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Winter 2007: New Activities and Projects Projects Welcome to our ninth edition of "What’s New at the PF." Each quarter, I, as the Chairman of the Philatelic Foundation, will use this page to address new activities and projects undertaken by the PF. I will also use this page to present a current report regarding the status of items submitted to us.
Education One of the most important functions performed by the PF is helping the public to distinguish "what is good from what is bad." Our certificates are the most obvious tool that assists the collecting community. While this is so very important to each of you that submit their items for certification, the PF has developed an exhibit on "Fakes and Forgeries" that can help to educate one about what has been done over the years to fool our hobby. Exhibits Since its debut in October 2003, our six frame exhibit (also available in eight frames) of "Fakes and Forgeries" from the reference collection of the PF has been seen at the New York MegaShows, Boxboro, MA, NOJEX, ROMPEX, Sacramento Stampshow, Chicagopex, Reno, Grand Rapids, Oklahoma City, Westfield, NJ, Washington 2006, Stampshow Chicago 2006 and Stampsow Portland, OR 2007. The exhibit is updated and changed to some extent each time that it is displayed. If you would like your show to display this exhibit, please have your show exhibit chairman contact Michael Laurence at the PF. Publications One of the most highly regarded series of publications in philately has been our series on interesting items submitted for certification. In conjunction with the 2006 International Exhibit in Washington, we released Opinions VII, the seventh volume in this series. You can order the book directly from us. Please send $55.00 plus $5.00 for shipping to the PF. The book is also available from Leonard Hartman, Jim Lee and Triad Publications. Our 60th Anniversary publication, a 176 page, virtually full color hardbound book "The Pony Express, A Postal History", was released at our booth at the NY Megashow at Madison Square Garden, March 2005. It is priced at $45 plus $5 shipping and/or NY sales tax. Of the 1,000 copies printed, sales are already over 850 copies. If anyone of you has a project that they would like to have published under the auspices of the PF please contact Larry Lyons, Chairman of our Publications Committee. Larry can be contacted through the PF. Audio/Video Presentation The PF is proud to announce that our latest DVD presentation is currently in production; Kees Adeema's Dutch Mails in Times of Turmoil 1568-1815." This highly anticipated DVD illustrates how history and the story of the postal system have been intertwined. We look forward to announcing soon the availability of this DVD for presentation at you local stamp club or show. We have four other DVD presentations currently available. "The One Cent Stamp of 1851-1857" was produced with the cooperation of the U. S. Classics Society. The video is narrated by our own Brian Bleckwenn. "The Nazi Scourge" is a dramatization in two parts.The first covers the 1933-1939 period. Part two presents the War years. These powerful presentations are based upon the exhibit of Ken Lawrence and are narrated by Lloyd DeVries. These three videos, along with "The Pony Express, A Postal History" are available for showing at your stamp show or club. Please contact Michael Laurence. Now you can own these presentations. With a donation of $50.00 or more to the Philatelic Foundation Education Fund, you will receive, with our compliments, your choice of one of the four CD's. Graded Certificates In response to our clients' requests, the Philatelic Foundation has introduced graded certificates. Graded certificates are optional. One can still receive our traditional non-graded certificate. The cost of a graded certificate is the same as a traditional non-graded certificate. For details on grading click on this link: Grading. Priority Certificate submissions One service that has been offered previously to the dealer community is being expanded this year to all of our clients. Those of you who wish to have your items expertized in a more expeditious time frame may avail yourselves of our Priority Service. Priority Service promises that your items will be expertized within five weeks from the date received. Items submitted for Priority Service will be billed at the same percentage of the Scott catalogue value as Standard Submissions, namely 4.5%, but there is a minimum fee of $40.00 per item for Priority Service. Additionally, there is a minimum of ten items required for each Priority Service package submitted. Certificate Status Report The PF has enjoyed a great operations year with many wonderful sales being expertized. Turnaround time remains at 9 to 10 weeks.We have embarked upon a new program to help reduce the turn around time. We look forward to serving you more quickly once the new system has been fully implemented. Contributions At the close of 2006 I sent an appeal out requesting your donations. I am happy to report that many of you kindly responded to this drive. These contributions enable us to produce the DVD programs discussed above as well as publishing Opinions VII and The Ponny Express books. My heartfelt thanks go out to these Contributors. You may reach me at the PF. Tuesdays and Wednesdays are best. You can always e-mail me at: gjkk@optonline.net. Thank you for tuning in, |
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