The New CartoPhilatelist Journal Receives Award at StampShow 2018

    APS/ATA StampShow 2018
Vermeil Literature Award

The Society’s flagship Journal, The NewCartoPhilatelist (TNCP), has received a Vermeil award at the recent APS/ATA StampShow 2018 held in Columbus Ohio during August 2018. Under the direction of Editor Martin Oakes, TNCP competed against a group of 19 other philatelic society journals.  The officers of the Society would like to congratulate Martin on his editorial leadership in consistently providing our members with the one of the finest topical journals available today. In addition, it is also important to acknowledge the authors, who have written articles and provided content for our Journal over the years.

If you have not submitted an article for the Journal now would be great time! Articles of any length are always needed. Please see the Journal submission guidelines or contact the Editor with any questions. The Journal can always use articles and content so please consider to write an article! Our deadline for the October 2018 issue is September 21.

CPS Member Wayne Youngblood Receives APS 2018 Luff Award

 Mr. Wayne Youngblood
2018 APS Luff Award

Fellow CartoPhilatelic Society member Wayne L. Youngblood, is the recipient of the 2018 Luff Award for Outstanding Service to the APS. Wayne is a lifelong stamp collector who began at age 8 and never stopped.  Wayne is the current editor for numerous philatelic journals including The American Stamp Dealer & Collector magazineThe Collectors Club PhilatelistTopical Time and Duck Tracks. In addition to The American Philatelist he also is a columnist for Linn’s Stamp News and Philatelic Exporter. Wayne began his professional involvement with the hobby as an editor at Linn’s Stamp News, became editor of Scott Stamp Monthly then as editor-publisher of Stamp Collector newspaper. He is author of 10 books (including Stamps that Glow and All About Stamps) and has written thousands of columns and features over the years. He speaks extensively on the hobby to both philatelic and non-philatelic groups.  Congratulations Wayne!

Maps on Stamps Checklist Rev. 8 now shipping

Checklist Editor David Wolfersberger has been busy working to finalize a major update of the Maps on Stamps Checklist and he is happy to report the new update is ready to ship. The Revision 8.0 update includes the addition of over 1000 new or previously overlooked issues, numerous corrections, and the addition of missing data such as catalogue numbers, coverage and grade. The updated Checklist has about 39,850 entries. It is now current through the February 2018 issue of Linn’s Stamp News – Scott’s Catalogue Updates plus other new issues.

CPS to Meet at StampShow 2018

StampShow 2018The 7th meeting of the CartoPhilatelic Society is scheduled to be held during the joint American Topical Association (ATA)/American Philatelic Society (APS)  StampShow 2018, in Columbus Ohio USA, August 9-12, 2018. The date and time for the meeting along with the proposed agenda, will be announced later. This will be a great show, with about 100 dealers and 900 exhibit frames, plus many seminars and society meetings.  Details about the show, including hotel reservations, are available at https://stamps.org/STAMPSHOW-SS.

Help is also needed to staff the ATA booth on the show floor. If you plan on attending during the week and can volunteer an hour or two, that would be greatly appreciated. Please contact David Wolfersberger if you plan to attend StampShow 2018, and if you can help at the ATA booth. We look forward to seeing you in Columbus this August!

Carto-Philatelist Digital Archive Now Online

The Carto-Philatelist Journal, Vol. 1, No. 1 and
Vol. 40, Nos. 3-4, 1955 – 1995

The eagerly awaited Carto-Philatelist Journal Digital Archive is now online and accessible to members of the CartoPhilatelic Society.

Established in 1955 by a small group of avid topical map stamp collectors, the CartoPhilatelic Society is soon approaching its 65th year anniversary as an organized society. From its inception, the members of the Society have published an official Journal.

Although the Society has existed for more than sixty years, early editions of the Society’s Journal, The Carto-Philatelist, have been surprisingly difficult to acquire. There is a massive amount of detailed research gathered by Society members and others locked away in the printed pages of the early issues. Those original Journals also offer a unique window into the past operations of the Society through the often-exciting biographical sketches of the members, their communications with the Society, and the witty commentary of the Editors. A full run of the Society’s earlier Journals provides exciting reading spanning the last half century.

The officers along with some earlier members of the Society pursued the idea to make the original Carto-Philatelist Journals available using Adobe’s Portable Document Format (PDF). A complete set of Journals was assembled, digitally scanned, and converted to PDF format. The archive comprises 165 individual issues and over 3,840 pages.  The members only, password protected archive can be accessed from this link or using the “Publications” menu on the Society’s web site. [ The CPS thanks all of the members who donated issues and scans over the years to help make this archive a reality. – admin ]

Cumulative Tables of Contents Listings Ready for Download

Just in time to help with a new year of CartoPhilatelic research, the Cumulative Tables of Contents (CTC) listings, complied by our European Representative, Mr. Volker Woesner, and  introduced on page 19 of the January 2017 TNCP #56 are ready for download! Learn more about these important resources. The CTC lists will continue to be available for open download through the “Publications” menu. [we look forward to your feedback -web admin]