Virtual Stamp Show: August 17-22, 2020

[ADMIN Note: Please see the revised exhibit criteria in the post that follows.]


Virtual Stamp Show Exhibitor Information

As announced Thursday, July 9, the Virtual Stamp Show is scheduled for August 17-22,2020. It is sponsored by the American Philatelic Society, the American Topical Association, and the American First Day Cover Society.

Registration for this five-day event is free and open to everyone!

Whether you are an experienced or first time exhibitor, the Virtual Stamp Show is open to your presentations in our one of a kind, online showcase. Your exhibit can be from one to eight pages long, covering any area of philately that stokes your passion for stamp collecting!

All Virtual Stamp Show exhibits include the opportunity for attendees to share their feedback. First time exhibitors may receive tips from veteran philatelists. Experienced exhibitors can try new, unique approaches and get instant feedback.

In addition, Virtual Stamp Show attendees can vote on their favorite exhibits, with awards to the top finishers in these categories:

• Favorite Exhibit
• Best First Time Exhibit
• Most Educational
• Exhibit I’d Most like to Own
• Most Unique

If you would like to be a Virtual Stamp Show Exhibitor, we ask that you adhere to the following:

• Each exhibitor may send up to 8 8½”x11” pages to exhibit
• Pages should be submitted as JPEGs with a height of 800 pixels
• Each page may have a caption (not required)
• JPEG filenames should be saved in the following format: ExhibitName-Image#

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The deadline to participate as a virtual exhibitor is Wednesday, August 12, 2020.

If you would like to participate as an Exhibitor or have any questions or concerns, please reach out to APS Shows Assistant Morgan Stinson by email or phone at 814-933-3803 x209.

We look forward to seeing your exhibit in the Virtual Stamp Show!

Tom Loebig
APS Director of Membership

Featured Speakers confirmed for Virtual Stamp Show
7/26/2020

“Philatelic Research and the British Library”
David Beech

David Beech was the curator of the British Library Philatelic Collections from 1983–2013 becoming Head of Philatelic Collections in 1991.

He is a Fellow and past President of the Royal Philatelic Society London. In 2013, it was announced that Beech was to receive the Smithsonian Philatelic Achievement Award for outstanding lifetime accomplishments in the field of philately. He is a member of The Royal Philatelic Society of New Zealand, The Royal Philatelic Society of Canada, the Collectors Club of New York, the American Philatelic Research Library and the Académie Europeénne de Philatélie.

In October 2016 David was keynote speaker for the Grand Opening of the American Philatelic Research Library.


“Copyright and Philately”
Charles Oppenheim

Charles Oppenheim is a Visiting Professor at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland and is an independent consultant. Until 2009, Charles was Professor of Information Science and Head of the Department of Information Science at Loughborough University. He has delivered presentations and published over 650 journal articles, conference papers, reports, books and book chapters on the subjects of copyright, intellectual property rights and other legal issues relevant to library and information work and to academic research.


“Moving House – A New Home for the Royal Philatelic Society London”
Chris King

Chris King was elected as a signatory to the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists at Ypres in 2014, and currently serves on the RDP Board of Election, and the RDP trust.

As Chairman of The British Philatelic Trust, he guided the digitization of the Crawford Library at the British Library. Chris was Co-Founder of The Global Philatelic Library along with Frank Walton RDP, an initiative that consolidated listings of philatelic publications, archives, and museum items held by 27 worldwide philatelic libraries.

He currently serves on the RPSL Publications Committee and the Museum Committee of the Museum of Philatelic History. Chris is a specialist in the philately of Scandinavia, particularly Schleswig and is a nationally and internationally accredited philatelic juror. In 2019 he oversaw the relocation of the RSPSL.


“Christmas Stamp Design Process"
Illustrator Alan Dunne

Alan Dunne is an illustrator and author based in Ireland, working in painting, picture books, graphic printmaking, paper-craft and moving images.

He is passionate about all aspects of the graphic arts and is hugely interested in vernacular design and uncovering stories through cultural-historical archives.

Before becoming an independent artist, he worked for 12 years in broadcast design for RTÉ Television, Ireland’s national public service broadcaster. His work has won various design awards and he is shortlisted for the World Illustration Awards for his commissioned postage stamps designs for An Post, Ireland's postal service.


“Women in Philately”
Lisa Foster, Women Exhibitors

Lisa Foster, a female philatelist, exhibitor, and lifelong stamp collector has been a member of Women Exhibitors (WE) since its inception in 2007, and currently serves as President.

A member of the Northwest Federation of Stamp Clubs (NWFSC), Ms. Foster has been a Regional Philatelic judge since 2015, serves on the committee to promote exhibiting and was awarded the Northwest Distinguished Philatelist Award in 2019. She was Guest Editor of the February 2020 issue of The American Philatelist, which was devoted to Women in Philately.

Ms. Foster is a 25-plus year member of APS with additional philatelic memberships with the ATA, AFDCS and AAPE.

Presenting at the APS Virtual Stamp Show will support a goal of WE’s “Plan to Promote Women in Philately” by increasing accessibility through online philatelic events.


“Hometown Collecting: People and Places via Postcards and Postmarks”
Cheryl Ganz

Cheryl R. Ganz, former Chief Curator of Philately at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum, enjoys a life-long interest in zeppelins and airmail. Her interest led her to focus her philatelic collections on zeppelin mail worldwide with specialization in U.S. airships, the 1933 Graf Zeppelin Chicago flight, and the Hindenburg. She also collects U.S., France, Germany, and Switzerland philately. In addition to research and writing, she has exhibited worldwide, including in the Court of Honor at Washington 2006 World Philatelic Exhibition. Ganz serves as co-editor of The Zeppelin Collector, is a past-president of the American Air Mail Society, and serves on the Ethics Committee of the American Philatelic Society.

Her many awards include the Aerophilatelic Hall of Fame, the Federation Internationale des Societes Aerophilateliques Gold Medal for outstanding contributions to aerophilately, and the Newberry Award for contributions to Chicagoland philately. She is a life member of APS, APRL, AAMS, GPS, and AAPE. Ganz earned a PhD in history from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is author of A New Deal for Progress: The 1933 Chicago World’s Fair and co-editor of and contributor to Pots of Promise: Mexicans and Pottery at Hull-House.


"United States Mails: Its First 80 Years Without Stamps”
Robert G. Rose

Robert G. Rose is a lifelong philatelist, an active society member, an author. He is the recipient of numerous exhibitor awards including Chicagopex, NOJEX, March Party,and NAPEX.

While attending graduate school in New York, Rose worked for Robert A. Siegel Auction Galleries as the lot describer for the Lilly Collection that included Lilly’s Inverted Jenny. Mr. Rose remains an active member in several philatelic organizations.

He serves as Chairman of the Board for the Philatelic Foundation, is a member of the Board of Governors for the Collectors Club, serves as Governor for the United States Stamp Society, the Regional Vice President for the United State Philatelic Classics Society, Chairman of the NOJEX Stamp Show.

He is the Chairman of the New Jersey Postal History Society and is a former member of the Smithsonian Council of Philatelists. He is currently a member of the Royal Philatelic Society and the Jockey Hollow Stamp Club.


“Baseball and Stamp Collecting: Covering all the Bases”
James Gates

Jim Gates has served as Library Director at the National Baseball Hall of Fame since 1995 where he is responsible for the management of more than 3 million documents related to our great National Pastime.

This collection includes books, player files, photographs, scrapbooks, personal papers, many hours of recorded media, along with a baseball philatelic collection.

Jim and his staff work with museum curators, the media, publishers, educators, researchers, fans, and anyone who is interested in conducting baseball research. He had previously served in academic libraries for almost fifteen years.

During his career Jim has authored multiple articles, delivered lectures on baseball history around the country, and has served in an editorial capacity on multiple book, magazine and museum publications. He also serves as host for the Annual Cooperstown Symposium on "Baseball and American Culture. He has been a stamp collector since the 1960s.


"ESPER: The Art of Philatelic Inclusivity"
Warachal Faison, MD, CMD

Dr. Faison is a geriatric psychiatrist and Medical Director, Women’s and Men’s Health at Pfizer.

Prior to joining Pfizer in 2008, Dr. Faison was the Clinical Director, Alzheimer’s Research & Clinical Programs at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC).

She is the President of the Ebony Society for Philatelic Events and Reflections (ESPER)


"Cachet Making"
Nirlay Kundu

Nirlay is a watercolor artist and cachetmaker who began collecting stamps when he was child in Kolkata, India where he graduated from St. Lawrence High School and Jadavpur University

Nirlay is a Distinguished Engineer at Verizon Innovation Labs. He is currently managing Infrastructure Operations and Deployment in Verizon’s datacenters. Prior to this, Nirlay was involved in evaluating and choosing vendors for new technology, doing proof of concepts in the LTE EPC space. He holds Bachelors and Masters degrees from Jadavpur University, IIT Kharagpur, Leicester University and MBA from Babson College. He is a frequent speaker and events related to telecommunications.

Beginning with in 2005, cachetmaking combines his interests in recent US issues and watercolors with the end product being very colorful and engaging first day cover cachets.


"Women Stamp Designers and Engravers"
Richard Morel, PhD

Richard is the Curator of the Philatelic Collections at The British Library. He is a widely accomplished historian, archivist and curator.

Since graduating from the University College London in 2003 where he recieved his MA in Archives and Records Management.

Richard’s research interests include philately, notaphily (study of banknotes), sigillography (the study of seals), Royal Diplomatic correspondence and the history of lost libraries.


"African American Suffragists and the Vote"
Mary Love, PhD

Mary is an adjunct professor of Christian education at Hood Theological Seminary.

Love has a valuable, focused collection of U.S. Postal Service stamps that celebrate black heritage. She incorporates her stamps into storyboards, collages, posters, framed displays and other media as a way to educate. Fascinated by stamps as a child, Love tried an early homemade collection of stamps she would cut off envelopes on mail coming to her house.

Her preservation of that collection failed miserably, and she gained interest again only when a seminary professor took her on a tour of the postal museum in Washington and she also attended a stamp show.

Love began seriously collecting about 20 years ago. It was then that she knew the proper preservation techniques and also began her on focus African-American heritage stamps because of their educational value. Her favorite stamp is that of Ida B. Wells, who was born a slave in Mississippi in 1862.

Virtual Stamp Show Opens: Monday schedule preview

8/16/2020

The Virtual Stamp Show Opens on Monday, August 16, 2020 at 9am eastern!

The event is co-hosted by the American Philatelic Society, the American Topical Association and the American First Day Cover Society.

Attendees are reminded to have their VSS login information handy when entering the show.

Here's a preview of Monday's schedule (all times are eastern):

9am:

Welcome to the Virtual Stamp Show

The Presidents of all three hosting societies will speak as the show gets underway.

10am:

Philatelic Research and the British Library

Speaker David Beech was the curator of the British Library Philatelic Collections from 1983–2013 becoming Head of Philatelic Collections in 1991. He is a Fellow and past President of the Royal Philatelic Society London.

Noon:

Collectors Club Triple Header

The Collectors Club event will feature three distinguished philatelists.

Wade Saadi "Glimpse into the Life of a Disabled WWI Veteran, via his Illustrated Covers"
Roger Brody “The Special Delivery Stamp of 1902”
Louis Pataki "World War I comes to German Mail in China"

1:30pm:

From me to you: Creative Ideas to promote our hobby

Félix L. Perez-Folch, Jr. , owner of The Stamp Professor LLC, will share his ideas at the American Topical Association event.

4pm:

Women in Philately

Lisa Foster, President of Women Exhibitors (WE) will speak on the “Plan to Promote Women in Philately” by increasing accessibility through online philatelic events.

Much more is included in the Virtual Stamp Show, including a dealer bourse, club sessions, and socials. See what's available by logging into the site!