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Airpost Journal — ARTICLES — Singapore ‘Privates:’ the 1941 FAM-14 Extension and Its Privately Letters to the Editor Prepared Covers, Part 1 AAIIRRPPOOSSTT JJOOUURRNNAALL The Official Publication of the American Air Mail Society June 2013 Volume 84, No.6 Whole No. 996 June’s featured article — Singapore ‘Privates’ The 1941 FAM-14 Extension and its Privately Prepared Covers Part 1 Page 228 Zeppelins & Aerophilately Ask for our Free Price List of Worldwide Flight covers and stamps. The following is a small sampling – full list on Website! United States Item #4939: 1930 Amelia Earhart autograph on unmailed airmail cover with a VF C11 single. Circa 1930, pristine condition . .$1,250.00 Item #4726: 1933 (October 2) Century of Progress Flight, C18 can - celed FD in New York. Friedrichshafen to Rio de Janeiro. Brazil back - stamp. S.241A. .$140.00 Germany Item #4975: 1930 (May 18) South America flight cover, Friedrichshafen-Rio de Janeiro with 4m Zeppelin, C39. Addressed to Madison, WI. Brazil backstamp. Opened at left with letter enclosed. S.57E . $200.00 Netherlands Item #4791: 1931 (July 13) Polar Flight card sent from Rotterdam to Friedrichshafen. Zeppelin flight to Berlin with receiving cancel on front. Addressed to Wall Street, NY, NY. Paper remnants on reverse from mounting. S.119D E450 . $350.00 New Guinea Item #3918: 1939 (March 13) C46-48, C51-54 on four airmail covers, (one registered) stamped “First Day of Issue.” T.N.G.-Austria, addressed to Garden City, NY . $225.00 Peru Item #3863: 1928 (October 22) SCADTA flight cover to Colombia. First flight Peru-Ecuador-Colombia in VF condition. $450.00 Saar Item #4601: 1930 (October 4) Gorlitz flight 2x C1, C2, 135 on card to Gorlitz, red oval flight confirmation cachet. VF S.91Ba . .$175.00 Switzerland Henry Gitner Philatelists, Inc. PO Box 3077T, Middletown NY 10940 Email: [email protected] — http://www.hgitner.com JUNE 2013 PAGE 221 In This Issue of the Airpost Journal — ARTICLES — Singapore ‘Privates:’ The 1941 FAM-14 Extension and its Privately Letters to the Editor Prepared Covers, Part 1 ...................................................................... 228 Robert E. Mattingly Money Should Fund Catalog Revisions Pacusan Dreamboat Cover a Nightmare? ............................................... 241 I have a few comments on Chris Hargreaves’ correspondence Monica De Simone with AAMS president Jim Graue in the May 2013 Airpost Journal : Yes, From Cowboys to Biplanes: The Inauguration of CAM Route 5 ............ 244 our membership is in decline, but I don't think the dues increase would Harlan Radford Jr. change that. While most of us are probably experiencing reduced income — NEWS — these days, we can probably still manage another $5 or $10. I was pleased American Air Mail Society Meets at ARIPEX and WESTPEX ................... 249 to see the financial information, as most of the major stamp and coin AAMS Meetings at ARIPEX ........................................................................ 250 societies publish this annually. $467,000 may look like a large amount of AAMS Major Awards for 2013 ..................................................................... 253 money, but in truth it is not. The expense of printing a new, revised, and AAMS Literature Awards ............................................................................. 254 sorely needed American Air Mail Catalog will be substantial, and recovery FISA Honors Jim Graue with Gold Medal .................................................... 254 of these costs will only come back over time as sales are made. Ken Sanford Receives CAS Award ............................................................... 255 As Jim Graue pointed out, around $13,000 was used toward the News of the Shows ........................................................................................ 256 Airpost Journal last year alone, and this probably accounts for all or — COLUMNS — most of the fund's decline since 2006. I personally don't believe this is an Letters to the Editor ....................................................................................... 223 "appropriate" use of the fund, which I strongly feel should be reserved President’s Message ...................................................................................... 224 for updating the American Air Mail Catalog and publishing other related Canadian Air Mail Notes ............................................................................... 236 books, etc. If we enjoy having a great monthly publication like the Airpost — DEPARTMENTS – Journal, we should be willing to "kick in" to help pay for it, through Classified Ads ................................................................................................ 264 higher dues as necessary and changing the bylaws to require life mem - Membership Report ....................................................................................... 261 bers to pay dues; in recent years I have been glad to make contributions in lieu of dues once I became aware of our financial situation. Whether you paid a comparatively small Life Membership fee years ago when costs were a fraction of what they are today or received it gratis after 35 Editor and Advertising years as a member (as I did), the "free ride" has to be over if AAMS is to Vickie Canfield Peters 11911 E Connor Road Valleyford WA 99036 survive and hopefully prosper. vcanfi[email protected] Ken Alterman Staff Writers and Columnists Joe Kirker Alan Warren: Airmail Elsewhere in Print Correction to 1923 Airmail Issue Chris Hargreaves: Canadian Air Mail Notes Bob Wilcsek: Zeppelin Letters Nice article on the C4 to C6 marginal markings in the May 2013 Copyright 2013 The American Air Mail Society . The Airpost Journal (ISSN 0739-0939) is pub - APJ . There is one correction, in the second paragraph on Page 201: “The lished monthly by the American Air Mail Society, Box 110, Mineola, NY 11501. Periodical postage paid at Spokane WA 99201 and additional post offices. Postmaster: Send address changes initials of the finishers appear in the lower left and lower right side mar - to American Air Mail Society, P.O. Box 5367, Virginia Beach VA 23471-0367. Subscription Rate gins . .” The finisher initials are only on the right side. The siderogra - $30 per year; $5 per copy. phers are on the left side. Opinions expressed in features and columns in this publication are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of the society. Looking forward to the C10 story. David Bize PAGE 222 AIRPOST JOURNAL JUNE 2013 PAGE 223 Realities President’s It is instructive to look objectively at some realities affecting our hobby. Jim Graue Message • Organized philately no longer has its “strength of position” as an essential for progressing and advancing in the hobby. Virtually all of For better or for worse, our American Air Mail Society has what once could only be found in the realm of organized philately – local arrived at a milestone. On April 1, 1988, AAMS membership stood at stamp clubs, specialty and national philatelic societies, direct contact 2,015. At the end of March 2013, the membership total was 1,004. So, in with other collectors – is now readily available via internet. 25 years we have lost half of our membership total. There are those who • Airmail no longer has a current “entry point” for new or basic col - foresee a very dark ending in this fact of a major membership decline, lectors. Airmail is not the “premium” service it once was; it is now rou - but before we decide to jump off the bridge, an objective look at why this tine and unremarkable. The statement “Airmail – the most important has happened and what it means for our beloved hobby is in order. postal development of the 20th century” is true, but we are now in the Time 21st century. First flights – once a common, attractive and easily afford - able entry into collecting airmail – are no longer notable (with rare Virtually everyone with a pulse is keenly aware that we live in a exceptions). Airmail is not a special service for which one must pay a dynamic, evolving world, and this is particularly true in the Digital Age premium postage rate, so very few airmail stamps are now produced. we are now experiencing. Yes, the world has always been changing, so • Airmail today is indistinct and un-notable. The global air transport that is not new. What is different is the pace of change. It is becoming infrastructure and networks are complex and undecipherable. It is no incomprehensible for many, perhaps even most. It is outpacing anything longer possible to determine the carriers, aircraft, routes and flight ever experienced, and even a logarithmic view is difficult. The ability to records for an item of airmail. collect and analyze information, and the thirst for it – personal, social, • Air transport has not changed notably in 40 years, since the mid- political, commercial and the ever more invasive government “spies” – 1970s when the last major new civilian jet aircraft were introduced. has created a world where meaningful “privacy” is mythical. It is, Aerophilately is inextricably intertwined with aviation development and indeed, a new world. And as with so many things, new is not necessarily advancement. better. • The “Development Period” in aviation – 1918 to 1950 – is the heart The unchanging part of our new world is time. We are only allo - of aerophilately: Rapid advances in aviation technology, therefore also cated a given amount of time, short term or long. What we all deal with in airmail transport (speed, time, distance, capacity, frequency) accompa - now is competition for that fixed, unchanging allocation of time. So, we
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