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2009 Annual Meeting of The Society of Indo-China Philatelists The annual meeting will be held from 2 pm to 4 pm on Saturday, June 6. It will again be held at the McLean Hilton Hotel in Tysons Corner, Virginia during NAPEX. Andrew Crenshaw will give a talk on the final years of the French military mail in Indo-China and the early years of the Vietnamese military mail. There will be time for an additional presentation. If you are interested in speaking, please contact Jack Dykhouse at vpjack@umich.edu. We will also have a table at NAPEX - be sure to stop by. Volunteers are still needed to man the table. Let Jack know if you're available. Thank you, Ron Bentley Kingdom of Laos Stamps Album Exhibition In the Exhibits section, E. Moallem exhibits his Kingdom of Laos stamps album. The exhibition depicts a complete collection of the stamps and souvenir sheets issued by the Kingdom of Laos from 1951 to 1975 with thematic descriptions emphasize on Lao culture, tradition and history. SICP Revenue Catalog Garners Award The Society's Indo-china Revenue Stamp Catalog (second edition) received a vermeil award in the literature exhibit at NAPEX in June 2008. With 40 publications competing, NAPEX now has the third largest literature competition in the United States. The award breakdown was as follows: 1 Grand Prize gold, 15 gold, 11 vermeil, 8 silver, 1 silver-bronze and 5 non-competitive. Please read a little more on the catalog. 
THE INDO-CHINA PHILATELIST The Indo-china Philatelist is sent electronically in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format to members who have requested to receive it in this format. The electronic format has full-color images and it arrives the moment Ron Bentley has finished compiling it. If you'd like to receive your issue via e-mail or as a download from the web, contact Ron Bentley to let him know. Issue 188 includes the following articles:
March 2008 Supplement to the ICP. THE LEGAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE BASIS FOR THE POSTAL SYSTEM IN FRENCH INDOCHINA Distributed with the March 2008 ICP is a special supplement prepared by Joel Montague. The document is a translation of a portion of a comprehensive work by J. de Galembert, "Administrator First Class of the Civil Services in Indochina" ,on public administration covering the French Indochinese postal service up to the year 1924. The text is complemented with a selection of postcards from Joel's extensive collection. Comprehensive CD-ROM Available Thanks to President Richard Aspnes, a comprehensive CD-ROM is available to SICP members with a complete run of SICP print publications. In total, the collection comprises over 3,700 pages, being ICP whole number 1 through 183, years 1971 through 2008 inclusive. Included on the CD are all the indexes published during that period, as well as the two comprehensive indexes prepared by Andrew Crenshaw, and Ken Thompson. These two indexes are hyper-linked to the specific ICP, so navigation from index to specific publication is easy. Each document is stored in Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF) in a black and white resolution of 600 dpi. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) was automatically performed on each scanned document, and all are completely word and phrase searchable, either individually, or globally. To obtain your copy of the CD-ROM, please send $50.00 plus postage ($2.00 domestic or $4.00 foreign) to: Ron Bentley - Editor / Executive Secretary 2600 North 24th Street Arlingon, VA 22207 E-mail: ron.bentley@verizon.net SOCIETY NEWS Society's Indo-china Revenue Stamp Catalog (2008) The second edition of the Society's Indo-china Revenue Stamp Catalog (2008) is available for sale on CD-ROM. The updated catalog includes listings of Laos revenues by Kenneth Thompson; Cambodia revenues by Jack Dykhouse; Indo-china revenue stamped paper by Ron Bentley, Jack Dykhouse, and Maurice Lange and Pecule overprints by Maurice Lange. Maurice Lange also updated the Vietnam local revenues section through 1975 with many additional listings and illustrations. Nearly all stamps depicted are color scans from collections. Contact Ron Bentley to order your copy. The price is $20 post-paid in the US, $25 mailed to other countries. ICP Garners Award At the literature competition held in connection with the American Philatelic Society's StampShow in Columbus, Ohio on 7-10 August, The Indo-China Philatelist was awarded a "vermeil." A total of 28 journals were in the "periodicals" competition. The distribution of awards in the "Periodicals" Category was as follows: 1 Best in Class, 3 gold, 9 vermeil, 8 silver, and 4 silver-bronze. Three periodicals were not in competition. See the award. Other News As a reminder, Joe's Vietnamese military mail exhibit is also available on CD-ROM. This is an invaluable reference for understanding Vietnamese military mail. The exhibit shows what to look for with both South and North Vietnamese material and covers all aspects of this interesting collecting area. Click here for more information. A Yahoo! Group has been established for SICP members. You can chat with other collectors at the site, post your want list, share images of items in your collection, etc. Visit the group here. Please use it to post comments, ideas, questions, stamp finds, news, etc. Click Here for membership information and to order a sample copy of the journal. Entire Contents ©1999-2008 Society of Indo-China Philatelists. All Rights Reserved. Site managed by Larry Fillion. |
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