Meeting Schedules and Events

Social Activities  |  2012 Schedule  |  2013 Schedule

The Club, through our Program Chairmen, is constantly recruiting speakers with specialties of interest to our membership. Speakers may be members or non-members and come to the Club from all over the world to share their knowledge with us. Throughout the hobby, it is considered as honor to be asked to speak at the Club, so the caliber of the programs is unusually high.

Each speaker is asked to bring and display his or her key pieces in the new exhibit frames of our recently renovated meeting Room. As much of the displayed material is typically part of award-winning exhibits, our members can not only see some of philately’s most prized items “up close and personal,” but also get some insightful, expert tips on exhibiting or arranging their own collections.

The public is invited free of charge to The Collectors Club’s series of semi-monthly meetings devoted to lectures and exhibits on philatelic subjects. The lectures are given by experts in the field and are attended by approximately 60 people. These experts come at their own expense, without remuneration, from numerous foreign countries and from across the continental United States and Hawaii.

Social Activities

An important feature of the Club is the chance to get together with fellow members in a relaxed and informal setting to share collecting “war stories” and just catch up.

Prior to every meeting, there is a social hour at the Clubhouse where members can mingle, share refreshments and meet guests and new members. After the program presentation, all interested members gather for dinner at a nearby restaurant.

The Club also features two very popular events—the festive Holiday Party, held at the Club every December, and the Annual Awards Dinner, which is held in May at an offsite location to showcase the Club’s coveted Lichtenstein Award presentation.

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2012 Schedule

In 2012, the Club will be closed on the following dates:

• January 2 (Monday) and 16 (Monday)

• February 20 (Monday)

• April 6 (Friday)

• May 28 (Monday)

• July 4 (Wednesday)

• September 3 (Monday)

• October 8 (Monday)

• November 22 (Thursday) and 23 (Friday)

• December 24 (Monday) and 25 (Tuesday)

Visitors, please call the office before coming.

A complete list of programs for 2012 is shown below.  The 2012 Schedule is also available in a brochure from the Club secretary. Each date on the schedule conforms to the following time schedule:

• 5:00 p.m. — Social Hour

• 6:00 p.m. — Exhibition Opens

• 6:30 p.m. — Meeting convenes

• 8:00 p.m. — "Dutch Treat" Dinner Nearby

Date	Topic	Speaker
Jan. 11	115th Annual Meeting—Elections
Jan. 18	National Identity—Stamp Designs of the Series 1902 View the presentation	Roger Brody Watchung, NJ
Feb. 1	Baltimore Postal History Pre-UPU The presentation demonstrates that a single city can be used—if it has the correct attributes—to illustrate the postal history of a country. For the United States and the time period I chose, these attributes include: to have existed in the Colonial period, to be a port city, to have some railroad connections. Most importantly Baltimore was a major commerce center and there is a reasonable amount of foreign mail; in addition having locals, carriers, postmaster provisionals, and a Civil War connection is a bonus. The presentation highlights items that are special or unique to Baltimore using the structure and context of the exhibit which is organized by rates. There are four major sections: distance zone rates in sterling currency, distance zone rates in cents, the 5¢ and 10¢ uniform rates and the 3¢ uniform rate period.	Patricia Stillwell-Walker Lisbon, MD
Feb. 15	A Walk Along Nassau Street Join us as we recreate this magical three-blocks of stamps and stamp collecting. Meet many of these 100 hundred dealers through their postal history, ephemera and the advertisements they generated. View the splendor a 12-story office building with more than 40 stamp dealers! Meet Stamp Dealers Herman "Pat" Herst Jr., Percy Doane, Robert A. Siegel, The Burger Brothers, Max Ohlman, J. Murray Bartels, the legends of Nassau Street. Be prepared for an exciting and fun adventure as we tour "The Street!"	Steven Rod S. Orange, NJ
Mar. 7	The First Definitives of the Finnish Republic	Robert Hisey Sebring, FL
Mar. 21	Early Victoria Foreign Mail Routes The 2011 Champion of Champions Winner, The Half-Lengths of Victoria, 1850-1859, will be on display with a presentation of a subset of the 128-page exhibit material, combined with other covers, to put the Half-Lengths in their postal-history context. View the presentation	John Barwis Holland, MI
Apr. 11	Zanzibar Postal History, 1837–1905	Gary DuBro Santa Fe, NM
Apr. 18	Secured Delivery Leading to UK Registration (1450–1862) This presentation shows how the development from the first known secured delivery postal system led to the introduction of registration and to then show how this first formal system of registration developed through to the rapid expansion in the use of registration with the reduced 6 d registration fee and growth in World trade upon which Europe grew financially strong.	Alan Holyoake Gerrards Cross, Bucks, England
May 2	Lichtenstein Award Dinner
May 16	Postal History of the French Colonial Allegorical Group Type: Use from Senegal, French Sudan, and Senegamia & Niger View the presentation	Ed Grabowski Westfield, NJ
Jun. 6	Our Neighbor to the East: The United Nations Postal Administration	David Failor New York, NY
Jun. 20	Postal History of the Issue of 1847	Gordon Eubanks Pebble Beach, CA
	Summer Recess
Sep. 5	"Doc, I Need a Drink." The Story of Taxation of legal Alcohol During National Prohibition	Ron Lesher Easton, PA
Sep. 19	Bavarian Perfins	Rainer von Scharpen Mainz, Germany
Oct. 3	Imperial Airways and its Predecessor Airlines	Barry Scott Auckland, New Zealand
Oct. 17	The French Shore of Newfoundland	Henk Slabbinck Nieuwpoort, Belgium and Jim Taylor Calgary, Canada
Nov. 7	Collectors Club Annual One-Frame Competition
Nov. 14	International Letter Mail Crossing the Italian Peninsula in the Pre-stamp Period (1815–1852)	Thomas Matha Bozen, Italy
Dec. 5	Boston Colonial Post	Mark Schwartz Philadelphia, PA
Dec. 12	Board of Governors’ Open House

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2013 Schedule

As the programs for 2013 are defined, the schedule will be posted below.

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