FREDERICK STAMP CLUB
OUR
2012 STAMP SHOWS
We are currently
planning 1 or 2 shows this year.
Dates and venues will be announced here.
Please contact Kevin Kellman (301-524-9562) or Larry Strube (240-409-6222) for
more information
We get a lot of calls from
people looking to sell or get a value on stamp collections they either started
as a child or received from a parent, grandparent or other relative. Generally, if what you have is a box of
stamps (foreign or US) that were torn off of envelopes from the mails they are
of little or no value. Also even though you think they are old and valuable, anything newer than
75 years old isn't old for stamps (or course there are RARE exceptions).
Our club will try to give
an objective opinion on what you have. If you would like
the club's advice, call or email Larry @ 301-662-5760.
There was an article in the Washington Post recently about this very
subject.
READ IT HERE
There was an article in the Frederick News-Post
(Sunday, August 31) about Mike Croghan.
read it here
ANTHRAX
Now that Frederick is in the news because of the anthrax
terror attack and Dr. Bruce Ivins' suicide, some of you will remember back in June 2004
when the club was
visited by a couple of U.S. Postal Inspectors looking for clues to the 2001
anthrax attack. We were polite (except, of course for Larry, who wanted to see their guns) but
didn't have any relevant information. They wanted to know if the local post
office had sold any 34 cent stamped envelopes and if we had purchased any. We
told them that we didn't use that stuff - we liked real stamps! They guessed stamped
envelopes were used to avoid leaving DNA evidence, although the envelopes still
have to be sealed somehow.
UPDATE: FBI says the four letters were all taped along the seams with
transparent tape. Also, the postal inspectors were looking for any of the 34
cent envelopes, used or unused. The four recovered envelopes all have a
particular printing variation, which we know is not uncommon on stamped
envelopes. They wanted to know what post office they were purchased from.
(ANTHRAX ENVELOPE)
Read the article in Sunday's Washington Post here.
On
Tuesday, July 20, 2004, Channel 7 had a news clip on the article with a brief (very brief!)
interview with club member Jack Cope.
There was a nice article about Rick and Smokey in the Sunday, July 15, 2007 Frederick News-Post. Read it here.
SMOKEY
BEAR
At our October meeting, Rick Gibson showed us some of his Smokey Bear collection and gave an interesting
talk on Smokey history and lore. The scope of what he has is just amazing.
Click
here for some photos.
The Frederick Stamp Club is a group of men and
women (along with some children) who are interested in the pursuit of stamp
collecting (philately)
as a casual pastime, educational endeavor or serious hobby. Our interests are quite diversified: from
worldwide to US only to
topicals - "you name it.".
Membership is free and all are welcome.
Meetings typically consist of a brief business review usually followed by a short presentation of an interesting stamp related subject. We also do buying, selling, and trading at meetings. The majority of our members are also APS members and we subscribe to the APS Code of Ethics.
We are currently meeting at the Walkersville United Methodist Church (in Georgetown Hall), 22 Main St., Walkersville, Md. A Yahoo map link is provided below. Meetings are on the 4th Tuesday of the month from 7pm to 8:30pm.
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Map of 22 Main St
Walkersville, MD 21793-8518
We are saddened to report the May 4, 2004 death of one of our original members, John Richard "Dick" Boyd. Dick was the chairman of our first stamp show. We will all miss him greatly. The family suggests memorial donations to the American Heart Association. A copy of the Frederick News-Post obituary is here.
For more club information please contact Larry Strube at (301) 662-5760.