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American Philatelic Congress, 1992. Hardcover, iii, 187 pp.; 26 cm; illustrated with black-and-white photographs and reproductions of stamps, covers and postal markings.
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In Very Good condition, no dust jacket. Tan cloth boards, dark green lettering on front cover and spine. Light bumping and mild shelf wear to edges. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Nine original research papers presented by invitation at the 58th American Philatelic Congress, held October 10, 1992, at COLOPEX 92 in Columbus, Ohio. Hal Vogel's paper on the Greely Arctic Expedition of 1881-84 reproduces expedition covers, Greely's hand-drawn 1909 sketch of Camp Clay and his last letter to his wife before settling at Lady Franklin Bay. Contributors include Janet Klug on Tonga's Queen Salote definitives (later the first woman president of the American Philatelic Society); Varro E. Tyler on the Dumonteuil forgeries of Colombia (author of Philatelic Forgers, later a recipient of the Luff Award for philatelic research); and Richard B. Graham on the postal markings of Columbus from 1814. Griffenhagen and Schwartz cover 83 medical personalities commemorated on covers cancelled aboard the Navy hospital ship U.S.S. Relief; Schnell's paper on Hamburg American purser mail includes tables of markings and a list of the line's ships. Also includes officers, Congress Book chronology, presidents since 1935, awards and patron lists. Contents: The postal markings of Columbus, Ohio, 1814-45 (Richard B. Graham); The 2-cent Columbian "broken hat": accidental or deliberate? (Thomas Corette); The Dumonteuil forgeries of Colombia (Varro E. Tyler); Caribbean purser mail of the Hamburg American Packet Line (Roger G. Schnell); The Cap-Haitien provisional marking of 1889 (L. Wallace Dean III); Tonga's Queen Salote definitives (Janet Klug); Medical personalities commemorated on U.S.S. Relief covers (George B. Griffenhagen and Adolf W. Schwartz); Russia's semi-postal issues of 1914-15: For the aid of servicemen and their families (George V. Shalimoff and Paul Blake); A doubly extraordinary Polar expedition (Hal Vogel); Officers and Council members; Report of the 57th American Philatelic Congress; Chronology of the Congress Books; Presidents of the Congress, 1935 to the present; Congress awards; Patron and sustaining members, 1991-92.