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Annual Meeting will be at NAPEX, June 7th Our Annual Meeting will again be held at NAPEX at the McLean Hilton Hotel in Tysons Corner, Virginia. This year’s meeting will be on Saturday, June 7th from 11:00 to 1:00. The France & Colonies Philatelic Society will also be having their 2008 Annual Meeting later the same afternoon at NAPEX. At the meeting, the speakers and their topics will be:
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 183 includes the following articles:
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. 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 ©1999-2005 Society of Indo-China Philatelists. All Rights Reserved. Site managed by Larry Fillion. |
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