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Poway Stamp Club Newsletter Poway Stamp Club Newsletter San Diego County’s Best Stamp Collecting Club May 22 2019 In This Issue Next Meeting: Next Meeting Club Meeting The next Poway Stamp Club meeting will be held on Wednesday Presentations May 22, 2019. The program will be: Club Notes Member Spotlight Article: “Editors A presentation Corner” By SESCAL Road Trip Member Classifieds Bill O’Connor Stamp News Meeting time: The meeting will begin promptly at 6:30 PM. Poway Stamp Club Meeting Place: 12675 Danielson Court, Suite #413 (in the back of The Club goals are “to promote a closer social the building), Poway, California 92064. relationship among stamp collectors of Poway, San Please remember to bring your badge. The office phone number Diego and vicinity, and to in case you need it is 1-858-748-5633. assist in spreading the knowledge of stamps and the pleasures derived At our next scheduled Wednesday June 12 meeting, we will make from stamp collecting to available our monthly APS Circuits. Please plan to attend and those interested in philately.” enjoy: Contact Us Poway Stamp Club 12675 Danielson Ct #413, Poway, CA 92064 Club E-mail Circuit Books [email protected] and PSC Website: Powaystampclub.com Member Trading Extravaganza! Powaystampclub.org Club Meeting Presentations (2019) The following is this year’s proposed meeting schedule; all events are proposed and subject to change as necessary to accommodate other events such as auctions etc. 2019 (Proposed) PSC Meeting Schedule 2019 PSC Club Officers: President: Art Berg V President David Klauber May May 22, 2019 Bill O’Connor - TBD Treasurer: Bill Kolb Secretary: Trice Klauber Board (AL): Bill O’Connor June Jun 12, 2019 APS Circuit Book Meeting Board (AL): Scott Boyd Prev. President Thor Strom Program Director Colin Fort Jun 26, 2019 Club Auction - Pryhoda PSC Club Volunteers: Registrar: Diane Maisonneuve Auctioneer: Duane Pryhoda July Jul 10, 2019 APS Circuit Book Meeting Club Librarian: Scott Boyd Newsletter Editor D. Klauber Newsletter Cont. Jon Schrag Jul 24, 2019 Art Berg - TBD Phil. Library Rep: Bob Eygenhuysen Opp. Drawing Ray Hacecky August Aug 14, 2019 APS Circuit Book Meeting PSC Representatives: Fed Rep: Bill O’Connor Aug 28, 2019 Bill Kolb - APS Movie S.D. Philatelic Council: David Klauber Nick Soroka Rep (Alt): Thor Strom Anne Wood September Sep 11, 2019 APS Circuit Book Meeting APS Rep Trice Klauber Stamp on Page 1 Sep 25, 2019 Morgan Christian The Stamp Image on page one is one of the rarest/most valuable U.S. stamps - There are only two known examples of this U.S October Oct 9, 2019 APS Circuit Book Meeting stamp in existence and are each worth close to $1 million. In the Scott catalogue this 1¢ Z Grill is Oct 23, 2019 Trice Klauber China Rev. listed as #85A. The stamp is identified by having the so-called Z grill indentations in the paper. Although the 1-cent Z-Grill is November Nov 13, 2019 APS Circuit Book Meeting cited as the rarest and most valuable US postage stamp, the 15-cent Lincoln Z-Grill is just as rare and the 10-cent Z-grill variety as well. Club Notes: 1. SWAPEX – Is held on the first Saturday of each month in the Philatelic Library. The next will be held on Saturday June 1st, 2019. 9 AM to 1 PM. SWAPEX is a friendly and informal stamp exchange. 2. SANDIPEX – Sunday May 26, 2018 POWAY STAMP San Diego Philatelic Expo SANDIPEX Stamp Show CLUB Free Admission! – Free Parking! APS #1137-112097 Doors Open from 10am – 4pm Club meetings are held every The show is held at the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks second and fourth Lodge #2543, 13219 Poway Road Poway, CA 92064 . The Wednesday of each month following is a list of the current 2019 SANDIPEX scheduled except November & monthly show dates. December at: May 26 Jun 9 Philatelic Library Jul 14 12675 Danielson Ct #413, Aug 11 Poway, CA 92064 Sep 8 More info at: Oct 6 www.powaystampclub.com Nov 10 Dec 8 Participation 3. The next Live Library Stamp Auction - Will be held on Saturday th All Stamp Club and Library June 15 . members are strongly encouraged to provide input 4. The Live Poway Stamp Club Auction - Will be held on Wednesday th for the bi-monthly Club June 26 as originally scheduled. newsletter. Your knowledge 5. Club Membership Dues Are Due! – Remember that annual dues are and expertise should really payable in January. Keep in good standing with the PSC and help to support be shared. Please submit your club. If you are not certain of your membership status, contact Trice at items to the Club Secretary [email protected]. at: 6. Support your Club – With over 50 active members, the Poway Club is [email protected] San Diego County’s most active Stamp Club. Feel free to forward this Newsletter to anyone you think may find it interesting. You may also Club Website support the club by joining the APS. The club will receive a finder’s fee for Try our new website at: each member who joins the society. Let the stamp community know that we are an alive, vibrant and thriving club! PowayStampClub.com 7. Show & Tell – Do you have an interesting philatelic item to share at You will find our activities and affiliations, interesting our next meeting? Bring it in and share it with us as we would love links, contact information to see it! including the current and previous versions of this 8. SESCAL Road Trip – Have you considered attending the SESCAL Newsletter! Give it a try! show this year? If yes look further in this Newsletter for details of our You can use the Web road trip. There are just a few seats left and we hope to see you there! Presence to introduce others to our Club. San Diego Member Spotlight! Philatelic Library By: Jon Schrag The San Diego County Philatelic Library is a not-for- profit philatelic library in Poway, San Diego County, California. Operated by friendly volunteers. Your The Poway Stamp Club stamp library consists of Newsletter highlights one approximately 16,000 of its members each issue. volumes of books, Today’s spotlight is on monographs, catalogs, and David Klauber. periodicals. Library Loose Stamps The Philatelic library provides a large bucket of assorted “Attracting new members is a fundamental objective of the Poway Stamp stamps for visitor inspection. Please remember to always Club,” says President ART BERG. Every current member can help by leave a suitable contribution inviting a friend to one of our meetings. Look at history. About two for any stamp items removed years ago BILL O’CONNOR saw a stamp collector at a local stamp from the bucket. show. Bill introduced himself and told the stranger about the fun and amazing collectors at the POWAY STAMP CLUB. That led to a fantastic, positive, new-member, DAVID KLAUBER. David and his Library Hours: wife TRICE have been an absolutely-positive influence. YES! David and Trice have been simply FANTASTIC in strengthening the The Library hours vary based fundamentals and enjoyment of the PSC. Thank you Bill O’Connor for upon who can take a shift, the hours usually are: your initiative that “lit the fuse.” 10 to 2:00 Monday DAVID KLAUBER is a fourth generation stamp collector. He collects: 12 to 5:30 Tuesday 12 to 3:00 Wednesday Classic USA 10 to 2:00 Thursday Proofs ? Friday Essays 1 to 5:00 Saturday EFOs Plus additional hours by Color Varieties appointment only. He knows postal history. His great-great grandfather was a Wells Fargo (Pony Express) agent for the station in Genoa Nevada Territory. Not Before you visit please surprisingly David is a talented writer and the editor of the much-improved, call to verify staffing is (soon award-winning) POWAY STAMP CLUB NEWSLETTER! available. 1-858-748-5633. David’s father (PhD. Stanford University) was a professor at the University of Utah. “The apple does not fall far from the tree,” says PSC President Art Berg. Thank you DAVID KLAUBER for your enthusiastic support and extensive work for the POWAY STAMP CLUB! Definitions Editors Corner The following definition of EFO terms is here in support By D. Klauber of the ongoing Editors Corner series on EFO’s. EFO is the shorthand for EFOs Part X "Error, Freak, or Oddity". It's a term applied to philatelic items that were formed unintentionally abnormal. History of the Errors: Are usually “major” errors having catalog status Fourth Bureau Counterfeits where something in the Of A157 process has gone entirely wrong. Examples of “errors” are consistent, One of the most well known counterfeit stamps identified in Scott’s unintentional deviations from Specialized Catalog is for the 2c Washington stamp A157 Type I. Most the normal and typically are of these counterfeits have been sold or listed as either forgeries of Scott stamps that are wrongly 634 or 554. Neither of these Scott numbers is as accurate a description perforated, both between or as using type A157. completely imperforated, FULL color(s) omitted, inverts, multiple impressions, Philatelic lore identifies New York stamp dealer, Jacob Hoffman as missing watermarks or the producer of this well done forgery in 1935. Hoffman was owner of tagging and FULL stamps on the National Union Postage Stamp Corporation. Interestingly, Jacob either side of an interpane Hoffman is also attributed as the inventor of the stamp mount. 1 As gutter, etc. part of the counterfeit investigation, Hoffman was arrested and charged with possession and sale of a sheet of 100 forgeries to stamp dealer Freaks: Also called Herman Hearst in NYC.
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