Submissions Deadline for TNCP #45
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 #45, January 2013, submission deadline: March 16, 2014
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. Recent 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 contact form.
We are still waiting to hear from any members who have been able to visit the new The William H. Gross Stamp Gallery at the Smithsonian Postal Museum in Washington DC. Please consider to write an article about your visit.
Issues 42 contained a fascinating in-depth article about the Gronchi Rosa Forgeries that was originally in Italian, and published by 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.
Recap your winter collecting
finds and research with an article for
The New CartoPhilatelist!
Web Site Status
2013-12-30 (23:30 UTC)
After a discussion with the Officers, the Forum and CPS Exchange pages have been removed. Unfortunately the Forum was not largely used and became difficult to manage due to spam posts. The CPS Exchange was dormant for a number of years and did not take off as was hoped. If you are interested in participating in an online philatelic community, please have a look at these two, very fine forum sites: Stampboards, a very active, large and well established site, and also Stamp Exchange, a newer and increasingly active forum. Please note that the CPS is not endorsing either of this forums, but only wanting to pass along this information to our members. There have also been updates to the base software which runs our site. Please use the contact form if you are having problems or any questions about our site.
2013-10-14 (14:00 UTC)
The site has been working well. Please use the contact form if you have having problems with the site.
2013-09-15 (14:00 UTC)
It appears that the members only secure archive was not working properly due to an update of one of the plugins used on that page. Some modifications were made to correct this, and the archive is once again accessible.
2013-09-01 (13:30 UTC)
Added some additional information in the About section of the site to give visitors some background of the Society. Also a very interesting Marginalia article from December 2007 by Mark Honig has been reformatted and added to the site. Please have a look and check through your stock, never know if a similar error may be awaiting discovery!
2013-08-25 (12:00 UTC)
The work on the Member’s Only Archive has been completed and all of The New CartoPhilatelist back issues are now available. The archive is available to members of the Society in current standing. Access information is shown on the TNCP Archive Page. Some updates were also made on the Membership page, a revision to the actual membership form, and also the revised Society bylaws have been updated.
2013-06-30 (22:00 UTC)
Be sure to sign up for email alerts whenever the web site is updated. Press the email button in the upper right corner below the menu and follow the directions. There are still issues with the re-captcha when using on a mobile device. This will be examined after the members back issue archive is working. If you run into problems using re-captcha to view email addresses please use the regular submission form on the Contact Us page. Some progress on the members back issue archive has been made, but it is still not ready yet. Please watch this space for more information. We appreciate your patience during the change over.
2013-06-30 (04:00 UTC)
The mapsonstamps site is working well. There are issues with the re-captcha when using on a mobile device. This will be examined after the members back issue archive is working. If you run into problems using re-captcha to view email addresses please use the regular submission form on the Contact Us page. Some progress on the members back issue archive has been made, but it is still not ready yet. Please watch this space for more information. We appreciate your patience during the change over.
2013-06-12 (10:30 UTC)
The mapsonstamps domain is active now. Both the .org and .com addresses are resolving correctly. Paths to all of the images and content have been updated. Incorrect links are being rectified as they are found. Now that the domains and content links are correct the first priority will be to fix the back issue New CartoPhilatelist archive. Please watch this space for more information. We appreciate your patience during the change over.
2013-06-12 (05:00 UTC)
The mapsonstamps domain is active now. Both the .org and .com addresses should be resolving correctly. Paths to some of the images may not be correct. Those are being rectified as they are found. Now that the domains are correct the first priority will be to fix the back issue New CartoPhilatelist archive. Please watch this space for more information. We appreciate your patience during the change over.
2013-06-09 (22:00 UTC)
The updated mapsonstamps domain is active and the top page is now loading correctly. Once the mapsonstamps.com address is stable, more work on the site will be carried out. The first priority will be to fix the back issue New CartoPhilatelist archive. Please watch this space for more information. We appreciate your patience during the change over.
2013-06-09 (12:16 UTC)
The mapsonstamps site is has been revised and the site should be loading from that domain in the next day or two. Once the mapsonstamps.com address is stable, more work on the site will be carried out. The first priority will be to fix the back issue New CartoPhilatelist archive. Please watch this space for more information. We appreciate your patience during the change over.
2013-05-19 (13:15 UTC)
The mapsonstamps site is currently redirecting to this site. This is a temporary solution, more work will be done on the site in June. In the mean time, content updates will continue to be added. The members only secure archive is currently offline. There was a level of security on the members only archive and it is taking time to reproduce a similar level using the new framework. If you need to access a back issue of The New CartoPhilatelist, please contact the web admin and arrangements will be made. All requests will be verified against the membership listing. Thank you for your understanding.
2013-05-18 (15:30 UTC)
The cartophilately.org site is relatively stable, and the mapsonstamps.com site is currently redirecting to this site. This is a temporary fix. The members only secure archive is currently offline. We are working to fix these issues.
2013-05-14 (00:30 UTC)
The cartophilately.org site is relatively stable, and the mapsonstamps.com site is currently redirecting to this site. This is a temporary fix. The members only secure archive is currently offline. We are working to fix these issues.
2013-05-13 (04:30 UTC)
Doing fine tuning on the cartophilately.org site. Mapsonstamps.com site has not been switched yet. More status to follow.
Revision 6 of the Maps on Stamps Checklist is complete
Revision 6.0 of the Maps on Stamps Checklist is now ready for distribution to members of the CartoPhilatelic Society. Since the last update of the Checklist in 2011, over 800 items have been added along with numerous corrections and clarifications. The Checklist comprises over 37,600 records representing over 38,500 individual stamps, souvenir sheets, and other philatelic material. When printed the Checklist is 783 pages in length including 6 pages of introductory material.
The Checklist is available for purchase only by current members of the CartoPhilatelic Society and is available in both digital form, as a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, and in hardcopy format.The costs for the Checklist are as follows:
Excel format: $35
US Hardcopy by Priority Mail only: $12.35 + $45 = $57.35
International Hardcopy: $45 + shipping cost determined by locationNOTE Shipping elsewhere will be determined for each order and the member notified prior to shipping. Please contact Checklist Editor David Wolfersberger for the exact mailing costs to international locations prior to making a payment.
Current members who may have purchased the Checklist in the past, can receive an updated Excel version at no cost by requesting it from David Wolfersberger.
The hardcopy version of the Checklist is printed single-sided on three hole punched acid free paper made from 100% recycled material.
Payments for the Excel version and US Hardcopy should be in US funds sent to:
Ed Vallery
Treasurer
The Cartophilatelic Society
5 Thompson Lane
Durham, NH 03824-3022 USAOr by PayPal to this_email_address
Once the payments have been cleared and verified the Checklist will be sent promptly.
TNCP 43 Dispatched to Members
The 43rd issue of the Society’s Journal, The New CartoPhilatelist, is filled with 20 pages of articles, news and images. Starting out this issue, are meteorologists Don Hillger and Garry Toth who take a look at The Earth as Seen from Space. Their detailed article traces the history of geostationary earth observation satellites and various full disk earth images as they are shown on a number of stamp issues. Be sure to check the author’s web site for a very comprehensive checklist of related issues. Next up is the final installment of FSAT Illustrated on Map Stamps by Society vice-president, David Wolfersburger, and showcases the remaining issues of cartophilatelic importance from this most famous and important philatelic authority. In the next article, Mark Honig, Society President, has complied an in-depth look at the Stamps of the Dominican Republic issued in 1900. This fascinating series is at the top of every cartophilatelist’s list. As many collectors know this issue nearly cause the outbreak of a war between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. This issue is also known for forgeries and Mark gives details on spotting them. The next article Brian Marshall, the CPS’s Asia/Pacific Representative provides a report of the large and very well attended Australia 2013 World Stamp Exhibition held in May 2013 in Melbourne. With the number of special issue new Roo commemorative items at the show, we wished we could go along with Brian. In the next article, Society Member Ap Koopman examines the geologic history of the Krakatau volcanic eruption as depicted in two issues from Indonesia. Mark Honig reports about Society News and the recent coverage of some important map issues in the philatelic press. There is also some information about a raise in membership dues caused by recent postal rate
increases, so be sure to check this information. The issue is rounded out with an article on new issues by David, an update of the checklist, and a number of recent new issue images.
Trial Use of New Shipping Method for Printed Journals
As many of our members know, we use HP’s MagCloud “print on demand” service for printing of the hardcopy TNCP journals. Recently we began investigating the use of MagCloud to also handle the packaging and shipping of those journals to our members. The shipping, to some members, of the October issue was carried out by MagCloud as a trial. While this has worked very well from initial feedback, we recently discovered that a few digital members may have received a printed October issue. We apologize to those digital members that were surprised upon receipt of a hardcopy issue. If you unexpectedly received a hardcopy issue, please keep it as an example of MagCloud’s high-quality printing service. For those members that regularly receive a printed Journal, we would like to hear if there were any issues regarding the packaging or delivery of your October issue. Please contact us with your feedback.
Discovery of Some Previously Unknown Map Stamps
 New Caledonia sc651 |
 New Caledonia scC275 |
 China sc3031 |
 South Korea sc1516 |
Cartophilatelic Society president Mark Honig informs us of finding some previously unknown map stamps. First up is the 170fr August 26, 1991 issue from New Caledonia for the French Institute of Scientific Research (sc651). A number of research themes are depicted on this very colorful stamp. In the center is a stereo or dissecting microscope and on the stage of the microscope is a map of New Caledonia. Definitely a hidden map! The next newly discovered map stamp also comes from New Caledonia. The 130fr airmail issue of July 20, 1996 marks the Indonesian Centenary (scC275). The stamp depicts a man and woman dressed in traditional Indonesian attire. Behind the couple is a tree. In the branches and leaves of the tree, the islands of the Indonesian Archipelago can be seen. A very interesting and uniquely designed map stamp. From the South Pacific we move to North Asia. Here, the first newly discovered map stamp is from the June 1, 2000 “Stampin’ the Future” children’s stamp design issue (sc3031). The 60f denomination stamp features an image of a young girl in front of a computer screen which depicts a map of China and Taiwan and a “bridge being constructed” across the South China Sea between China and Taiwan. The next discovery is from South Korea (sc1516), with the 80w October 8, 1988 issue marking the 22nd Congress of The International Iron and Steel Institute, that we assume was held in Seoul about that time. This thematic stamp depicts a large foundry ladle in a steel mill pouring out molten metal. A world map with a very interesting looking projection is shown on the side of the ladle. For our final discovery we move to the Netherlands and a personal note from Mark regarding the next newly discovered map stamp. Mark writes, when I was browsing ebay for map stamps I noticed this stamp with what looks like a small map. I immediately knew I must have this stamp because it is a stamp from my own country. I pulled my album and I scanned for the stamp. This stamp has been issued, as part of a set of 4, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the liberation for the Netherlands from nazi-Germany in 1945. The detail shown in the map is part of a newspaper, “The Flying Dutchman,” air-dropped by the Allied Air Forces, and shows the Russian front advancing from Tarnopol to Cherzon. After a bit of searching I found the map was shown on the cover of the March 16, 1944 issue. I’m a bit embarrassed to admit that this stamp has been in my album for 28 years without me noticing it as a map stamp. The stamp (and set) are not expensive. The stamp has also been issued as a coil stamp. These coil stamps can be recognized by the cut perforations along the top and bottom. Mint coils have a number on the back of every 5th stamp. Perhaps now is the time to check your own collections for more hidden map stamps, you never know what may be hiding there. Please let us know what you find!
 Netherlands sc666 |
 “The Flying Dutchman,” March 16, 1944 |
