TNCP 44 Dispatched to Members

The dispatch of the 44th issue of The New CartoPhilatelist marks a turning point for the Society. This issue was printed and dispatched directly to all of our hardcopy members, both domestic and international, using HP’s MagCloud Service.  The first issue of the new year starts out with a detailed article by Ap Koopman about The  Chamizal Dispute regarding the border between the USA and Mexico.  The article traces the dispute over time, culminating with the treaty signed in 1963 and depicted in a stamp issue.   Next up we have the final installment by meteorologists Don Hillger and Garry Toth who have presented a number of issues related to looking at The Earth as Seen from Space. Their descriptive 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 a fascinating article about the Map stamps of the Galápagos Islands, by member Roger Kirby.  The article begins with an interesting fact — approximately one third of the postage stamps of the Galápagos Islands issued up until 2012 have been map stamps.  The article provides a very in-depth introduction to a very unique collecting theme.  The Society’s European Representative, Volker Woesner, presents an article about the states of Germany as depicted in stamps.  The article begins with a popular set of stamps issued from 1992 to 1994 stamps by the newly unified German Post  depicting all 16 “federated states”, which constitute Germany today. The article continues to examine Germany’s historical borders through cartophilatelic examples.   Society vice-president, David Wolfersburger opens the new year with an article about the newly released Maps on Stamps Checklist Rev 6.01 and showcases a number of new issues.   Society member Pierre Moïse updates us with the status of maps shown on ATM stamps. A very interesting and growing group of issues which everyone show take notice of.  One catalog already seems to be describing many of these issues.  Next up is an informative article from TNCP Editor Martin Oakes detailing how he is arranging and annotating his collection. It provides a number of really neat ideas that new collectors and veterans alike will want to check out.  A brief side-bar about a series of errors appearing on Austria’s 2012 issue commemorating the EU. How many of these errors are in your collection?  Society President Mark Honig rounds out this issue with Society News and an examination of news on map stamp references in the current philatelic press and a look at some recent map stamp auctions.  The issues closes again with information about a raise in membership dues caused by recent postal rate increases,  updates to the checklist, some images of maps on labels/gutters of stamps related to nature, and a number of recent new issue images.