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For more information on stamp collecting …

Here are a few places to get you started on stamp collecting.

American First Day Cover Society
  Contact: Douglas Kelsey
  Executive Director
  PO Box 65960, Tucson, AZ 85728-5960
  520-321-0880
  afdcs@aol.com
  www.afdcs.org
A full-service, not-for-profit, noncommercial society devoted exclusively to First Day Covers and First Day Cover collecting. Publishes 90-page magazine, First Days, eight times per year. Offers information on 300 current cachet producers, expertizing, foreign covers, translation service, color slide programs and archives covering First Day Covers.

American Philatelic Society
  100 Match Factory Place, Bellefonte, PA 16823-1367
  (814) 933-3803; www.stamps.org
America’s
national stamp society. Membership benefits include various publications, services and more. Sponsors national stamp exhibitions annually in partnership with ASDA and USPS. 50,000+ members worldwide.

American Society for Philatelic Pages and Panels
    Contact: Gerald Blankenship
    PO Box 475, Crosby, TX 77532-0475
   281-324-2709
    http://www.asppp.org/
    asppp134@aol.com
The only society with a focus on commemorative cancellations (formerly souvenir pages) and commemorative panels. Free ads, member auctions, quarterly publication sent to all members with reports on new issues, varieties, errors, oddities and discoveries.

American Stamp Dealers’ Association
    Contact: Joseph B. Savarese
    3 School St., Suite 205, Glen Cove, NY 11542-2517
    516-759-7000
     asda@erols.com
    www.asdaonline.com/
Association of dealers engaged in every facet of philately, with 6 regional chapters nationwide. Sponsors national and local shows. Will send you a complete listing of dealers in your area or collecting specialty. A #10 SASE must accompany your request.

American Topical Association
    PO Box 57, Arlington, TX 76004-0057
    817/274-1181
    americantopical@msn.com
    www.americantopicalassn.org
A service organization concentrating on the specialty of topical stamp collecting. Offers handbooks and checklists on specific topics; exhibition awards; Topical Time, a bimonthly publication dealing with topical interest areas; a slide loan service, and information, translation and sales services.

Collectors Club of Chicago
  1029 N. Dearborn St., Chicago, IL 60610
  info@askphil.org; www.askphil.org
This Web site was established to answer stamp collecting questions via e-mail.

Ebony Society of Philatelic Events and Reflections (ESPER)
    Contact: Manuel Gilyard
    President
    PO Box 1757
    Lincolnton Station
    New York, NY 10037-1757
    (p) 212/928-5165
    gilyardmani@aol.com
    www.esperstamps.org
ESPER is a national stamp society which promotes the collecting of African Americans on stamps and the collecting of stamps by African Americans.

Junior Philatelists of America
    Central Office
    P.O. Box 2625, Albany, OR 97321
Publishes a bimonthly newsletter, The Philatelic Observer, and offers auction, exchange, pen pal and other services to young stamp collectors. Adult supporting membership and gift memberships are available. The Society also publishes various brochures on stamp collecting.

Linn’s World Stamp Almanac
  P.O. Box 29
  Sidney, OH 45365-0029
  1-800-448-7293; www.linns.com
A useful single reference source for stamp collectors.

United States Postal Service
  www.usps.com


Written By: eceditor
Date Posted: 9/5/2007
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