leo Warda 47 Canal Zone/Panama Registration Env., David Zemer 47 Brazil Essay?, Lars Englebrecht 48 Vol. 51, No. 4, Whole No. 367 A New Member’s Questions, Ray Choan 48 July – Aug 2009 Indian Money Order Essay, Sandeep Jaiswal 49 IN THIS ISSUE: New Zealand PTPO Envelope, Stephen Schumann 50 Editor’s Notes, Wayne Menuz 90 Leavitt Postmark, Steve Freed 50 President’s Message, Dan Undersander 90 Gibraltar Registration Envelope, Wayne Menuz 50 USA Postal Cards Revalued at the Local Level, Cary Finder 91 USPS Stationery Issue Dates, Leo Warda 51 A. F. Stahl and the First Postal Cards of Iran, Behruz Nessre 94 Folded Swiss Typewriter Card, Robert Bell 51 Patriotic Cachet on Philippine Postal Stationery, Allen Mintz 100 USPS Charge for Stationery Paper, Penny A. Puskas 51 PRC PTPO Stationery, Leroy Collins 51 Argentina Stamped Wrappers 1878-1887: The National and Canadian “Lobster” Card, Mike Sagar 52 American Bank Note Co. Issues, Ross Towle & Wayne Dubai and Yemen Fakes?, Richard Zimmerman 52 Menuz 100 Algeria Card Error, Wayne Menuz 53 SHOEBOX & STATIONERY FORUM Selected British Forces Aerograms from the Thomas A. Matthews Levitt Cancels, Larry Parks 103 Collection, Part 5, Jerry Kasper 54 USA Envelope Scott U2 ERP?, William A. Greenebaum 103 USA Card S12 with Overprint, Gary Blackmore 103 Membership Manager’s Report, Stuart Leven 56 USA Grant Letter Card with Advertising, Gary Blackmore 104 Contributors to UPSS 2008 59 Japan Pseudo Stationery, Michael Barie 104 New South Wales Cards & Wrapper, Jack Brandt 105 Volume 51, Number 3, Whole Number 366 USA Card SA1 Paper Color, Anthony Fandino 106 Determining an ERP, Bill Lehr 106 May - June 2009 USA Envelope #20, Chris Masters 107 IN THIS ISSUE: Special Mailing to APS Members, Roger Rhodes 107 Editor’s Notes, Wayne Menuz 62 Literature Reviews Corrections, Stephen Schumann 108 President’s Message, Dan Undersander 62 Electronic Postal Stationery , Doug Files 108 Postal Stationery by Email, Gary Watson 108 American Bank Note Co. & George F. Nesbitt & Co. Stamped Envelopes, Ross A. Towle 63 2009 Lewandowski Award 108 Demonetized Indian Registration Envelopes, Wayne Menuz 109 The First Postal Cards of Costa Rica, Ross A. Towle 65 U.S.A. 19th Century Column, Dan Undersander 110 A Revalued Canada Reply Postal Card, Dale Speirs 66 U.S.A. 20th/21st Century Column, Bill Geijsbeek 111 U.S.A. 19th Century Column, Dan Undersander 67 Exhibitions & Awards Column, Gary Starkey 113 U.S.A. 20th/21st Century Column, Bill Geijsbeek 68 Selected British Forces Aerograms from the Thomas A. Matthews U.S.A. Postal Stationery New Issues, Bill Geijsbeek 69 Collection, Part 7, Jerry Kasper 114 SHOEBOX & STATIONERY FORUM USA Multiple Ad and Discount Postal Cards – Another Hudson Leavitt Machine Cancel, Ray Hadley 70 River Group Card, Dave Nussmann 119 Postal Card Album, David Reps, Lewis Bussey 70 USA Envelope Double Impressions, Tom Lera 70 Vol. 51, No. 5, Whole No. 368 Turks Island SPECIMEN error, Wayne Menuz 70 Sept. - Oct 2009

IN THIS ISSUE: USA, Bill Geijsbeek 175 Editor’s Notes, Wayne Menuz 122 P. R. of China Recalled Card, Wayne Menuz 178 President’s Message, Dan Undersander 122 U.S. Postal Card Updates, Responses and Other Stuff, Lewis Identifying U.S. Postal Notes of 1883-1894, Charles Surasky 123 Bussey 180 1968 3¢ Echeverría envelopes S22 and S23, Mark Piper 126 An Australian Discovery–1d Star Die PTPO Envelope, Gary Exhibitions & Awards Column, Gary Starkey 128 Watson 181 A New US Mercantile Issue Die?, Ross A. Towle 129 SHOEBOX & STATIONERY FORUM The 1897 UPU Overprinted USA Envelopes and Wrappers – Seeking USA Locally Revalued Card, Josh Furman 182 Help with a Study, Howard Ness 130 Errata and Corrections: 19th Century Envelopes, #368 pp 143, Paul Nelson, Undersander 182 Union Active Service Letter Card Used 1944 in Serowe, New Mercantile Die, #368 pp 129, Paul Nelson, Ross Towle 182 Peter Thy 132 US Postal Notes, #368 pp 123, Charles Surasky 182 SHOEBOX & STATIONERY FORUM Leavitt Cancel, #368, pp 141, Bob Wilderman, Larry Parks 182 USA Envelope U2 ERP?, Raymond Longobardi 133 Postal Notes, Charles Surasky, Gilbert Paul Michel, Paul Nelson 182 Iranian Card Article, Jack Brandt 133 USA Soldier Use of Italian Card, Enio Spurio 184 New South Wales Official Cards, Jack Brandt, Larry Parks 133 Another Swiss Typewriter Card, Robert Bell 184 Lewandowski Award, Pieter P. Bonsen 134 Australia Registration Envelope Inverted Back, Tom Herinckx 185 Additional USA S2 Multiple Ad Cards, Larry Parks 134 Cuban Envelopes, Octavio Cabrera 185 S I P S Overprint on S2, David Mayo, Bill Hart, Albert Aldham, Italian Card with Inverted Back, Wayne Menuz 186 Joe Prylock, Richard Handler, Larry Parks, R. T. Stiehl, Discovery of Unused USA Card S44-19, Karl Klemmer 186 Bill Lehr, K. David Steidley, Wil Thornthwaite, Edward Identifying Aerogram Reversed Die Cuts, Doug Files 186 LaFountain, Lauck Walton 135 Scotts Catalog Die Illustration Error, Bill Geijsbeek 186 Postal Stationery in Color, Jack Brandt, Bob Wilderman, Pieter P. Bonsen, U. S. Precanceled Postal Cards Revisited, Josh Furman 187 Kevin Doyle, Bob Summerell, Howard Ness, Wil Thornthwaite, Cemil Betanov, Sam Liss, Leroy Collins, Jack Harwood, Walter Taggart, Scott A. Shaulis, Steve Pacetti, John Jennison, R. T. Stiehl, Byron Mitchell, Jerry Vol. 52, No. 1, Whole No. 370 Kasper, Larry Parks, Rodney A. Juell, Lewis Bussey, Van S. Vangor, David Mayo, Darlene Thomas, Richard Zimmermann, Allen Jan-Feb 2010 Mintz, Jim Napier, Albert Aldham 136 IN THIS ISSUE: Replying to article authors, Howard Ness 138 Editor’s Notes, Wayne Menuz 2 Locally Revalued USA Postal Cards, Joe Pryluck 138 President’s Message, Dan Undersander 2 A used USA S26 Double Print Card, Bill Salisbury 139 U.S.A. 20th/21st Century Column, Bill Geijsbeek 3 Scott’s Catalog and Postal Notes, Jack Harwood, James Exhibitions & Awards Column, Gary Starkey 4 Kloetzel, Wayne Menuz 139 SHOEBOX & STATIONERY FORUM Combination Austria-Bavaria PTPO Card, Jamie Gough 141 USA Cards SA1b and S17, Anthony Fandino 4 Leavitt Catalog , Gilb ert Paul Michel, Larry Parks 141 USA Card S22 with Printing Flaws, Ed Ferber 5 New USA Flag Cancel Catalog, Wayne Menuz 141 Swiss Card Misspelling, John Jennison 5 0Ceylon “used” airgraph, Gary Watson 142 U.S.A. 19th Century Column, Dan Undersander 143 Letter Sheet or Letter Card?, Wayne Menuz 6 2009 USA Postal Card Issues, Lewis Bussey 9 UPSS Members Win APS Service Awards 144 Koi and Corinthian Card Identifiers, Lewis Bussey 145 USA Letter Sheet and Special Use Envelope Issues , Bill Geijsbeek 15 UPSS Auction 2009-A2 148 LITERATURE REVIEWS, Wayne Menuz U.S.A. 20th/21st Century Column, Bill Geijsbeek 154 Airmail Stationery Used by POW & Internees during World War II 20 UPSS Meeting at Pittsburgh 155 Postal Stationery Associated with Railways: Eastern and Northern Europe 20 Vol. 51, No. 6, Whole No. 369 Bulgarian Postal Stationeries Catalogue, Part II, Prepaid Nov-Dec 2009 Envelopes 20 New Zealand Postal Notes 1886-1986 21 IN THIS ISSUE: Postal Stationery of British India 1856-1947 21 Editor’s Notes, Wayne Menuz 158 Vandmaerke Krone i danske helsagskonvolutter 22 President’s Message, Dan Undersander 158 Privatpostkarten Katalog Band II, Bayern und Wurttemberg 22 USA Envelope Die 88b (Cap On “2”) - Another Look, Thomas Handbuch der Zudrucke auf amtlichen Ganzsachen 22 Galloway 159 MICHEL Ganzsachen- Katalog Deutschland 2009 23 Indian Discoveries, Sandeep Jaiswal 161 Ganzsachenkatalog der deutschen Privatpost 1873 bis 1914, USA Card SA3 – Purple Lozenges and Reconstruction, Lewis Band 1: Aachen bis Dresden 23 Bussey 163 Fischer Katalog, Tom II, Polskich Znakow Pocztowych 2006 23 U.S.A. 19th Century Column, Dan Undersander 166 Filagrano I. P. 2010-2011, XXVIII Edizione 24 Rakousko 1861-1918, II. Dil – Celiny 24 Liberian Airmail Envelopes, Robert Shoemaker 168 Katalog Prangko INDONESIA 2009 24 U.S.A. 20th/21st Century Column, Bill Geijsbeek 172 Selected British Forces Aerograms from the Thomas A. Exhibitions & Awards Column, Gary Starkey 174 Matthews Collection, Part 8, Jerry Kasper 26 Membership Manager’s Report, Stuart Leven 174 UPSS Auction 10-1 29 Update to Catalog of 20th Century Stamped Envelopes of the Great Britain Official Envelope Discovery, Larry Parks 94 Vol. 52, No. 2, Whole No. 371 Portuguese STO Envelopes?, Stephen Washburn 94 Mar-April 2010 Iranian Postal Cards, Sassan Pejhan 95 IN THIS ISSUE: Queensland Post Card Discovery, Gary Watson 95 Editor’s Notes, Wayne Menuz 42 An Old Error in USA Envelope Catalog, Porter Venn, 96 Paper Varieties on USA Envelopes & Wrappers, Marvin Schiller 96 President’s Message, Dan Undersander 42 USA Private Precancelled Cards, Roland Austin 97 USA S83 Locally Revalued at Dana Point, Cary Finder 43 Two New Zealand Discoveries, Stephen Schumann 98 Two Australian STPO Envelopes Discoveries, Wayne Menuz 43 Guam Guard Mail Stationery, Alan Grossman 98 U.S.A. 19th Century Column, Dan Undersander 45 U.S. Stationery Overprinted GUAM, Alan Grossman 99 U.S.A. 20th/21st Century Column, Bill Geijsbeek 46 Great Britain Envelope Used as a Wrapper, Andrew Reid 99 New Issues 47 USA Envelope Used Outside the Mails, Joe Pryluck 100 USA Official Envelope with “ZIP + 4”, Hans Hilbers 100 Exhibitions & Awards Column, Gary Starkey 48 Indian Card with Misaligned Overprint, Edy Pockelé 100 Postal Stationery Essays Presented to the 6th UPU USA Card S83 Printing Oddities, Raymond Longobardi 101 Congress in Rome, or The Birth of the IRC, Peter Bamert 49 UPSS Members Only Web Site, Mike Davis 101 USA Card SA3 – Purple Lozenges and Reconstruction Bundi Post Card, Sandeep Jaiswal 101 (revised), Lewis Bussey 56 Swiss Article Correction, Harlan Stone 102 UPSS Income & Expense 2007 & 2008, Porter Venn 57 U.S.A. Postal Stationery New Issues, Bill Geijsbeek 102 SHOEBOX & STATIONERY FORUM Membership Manager’s Report, Stuart Leven 103 Exhibitions Information, Thomas Duszak 59 Selected British Forces Aerograms from the Thomas A. Matthews U.S.A. Card S57f, Richard Gluckman 59 Collection, Part 10, Jerry Kasper 103 Random Observations, Dade Luckett 60 UPSS Auction 2010-1, Prices Realized 107 Jhind Used Cards, John Warren 60 Bundi “Official” Card, John Warren 60 U.S.A. Envelope Paper Colors, Leo Warda 61 Vol. 52, No. 4, Whole No. 373 U.S.A. Envelope “Plate Cracks”, Dave 61 July-August 2010 Binding Problems, Jack Harwood 61 IN THIS ISSUE: Date U.S.A. Cards Allowed Writing on Front, Steve Kaplan 62 Editor’s Notes, Wayne Menuz 110 The Drunken Postmaster, Dale Speirs 62 Homemade Post Card Album, Walter Taggart 63 President’s Message, Dan Undersander 110 USA Seabiscuit Envelope Errors, Stuart Leven 63 Copycard C-Mail Sheets and Postal Cards, Robert Bell 111 Pressure Sensitive Envelope Gum, Tim Dudek 64 Exhibitions & Awards Column, Gary Starkey 112 USA “Cancelled” Card, Steve Blair 64 A Ceylon – India Die Proof, Wayne Menuz 115 USA 25¢ Christmas Envelope Cachet?, Dr. Paul G. Abajian 65 U.S. Envelope Fake RF Overprints, Bill Lehr 117 Koi Card Numbering, John Mattila 65 St. Pierre-Miquelon Envelope Error , Jean-Jacques Tillard 65 A British STO Envelope Discovery, Wayne Menuz 120 Uganda Triple Overprint Card, George Krieger 65 U.S.A. 19th Century Column, Dan Undersander 124 Index to Postal Stationery, Howard Ness 66 U.S.A. 20th/21st Century Column, Bill Geijsbeek 125 U.S.A. Card UXC-1/SA1, Patrick Crosby 66 SHOEBOX & STATIONERY FORUM UPSS 1965 General Meeting, Gordon Morrison 67 On Airgraphs, Peter Thy 126 Switzerland’s Domestic Postal Money Order Forms, Harlan F. Used Indian Telegraph Form, Sandeep Jaiswal 127 Stone 67 New UPSS Member’s Impressions, Paul Bezanker 129 Update to Catalog of 20th Century Envelopes. Bill Geijsbeek 72 A USA S28 Card Find, Chris Masters 129 Selected British Forces Aerograms from the Thomas A. Two USA S8 Cards with Flaw, Harald Hirnschal 129 Matthews Collection, Part 9, Jerry Kasper 74 May-June Issue, Leo Warda 129 Australian Registration Envelope Overprints, Tom Herinckx 130 Individuals Making UPSS Contributions Calendar Year 2008 76 Foldover USA Postal Cards, Lewis Bussey 130 USA Die 88 Envelope, Lew Gray 131 Vol. 52, No. 3, Whole No. 372 Great Britain STO Post Cards, Don Heller 131 May-June 2010 First USA Use of Airmail Border, John D. Ciko 131 IN THIS ISSUE: A USA “Catfish” Koi Card, Eliot Landau 132 Editor’s Notes, Wayne Menuz 78 Paper Varieties on USA Envelopes and Wrappers, Joe Pryluck 132 Australia Stamped to Order Envelope Listing, Lex Neville 132 President’s Message, Dan Undersander 78 Morocco Agencies, Larry Parks 132 Fakes of USA Envelope 1920 Provisional Surcharges, Bill Lehr 79 USA Precancelled Card, Robert May 133 British Post Offices in French Morocco, Wayne Menuz 82 Cuban Post Card US2 S2b,Robert May 133 U.S. Postal Card Essays and Proofs Revisited, Bill Falberg 86 Afghanistan Provisional Aerograms, Jerry Kasper 133 Iran (Persia) Unlisted Post Card, Behruz Nassre 87 USA Embossed Lettersheets UPSS #84 & 85, Wayne Menuz 134 Persian Card H&G F1, Larry Parks 134 Found a Foldover or Two, Ed Ferber 88 LITERATURE REVIEWS, Wayne Menuz Exhibitions & Awards Column, Gary Starkey 90 Swiss Postal Stationery (Zumstein) 136 U.S.A. 19th Century Column, Dan Undersander 91 Handbook of Swiss Post Cards 136 U.S.A. 20th/21st Century Column, Bill Geijsbeek 92 Government stationery with private printing of West Berlin 137 SHOEBOX & STATIONERY FORUM Swedish Railroad Post Cards 137

Japanese Stamp Specialized Catalogue, Vol. I & II 137 Zanzibar Overprinted Half Anna Indian Postal Stationery Envelope, Directory of OVERPRINTED BRITISH POSTAL ORDERS 138 George Krieger 181 Orange Free State Philately, Vol. 3 138 On Folded and Mailed Airgraph Forms, Peter Thy 182 Malaysia and the Federation of Malaya – Their Stamps and Postal Stationery, Vol. 1 139 U.S.A. 19th Century Column, Dan Undersander 186 Catalog of the Stamps of Brazil 139 U.S.A. 20th/21st Century Column, Bill Geijsbeek 188 Yang's P. Stamp and Postal History Catalogue of Hong Kong 139 Exhibitions & Awards Column, Gary Starkey 189 Korean Postage Stamp Catalogue 2009-2010 140 From the History of the Saint Petersburg Post 1703-1914 140 UPSS Sales Circuit 101 189 Bogus Chinese Card, Wayne Menuz 191 POSTAL STATIONERY SHOEBOX & STATIONERY FORUM Vol. 52, No. 5, Whole No. 374 Ascher Stationery Catalog, Bill Geijsbeek 192 Waterlow Sample Cards from Uruguay, John Sinfield 192 Sept.-Oct. 2010 Liberia Stationery Cut Square?, Jack Brandt 193 IN THIS ISSUE: Cuba S2 with Missing Grommet, Lewis Bussey 193 Editor’s Notes, Wayne Menuz 142 New ERP for USA Official Card O1a, Terry Young 193 President’s Message, Dan Undersander 142 Japanese Card with Unusual USA Censor Mark, Jack Brandt 194 USA Card S96 with Misplaced Tagging, Terry Young 194 The Ringer - A Nepal Card, Dr. Frank Vignola 143 Turkish Trial Color Postcard, Anonymous 194 U.S.A. 19th Century Column, Dan Undersander 144 Reprint Request Cards, Pieter Bonsen, Ian McMahon 195 U.S.A. 20th/21st Century Column, Bill Geijsbeek 145 French Military Post Card, Paul Bezanker 196 USA Military Cards, Robert Meyerowitz 196 U.S.A. Postal Stationery New Issues, Bill Geijsbeek 146 USA Card S8 Cracked Plate, Ray Longobardi 197 Exhibitions & Awards Column, Gary Starkey 147 Indian Philately Web Site, Paul Nelson 197 2010 Lewendowski Award 147 Grant Letter Card Gumming, Ron Demery 197 Mint USA Card S26a Cracked Plate, Terry Young 198 USA “Canceled” Postal Cards, Cary Finder 148 Seeing Catalog Numbers and Valuations, Robert Nevraumont 198 Another “Troy Bilt” Card, By Kirk Wolford 149 LITERATURE REVIEWS, Wayne Menuz SHOEBOX & STATIONERY FORUM Vandmaerke Krone i danske helsagskonvolutter 198 Pseudo, Watercolor and Mourning Questions, Jack Brandt 150 United Nations Postal Stationery 1952-1984 199 Expertizing of USA Stationery, Steve Frumkin 151 Catalogue Mondial des Coupons-Résponse, Tome 1, Histoire, types, Hong Kong Postal Money Orders, Jack Harwood 151 généralités, Pays de “A: à “H” 199 Precanceled Postal Cards 1874-1961 199 New ERP for USA Card S28f Type I Four-Arcs, Lewis Bussey 152 Locally Printed Forces Air Mail Letter Cards of East Africa in World British Post Offices in French Morocco, David Stotter 152 War II 200 Cuba S2 with Missing Grommet, Jonathan Topper 153 Malaysia and the Federation of Malaya – Their Stamps and Postal Uruguay Official Envelopes, Jonathan Topper 153 Stationery, Vol. 2 200 More on Paper Folds, Raymond Longobardi 154 Die lokalen Not-Ganzsachen der amerikanischen und englischen Zone aus P900 bis P905 200 India Used Telegraph Form, John Jennison 154 Western Express (magazine) 201 Mexico Stationery Catalog, Paul Bezanker 155 Ceylon/Sri Lanka Postal Stationery, Part II, Postal Cards, Letter Cards, Chinese Stationery Market, Wayne Menuz 155 Letter Sheets, Wrappers, P.T.P.O. Wrappers 201 Rhodesia Waterlow Sample Card, Wayne Menuz 156 Handbuch der Schweizer Postkarten 202 North Korea Stationery, Wayne Menuz 157 Selected British Forces Aerograms from the Thomas A. Matthews FIP Postal Stationery Commission, Wayne Menuz 157 Collection, Part 12, Jerry Kasper 202 Reprint Request Cards, Robert Bell 157 Unverified USA Envelopes, Dan Undersander 205 Membership Manager’s Report, Stuart Leven 158 UPSS Auction 2010-2 160 POSTAL STATIONERY Vol. 53, No. 1, Whole No. 376 Selected British Forces Aerograms from the Thomas A. Matthews Collection, Part 11, Jerry Kasper 169 Jan.-Feb. 2011 IN THIS ISSUE: Editor’s Notes, Wayne Menuz 2 POSTAL STATIONERY President’s Message, Dan Undersander 2 Vol. 52, No. 6, Whole No. 375 What should be listed in a U.S. Postal Stationery Catalog? 3 Nov.-Dec. 2010 IN THIS ISSUE: 2010 USA Postal Card Issues, Lewis Bussey 4 Editor’s Notes, Wayne Menuz 174 Post Coach Indicium Envelopes of Bulgaria, Richard Stevens 8 President’s Message, Dan Undersander 174 The Discovery of the Blue Paper Envelope (UC6a/AM28) – A Once The Digital Future of the UPSS 175 in a Lifetime Experience, Robert B. Hopler 14 U.S. Postal Card Catalog Addendum #1, Lewis Bussey 176 U.S.A. 19th Century Column, Dan Undersander 16 RF Fakes, Frauds, Fabrications and Forgeries on U.S. Stamped Exhibitions & Awards Column, Gary Starkey 16 Stationery – An Additional Look, Lewis Bussey 177 U.S.A. 20th/21st Century Column, Bill Geijsbeek 17 SHOEBOX & STATIONERY FORUM Exhibitions & Awards Column, Gary Starkey 72 Correction to last issue’s back page 22 ‘‘I’ll Be Seeing You’’ – A Revue of Salesmen’s Postal Cards, Alan Correction to last issue Page189, Bob Combs 22 Mintz 73 Japanese Card with Unusual USA Censor Mark, Joe Pryluck 22 U.S.A. 19th Century Envelope Column, Dan Undersander 77 Personalized Postal Stationery, Peter Bamert 22 U.S.A. Postal Card Column, Lewis Bussey 78 Full Sheets of S1 and S2? Roger Rhodes 23 U.S.A. 20th & 21st Century Envelope Column, Bill Geijsbeek 81 USA Returned Aerogram, Edgard Pockelé 23 SHOEBOX & STATIONERY FORUM Overprinted Bolivia Envelope, David Chang 23 Grant Letter Cards, Howard Ness 83 USA Postal Card S63e Variety? Terry Young 24 Grant Letter Cards, Alan Warren 83 Puerto Rico Fake Overprints, Byron Mitchell 83 Unlisted Romanian Stationery, Edwin de Korte 24 ERP Info on Wikipedia, Robert Littrell 83 Afghanistan Reply Card? Ferry Luijbe 25 Mariana Islands Precancelled Postal Card, Scott Shaulis 83 One more “Troy Bilt” Card, Ed Ferber 25 Identification of a Peruvian Card, Kenneth Grant 84 St. Pierre-Miquelon Lettercard, Jean-Jacques Tillard 26 Multiple Ad Card?, David Naussmann 84 UPSS Possessions Catalog Wins Award, George Krieger 26 Nordia Exhibition, Paul Nelson 84 Another Locally Surcharged USA Postal Card, Steve Blair 26 Cards with New York Exchange Office Marks, Lauck Walton 85 Website with Canadian Stationery, Leroy Collins 87 UPSS Auction 2011 A1 outside mailing cover, pages 27 & 32 New 20th and 21st Century Catalog, Stanley Snyder 87 USA Postal Card Auction Results 28 Unlisted British STO Post Cards, John Jennison 88 US Envelope Knife 106 vs. Knife 116, Bill Lehr 31 CANCELLED USA Postal Cards, Ed Ferber 88 Great Britain Sample Aerogram, Jerry Kasper 88 USA Postal Cards S44-19, S110a, etc., Karl Klemmer 89 POSTAL STATIONERY New Zealand Double Embossed Envelope, Stephen Schumann 90 Australian Sample Aerogram, Jerry Kasper 90 Vol. 53, No. 2, Whole No. 377 Some Australia P. O. Issued Cards, Wayne Menuz 91 Mar-April.. 2011 LITERATURE REVIEWS, Wayne Menuz IN THIS ISSUE: Die Bildpostkarten der Schweiz 1924-1964 Motivhanduch 93 Editor’s Notes, Wayne Menuz 34 Sierra Leone Registration 93 President’s Message, Dan Undersander 34 Catálogo de Enteros Postales de México 94 Census of US Postal Cards Showing New York Exchange Office Selected British Forces Aerograms from the Thomas A. Matthews Postmarks Until 1879, Alex Gundel 35 Collection, Part 13 (Conclusion) Jerry Kasper 95 U.S.A. 19th Century Column, Dan Undersander 40 Market Report 98 Exhibitions & Awards Column, Gary Starkey 41 Auction, Foreign Material 2011-A2 outside mail wrapper U.S.A. 20th/21st Century Column, Bill Geijsbeek 43 SHOEBOX & STATIONERY FORUM 2010 USA Postal Card Correction, Lewis Bussey 45 POSTAL STATIONERY Boy Scout Stamp Collecting Merit Badge, Wayne Menuz 45 Vol. 53, No. 4, Whole No. 379 Netherlands Pseudo Stationery from the USA, Wayne Menuz 46 July - August 2011 Meaning of “Reverse Die Cut”, Robert Littrell 46 IN THIS ISSUE: Linn’s Reads Postal Stationery, Bill Geijsbeek 46 Grant Letter Sheet (Card) Gumming, Patrick Crosby 46 Editor’s Notes, Wayne Menuz 106 Non-denominated Stationery to Foreign Countries? Michael Marks 47 President’s Message, Dan Undersander 106 A New USA Multiple Ad Postal Card? William Tatham 47 Tina Modotti and the Julio Antonio Mella Cuban Postal cards USA Card overprinted Saipan Mariana Is., Steve Blair 48 of 1965-1986, Mark Piper 107 Corrections to Last Issue’s page 16, Ed McGovern 48 U.S.A. FEATURE COLUMNS Two Unlisted GB STO Cards, Wayne Menuz 48 19th Century Envelopes, Changes to 19th Century U.S. Catalog 113 Puerto Rico Overprinted Post Cards, Wayne Menuz 50 20th & 21st Century Envelopes, First Day Covers, Part 1 114 Early TV Memories Error Alert, Lewis Bussey 53 Postal Cards, Modern Essays 115 Market Report 55 Provisional Leavitt Machine Cancel, Raymond Longobardi 117 August 23, 1886 – The First Day of Sale for the 2-cent Grant Letter Nepal Postal Card Proof of the Two Paisa Horse & Rectangular Sri Card, Henry Scheuier 61 Pashupati Issue of 1935-1939, Frank Vignola 118 Counterfeit and Bogus Stationery, Wayne Menuz 62 Identification of USA Envelope Centennial Special Printings, Dan Membership Manager’s Report, Stuart Leven 67 Undersander and Porter Venn 122 SHOEBOX & STATIONERY FORUM Correction to last issue, Wayne Menuz 128 POSTAL STATIONERY Additional local postmaster’s surcharged cards? Howard Ness 128 USA Envelope Paper & Watermarks, Joe Pryluck 129 Vol. 53, No. 3, Whole No. 378 Precancelled USA Cards, Josh Furman 129 May-June 2011 Unused Exhibition Postal Card EX5, Alex Gundel 130 IN THIS ISSUE: Rare Australian Cards, Tom Herinckx, John Sinfield 130 Editor’s Notes, Wayne Menuz 70 Contents of PS, Dave Nussmann 130 President’s Message, Dan Undersander 70 USA Card UX50c S68c, Wil Thornthwaite 130 UPSS Annual Meeting (photographs) 71 Is It a Meter or Postal Stationery? Wayne Menuz 131

Market Report 134 Why Isn’t My Item Listed in the Catalog? Joe Pryluck...... 185 Counterfeit and Bogus Stationery 134 SHOEBOX & STATIONERY FORUM UPSS Auction 2011 A1, Prices Realized 135 S22 Plate Varieties, Ed Ferber...... 187 USA 5¢ Lincoln Die 182, Jim Schmelz ...... 187 Vol. 53, No. 5, Whole No. 380 Unfortunately It’s Not Postal Stationery, Lars Engelbrecht...... 187 September-October 2011 Voided USA Envelopes, R. T. Stiehl...... 188 IN THIS ISSUE: Double USA Envelope Article Doubles, Kay Hoke, R. T. Stiehl.... 188 Editor’s Notes, Wayne Menuz 138 USA Envelope U34 in Brown, Sam Liss...... 188 President’s Message, Dan Undersander 138 Canal Zone Christmas Postal Cards, Irwin Gibbs...... 189 USA Envelopes –The World of Errors – Double Trouble, Thomas Galloway Postal Notes and Postal Money Orders – Stationery or Revenues? 139 Wayne Menuz & Dave Elsmore ...... 189 More USA Card S8 Plate Varieties, Raymond Longobardi 141 Surcharge Error on USA Envelope U562, Nancy Clark ...... 190 New and Old Bechuanaland Essay Finds, Peter Thy 144 Nicaragua Post Card #12, Bryan Kendall...... 190 U.S.A. FEATURE COLUMNS Ukraine Postal Stationery?, Wayne Menuz & Ingert Kuzych...... 191 19th Century Envelopes, 1) Changes to 19th Century U.S. Catalog , and Nicaragua 1900 Issue Envelopes with Overprint, Wayne Menuz & 2) Precancelled stationery 148 Mike Schrieber ...... 191 20th & 21st Century Envelopes, FDC, part 2 149 Japanese Lettersheet, William C. Walton...... 194 Hawaii Card S4, Harold Weiner...... 194 Exhibitions & Awards Column, MWA & MWS 150 Great Britain Letter Card Essay, Wayne Menuz...... 195 Nicaragua: A Reprinted Card?, Wayne Menuz 152 USA Card S8 Plate Varieties, Bryan Kendall...... 195 UPSS Mail Auction 2011-A3 outer mailing wrapper & 153 Lewandowski Award for 2011 ...... 196 SHOEBOX & STATIONERY FORUM UNTEA Aerograms, Leon G. Stadtherr 156 UPSS Auction 02-2, Prices Realized ...... 196 Another USA Multi-ad card, Allen Mintz 156 A Cache of Illustrated Wrappers of USA, Dr. John Courtis...... 197 South Australia Commonwealth Wrapper, Cemil Betanov 156 Even More USA S8 Plate Varieties and Printing Errors, Ed USA Envelope with CANCELLED overprint, Lew Gray 157 Ferber...... 201 Nigeria Aerogram FG5,W Menuz & Jerry Kasper 157 More Salesmen’s Calling Cards, Tony Fandino 158 New Type of 1891 Nicaragua Reply Card, Michael Schreiber .. 203 Canal Zone Christmas Cards, Irwin Gibbs 158 A New Years Card, Cary Finder 158 Romanian Stationery, Jack Brandt 158 Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons Postings, Robert Litrell 159 Vol. 54, No. 1, Whole No. 382 South Australia View Card, Wayne Menuz 160 January – February 2012 Storage of Stationery, Loyd Grafford 160 IN THIS ISSUE: New Zealand Lazi-Letter (Letter Sheet), Jerry Kasper 161 Editor’s Notes, Wayne Menuz...... 2 Danish Philatelic Production Ceases. Danish Private Stationery? Paul Nelson 162 President’s Message, Dan Undersander ...... 2 Indian Unlisted Surcharged Card Varieties, Sandeep Jaiswal 162 Bogus Abu Dhabi Aerograms, Wayne Menuz ...... 3 USA Cards in Sheets, Loyd Grafford 163 Weed Sewing Machine Co. and other Things, Howard Ness ...... 6 Unlisted India Envelope Die, Sandeep Jaiswal 163 UPU Specimen Postal Stationery, James Bendon 163 U.S.A. FEATURE COLUMNS Two types of USA Envelope Die 182? Bill Geijsbeek 164 19th Century Envelopes, 1890 Annual Report...... 8 Indonesian Postal Card, Rick Stambaugh 164 Exhibitions & Awards ...... 9 Market Report & Counterfeit and Bogus Report 166 LITERATURE REVIEWS, Wayne Menuz Postal Cards, 29¢ Common Terns Press Sheets ...... 10 Interitalia Italian Postal Stationery Specialized Catalogue 2011 170 20th & 21st Century Envelopes, FDC – Part 3 ...... 11 Treasured Letters, New Zealand POW Air Letter Cards 1941-1945 170 UPSS Income & Expense 2009 & 2010, Porter Venn...... 16 The Postal Stationery Catalogue of New China,, 2011 171 Postal Stationery of Ireland, supplement from 2001 to 2006 171 2011 USA Postal Card Issues, Lewis Bussey...... 17 Persiphila Iran Postal Stationeries Reference, 1878-1979 171 SHOEBOX & STATIONERY FORUM Membership Manager’s Report, Stuart Leven 172 Syria O.M.F. Envelope, Yavuz Corapcioglu ...... 21 Cilicia Registration Envelope, Jack Harwood ...... 21 Vol. 53, No. 6, Whole No. 381 USA Wrappers, Cemil Betanov...... 22 Australian Stationery with Views, Tom Herinckx...... 22 November – December 2011 More Jewish New Year Cards, Larry Parks...... 23 IN THIS ISSUE: Storage of Postal Stationery, Tom Herinckx ...... 23 Editor’s Notes, Wayne Menuz ...... 174 South Australian OHMS Wrappers, tom Henrickx...... 24 President’s Message, Dan Undersander...... 174 Cameroons Aerogram with Double Overprint, Jerry Kasper...... 25 Officially Sealed USA High Value Envelopes, Wayne Menuz ... 175 Information Requested, Ashley...... 25 Swiss Money Orders via Telegrams, Harlan F. Stone...... 178 International Reply Coupons in Exhibitions, Keith Hanman...... 26 U.S.A. FEATURE COLUMNS LITERATURE REVIEWS, Wayne Menuz Malaysia and the Federation of Malaya – Their Stamps and Postal Stationery, 19th Century Envelopes, Collector Questions about 1853 Nesbits 180 Vol. 3...... 27 Exhibitions & Awards Column, ...... 181 Die Bildpostkarten Osterreichs ...... 27 Postal Cards, “Forever” Cards and New Rates ...... 181 Die Bildpostkarten des Deutschen ReichesBohmen und Mahrens, sowie der Sultan Seyyid Hamid-bin-Thwain Stationery of Zanzibar 1896- Freien Stadt Danzigs , ...... 27 1898, George T. Krieger ...... 182 Costa Rica, Targetas Postales de 1923, Tarjetas de Propaganda al Café. Vistas de Limon ...... 28 Cuba Envelope UPSS 5 with Double Overprint, Howard G. Kristol 99 Market Report, USA Possessions sale ...... 29 Artur Lewandowski, Peter Fink...... 99 USA Envelope Watermarks 15 and 15A, Douglas A. Files...... 100 New Porto Rico Envelope U7 Discovery, Howard G. Kristol...... 100 A Used Feudatory Jhind Postcard, Sandeep Jaiswal...... 101 Vol. 54, No. 2, Whole No. 383 Divided Back Post Cards, Bill Hart, Cary Finder...... 101 March-April 2012 USA Card S13/UX120 Paper Varieties, Bryan Kendal...... 101 WW II Concessional Rate Aerograms, Jerry Kasper ...... 102 IN THIS ISSUE: Atchison Post Cards at 1-cent? Bill Geijsbeek ...... 103 Editor’s Notes, Wayne Menuz ...... 38 Second Printing of Honduras Card, Wayne Menuz...... 104 President’s Message, Dan Undersander...... 38 UPSS Mail Auction 2012-A2 ...... outer mailing wrapper & 105 Sweden’s 1897 Jubilee Postal Card, Alan Warren...... 39 LITERATURE REVIEWS, Wayne Menuz U.S.A. FEATURE COLUMNS Privatganzsachen Berlin (West) ...... 107 Postal Cards Folded Postal Cards...... 43 The International Reply Coupons of Ireland...... 107 32¢ Sailboat Postal Card Press Sheet ...... 46 Catalog Current Postal Issues of the Russian Federation...... 107 British East Africa Archival Stationery, George Krieger ...... 108 19th Century Envelopes, Pasteups ...... 47 Market Report & Counterfeit and Bogus Report ...... 110 20th & 21st Century Envelopes, Dept. of Defence Envelopes..... 49

Exhibitions & Awards Column, ...... 50 Vol. 54, No. 4, Whole No. 385 Thoughts on Nesbitt 1853/1863 Envelopes, Edmund McGovern . 51 July-August 2012 USA Seabiscuit and Liberty Bell Envelope RecycleText, Dave IN THIS ISSUE: Kandziolka...... 52 Editor’s Notes, Wayne Menuz...... 118 USA Specimen Envelopes, Howard Ness...... 58 President’s Message, Dan Undersander ...... 118 View Cards in Europe, Prof. Dr. Michael Bockisch ...... 60 Expanding the Space on a Swiss Postal Card, Harlan F. Stone. 119 SHOEBOX & STATIONERY FORUM ST. Lucia’s “Lion Brand” Postal Stationery, Guy UPU Specimens?, Peer Bamert ...... 63 Kilburn & Wayne Menuz ...... 120 FIP Postal Stationery Commission, Lars Engelbrecht ...... 64 A New Liberian Postal Card?, Robert E. Shoemaker...... 122 Official Postal Stationery, Dan Undersander ...... 64 U.S.A. FEATURE COLUMNS Iranian Service Envelopes, Behruz Nassre ...... 64 Philippines Card S2 Missing Grommet, Bryan Kendall ...... 66 19th Century Envelopes, New Nesbitt Discoveries, Specimen Envelopes USA Prepaid Forever Priority Mail Envelopes, Hans Hilbers...... 66 ...... 123 th USA Bulk Mail Envelopes, Bryan Kindall...... 66 20 Century Envelopes, An In-depth Look...... 124 USA FDC Stationery, Patrick Crosby...... 66 21st Century Envelopes, Catalog Number Corrections, UPSS 3850, Hyderabad Envelope Used to London, Sandeep Jaiswal ...... 68 Underfranked Envelopes, Identifying Used WAG & PSA, Major vs. Minor When Divided Back Postcards became OK, Cary Finder...... 68 Catalog Numbers, The Knife Shapes of Recent Envelopes...... 126 Market Report...... 69 Postal Cards, “Folded Forensics” on U.S. Cards – Part II...... 131 Membership Manager’s Report...... 75 Exhibitions & Awards...... 135 Individuals Making Contributions to the UPSS 2011...... 76 Election – Candidates’ Biographies...... 138 SHOEBOX & STATIONERY FORUM Vol. 54, No. 3, Whole No. 384 USA Envelopes AM105-49A and OM-2-18, Davor Sutija...... 139 Rediscovered Great Britain Card, Wayne Menuz ...... 139 May-June 2012 USA Envelope Watermarks 15 and 15A, Ross Towle...... 139 IN THIS ISSUE: USA Envelops – New Listings?, Kirk Wolford ...... 140 Editor’s Notes, Wayne Menuz ...... 78 Full Face McKinley Card Update, ...... 141 President’s Message, Dan Undersander...... 78 Well-traveled Colombian Envelope, George Krieger...... 141 Liberia’s First Postal Card, Robert Shoemaker ...... 79 USA Envelope UPSS 11A with Nesbitt Seal, Larry Parks ...... 142 Rediscovered Scott U447C UPSS 2743, Dan Undersander ...... 81 Moving Forward, Robert Bell ...... 142 Katherine Stinson Flight, Paul Nelson, John Birkinbine II ...... 142 Use of Mails to Defraud – The Sterling Debenture Corporation on Bermuda Surcharged Card #6 Variety, Stephen Schumann...... 143 USA S26, Patrick M. Crosby...... 82 Cuban Envelope with Albino Overprint, Robert Litrell ...... 143 Non-issued German Picture Postcards 1934 – 1941, Prof. Paper Color of Envelope U499 3163-3164, Lowell Handberg ...... 143 Dr. Michael Bockisch ...... 84 Specimen Stationery, James Bendon...... 143 U.S.A. FEATURE COLUMNS Jamaica Aerogram Errors, Jerry Kasper...... 144 19th Century Envelopes, UPSS 2a & 899b-9, thick and thin paper, Unusual GB Registration Stamp, Wayne Menuz ...... 144 wrappers with corner cards, Nesbit defaced die ...... 87 More USA Postal Card S-8 Printing & Plate Varieties, Raymond 21st Century Envelopes, 2012 new issues...... 88 Longobardi ...... 145 20th Century Envelopes, 150 years of envelope production ...... 91 Market Report & Counterfeit and Bogus Report ...... 148 Postal Cards, pioneer airmail cards, 2012 issues...... 92 Membership Manager’s Report...... 153 Exhibitions & Awards Column, ...... 95 LITERATURE REVIEWS, Wayne Menuz SHOEBOX & STATIONERY FORUM Study of Crown Watermarks in Danish Postal Stationery Envelopes ... 154 Free Frank & Demonetized Stationery, Ross Towle ...... 98 Ganzsachenkatalog der deutschen Privatpost, Teil: Düren bis Lübeck 154 Michel Ganzsachen-Katalog Europa ab 1960, Westliches Europa 2011 154 Corrections to Last Issue (Alan Warren article) ...... 98 Handbook of the Post Cards of the World’s Columbian Exposition ...... 155

Vol. 54, No. 5, Whole No. 386 September-October 2012 IN THIS ISSUE: Editor’s Notes, Wayne Menuz ...... 158 President’s Message, Dan Undersander...... 158 Southern Rhodesia King George V “Admiral” 1½d Letter Card, Keith Brodovcky...... 159 An 1881 North Bridgton, Maine Precancel, Charles A. Fricke.. 161 U.S.A. FEATURE COLUMNS 19th Century Envelopes, The Postal Rate Reduction of 1883 162 20th Century Envelopes, What is a die anyway?, Envelope die nominclature ...... 163 Postal Cards, Digital Color Postmarks...... 165 Exhibitions & Awards...... 168 The Mystery of the 1942 Burma Moulmein Triangle, Richard Warren ...... 169 USA Post Card S63 Varieties Revisted, John W. Allen...... 171 EFO Forensics - How did that happen?, Thomas Galloway ...... 173 Color and Other Varieties of the 34¢ Eagle Envelope U646 James C. Carmack, Jr.., James D. Parmiter, Larry Parks ...... 174 SHOEBOX & STATIONERY FORUM Elusive British Lettercard, Wayne Menuz...... 178 USA Exhibition Cards, Kenneth Wukasch ...... 178 USA Specimen Envelopes, Ed McGovern ...... 178 & 179 Errata in Previous Issue, Sam Liss...... 179 Philippine Unlisted Envelopes, Howard Ness ...... 179 20th-21st Century Envelope Catalog Corrections, Lowell Handberg181 Great Britain STO Envelopes Found, Wayne Menuz ...... 181 USA Card UX7 with Flaw, Charles Wallis ...... 182 FIP Postal Stationery Commission, Lars Englebrecht ...... 182 Australia Sports/Postal Cards, Wayne Menuz ...... 183 2012 Lewandowski Award, ...... 185 2012 Election results, ...... 185 LITERATURE REVIEWS, Wayne Menuz, Jack Harwood Rückblick auf die Ganzsachen der DDR Dauerserie “Walter Ulbricht” 185 (North) Korean Stamp Catalogue 2012 ...... 185 Postal Orders & Savings Certificates of Pakistan & British India...... 186 Pre-printed Postal Stationery of New Zealand Printing & Stationery Department...... 187 Filagrano 2013-14 Interi Postali...... 187 UPSS Meeting in Sacramento...... 188 USA Fake Boxed 6¢ Air Mail Surcharges, Bill Lehr...... 190 USA Envelope with Manuscript Surcharge, Joe Pryluck...... 194 Market Report & Counterfeit and Bogus Report ...... 195