St. Louis Stamp Expo At the St. Louis Stamp Expo on April 1-3, Leonard Hartman took a gold and the Reserve Grand with his exhibit “De La Rue Stamps for the Confederate States of America.” He also won the prestigious APS Research Medal. Deane R. Briggs won gold and the SF Grande for his “Confederate […]
New Flexible Member Profile Privacy Feature!
When someone joins the Society, we capture a lot of information about him or her. While this is primarily used for internal USPCS purposes, some of it has historically been listed in the Member’s Directory (Member access-only), unless members ask us not to. We recently changed the Member Profile page to give you more flexibility […]
USPCS Dinner at NY2016 – Reserve Now!
Only 3 Seats Left! – On Friday, June 3, 2016, the Society will host a dinner at 6PM at Michael’s, 24 W. 55th Street in New York. To receive tickets, you must pay in advance ($160 per person). Please send a check to Mike Plett at 2855 Willowmere Woods Dr, Vienna VA 22180-7080; or by PayPal to treasurer@uspcs.org. […]
Society Winners at ARIPEX, TEXPEX and Garfield-Perry
Jim Allen (photo) and John Barwis take Grand awards at Aripex and Texpex, respectively. News of other members winners at these shows and at Garfield-Perry below… ARIPEX At the Aripex show the weekend of Feb. 19, our own Jim Allen won the Grand award with his “The First United States 12¢ Stamp Series of 1851-1861.” Congratulations Jim! […]
First Westbound Sailing Under the Retaliatory Rates
One of three known examples of the large crude New York Post Office 24c hand stamp, and the only one on a cover bearing the British 1sh embossed adhesive. Beginning in July 1, 1840, Samuel Cunard’s line of British packet steamers began carrying letters between the U.S. and U.K., at a rate of 1 […]
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