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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. 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 163, years 1971 through 2004 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, Executive Secretary. 
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 to let him know. Issue 182 includes the following articles:
SOCIETY NEWS 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. Viet-Nam Revenue Catalog Available The Revenues of Viet-Nam, An Electronic Catalog of Local and National Issues is a new CD-ROM produced by the Society. The price is $20 plus postage, with half of the proceeds benefiting an orphanage in Hue, Viet-Nam. This is destined to become the standard reference catalog for Vietnamese revenues. Dealers are already beginning to use its numbers and prices. It's available from Ron Bentley through the mail. 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 ©1999-2005 Society of Indo-China Philatelists. All Rights Reserved. Site managed by Larry Fillion. |
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