Minutes of the meeting of January 22, 2008
President Shufrin opened the meeting at 8:03 with 21 in attendance.
The Treasurer’s report showed a positive balance including an escrow amount.
The Minutes of the meeting of January 8, 2008 were approved. The reading of the minutes stimulated a discussion of what kind of items receive the best bids at our club auctions. The Museum lots usually attract many bids and supplies usually do the same.
Old Business
The President noted the contributions to the Club made by the late Ralph Malmgren, a founding member and a life member of the club who helped sustain the club during difficult times and was a long term bourse manager. The Club approved a contribution to the Museum of $100 in memory of Ralph.
Jack Miller reported that Larry Cohen had the winning exhibit at WALPEX 2007.
New Business
Vice President Chris Brouady’s absence at the meeting was attributed to his becoming or about to become a father again.
James Henke encouraged members to prepare bourse books, noting that members currently have about $1300 of value in books recently submitted.
WALPEX 2008 is
scheduled for October 25-26. A theme is needed and two possibilities are: 50
anniversary of
Peter Lenk reported that one of his reentries is displayed on web site: www.re-entries.com
The Museum has a new show relating to folk tales with many planned activities. The Bazaar will be on March 1, opening at 11:00 am for members.
The meeting closed at 8:40 and was followed by a Mystery night, in which member attempt to resolve philatelic mysteries.
Peter Lenk sought help in identifying a stamp with a grill and he had limited it to one of two stamps and needed to measure the grill size. It was suggested that tin foil or tracing paper be used to replicate the grill.
George Mortensen asked for help in identifying some postage due stamps that appeared to be rare and valuable. George Norton was able to determine that the stamps were not the rarest ones, but were still of significant value.
Steve Tauber showed an Italian stamp with Cyrillic overprinting. It was determined that this resulted from an Italian occupation.
Jeff Brigham showed a recent
Dick Spencer showed a Bermuda No. 177 with a purported miss spelling where the word government could be seen as goverm nent. Our experts concluded that inaccuracies in the gravure process of printing probably was responsible
Dave Bigalow showed a “stamp” that was about 7 by 12 inches with very fine engraving. It was some kind of a revenue device.
Minutes submitted in Richard Spencer