 Spanish Post started 2014 out with two issues of interest to fellow CartoPhilatelists. The first issue, of January 3rd, 2014, marks the fifth centenary of the arrival of Juan Ponce de León to the coast of Florida. On Easter Sunday 1513, also called Pascua Florida (the Festival of Flowers), the Spanish expedition led by Juan Ponce de León discovered a new land which they named Florida, in honor of the day’s religious festival. The self adhesive issue has a denomination of 0,92 €. The stamp depicts a partial portrait of the explorer on the left of the design along with a sailing ship. What appears to be a nautical chart with a partial compass rose and possibly islands on the chart is shown in the background of the issue. The second issue, of January 20, 2014, commemorates the 300th anniversary of the birth of Franciscan friar Junípero Serra. In 1749, Friar Serra was sent with other Franciscans to New Spain, now Mexico, where he was a missionary, preaching the gospel in various parts of the country. In 1768 when the Jesuits were expelled from New Spain, Friar Serra and other monks were sent to Lower and Upper California to found a range of missions reaching up to the bay of San Francisco in the USA. Over the years, these missions became important cities, such as San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Sacramento. Friar Serra was beatified in 1988 by Pope John Paul II. The 0.92 € denomination stamp features a portrait of Friar Serra and an antique map showing Baja California cut into the shape of a cross.
[CartoPhilatelists will recognize previous issues of these themes namely USA sc2024 for Ponce de Leon, and then Spain sc2394 and USA scC116 for Friar Serra. If there are others, please tell us. In addition, the Spanish Post web site mentioned that the January 20, 2014 issue also was for Pedro Cieza de León, explorer and chronicler of the Indies. however I could not determine if there was an additional stamp or not Update: Julien from France informs us that there is a separate issue for Pedro Cieza de León however it does not have a map. Thanks! -admin]
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.
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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. Continue reading  Revision 6 of the Maps on Stamps Checklist is complete
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. Continue reading TNCP 43 Dispatched to Members
Revision 6 of the Maps on Stamps Checklist will be available by the end of October 2013. It will include approximately 600 new issues plus the addition of many older issues that had been overlooked and numerous corrections, additions of catalog numbers and other updates. It is expected that the printed version will be about 800 pages. The cost for a hardcopy version of the Checklist will be established after it is complete. At that time all members will be notified through the journal and on the web site. Contact Checklist Editor David Wolfersberger for more information.
 Belgium 2013-06-24 Fellow map stamp collector Julien writes from Europe to inform us of a very interesting and hidden map on the June 26, 2013 issue from Belgium Post which marks the 100th anniversary of the Belgium Royal Meteorological Institute and their forecasting of the weather. The souvenir sheet shown below contains five stamps. Along the top edge of the sheet are a series of weather condition icons. The foreground of the sheet is covered by a large grassy hill, and in upper center is a single stamp which depicts the institute’s headquarters located in Uccle. On the right side of the sheet is a researcher with a weather balloon and standing near an instrument station. Arranged along the bottom of the sheet are four evenly sized rectangle stamps depicting a tree with green foliage. Around the trees, in the background of each stamp, are weather conditions marking each of the four seasons, spring, summer, autumn and winter. Julien tells us that the hidden map can be found in the shape of the trees represent the outline of Belgium, rotated slightly counter-clockwise. However, there is another interesting point about this sheet. When you press your finger on each of the trees, or when the temperature is more than 77F (25C) the foliage of the trees will be transformed to a seasonal color and each tree will have a series of small images representing a common daily forecasts for each season visible in the leaves. This is shown in the image below. [ Thanks Julien for alerting us to this very important cartophilatelic issue! We know of one other map sheet from Iceland (sc1162) issued in 2009 for the International Polar Year which has a similar heat triggered coating, does anyone know of any others? — web admin ]
 Detail of Belgium 2013-06-24 with temperature above 77F (25C)
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