EDMONTON STAMP CLUBare Michel and Yvert et Tellier. All the stamps listed by Scott as issued by Djibouti 2016-2017 are connected with the company Neofila in Lithuania. I assume that

EDMONTON STAMP CLUB

Volume 107, Number 9 November 2018 ISSN: 0046-1318

Mailing address: P.O. Box 399, Edmonton AB T5J 2J6

Website: http://www.edmontonstampclub.com

NOT AGAIN! Rotating Strikes - 2018

Regular meetings

St. Joseph High School Cafeteria, 10830 - 109 Street, 6:00 pm

Cancelled November 12th

November 19th & 26th

December 10th

http://www.edmontonstampclub.com/

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The Edmonton Stamp Club dates back to

1912. The Club is Life Chapter #6 of the

Royal Philatelic Society of Canada and

Chapter #680 of the American Philatelic

Society. The editor welcomes

communications of all kinds–letters,

comments and articles. Deadline, 7 days

before first monthly meeting. These may

be forwarded to Fred Tauber, Edmonton

Stamp Club, Box 399, Edmonton, Alberta, T5J 2J6, click “contact” on our website

or email to [email protected]

2018 - 2019 Board of Directors Area code 780-

Barnes, Richard President 488-5288 [email protected]

Schutte, Robert Past President 989-1260 [email protected]

Dykstra, Ed Vice President 587-341-0804 [email protected]

Lockau, Jim Vice President 467-4825 [email protected]

Rod Verrier Treasurer 489-7506 [email protected]

(summer meeting coordinator)

Stein, Warren Secretary 463-9881 [email protected]

(Archivist)

Tauber, Fred Membership 469-3034 [email protected]

(Webmaster-edmontonstampclub.com & Editor-Bulletin)

Kuester, Peter Director 451-0520 [email protected]

(Circuits Manager)

Ellis, David Director 457-7491 [email protected]

Pacey, Jeff Director 989-3491 [email protected]

Spencer, Keith Director 437-1787 [email protected]

(NWFSC, RPSC liaison)

Hetke. Dave Director 909-3974 [email protected]

Wissink, Barend Director 922-5019 [email protected]

Fast, Malcom Director 966-2812 [email protected]

Ken Bailey Director 473-6903 [email protected]

Gary Belyea Director 483-7099 [email protected]

Dave Pattison Director 914-7742 [email protected]

Piercey, David BNAPS liaison 437-2771 [email protected]

Kelly Liusz-Moser Spring Show coordinator 569-0044 [email protected]

Advertising rate schedule: Full page $30, half page $18. Nonmembers,

$1.00 per line up to 5 lines. Ten issue discount 20%. Five issue discount

10%. Members, Free, up to 5 lines. Contact Fred Tauber at

[email protected] or Edmonton Stamp Club by mail.

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NOTICE

WARNING: THOSE WHO WANTED A BRIDGE POST CARD. THE END OF THE OFFER IS GOING TO BE THE LAST MEETING IN

NOVEMBER. (November 26th)

Read the June ESC Bulletin for details, any post cards left over will be destroyed. With a 40-card run, only 80 post cards will be in circulation. So far, all the post cards sent have a different Edmonton postal cancellation. Two hundred years from now they might even be worth something.

Barend Wissink

$Dues$ are DUE

$30 Individual, $40 Family – 2018-2019

HACKERS TRY TO GET YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

A recent form of phishing is rampant on the internet. They use public information about the ESC board of directors and send requests for payment from these names. Delete, do not reply.

Trading Post

Frank von Hausen, fvhstamps.com, 1-866-684-8408, Email:

[email protected]. We buy & sell stamps of Canada, European,

foreign and topicals. Postcards, postal history covers, Catalogues,

Albums & accessories. Many discount prices. Weekly auctions.

Stamp Exchange Wanted; Europe + Russia, Canada and USA by Serbian

Stamp Collectors. English correspondence, Brainislav (Brane) Popov at

[email protected]. Serbian correspondence at

[email protected]. Miro Popov, President of the Stamp Club,

Novi Sad.

Closed Albums

Brian Jamieson #1449 The Edmonton Stamp Club would like to extend our condolences to Mrs. Marcel Jamieson. On October 2018, Brian passed at 70 years of age. He was an active member since 1989.

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President’s Message

Your Board has been busy this past month. At the December 10 ESC

meeting there will be a Christmas snack with time to mingle. We all have

the tendency to sit in the same area of the meeting room and talk with those

club members that we are familiar with. Take this opportunity to sit in a

different location and get to know other members of the club, share some

Christmas Cheer and learn about their stamp collecting interest. You can

exchange knowledge and perhaps assist each other with your personal

stamp collections.

Work is picking up on the Spring Stamp show. The dealers have been

contacted and 14 have said that they will attend. Hopefully one or two

more will contact us later to say that they will also attend. We will have the

historical competitive frames. We are continuing with our evaluation of

member interest in viewing and exhibiting fun frames. Application forms

are available at the club desk at our club meetings. Fred will happily

provide you with any information and answer questions. If you have

upgraded your last year’s fun frame it will make an interesting addition to

see your development of your topic. The fun frames are, in my opinion the

highlight of our Spring Show displaying the breath of interests and

knowledge of our members.

The club has been quickly filling the maximum number of lots at our

regular meeting auctions. This is great for the club however some members

who are unable to come early are not able to get lots into the meeting

auction. We are constrained in the number of lots we can put into the

auction. The Board is looking into this situation. Any ideas or suggestions

by members should be passed on to the members of the Board.

Remember to get your lots in for the Summer Meeting Auction. It is first

come first serve so submit lots as soon as you have them available. The

Summer Meeting Auction forms that must accompany submitted lots are

available at the Club Desk every regular ESC meeting.

Good news for the Hobby, the Medicine Hat Stamp Gatherers have

organized and will be receiving Circuit books from the ESC. This is

another reason to take time to prepare circuit books and dispose of your

duplicate stamps.

Any concerns, questions or observations on the Edmonton Stamp Club

activities can be passed on to any member of your Board.

Richard Barnes


Continued next page


Barend Wissink


What Did I Miss? Richard Barnes

Djibouti is a small ex East Africa French colony located in the Horn of

Africa. It is strategically located at the south end of the Red Sea between

Eritrea to the North, Ethiopia to the West, Somalia to the south and Yemen

20 miles East across the Red Sea. This harsh location controls the southern

access to and from the Suez Canal and is the main historical access for

landlocked Ethiopia to the ocean. Depending on the political needs at the

time this country was named Obock, French Somali Coast, Afars and Issas

(Fig 1) and since 1977 Republic of Djibouti.

Fig 1

This summer I found a free hour

when it was raining to look at putting

a small lot of Djibouti in my album

that I had picked up in a stamp

exchange. I opened my Scott

catalogue and was smacked in the

face by pages and pages of new

stamps beginning in 2016 and

continuing into 2017. What happened

to the “by present day standards”

conservative stamp issuing policy of Djibouti? In my opinion the Scott

catalogue gives short shift to Africa and the Middle East. When working

with stamps for these locations the two general worldwide catalogues I use

are Michel and Yvert et Tellier. All the stamps listed by Scott as issued by

Djibouti 2016-2017 are connected with the company Neofila in Lithuania. I

assume that Neofila is the present face of the source of the bogus stamps

that flooded out of Lithuania after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The

issuing of bogus issues continues at the present time. It is interesting

relationship between East Africa countries and Neofila stamps. For example

Neofila stamps have been used by Djibouti since the inception of the

republic with the independence issue in 27 June 1977, Scott #457- 458 (Fig

2). At the same time Djibouti is using Neofila stamps Djibouti Post is

declaring “Illegal” issues, Universal Postal Union circulars, of Mushrooms,

Scouts, etc.

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Fig 2

With the policy change in

2016 the 96 sets of Neofila issues

begin with the Scott catalogue

#858 a - d (Fig 3), a souvenir

sheet #916 (Fig 4) and in

addition but not listed in Scott is

a deluxe souvenir sheet (Fig 5).

These sets are thematic topical

stamps; animals, birds, scouts,

reptiles, cars, planes, trains,

paintings, personalities, Elvis, Marilyn (Fig 6), Pope, military, etc. Neofila

lists 115 sets of stamps printed for Djibouti in 2016. There are 19 more

stamp sets in the Neofila list but not recognized by the Scott catalogue. I

have not identified all the Neofila sets not on the Scott list but the US

President Trump stamp set (Fig 7) is conspicuously absent from the Scott

catalogue.

Fig 3

After all my ramblings have I

missed a UPS Bulletin, a

philatelic notice explaining the

change in the stamp issuing policy

of Djibouti Post? If any member

has any information on Djibouti

stamp issues and postal policy

please contact me.

Trivia - my synopsis from

Wikipedia when looking for Neofila; a modern derivative of the Latin word

neophytus implying born again.

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Fig 4 Fig 5

Fig 6 Fig 7


Meeting Dates

The Edmonton Stamp Club meets Mondays at 6:00 p.m. in the cafeteria of St.

Joseph High School, 10830 - 109 Street. Park to the north of the school and use

the main entrance at the south-east corner of the school. For information about

the club call 780-488-5288 or 780-437-1787.

Edmonton BNAPS (British North America Philatelic Society) meets from time to

time. All BNAPSers welcome. For information contact David Piercey at

780-437-2771 or Steven Friedenthal at 780-721-3669.

Recent ebay

MEXICO-320_MH, (12 bids) $26 / COLOMBIA-338_MNH, (17 bids) $121

NOVEMBER 12th meeting

CANCELLED

2019

January 7th & 21st

February 4th & 25th

March 4th & 18th

April 1st, 15th & 29th

May 13th & 27th

June 10th (elections)

2018

November 19th & 26th

December 10th

Edmonton Stamp Club

National Spring Show

March 23rd & 24th, 2019


THE PANAMA CANAL STORY Part 3 Continued from October 2018

Ray Ireson

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To be continued next month


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