The 41st issue of The New CartoPhilatelist is slated to be dispatched to members in early April 2013. The issue beings twenty full pages of fascinating articles, images and information about the Society.
The first article in TNCP 41 is from the Society’s out-going president, David Wolfersberger and details the map stamps of the French Southern and Antarctic Territories. A number of special mini-sheets featuring maps are shown in the article. The next article is from member Pierre Moïse, entitled From Lisbon to Nagasaki: the “Portuguese Hemisphere.” This unique article examines Portuguese navigation, discovery and cultural influence in former colonies and countries as depicted through cartophilately. Next up, member Tim Olmstead proposes an interesting “baseball” themed poll to decide the top 9 map stamp designs from the USA. Remember to send your votes and comments to Tim! President Emeritus Miklos Pinther introduces us to a number of cartographic map cancellations and similar postal history items. Next, President Mark Honig remembers Al Underberg in this special “Closed Album” piece. A number of society news items, results of the election of officers, new issue descriptions, and a wonderful bio of the David Wolfersberger rounds out this full issue. Thanks for all the dedication over the years David!
The theme for the PostEurop’s 20th anniversary of Europa issues is “Vehicles of the Mail Carriers.” This year’s Europa issue from Sweden Post features an aerial image depicting a mail carrier’s route overlaid on the image. The March 14, 2013 issued 24.00 KR mini-sheet consists of two 12.00 KR stamps, one vertical stamp showing a mail carrier riding a bicycle and one horizontal stamp of a mail carrier and electric van. In the background a monochrome image which appears to be an aerial photo or high-resolution satellite image of an urban area is shown overlaid with yellow lines depicting the route of a mail carrier.
 Sweden 2013 Europa Issue, 2013-03-14
 Closed Album: Al Underberg 2013-01 On January 30th I received a phone call from Marilyn Underberg that her husband, Al had passed away that morning after a brief illness.
Al Underberg was a member of our society from 1988 and served our society as Vice President between 2004 and 2010. Al had a huge stamp collection, besides map stamps he collected stamps of places he visited and collected stamps of countries he visited on his travels. He told me that traveling was actually his biggest hobby, before (map) stamp collecting.
Al and Marilyn were members of the Travelers Century Club and have visited 167 countries. In his office in St. Peters-burg where he worked as an attorney, he had a world map with pins indicating all the places he had visited.
His recent focus was on scientific re-search in philately and founded the Institute for Analytical Philately. He was Vice President of the St. Petersburg Stamp Club.
Al is survived by his wife Marilyn, his four daughters and sons-in law and nine grandchildren. I will always remember his hospitality and generosity when we met and during my stays at their home in St. Petersburg, FL.
All members of the CPS thank Al for his service to the Society and express our condolences to Marilyn and his family.
Mark Honig
Just a quick, but important reminder for Journal submission dates. Our Editor, Martin Oakes, has chosen the following date as the deadline for article submissions to the Journal:
TNCP #41, April 2013, submission deadline: March 10, 2013
If you are interested in submitting an article please contact our Editor, Martin Oakes as soon as possible.
 The “TNCP Style Sheet – Instructions to Authors” has been updated, so please download a revised copy before starting to author an article.
Remember there are many options for Journal content and Martin will be happy to discuss them with you. The list three issues of the Journal have been 20 pages. This is due to the wonderful amount of content that members have been submitting. The added pages will continue, as long as there is sufficient material available. Remember if you have feedback, please be sure to share with Martin or use the general Society contact form.
Issues 34 & 35 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.
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The New CartoPhilatelist!
 Ireland 2013-01-24 On January 24, 2013, An Post issued a new stylized map design helping promote “The Gathering Ireland 2013” a year long tourist promotion program for all things relating to Ireland. “The Gathering is a tourism-led initiative that seeks to harness and strengthen the connections between Ireland and its global diaspora. Billed as a spectacular, year-long celebration of all things Irish, The Gathering is an open invitation from the Irish people, to the 70 million people worldwide that claim Irish ancestry and indeed to anyone with a love of Ireland, to take a trip to Ireland during the year, and join in unique events being staged in their honour. All around Ireland, towns, villages, communities and families are organising events, festivals and special gatherings that will showcase the very best of Irish culture, tradition and sport to the Irish diaspora. It is hoped that The Gathering will deliver an additional 325,000 visitors, while also enhancing the reputation of Ireland as a warm and engaging place to visit.” The 82c single denomination features a square format showing the entire island of Ireland. “The colourful 82c stamp was designed by Irish graphic artists Design Factory, and builds on elements of The Gathering’s official logo to form a map of Ireland, representing the huge range and sheer number of events planned around the country this year.” 82c covers worldwide airmail postage for a standard letter up to 50g. [Design Factory appears to be behind some other postal issues, such as Ireland’s 2011 Europa issue. — web admin]
 Falkland Islands 2013-02-15 (planned) To mark the upcoming sovereignty referendum on March 10-11, 2013, the Falkland Islands Philatelic Bureau plans to issue a set of four single stamps and a mini-sheet. The for single stamps, are planned in denomina-tions of 3p, 40p, 75p and £1.76. The denomination of the single stamp mini-sheet is £3.00. The stamps and mini-sheet share a common theme showing the islands, with a hand holding a ballot paper, being submitted into a ballot box, with the opening of the box near Falkland Sound, between the two islands. A satellite image of the islands appears to have been used, possibly with alternate band combinations, to match the multi-colored backgrounds of the oceans and text on the stamps. On the mini-sheet, the question of the referendum, “Do you wish the Falkland Islands to retain their current political status as an Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom?” is shown in the lower right hand corner. In the upper left of the mini-sheet is the quote “a people’s right to self determination is a fundamental modern democratic right” appears to be from a statement given by R. Edwards, a member of the Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly, in a statement given to the United Nations Committee of 24 (Special committee on Decolonization) June 14, 2012.
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