Poway Stamp Club Newsletter April 6, 2019 In This Issue Next Meeting: Next Meeting Club Meeting The next Poway Stamp Club meeting will be held on Wednesday April 10, Presentations 2019. Please plan to attend and enjoy: Club Notes Member Spotlight Article: “Editors Corner” Member Classifieds Stamp News Poway Stamp Club The Club goals are “to Circuit Books promote a closer social relationship among stamp and collectors of Poway, San Diego and vicinity, and to Member Trading Extravaganza! assist in spreading the knowledge of stamps and Meeting time: The meeting will begin promptly at 6:30 PM. the pleasures derived from Meeting Place: 12675 Danielson Court, Suite #413 (in the back of the stamp collecting to those building), Poway, California 92064. interested in philately.” Please remember to bring your badge. The office phone number in case you Contact Us need it is 1-858-748-5633. Poway Stamp Club 12675 Danielson Ct #413, This week’s meeting will begin with our regular Club business including Poway, CA 92064 (Show & Tell + Drawing) followed by the distribution of APS Circuit Books. Club members who do not wish to participate in the Circuit books are Club E-mail encouraged to bring in stamps and other items for sale or trade with other club members. [email protected] PSC Website: The following meeting will be: Powaystampclub.com Powaystampclub.org A presentation on EFO’s By David Klauber April 2019 PSC Club Officers: President: Art Berg Available Circuit Books V President David Klauber Treasurer: Bill Kolb Members, Secretary: Trice Klauber Board (AL): Bill O’Connor Board (AL): Scott Boyd This week is or APS Circuit Book Meeting. The 20 new Circuits Prev. President Thor Strom received are listed below: Program Director Colin Fort 1 Greece and Germany (1) PSC Club Volunteers 2 Liberia Registrar: Diane Maisonneuve 3 Switzerland Auctioneer: Duane Pryhoda Club Librarian: Scott Boyd 4 Portuguese Colonies Newsletter Editor D. Klauber 5 Vatican Phil. Library Representative: 6 Europa & United Nations Bob Eygenhuysen 7 Iceland Opp. Drawing Ray Hacecky 8 Israel PSC Representatives: 9 Australia Fed Rep: Bill O’Connor 10 Luxembourg S.D. Philatelic Council: 11 USA Ryukyu Islands David Klauber 12 Iceland / Denmark (Classic) Nick Soroka Rep (Alt): Thor Strom 13 Germany WWI Occupation (Allenstein, Anne Wood Marienwerder, Upper Silesia Plebiscite) APS Rep Trice Klauber 14 Japan 15 Liechtenstein 16 Germany (Pre 1945) 17 Philippines Stamp on Page 1 18 Early Canada 19 Cuba The Stamp on Page 1 is known as the CIA Invert. Only a single 20 US (Classic) sheet of 100 stamps was produced. In 1986. The nine CIA Hopefully, you will find an area of interest to you. We will be holding agents who noticed the error, regular club business and then moving into Circuit Books after the purchased the sheet with the 95 remaining stamps at the Mclean meeting raffle. Please, feel free to bring in items to share, sell or trade post office (the other five had been used as everyday with other members. Remember to bring your tongs, magnifiers, postage.) They sold a sheet glasses, want lists and be sure to bring some cash or a checkbook to with 85 (plus one damaged stamp) for $25,000. Keeping make purchases. one stamp each for themselves. When caught 4 returned the stamp 4 quit the CIA or were Trice Klauber terminated and one had lost the APS Circuit Manager stamp keeping his job. Club Meeting Presentations (2019) The following is next 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 April Apr 10, 2019 Circuit Book Meeting Apr 24, 2019 David Klauber - EFOs May May 8, 2019 Circuit Book Meeting May 22, 2019 Bill O’Connor - TBD June Jun 12, 2019 Circuit Book Meeting Jun 26, 2019 Club Auction - Pryhoda July Jul 10, 2019 Circuit Book Meeting Jul 24, 2019 Art Berg - TBD August Aug 14, 2019 Circuit Book Meeting Aug 28, 2019 Bill Kolb - APS Movie September Sep 11, 2019 Circuit Book Meeting Sep 25, 2019 Morgan Christian October Oct 9, 2019 Circuit Book Meeting Oct 23, 2019 Trice Klauber China Rev. November Nov 13, 2019 Circuit Book Meeting Club Notes: 1. SWAPEX – Is held on the first Saturday of every month in the Philatelic Library. The next one will be on Saturday April 6, 2019. 9 AM to 1 PM. SWAPEX is a friendly and informal stamp exchange. 2. SANDIPEX – Sunday April 7, 2018 San Diego Philatelic Expo SANDIPEX Stamp Show Free Admission! – Free Parking! Doors Open from 10am – 4pm The show is located just 4 blocks to the north of the Philatelic Library on Poway Road. The show is held at the Benevolent and Club Participation Protective Order of Elks Lodge #2543, 13219 Poway Road All Stamp Club and Library Poway, CA 92064 . The following is a list of the current 2019 members are strongly SANDIPEX Monthly show dates. encouraged to provide input into this bi-monthly Apr 7 newsletter. Your knowledge May 26 and expertise should really Jun 9 be shared. Please submit Jul 14 article items to the Club Secretary at Aug 11 [email protected] Sep 8 Oct 6 Nov 10 . Dec 8 3. Poway Stamp Club Website – Have you seen our Stamp Clubs new Web presence? Try it www.powaystampclub.com you will find our activities and affiliations, interesting links, contact information and available online the current version and previous versions of this Newsletter! Give it a try! 4. Club Membership Dues Are Due! – Remember that annual dues are payable in January. Keep in good standing with the PSC and help to support your club. 5. Show & Tell – Do you have an interesting philatelic item to share at our next meeting? Bring it in and share it with us as we would love to see it! 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 TOM YOUNG. periodicals. Library Loose Stamps The Philatelic library provides a large bucket of assorted It was a once-in-a-lifetime fantastic stamp find! It really happened! stamps for visitor inspection. Please remember to always Treasure is absolutely out there if you are a stamp collector! leave a suitable contribution TOM YOUNG told this story about one of the most incredible for any stamp items removed stamps still in his collection. For several years he had been buying from the bucket. stamps via mail order from an small-time honest and very-reliable dealer in Florida. Tom made several purchases in the $15 to $20 Library Hours: range over a number of years. It was a fair and basically positive The Library hours vary based relationship. One day he received a letter from the son of the dealer. upon who can take a shift, the hours usually are: A “one time” bargain shoe box of “decent” stamps was available for a fixed price of $50 plus postage. Tom “took a chance” and promptly 10 to 2:00 Monday 12 to 5:30 Tuesday sent off his check. The box was received and Tom started “working” 12 to 3:00 Wednesday the contents. There were plenty of good stamps and the box was a 10 to 2:00 Thursday ? Friday fair deal but seemingly not great. He worked the box over several 1 to 5:00 Saturday weeks. Near the bottom of the box in an old glassine he came upon Plus additional hours by an old red stamp. TOM YOUNG checked it out and identified it as a appointment only. 1855-1860 Spanish stamp with Scott Catalog value of $5,000! He still has it! Before you visit please call to verify staffing is Stamp collecting is so much fun! available. 1-858-748-5633. Definitions Editors Corner The following definition of EFO terms is here in support By D. Klauber of the ongoing Editors Corner EFOs Part IX series on EFO’s. EFO is the shorthand for "Error, Freak, or Oddity". It's A History a term applied to philatelic Of items that were formed unintentionally abnormal. The American Bison Stamp & EFO Plate Varieties Errors: Are usually “major” errors having catalog status In the United States stamp series of 1922-25, the 30¢ issue pictures the where something in the American Buffalo (Bison). At one time gigantic herds of buffalo, or bison, process has gone entirely roamed all over North America. Before the 1800’s it is estimated that there wrong. Examples of “errors” were over 30 million bison inhabiting the Continental United States. are consistent, unintentional deviations from However, by 1889, only 551 could be found. Since that time, great efforts the normal and typically are have been made to preserve this impressive species. Today, more than stamps that are wrongly 500,000 American buffalo now inhabit the U.S. and Canadian reserves. perforated, both between or completely imperforated, FULL color(s) omitted, inverts, multiple impressions, missing watermarks or tagging and FULL stamps on either side of an interpane gutter, etc. Freaks: Also called “varieties”, are generally defined as a lesser degree of production problem. Typically freaks have flaws that are not consistent or do not have catalog status. Examples of freaks include ink smudges, off center perforation shifts, partially missing colors or color shifts, pre-printing paper folds, paper creases, over or under inked stamps, and so forth.