September, 1979

Across the Fence

VOL .1 N0. 6

WaUSApex ' 79

The Wisconsin Valley Philatelic Society will be host for WaUSApex ' 79 and the W. F.S,C, fall Meeting and Seminar on Sunday, September JOth , at the Holiday Inn at Wausau. Hours for the show are 10 100 a . m. to 5,00 p.m , Admission is free,

The show will feature an eleven dealer bourse and around 50 frames of exhibits , This will be an open exhibit i on. If you would like to enter an exhibit, contact exhibit chairman, James Kampschroer, w.v . ~.s. P . O. Box 71 , Wausau, Wisconsin 54401,

The show cachet will be of John Faul Jones . It will be the 200th Anniversary of the Battle of }-.fi'.S Searpis and the Bor.n Richard . The September 2Jrd issue of John Faul Jones will be used on the covers and cancelled with a special pictcrial show cancel ,

Covers are available f or 50¢ each, or J for $1.25. Orders should include a #10 S~St. Send orders to the same addre ss given above for exhibits .

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JOHN PAUL JON ES

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W, F .s.c. FALL MEETING AND JUDGING SElf.lNAR

WaUSApex • 79 will be ho s t for our Federation Fall r,:eeting and Seminar . This is a good chance for Philatelists fr om around the state to get together and meet old friends and make new friends ,

The executive committee and judging seminar panel members will meet at noon to discuss Federation business and the s eminar. Be sure

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to contact your Regional Vic e Pre$ident with any business and ideas you would like them to present at the mee ting.

At 1100 p.m, the judging seminar and meeting will begin, Freceeding the seminar we will present a report on what has transpired at the meeting and accept any further comments from the flo or . I would like to keep things short and get business out of the way as quickly and efficiently as possible, so that we can all spend a minimum amount of time in meetings and the majority of time enjoyinb the show,

The judging seminar on Topical Collecting will be conducted by Mary Ann Owens, Jim Maher and Carl Skupski.

Sec you there~

HOLD THE PRESS~

I just received a letter from Carl Skupski, Carl is going into the hospital on September 11th for major surgery and will not be going anywhere for sometime after that and will not be going to Wausau for the Fall meeting and judging seminar. At this point I don't know who the 3rd member of the judging panel will be, It will have to be a surprise when you get to Wausau for the seminar.

I know we will all be thinking of Carl on September 11th and wish him a speedy recovery and a quick return to the Stamp Trails,

TOSAPtX '79

TOSAPEX '79, the f ourt eenth annual exhibition of the Wauwatosa Philatelic Society, will be held on Saturday and Sunday , Gctobe r 27th and 28th , 1979, at the iayfair ~all Shopping Center , 2500 North Mayfair Road, Wauwatosa , Wisconsin. Hours will be 9 • 30 a.m, t ·o 6100 p.m. on Saturday and Noon to 5,00 p.m. on Sunday. Admission is free.

One hundred frames of.philatelic materials will be shown by members of the Wauwatosa Philatelic Society. The show will have a 28-dealer bourse.

The show's theme will be Revolutionary War Heroes of 1779 with John Paul Jones, Casimir Pulaski and Geori e koge rs Clark being honored. There will be a special exhibition pictorial cancellation featuring the Continental Congress flag of 1777,

A set of three different cachet envelopes is be i ng offered at $1.50 per set or ~ -75 each, A set of three postal cards (Jones cachet on the USPS tagle card : Pulaski cachet on the Pulaski card and Clark cachet on the Vincennes postal card) is also available at .;,L OO pe r set of $ ,50 per card. Collectors desiring unaddressed covers should send self-addre ssed, stanped envelopes for returns . Orders may be sent to Raymond J.... Bournique, 1910 Church Street , ·,.,-auwatosa , Wisconsin 53213.

OUTAGAil:IE PHILAT.E.LIC SC.CIETY

The Outagamie Philatelic Society has elected officers as follows for 1979- 80 : Presi dent , Frank beck , Vice - ?resioent , Wayne 'Iii tt: Secretary-Treasur er, Vern2. Shae kletcn . 'I-hey :r.eet the 2nd Thursday of the month , September - ~ay in the First National Bank's Community ~oom, 204 E , College Avenue , ~~ pleton, at 7 , 00 p .m.

Come to the

FALL BOURSE

MILWAUKEE PHILATELIC SOCIETY at

RAMADA INN - AIRPORT 6401 South 13th Street Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Saturday, October 13, 1979 - 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday, October 14, 1979 - 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Admission - Free

Everyone is Welcome

UWMPSEX '79

The 8th Annual Exhibition of the Philatelic Society at UWM will be held Saturday and Sunday, December 1st and 2nd, 1979 in the UWM Union Grand ballroom, 2200 E, Kenwood l:Jlvd,, f>'i lwaukee,

This year's exhibition will honor 100 years of Science and Technology in America , birth of Albert Einstein and Invention of the lightbulb.

Exhibit information and applications for entry can be obtained from, Philatelic Society at UW~ . George Brew , 15840 Fieldbr ook Dr. Brookfield, Wisconsin 53005 ,

THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE INFOrt~:s US 'l'liAT , , .

The following items will be withdrawn from sale on October 30, 1979, at the Philatelic Sales oranch - 13¢ French All ianc e , 1J¢ Dr, Pananicolaon1 13¢ Jimmy Rodgers ; 30¢ John Dewey1 50¢ Lucy Stone; $5 ,00 John Bassett Moore ; 15¢ "A" sheet and coil stair.ps 15¢ "A" embossed envelopes. These items may be ordered by October 30th from " Octobe r Withdrawals", Philatelic Sales Branch , Washington, DC 20265. A $5 ,00 minimum is required plu s 50¢ handling charge permail order,

NEW ISSUES

This Fall will be a busy and expens ive time with all the new issue coming out, August al-0ne, has the $5 and JO¢ Americana issues to start things off. I have only inclt:ded the U,S, and Canada issue here, but I hope it will give you a checklist so you won't miss an item.

u.s. Aug. 2J - $5 Americana - lantern. Boston Aug. 27 - 30¢ Americana - one room school, Devils lake, N,D, Sept, 5 - Olympics. 10¢ stamp for post card . Olympia , Wash . Sept, 11 - 50¢ Americana ·- "Betty " l amp , San Juan, LR, Sept, 17th - Olympics, 10¢ postal card, Eugene , Ore. Sept, 2J - John Paul Jones . 1 5¢ Bicentennial series , Annapolis , ~ . □ . Sept. 28 - Olympics. se-tenant block of four. 15¢ Los Angeles, Oct. 1 - 10¢ postal card. Iolani Palace , Honolulu. Oct. 11 - 10¢ postal card . Gen. Casimir Pula ski. Savannah , Ga, Oct, 1 8 ~ Christmas. 15 ¢ religious, Washington □ , C ,

15¢ Santa , Nbrth Pole, Alaska

CANADA

Sept. lJ - Inuit Shelters, Se-tenant pair. 17¢ Oct. 17 - Christrr.as. 15¢, 17¢, J5¢, Oct, 24 - International Year of the Child. 17¢

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OSHKOSH PHILATELIC SuCI-ETY

John Anderson, President of the Oshkosh Fhilatelic Society, sent me their program calendar for the remainder of 1979 and the first half of 1980,

September 4th - Pick and Poke, September 17th - Sc avenger Hunt, October 2nd - Bill Robinson, Postal History. October 15th - Auction Club Material, November 6th - Set up a display, November 19th - ~uction member's material, December 4th - Let 's trade. Jecember 17th - No meeting, January 8th (Second Tuesday) Auction member's material, January 21st - Pick and Poke. February 5th - Ralph Hoffman/slide talk, February 18th - Philatelic auction. Narch 4th - Swap and Shop. ~arch 17th - Fhoto5raphing Stamps-Hoffman, April 1st - Two day ~how Final i­zation, April 21st - .oill Cogger/Slide presentation, r,.ay 6th - Auction club material. W.ay 19th - election of Officers/Fick and Poke, June 8th­Picnic/Sparks residence,

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OSHKOSH '79

EAA CONVENTION CuVER

The Oshkosh Philatelic Society sponsored a cover during the Experimental Aircraft Associat ion (tAA), The cacheted cover with special hand cancel is available for 75¢ each and a SASi from, John Anderson, 49 W, 16th Ave., Oshkosh, Wisconsin 54901.

RIPON FHILATtLIC SCCIETY

The Ripon Philatelic Society meets the 2nd Thursday and 4th Monday of each month, 71JO p.m., at braun's Family kcstaurant, A club dinner preceeds ~onday meetings at 6115 p.m, Septenber lJth is Dealer night - Oregon Stamps , September 24th is an auction,

BELLE CITY STAMP CLUB

~lection of officers for the forthcoming year took place at the Jui.t: 2ltet rneP.ting with the following members being elected I Ray F. Knapp, President, Harold ~ay, Secretary-Treasurer, and Earl O'Brian, Bourse Table Assigner.

The First Sunday Bourse or Trading Session will be held at the Lakeview Community Center at 201 Goold Street, Racine, on September 9th. The hours have been changed to 12 Noon to 5 p.m. Other dates of the trading sessions to note on your calendar are, Oct, 14, Nov, 11, and Dec. 9th,

OLYMPIC ISSUES

Sometimes I forget to give credit where credit is due, Last month's "Inflation and Olympic Stamps" was picked up frotn Roy Northwood's Central Wisconsin Stamp Club Newsletter,

This month I'm going to steal from Roy again. I had not realized until I read his newsletter that the U.S. Olympic stamps will not have the distinctive interlocked five different colored rings that designate the Olympics and have for years, The reasoning being that U.S. has passed the copyright law on all it's stamps, , , the Olympic fi ve circle insignia is also copyrighted by the Olympic Committee. Therefore, it cannot be used on someone elses copyrighted stamp, This is why you will see "five stars" instead of circles on U,S, Olympic stamps . In Roy's opinion this is "stupid" and I will have to "second" that opinion,

CE~TRAL WISCONSIN STAMP CLUB

The following is a reprint from Central Wisconsin Stamp Club's Newsletter, edited by Roy Northwood, I think it will be of interest to all Wisconsin Collectors, ·

Right in the middle of dog days! Hope your s tamp collection is in air conditioning! Summer doldrums as far as news. The only news item is that Dave Carney had an interesting experience at the Continental auction in Chicago this month. Some advance pag~s from the new stamp catalogs had gotten out and were present. ln compari ng them, many of the prices had quadrupled (four times as much as the '79 prices). This led to quite a lively auction. In fact the theme was "Buy anything, you can't help but make money!" This takes me back to my old theme - where do you start stamp collecting? Read Howard Sherpe' s center sect ion of .July "Across The Fence" newsletter very carefully~ It deals

with the Junior Philatelists of America. They need every bit of help from us senior collectors to get them involved . It is going to get more expensive and involved to pick up those odd items - don't look for any drop in stamp prices - only continued rises as more and more items may become scarce and ha rd to find. I eavesdropped on two dealers sitting behind me on the limo into Chicago and heard their common complaint -NO MATERIAL AVAILABLE!

Dealers seem to be buying from each other (not that they always didn't but now as a matter of survival) to fill customers wants as most of their stocks have gaping holes in them. Sorry to make this sound like a warning of doom but with inflation, gas shortages, fuel oil increases, truckers' strikes, food increases, why should our little old hobby of stamp collecting be neglected. You can only look on the bright side -there is never anything so satisfying and fullfilling as finding that one stamp to fill our that set that you have been looking for so long at a r easonabl e price (or even ·a ridiculous low one for even a better glow). It all seems to make the hobby worth­while and for a while the sun shines again!

Gi::RMAl'iY PHILATtLIC SGCll:.TY "Milwaukee Chapter #18 "Heinrich Von Stephan"

An Auction of worldwide philatelic material will be held by the ~ilwaukee Chapter #18 "Heinrich Von Stephan", Germany Fhilatelic Society, at its Sunday, Se~tembcr 23rd , meeting . The chapter is an organization of stamp collectors intereoted in German area philately and meets on the fourth Sunday of the month at 7:00 p , m. at the Bavarian lnn, 700 "/lest Lexington Blvd., Glendale, Wisconsin

A member's trading session will precede the auction at 6,30 p.m.

The general public is invited to attend the auction, as well as all chapter meetings,

The chapter is named after Germany's firs~ postmaster, Heinrich Von Stephan (1 831-1997),

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GRAFTON, WIS. JUN 26 1913 SI>. A1'R.Al(30K,

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CHECK LIST OF WISCONSIN FLAG CANCELLATIONS Compiled by Andrew Buckland and James Hale

Wisconsin Flag Cancellation T:ypes

Stars in field Type l WIS. at bottom

Nothing in stripes

Stars in field Type 2 WIS. at bottom

Die number in stripes

Stars in field Type 3 WIS. at bottom

Blank die space in stripes

Stars in field Type 4 Year at bottom

Nothing in stripes

Stars in field Type 5 Year at bottoa

Die number in stripes

Station name in field Type 6 WIS. at bottora

Nothing in stripes

Station name in field Type 7 WIS. at bottom

Die nlllllber in stripes

Station name in field Type 8 Year at bottom

Nothing in stripes

Station name in field Type 9 Year at bottom

Nothing in stripes Station name in dater

A NEW WISCONSIN FLAG CANCELLATION

Reprinted from the Badger Postal History quarterly publication of the W.P.H,S,

AROUND THE COUNTRY

FEDERATION OF IOWA STAr1:P CLUBS

~n the May issue of "Across the Fence" I mentioned the Quad­City Stamp Club's auction which is held to benefit the - American Cancer Society. All material in the auction is contributed by collectors,

The entire proceeds from the auction are evenly split between the Scott County, Iowa, and Rock Island County, Illinois Chapters of the American Cancer Society,

This year the auction raised $2,106.35, Congratulations on a very successful, worthwhile project to our neighbors in Iowa,

NORTHERN Il'iDIANA PHILATELIC SOCIETY SCHEDULES FALL STJ1.ll"1P SHOW

The Northern Indiana Philatelic Society will sponsor its annual fall stamp exhibition and bourse, NIPSHOW '79, on November 24 and 25, 1979 at Century Center in South bend, Indiana.

This year's show, the first to be held in South Bend 's spacious , modern convention facility, is being expanded in scope to feature a variety of activities and events designated the MICHIANA rttGiuNAL PHILA'l'ELIC FAIR,

Information regarding the show may be obtained by writing to "Show Information," Northern Indiana Philatelic Society, P , O. box 393, Mishawaka , Indiana 46544.

FROM THE ISLE OF !,'.AN

As I told you in a past is s ue of "Across the Fence~ one of our federation members is President of the Isle of Man Federation.

Among his many philatelic interests he is researching U.S. Post Offices via postcards , (view cards showing post offices). He also collects unusual place names and special cancels. If any of our Wis­consin members could help him out, his address is, Eric D. Colpitts, 23 Dukes Road, Douglas, I $le of r,ian, United Kingdom.

BADGER STAf,.F CLUB

New Officers for 1979-80 have been elected by the Badger Stamp Club. They are, rtobert Barkhurst , President; ~eonard Vig, Vice-President; Helen Young, Secretary and Fred Huebner, Treas urer.

The club meets the 1st and 3rd Saturday of each month at 2100 p.m, in the Bethany Methodist Church, 3910 Mineral Point Road.

BILL RObINSON AUCTIGN

Bill Robinson informs that his next auction will be held October 7, 1979 (U. S . foreign and large lots). The December auction will be almost exclusively postal history.

To get your free catalog write to William B, Rcbinson , 1641 Bruce Lane, Green Bay , Wisconsin 54303.

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FIR ST AU ThOR IZED POSTAGE ~;ETER ~:ACHINE

Protection fr om s t amp pi lfe r aee and effi c i ency were prime fac t or s i n the i nnovat ion of me t ered mail . Posta; e me t e r mac hines we r e made avail able t o the publ i c for the fi r st time in 1903 in Chri sti ania (now Oslo ), Norway f or the prepayment of domestic mail matter .

UNSUNG HER O OF THE ~'. CNTH

There a r e no u~sung he r os in Wisc on s in. Due t o the underwhelming respon se , the re i s no un s ung hero t o te l l about thi s month e i t her. Check the July i s sue of "Across the Fence." Someone, somewher e mus t know some one i n their club who dese rve s some overdue recogni ti on.

"ACROSS THE FENCE" WILL bE PRINTED LATER NEXT 11\0NTH

The October issue will reach you a coupl e days later next month and may be too late f or the clubs who meet during the first week,

I want to include a rep ort fr om the Fall meeting at Wausau and hopefully will have n ews on which direction we'll be going with the "Bulletin."

I will write up t he Wausau happenings a s soon as I return from the meeting and hopefully wi l l have the issue in the mail by Oct. Jrd.

Until then, may you find t he stamp you've been looking for all these years,

BRITISH COVERS

AND SPECIMEN

STAMPS

A.P .S. 87133

PLEASE SEND SASE ALONG WITH WANT LIST

GARYZINK P.O. BOX 8201

MADISON, WI 53708

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STAMP BOURSE

Buy-Sell-Trade STAMPS At Quality Inn

4916 East Broadway Madison. Wisconsin

10 A.M. to 5 P.M.

SEPT. 8 NOV. 10

OCT.13 DEC.a

For information call : 236-9022

THEOID POST OFFICE

6236 UNIVERSITY AVE. MIDDLETON, WI 53562

L 10 A.M. to 5:30 P.M., Mon . . Sat. _J

OVER THE FENCE

OREGON STAMPS

P.O. Box 328 Sun Prairie, WI 53590

U.S., U.N., CANADA & VATICAN STAMPS

NEW MILWAUKEE STAMP BOU ASE _____ 1979, ____ _

August 12

September9 October7

November 11 Decembers

At HOWARD JOHNSON MOTOR LODGE

171 6 W. Layton Ave., Milwaukee, WI

Phone1•414-262-7000

Just off 1-94 South at 894 intersection.

894 traffic turn south on 27th Street .

1 block then east on Layton.

Written and edited by Howa rd Sherpe, President, W.F,S.C, Information and articles may be sent t o me at 1017 Chie ftain Lookout, Madison, Wis­consin 53711, Phone, (608 ) 274-6019,