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VOLUME 51
ISSUE 2
MAR / APR
2017
PROMOTING STAMP
COLLECTING FOR THE 21ST
CENTURY IN SOUTH
FLORIDA AND THE WORLD.
The “Hollywood Phi-
latelist” is a bimonth-
ly publication of the
Hollywood Stamp
Club. APS Chapter #
0665-052140
HSC ACTIVITIES
AND NEWS .
Page 3
HOLLYWOOD
PHILATELIST
FLASH: 2018 SCOTT CATALOG WILL HAVE 12 VOLS. 1A, 1B … 6A, 6B
THE PRESIDENT’S
CORNER
SEE PAGE 3
ROYAL
PHILATELIC
COLLEC-
TION: IN
THE BEGIN-
NING
SEE PAGE 4
CHINA COVER SEE PAGE 5 VARIOUS PHILATELIC SLIDE
SETS REVIWED—PAGE 5
GB ALAN TURING ON
STAMPS . PAGE 6
US WELLS
FARGO STAMPS
& COVER—
SEE PAGE 7
FRENCH RUSSIA ALLI-
ANCE ON STAMPS
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Hollywood Stamp Club Officers and Members of the
Board for 2016
Chairman of the Board: Karl V. Shallenberger
E-Mail: [email protected]
President: Parker A. Bailey, Jr.
E-Mail: [email protected]
Vice-President: Jacqueline Cortes
Treasurer: Richard Knierim [$$$}
Recording Secretary: Hilda Bailey
Membership Chairman: Alan Levak
Directors: Arthur Morris, Hamlet Gayadeen, Robert Lavoie, Jr.,
Stephen Ehrlich, Alan Levak, Michael Rogers, and Richard Sandler
Editor: Enrique Setaro. Asst. Editor: Thomas Walend
HOLLYWOOD
PHILATELIST
The “Hollywood Philatelist”
is a bi-monthly publication
by the Hollywood Stamp
Club.
Editor: Enrique Setaro
The Hollywood Stamp Club
meets every Tuesday from
5 to 9 PM at the Fred Lipp-
man Multipurpose Center,
2030 Polk Street, Holly-
wood, FL 33020, Tele-
phone: (954) 921-3404.
All Club members are en-
couraged to submit arti-
cles, notices, or any other
data believed notable to
our membership.
Contact the Editor, by
phone (305)428-0546, via
Skype, ID: ensetaro or via
e-mail: [email protected]
HSC
LOCA-
TION
ON
MAP
There is only one UN sheet in the world like
the one shown here. It includes the image
of a now famous HSC Newsletter Editor.
Following the
US 1918 Invert-
ed Jenny, this
sheet contain
only 10 unique
stamps like the
one shown here. At $500,000 the sheet
would be worth $5 Millions … or not?
His name is ENRIQUE SETARO
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HSC A C T I V I T I E S … PHILATELIC CALENDAR
MAR 7 . $5 Auction, door prizes, and refreshments
MAR 14 . Meeting, $5 Auction, door prizes and refreshments
MAR 21 . $5 Auction, door prizes, and refreshments
MAR 28 $5 Auction, door prizes, and refreshments
APR 4 . $5 Auction, door prizes, and refreshments
APR 11 . Meeting $5 Auction, door prizes, and refreshments
APR 18 . $5 Auction, door prizes and refreshments
APR 25 . $5 Auction, door prizes and refreshments
CLUB NEWS
New members: Evelyn Mogerman,
1914, Jay Kransc 1915, Gelly Nicole 1916,
Damico Salvaggio 1918, and Jack Finglass
1917.
WELCOME
ABOARD !!
Because of the lead time required for the Journal, I am writing about the two major stamp
shows in Florida before they actually happen. As usual I would expect that the Sarasota Show
held on the first weekend in February to be as successful as it has been in the past, and that
HSC was well represented by our members.
What I like to refer as ‘our show’ because Hollywood Stamp Club helps co-sponsor it, the ASDA
Stamp Show held at the Fort Lauderdale War Memorial the following weekend, February 10-12.
The USPS had a new issue ceremony at the show. The show was also our kick-off for the cele-
bration of HSC’s 50th Anniversary. A special cover commemorating that event was also available. A member and dealer
dinner was planned for Friday night.
And as a final note, HSC will be having our first luncheon of the 2017 season at the Jacaranda Country Club.
The theme is to commemorate the Club’s 50th Anniversary. The date and cost of the HSC luncheon is March 12 at
1:00PM and member cost of $20.00 each with the club picking up the rest of the cost.
In spite of the decline in membership that other stamp clubs are experiencing, HSC has a healthy recruitment of
new members. However, that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t still continue seek new members. Remember, each new mem-
ber helps insure the future of the hobby.
That’s all for now and see you next issue.
Parker A. Bailey, Jr.
PRESIDENT’S
CORNER
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Great Britain Royal Philatelic Collection: In the Beginning,
by Editor
Some members of the royal family are known to have
been collecting stamps by 1864, just under twenty-five
years after their introduction in 1840. The first serious
collector in the family was Prince Alfred, who sold his col-
lection to his older brother Edward VII, who in turn gave
it to his son, later George V.
This happened in the late 1800’s during the reign of Queen Victoria. When
she knew of this situation he summoned his grandson, who was third in
the line of succession behind his father and his own uncle, Prince Albert Vic-
tor. She did not approve of him collecting stamps. “She thought that stamps
were dirty papers where people would spit on.”
George V was one of the notable philatelists of his day. In 1893, as the Duke of York, he was elected honorary vice-president of what became the Royal Phila-telic Society of London. On his marriage that year, fellow members of the soci-
ety gave him an album of nearly 1,500 postage stamps as a wedding present.
In the last days of the reign of his father KE7 a 2 d. Tyrian
Plum stamp was issued. When the King died on May 6, 1910 the Royal mail decided to destroy this issue. Some-
how, on May 5, his son managed to get from the printer a
copy of this unissued stamp and he had it sent on a cover to his address in the Windsor Palace. It is the only known used stamp on cover and is part of the Royal Philatelic
Collection. Even if the stamp was not issued, somehow parts of a sheet survived the destruction and have appeared in the marketplace. Stanley Gibbons lists the stamp in the Great Britain stamp catalogs, even if it
was not issued.
He expanded the collection with a number of high-priced purchases of rare stamps and covers. His 1904 purchase of the Mauritius two pence blue for £1,450 set a new
record for a single stamp. A courtier asked the prince if he had seen "that some damned fool had paid as much as £1,400 for one stamp". "Yes," George replied. "I was that
damned fool!”
George V had the collection housed in 328 so-called "Red Albums", each of
about 60 pages. Later additions included a set of "Blue Albums" for the reign
of George VI and "Green Albums" for those of Elizabeth II.©
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Philatelic_Collection
GEORGE V Grandson,
Stamp Collector
EDUARD VII Father
Prince ALFRED UNCLE
VICTORIA Grandmother
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UNUSUAL SHIPMENT FROM CHINA, By Editor
I recently purchased on-line a set of stamps from a Chinese seller.
He sent me the stamp set in a very nice large envelope. The cover
is shown here.
Inside the cover from Tiantin, China was the set an a piece of pa-
per that read “Greetings from Tianjin, CHINA” and a large number
of Chinese characters. This is also show here. I was told by a Chi-
nese fellow collector that it is a “poem” that the seller liked and
wanted to share with me.
Sharing of Philatelic Slides sets, By Editor
I have been preparing Acrobat Slides sets of parts of my collection. Some of them were used for presentations at the
2016 May-June World Stamp Show in NYC. Here I will include copies of the first page of each one.
If the HSC members might be interested in any of them simply send me an e-mail and I will be glad to share the files.
Stylized Views of the Cities of France
The Imperforate Steamships of Buenos Aires
American Expeditionary Force Messages
Russian Currency Stamps
Great Britain Pre-Decimal Stamps & Currency
Topical Collection: Chocolate/Cocoa on Stamps
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ALAN TURING ON STAMPS / WWII ENIGMA MACHINE, By Editor
The Enigma machines were a series of electro-mechanical rotor cipher machines developed and used in
the early- to mid-twentieth century to protect commercial, diplomatic and military com-
munication. Enigma was invented by the German engineer Arthur Scherbius at the end
of World War I. Early models were used commercially from the early 1920s, and adopt-
ed by military and government services of several countries, most notably Nazi Germa-
ny before and during World War II. Several different Enigma models were produced, but
the German military models are the most commonly recognized.
Alan Turing, British (1912 – 1954)
During the Second World War, Turing worked for the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS)
at Bletchley Park, Britain's codebreaking center. For a time he led Hut 8, the section
responsible for German naval cryptanalysis. He devised a number of techniques for
speeding the breaking of German ciphers, including improvements to the pre-war
Polish bombe method, an electromechanical machine that could find settings for
the Enigma machine. Turing played a pivotal role in cracking intercepted coded
messages that enabled the Allies to defeat the Nazis in many crucial engagements,
including the Battle of the Atlantic; it has been estimated that this work short-
ened the war in Europe by more than two years and saved over fourteen
million lives.
Three remarkable papers written just before the war, on three diverse mathematical subjects,
show the quality of the work that might have been produced if he had settled down to work on
some big problem at that critical time. For his work at the Foreign Office, shortly after the
war, he was awarded the OBE (Order of the British Empire).
Nevertheless Turing was prosecuted in 1952 for homosexual acts, when by the Labouchere
Amendment, "gross indecency" was still criminal in the UK. He accepted chemical castra-
tion treatment, with DES, as an alternative to prison. Turing died in 1954, 16 days before his
42nd birthday, from cyanide poisoning.
In 2009, 57 years later, following an Internet campaign, British Prime Minister Gordon
Brown made an official public apology on behalf of the British government for "the appal-
ling way he was treated." Queen Elizabeth II granted him a posthumous pardon in 2013.
More information on Alan Turing can be found at the following web page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing#Recognition_and_tributes
In 1999 the Royal Mail issued the first stamp and sheet to
commemorate Turing’s accom-
plishments. Later on, in 2015, a
second sheet was issued honor-
ing Turing. Other countries also
issued stamps honoring Tu-
ring.©
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US Carriers’ & Local Post Stamps: WELLS FARGO, By Editor
Most of US Carrier’s and Local Post companies no longer exist. The Postal
Carriers in 1863, when the US Postal service took over and the Local Post
companies were put out of business in 1845.
There is one exception with the Wells, Fargo and Co., that changed from a local post
company to a bank. Wells Fargo has a rich history of using, owning, guarding, and
operating the six-horse stagecoach. We still own and display ten originals in our history museums, thirteen
authentic reproductions in our buildings, and a fleet of 17 that roll almost every weekend in parades and
events across the nation.
In addition taking passengers in their routes Wells Fargo coaches carried many valuables Gold dust, gold
bars, gold coins, legal papers, checks, and drafts traveled in the famous green
treasure boxes, stored under the stagecoach driver's seat. Loaded with bullion,
they could weigh from 100 to 150 lbs.
"About as much as one likes to shoulder to and from the
stages," wrote John Q. Jackson, Wells Fargo agent, in an
1854 letter to his father. Because they carried the most valu-
able assets of the West, these sturdy boxes of Ponderosa pine, oak, and iron were more
prized by highway bandits than anything else.
The Central Route and the Pony Express
In 1861, the Civil War forced overland staging to a central route across the Great Plains, through the Rocky
Mountains, into the Great Basin, and over the Sierra. The Pony Express had proven that
the nation’s mail could be carried swiftly across this rugged route.
Along this route mail, passengers and Wells Fargo’s express rode the stages of the Pioneer
Stage Line from California to Virginia City, Nevada. The Overland Mail Company, by now
under Wells Fargo’s control, ran coaches from Virginia City to Salt
Lake City, Utah. There, mail and passengers connected with Ben
Holladay’s Overland Express running through Denver, Colorado, and
eastward to the Mississippi.
From April 1860 to October 1861, young riders relayed mail across almost 2,000 miles
from St. Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California in only 10 days. In its final
months, the Pony Express became part of the stage lines’ U.S. Mail contracts. The Wells Fargo-run Overland
Mail Company operated the Pony Express from California to Salt Lake City.
In 1869, at Promontory, Utah, dignitaries hammered in a Golden Spike, which joined the rails of the Trans-
continental Railroad — and ended Wells Fargo’s overland stage line.
However, stagecoaches continued rolling wherever the railroads did not.
Wells Fargo contracted with independent stage line operators to carry
treasure boxes and express,
even into the early 20th
Century.©
Wells, Fargo & Co. 1890 SFco Envelope Wells Fargo Bank 1927 Cover
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FRANCO-RUSSIAN ALLIANCE / ON
STAMPS, By Editor
The Franco-Russian Alliance, or Russo-French
Rapprochement, was an alliance formed by the
agreements of 1891–93; it lasted until 1917. The
strengthening of the German Empire, the creation of
the Triple Alliance of 1882, and the exacerbation of
Franco-German and Russo-German contradictions at
the end of the 1880s led to a common foreign policy
and mutual strategic military interests between
France and Russia. The development of financial ties
between the two countries created the economic prerequisites for the Russo-French
Alliance.
In 1891 and 1893 the Russian Fleet visited the French port of Toulon. To commemorate
the Alliance, France’s President Sadi Carnot had built a bridge on Paris’ Seine and
named it Alexander III, czar of Russia at that time. In turn Russia built the Trinity Bridge in St. Pe-
tersburg. In 1892 a contest for constructing a permanent Troitsky Bridge was an-
nounced. There were 16 entrants from Russian and Eu-
ropean engineers, including one from the French engi-
neer Gustave Eiffel, the creator of the famous Eiffel
Tower in Paris. The winner was the out-of-competition
conception by Paul Bodin aided by Arthur Flachet, Vin-
cent Chabrol, and Claude Patouillard from the
French Société de Construction des Batignolles.
France Air Mail Pont Alexander III Stamp issued in
1949 for the CITT PARIS Conference was designed
and engraved by Pierre Gandon; The stamp shows a
view of the north end of the bridge with the Petite
Palais in the background.
In 2008 another stamp was issued with kiosk me-
chanically printed variable face value. Finally in 2015 France issued another stamp
with the same 1949 design as part of the “Tresors of the Philatelie” Series.
Trinity Bridge (Russian: Тро́ицкий
мост, Troitskiy Most) is a bascule bridge across
the Neva in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It connects
Kamennoostrovsky Prospect with Suvorovskaya
Square. It was the third permanent bridge across
the Neva, built between 1897 and 1903 by the
French firm Société de Construction des Batignolles.
It is 582 meters (1,909 ft) long and 23.6 meters
(77 ft) wide. Could not find a stamp with an image
of the bridge; I found an entire envelope, though.©
Pres. S. Carnot
Alexander III
Paris’ Alexander III Bridge
1949 France Air Mail Stamp
France 2008 Kiosk printing
France 2015 Reprint of the 1949 stamp
St. Petersburg Trinity Bridge
Postcard
Russia Trinity Bridge Envelope
Alexander III
