WALTHAM STAMP CLUB

Minutes of the meeting of October 20, 2009

President Shufrin opened the meeting at 7:58 with 26 in attendance.

Treasurer Butterline reported a positive balance in the treasury.

The minutes of the meeting of October 6, 2009 were accepted as corrected.

WALPEX 2009 notes:

Members were asked to sign up to assist in running the show.

All dealer tables are sold and a waiting list exists.

Jack Miller reported that all 24 frames have been taken for exhibits.

The Phish bowl is all set.

Bruce Bolduc will run the youth room.

Old Business

Stephen Tauber has prepared 24 kits of stamps for his upcoming contest; these will be given to participants at the first meeting in December.

New Business

Len Andexler is considering putting together a one day show for the Chelmsford club and is facing all the difficulties associated with such a show.

Members were reminded of the upcoming Museum evening feature.

The next meeting will be a club auction. Members were asked to limit lots to a total of less than 30.

The meeting closed at 8:46 and was followed by an illustrated talk by Jeff Shapiro about the German inflationary period that occurred after the first world war. He used the international post card rates to trace this inflation which saw the rate increase from 0.1 mark to 192,000,000,000 marks. His collection has postcards with franking covering the more than 20 rates that were in place during the inflation. He showed images of many of the cards. He sought cards mailed to unusual destinations as he developed his collection and said that a long sought for example of a particular rate was finally found in a dealer’s dollar box. He answered many questions and was widely applauded for his presentation.

Minutes submitted by Richard Spencer- approved at a meeting on November 3, 2009.