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.
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.
