NAPEX 2000 Convening* Societies.
United States Stamp Society (The Bureau Issues Association)
(APS Affiliate #150)70th Anniversary Meeting! The United States Stamp Society (BIA) will celebrate its 70th anniversary at NAPEX 2000. The USSS is the largest society devoted exclusively to the study of stamp and revenue paper issued for use in the United States and its administered areas. Founded in 1930 as the successor to the Philatelic Plate Numbers Association (PPNA), it has published a monthly journal, The U.S. Specialist, continuously since and other philatelic literature considered to be the reference material for those specific subjects. Among these award winning references are the Durland Standard Plate Number Catalog, Pat Paragraphs and French's Encyclopedia of Plate Varieties on U.S. Bureau Printed Stamps.
The USSS (BIA) is THE society for collectors of stamp and revenue paper produced for use in the United States and U.S.-administered areas. Once concerned mainly with the output of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, the USSS (BIA) has expanded its coverage to include all U.S. issues, both classics and modern, regardless of the printer. To better reflect this, the name of the organization will be officially changed during the 70th Anniversary meeting, at NAPEX 2000.The society's unique structure contains a series of committees and study groups which allow members to participate directly or use them as an information resource on specific areas of philately such as the Liberty Study group or the Washington-Franklin Heads Issue Committee among others. These groups serve to focus research efforts and produce articles for the society journal. The USSS (BIA) holds an annual membership meeting at one of the major stamp shows throughout various parts of the country with seminars for participants. USSS (BIA) volunteers also staff a society table at major shows where conditions permit.
With 2000 members worldwide, the society welcomes all U.S. collectors who wish to learn more about U.S. stamps than merely accumulating them.. Always strong in stamp production methods, the USSS (BIA) has expanded its coverage to include sheet, coil, booklet and booklet panes of all U.S. stamps with detailed information on design, marginal markings and plate numbers.
Additional membership information, detailed list of current publications visit the USSS web site. |
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United Postal Stationery Society The United Postal Stationery Society was formed in 1945 through merger of the Postal Card Society of America, which had been established in 1891, and the International Postal Stationery Society, which had been organized in 1939. Today it is the largest US society, and the major world-wide one, devoted to the collecting of postal stationery.Whether you collect a particular country, topic or the world, you'll benefit from membership in the United Postal Stationery Society. Its magazine and newsletter, Postal Stationery, provides good articles on the stationery of many countries. In addition, the Society publishes catalogs and handbooks on stationery.JOIN TODAY!Dues (which are $18 a year for US applicants, $25 elsewhere) include a subscription to Postal Stationery. For more information visit the UPSS web site.
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* Convening Societies are those having their annual meetings at NAPEX.
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Other Societies with Tables and/or meetings at NAPEX 2000
- American Association of Philatelic Exhibitors
- American Philatelic Society
- Bermuda Philatelic Society
- Boy Scouts of America - Stamp Collecting Merit Badge
- China Stamp Society
- Collectors Club of Washington
- Eupora Study Unit
- International Phillipines Philatelic Society
- The International Society for Japanese Philately
- Korea Stamp Society
- Lions International Stamp Club Chapter
- Machine Cancel Society
- Mail Equipment Shops (USPS)
- Mid-Atlantic UN Collectors Club
- Nicaragua Study Group
- Philatelic Music Circle
- Scandanavian Collectors Club, Chapter 12
- Souvenir Card Collectors' Society
- Ukranian Philatelic Society
- United States Philatelic Classics Society
- Virginia Philatelic Federation
- Washington Philatelic Society
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