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Submissions Deadline for TNCP #35

Just a quick, but important reminder that our Editor, Martin Oakes, has chosen September 16, 2011 as the deadline for submissions to The New CartoPhilatelist.

The date for publication will be in early October 2011. Those of you interested in submitting an article should contact our Editor, Martin Oakes prior to submission. Martin has said that material and articles for Issue #35 are required and mentioned, "The hardest part about being an editor is having enough good articles of varying length to fill the pages. Please write about your favorite map stamps and tell us why they are important to you."

Issue #34 contained a translated article that was first published in French, in another philatelic journal. As the Society is international in scope, we have various members that can sometimes volunteer translation resources. For those of you that have non-english articles and would like to see them translated and published in The New CartoPhilatelist please contact our Editor Martin Oakes.

Submissions Deadline for TNCP #33

Just a quick, but important reminder that our Editor, Martin Oakes, has chosen March 11, 2011 as the deadline for submissions to The New CartoPhilatelist.

The date for publication will be in early April 2011. Those of you interested in submitting an article should contact our Editor, Martin Oakes prior to submission. Martin has said that material and articles for Issue #33 are required and mentioned, "The hardest part about being an editor is having enough good articles of varying length to fill the pages. Please write about your favorite map stamps and tell us why they are important to you."

Changes to the Current CartoPhilatelic Society Officers

At the end of July Dr. Alf Jordan has steped down from his post as Secretary/ Treasurer. Alf was instrumental in rejuvenating the Society after a multi-year hiatus, and his guidance has helped restore the Society to its present active condition. Alf will be focusing on some cartographic research in the near term. We will all miss our regular communications with Alf but we are sure that we will hear from him again soon, hopefully in a forthcoming issue of The New CartoPhilatelist!

David has more about Alf's outstanding contribution to getting the Society back on its feet in the Society News section of the October 2010 #31 issue of The New CartoPhilatelist.

Our "Representative at Large" Mr. Ed Vallery, has agreed to help take over the duties of Treasurer and Society President David Wolfersberger will be filling in to support the Secretarial duties for the present time.

Presenty, the revised Officers for the CartoPhilatelic Society for the term 2010-2013 are as follows:

Martin Oakes will continue as Editor of The New CartoPhilatelist and David Wolfersberger will continue as Checklist Editor.

Please contact Society President David Wolfersberger if you may be interested in being the Secretary for the Society.

[ Lets give a big round of applause to Alf Jordan for his guidance and dedication over the past years! Ed, thank you too for offering to step in and become the Secretary. --web admin.]

Closed Album: Lillian Kent

Lillian Kent

 “I remember Lillian -- she was a geography teacher in Lowell , MA at that time.  She had a special interest in polar maps,” wrote Society Treasurer Ed Vallery, “she sent me my first map stamps, and from then on, I was hooked on cartophilately.”

President Emeritus Miklos Pinther wrote, “Lillian and I became officers (treasurer & president) about the same time, in the beginning of 1986.  Unfortunately, we never had a chance to meet personally, but of course, we corresponded and spoke on the phone frequently, dealing with Society matters.  I knew she was a geographer who had assumed a bookkeeping job with a travel agency after her retirement.  She did an excellent job as a treasurer and wrote several very fine articles for our journal. She impressed me as a modest person who meticulously carried out her tasks, someone who always showed great civility. I remember that Lillian was quite unhappy when the Society had to suspend its operations.   I am sure she felt very gratified that she was an important connection to resurrecting our activities.”

As Miklos mentioned, Lillian carried on after the Society became dormant in 1995.  She continued to compile new issues checklists which she graciously shared with me when I first began to update the Maps on Stamps Checklist.  The updating work Lillian had done on the new issues saved much time, and eliminated the need to go back and cover those several years while the Society was inactive.  She also maintained the funds remaining in the account, so we were able to have some “money in the bank” when the Society was restarted.

Our thanks go out to Ms. Kent for all of her contributions over the years to the CartoPhilatelic Society, and our sympathy to her son, Michael.

Submissions Deadline for TNCP #32

Just a quick, but important reminder that our Editor, Martin Oakes, has chosen December 6, 2010 as the deadline for submissions to The New CartoPhilatelist.

The date for publication will be in early January 2011. Those of you interested in submitting an article should contact our Editor, Martin Oakes prior to submission. Martin has said that material and articles for Issue #32 are required and mentioned, "The hardest part about being an editor is having enough good articles of varying length to fill the pages. Please write about your favorite map stamps and tell us why they are important to you."

Imperf Pair of Egypt sc271 Reported on in APS Web Newsletter

Egypt sc271 Imperf Sheet circa 1953 auction catalog photo

Geo-Mexico Reports on Mexico's First Map Stamp

Mexico's First Map Stamp

Fellow collector Tony Burton writes us with some news of a post about Mexico's First Map Stamp on his blog Geo-Mexico. Tony is a geographer, writer and lecturer specializing in Mexico. "It was not until 1915, in the middle of the Mexican Revolution, that a map of the Republic appeared for the first time as the central design on a Mexican postage stamp. In addition to the states, the map shows the main railway lines and also the main shipping routes." Tony also points out an interesting observaton that "the island of Cuba has been brought much closer to the north-eastern tip of the Yucatán Peninsula than it really is."

[ Be sure to check out Tony's another post about The Earlist Landscapes on Mexican postage stamps. Thanks for the info Tony, and hope to see an article about Map stamps of Mexico in a future issue of the NCP. -- web admin. ]

Submissions Deadline for TNCP #30

Just a quick, but important reminder that our Editor, Martin Oakes, has chosen June 15, 2010 as the deadline for submissions to The New CartoPhilatelist.

The date for publication will be in early July 2010. Those of you interested in submitting an article should contact our Editor, Martin Oakes prior to submission. Martin has said that material and articles for Issue #30 are required and mentioned, "The hardest part about being an editor is having enough good articles of varying length to fill the pages. Please write about your favorite map stamps and tell us why they are important to you."

Members Only New CartoPhilatelist Archive Opened

After some delays, the members only New CartoPhilatelist Journal Archive has been opened. The archive contains links to all of the New CartoPhilatelist Journals which have been published. The PDF files are available behind a password protected web page. The access page (shown on the right) describes how the archive works and how the files can be downloaded. It is also possible to see the contents of each journal and a larger image of the cover, when accessing the archive page. Access information (login & password) for the archive are contained within the October 2009 NCP Journal #27. This will be of interest to new members who would like to assemble the full set of of NCP backnumbers. Those members with computer access will now be able to download the NCP backnumbers and save them on their own computer. Members without computer access may still purchase NCP backnumbers for US$ 4 per issue plus postage by contacting our Editor, Martin Oakes.