APS Album Pages

We have discussed these on a number of occasions here. I'm encouraging all APS members to email the Education Department at APS to request that they produce a series of pages for the Lincoln Bicentenial - like they did for Baseball, etc.

They make great little mini-collections for kids and thrifty (read that - cheap) adults, and I think a Lincoln collection would be super!

Swabbie i'm game..embaressed to say I do not know too much about the Education Dept !!

That is a wonderful idea. Why didn't I think of that?
being interested in all philatelic items for Abe.

If one of you guys wants to craft a letter and the 3 of us undersign with our APS numbers at least we would get a reply !!

I would be willing to sign. I am not much of wordsmith though. I have gone ahead and sent a email via the aps website www.stamps.org regarding this request. I have also posted your idea on the virtual stamp club, yahoo us specialized group, stamporama, and sent an email to a very well know Lincoln collector Eric Borsting (he helped produce the ATA's Lincoln handbook). I suggest anyone else interested in spreading the word to post on their favorite philatelic websites. We don't have much time with feb 9th(the release date of the Lincoln stamps not his actual birthday beg 12th) just 3 months away.

Thanks for helping me pile on SCfers. I sent an email to the email address listed for the Ed. Department.

Phil, I don't know why the APS pages belong to them, but it's the only thing I've ever done there myself.

There was a reply to my post on the virtual stamp club (ducking) and there already is an album in the works by the APS. HOORAY! Of course once it is completed it will be added the the APS website stamps.org available for free download to anyone member or nonmember.
LaSwabbie- I think the Ed dept. handles the pages because of the content and ability to promote stamp collecting and the APS.

Here is the reply to my email:

Dear Fellow APS Members; In regards to your various inquiries, rest assured that we do indeed plan a APS mini-album for the bicentennial of the birth of Abraham Lincoln in 2009. Unlike most of the mini-albums we have created to date, the Lincoln album will include illustrations of valuable early Lincoln issues as far back as 1866, as well as some rare and seldom-seen back-of-the-book Lincoln items, including 1873 6-cent Official stamps and stamped envelope cut squares, the 1865 25c Newspaper & Periodical stamp, the $5 War Savings stamp, the 1871 16-2/3-cent vermilion 1/6th barrel Beer tax stamp (REA21), and perhaps even some of the more interesting Lincoln proof and error material. The idea is to celebrate Lincoln with all things philatelic, while still doing so in a useable album. (As with all our albums, users vcan choose which pages they wish to download and print.) Attached are images of two of items I hope to use. One is the rarest Lincoln stamp ---the 1867 15c Z Grill (Scott 85F), which sold in Robert A. Siegel's 1998 sale of the Zoellner U.S. collection for $190,000, plus commission. The other is a scarce National Bank Note Company large die essay on India paper for the 1870 6c Lincoln (Scott 148-E4), also offered in a Siegel sale. These will, of course, be accompanied by a page or pages with spaces for all the more readily attainable Lincoln items, beginning with the common 1908 2-cent red Lincoln Centennial issue (Scott 367) as well as its scarcer companions (Scott 368-69). These pages will conclude with spaces for the four 42-cent Lincoln bicentennial stamps tentatively scheduled for release on February 9. We plan to issue this album at the beginning of February 2009 with the monthly members' e-mail newsletter. However, I must stress that this depends on our ability to accurately ascertain the dimensions of the 2009 Lincoln stamps. We got into trouble earlier this year when we published an album for the Flags of Our Nation stamps ahead of their release, only to discover subsequently that the sizes of the stamps had been incorrectly reported. We hope to take steps to prevent a repeat of such an embarrassing mistake in 2009. As an aside, I am also hoping to organize a thematic page to reflect the life and accomplishments of Lincoln, to go along with the pages for the stamps that depict him. Among the stamps I have so far for a thematic page are the two Emancipation stamps (Scott 902, 1233), the Gettysburg Address stamp (978), the Credo stamp (1143), and the Lincoln Memorial definitive (571). If you have suggestions for others that would be suitable for such a page, I would be glad to hear of them. Yours For The Stamp Hobby,
Fred Baumann (APS 135411 / ATA 55619)
Public Relations Manager
American Philatelic Society
100 Match Factory Place
Bellefonte PA 16823
(814) 933-3803 - extension 212
FAX: (814) 933-6128
fred@stamps.org

Thank you for sharing that Dude. I had not gotten a response to my email. I'm looking forward to the pages and have started picking up issues when I can. I have the 85F and the REA21 already. Now I just need the rest!

The above is an absolute lie, of course. I have neither and never will.

Good Morning, I just saw the letter..its great that members like Stampdude use the APS organization..thats what its there for..to serve its members...i am sure Josh will have lots of back of book material ..labels, foreign stamps honoring Lincoln..Nicarauga comes to mind..that reminds me I may have a spare Guatemala stamp of Lincoln !!

If you're just itchin' to send it on a trip, I'd be glad to add it to my album Phil!

Phil,
I do have some BOB materials, but mostly covers. I am not an accumulator of excess material, lots, or collections. I primarily get what I need and no more if I can help it. I am sure I have missed out on deals in the past. I also would be interested in the Guatemalian Lincoln stamp. I can't wait for the cinderella labels to arrive that you picked up for me.

Laswabbie,
I would like to have those rare stamps as well. I may have to put together a "virtual" album with stamps I could never obtain in real life. We may have to "bid" against one another for Phil's extra stamp. LOL

I have some vacation time coming up in mid December and plan on organizing my Lincoln collection to gear up for the celebration and remind myself what I have and don't have. An early jump on my New Year resolution. I do like the odd cover, cachet, postmark, and paper materials to enhance my overall collection and add uniqueness.