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July 19th, 2007... The Happening of the U.S. Philatelic Classics Society will be held this year in conjunction with the A.P.S. Stampshow show in Portland on August 9-12, 2007. Society members will gather to exchange friendship, camaraderie, stamps, and stories. Stampshow is usually the largest philatelic gathering of the year, a show famous for good philatelic seminars and dealers.

A big event for Classics Society members will be the Society Dinner (held jointly with the Arizona Philatelic Rangers) and Meeting which will be held at the Jax Restaurant, 826 SW 2nd Ave., Portland in the Banquet Room. There will be no-host cocktails commencing at 6:30 PM. Dinner begins at 7:00 PM.

Make reservation checks out to the "Postal History Foundation" and send them to 920 N. First Ave., Tucson, AZ 85719-4818. Tickets may be picked up at the Classic Society booth at the show, before noon on Friday. Please send the name of the attendees and their choice of entrée (Fish or Beef), along with the $47.50 each. There is limited seating, so please sign up early.

Three lectures will be given:

The U.S. Philatelic Classics Society is the only organization that studies in depth the stamps and postal history of the United States from the Colonial era to 1900. Our members include both collectors and students. Many have written articles that have been published in our award winning quarterly magazine, The Chronicle of the U.S. Classic Postal Issues, and in other publications. Information about the USPCS, membership, its publications, and articles of interest to collectors and students of the classic period of U.S. philately, can found at the society's website at www.uspcs.org. Copies of back issues of the Chronicle, previously published books, and the upcoming The U.S. Three Cent 1851 Essays for Postage Stamps (And Related Topics) by Roy Weber are also available from the Society's bookstore, accessible from the Society's website, or directly at http://www.uspcs.org/store.html. We are also offering other new CD's including The U.S. 3¢ 1857 Issue, an exhibit by Robert R. Hegland and United States Incoming Steamship Mail, by Theron Wierenga, bundled for the first time with a CD showing more than 450 illustrations in color and 200+ postmark scans (B&W).

For media inquiries, please contact:

Wade E. Saadi
President, USPCS
wade@pencom.com