The Society will have a strong presence at the APS Summer Show in Portland over the weekend of August 4-7. These will include a Board Meeting on Friday morning and Society dinner on Friday night; a Field Trip to Ft. Vancouver on Saturday, organized by RVP Dale Forster; and interesting talks.  Full details can be found in the May Chairman’s Chatter.

The USPCS Annual Meeting will be held at TexPex on Feb. 24-26, 2017 in Grapevine, Texas.  The U.S. Stamp Society will also meet there and TexPex has planned a special “President’s Reception” on Friday night for both societies.  It will be held in downtown Grapevine at the Grapevine Convention and Visitors Bureau facilities. See further information at texpex.org.

The Greater Philadelphia Chapter discusses License and Royalty Stamps

2013-NOV-16…The fourth meeting of the Greater Philadelphia chapter of the USPCS was held. Members met at the Community Room at Hershey’s Mill in West Chester (thanks to Bill Schultz). Eric Jackson, the new Regional VP for Pennsylvania and Delaware, spoke to all about License and Royalty stamps, something akin to Revenues. These were colorful and fascinating stamps, issued not by the U.S. government, but by one business to another, to show that the license fee or royalty for a patented item had been paid. Eric showed not only a wide variety of “off-item” stamps, but in some cases the stamps were still on the item patented, such as linen shirt collars or shoes (reflecting a patent on a manufacturing procedure). A very enjoyable presentation, where we saw items that most of us had never seen, and possibly didn’t even know existed.

Paving the Way for the Future of Philately

November 8, 2013…The U.S. Philatelic Classics Society is pleased to announce that 61 years of The Chronicle of the U.S. Classic Postal Issues, are now available to the public at no cost. The Chronicle, the Society’s quarterly journal, is full of cutting edge research relating to the stamps and postal history of the classic period of United States philately.

Each issue of The Chronicle from 1948 through 2008 is available for all to view as the “WebChronicle™” on the Society’s website. All issues are fully searchable by author or keyword.

Issues from the past five years are available only to members. Those interested in becoming members which be given full access to not only past five years of The Chronicle but also access to the Members Domain where full archives of select exhibits, membership directories, EDU database, among much more.

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C of C Winning Eubanks Exhibit on First Federally Issued Postage Stamps now Online!

2013-11-07…The award-winning Champion of Champions exhibit by Gordon Eubanks on “First Federally Issued Postage Stamps” has been posted in the Resource Center under Philatelic Exhibits. Drop by to view this fantastic exhibit and many others today.