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TNCP #35, October 2011

The 35th issue of the Journal will be dispatched to members in mid-October, 2011 and contains 16 pages of unique and infromative articles. The first article deals with the topic of map cancellations. In the first of this two-part series, Miklos Pinther examines map images as precancels. Next up, Society President David Wolfersberger concludes his detailed multipart article about maps and trains on stamps, with information on train routes in Europe. Next is the second part of an article that appeared in issue 34, and is a reprint of a French article on the History of Cartography as depected in stamps, submitted by Maurice Touchette of Canada, with translation by Pierre Moise. Issue 35 is rounded out with a number of important Society news items, extensive updates for new issues and a number of new issue images.

TNCP #34, July 2011

The 34th issue of the Journal, dispatched to members in July, 2011, was filled with 16 pages of fascinating articles. The first article is from our European Representative, Volker Woesner, who presents a timely article about geodesy and measuring the Earth as depecting through stamps. Next Society President David Wolfersberger continues his detailed series of maps and trains on stamps, with this issue examining specific routes in Asia and the Americas. Next up is a reprint of a French article on the History of Cartography as depected in stamps, submitted by Maurice Touchette of Canada, with translation by Pierre Moise. This is followed by a special note of regonition to Alf Jordan and Miklos Pinther on becoming the first Lifetime Members of the Carto-Philatelic Society. Issue 34 is rounded out with Society news, updated new issues listing and some new issue images.

The Link page has been checked and updated with new links. If you have a cartophilatelic link, please let us know.

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"Maps on Stamps Checklist" Receives Major Revision

The CartoPhilatelic Society is pleased to announce that the Maps on Stamps Checklist has been updated and issued as Revision 5.0. The Map on Stamps Checklist identifies about 37,000 stamps related to maps and cartography. About 1100 new issues have been added, and many hundreds of changes and corrections to previous entries have been made. Revision 5 (2011) of the Checklist is available to members of the Society either by email as an Excel spreadsheet or in hardcopy form. Please visit the Checklist Project page for more details and ordering information.

Alf Jordan and Miklos Pinther Named Lifetime Members

The CartoPhilatelic Society is pleased to announce that Dr. Alf Jordan and Mr. Miklos Pinther have been named Lifetime Members of the Society in recognition of their long and meritorious service and contributions to the Society. Dr. Jordan and Mr. Pinther are the first Society members to be so honored.

Alf Jordan was a medical doctor and had an ongoing interest in maps and map stamps. When Alf learned, by way of fellow collector Bill Critzer, that the cartophilatelic group had become inactive for a couple of years, Alf became interested in trying to restart the Society. Under Alf's leadership former members, including former secretary/treasurer Lillian Kent who "maintained" the Society during the period of dormancy, were contacted; new officers recruited; and the Society became active again with the publication of the first issue The New CartoPhilatelist, in March 2003.

Alf served as President of the Society until 2004, then as Secretary/Treasurer until his "retirement" earlier this year. Without doubt, the CartoPhilatelic Society would not exist today were it not for the efforts of Alf.

Miklos Pinther was professionally involved with maps and cartography. While working at the American Geographical Society (AGS) Miklos became interested in collecting map stamps from fellow colleague and mentor Wilfrid Webster, who was a founder of The CartoPhilatelic Society. At the urging from Mark Larkin, a former editor of The Carto-Philatelist, Miklos held the position of Society President and Publisher of The Carto-Philatelist, from 1986 to 1995. Since 2003 Miklos has been President Emeritus, and is a frequent contributor to The New Carto-Philatelist. He also was editor of the Society's successful book, "America on the Map (2007)."

Read more about the contributions from Alf and Miklos and background about their interest in cartophilately in the Society's press release.

The Society and its members have benefited greatly from the dedicated work of Alf and Miklos. Please join in congratulating them for their contributions to the Society and cartophilately.

Dues Reminder for all Members

Society Treasurer Ed Vallery reminds all members that the October 2011 issue (#35) of The New CartoPhilatelist will be the last issue sent to members that have outstanding dues.

Members who have outstanding dues on November 1, 2011 will receive a letter from the Society informing them that they will no longer be active members and will be removed from the Society's membership list.

Over the summer, both our Secretary, Marybeth Sulkowski, and Treasurer, Ed Vallery, have been contacting in active members and many of you have renewed and are still interested in being part of the CartoPhilatelic Society.

We encourage those members who may have not renewed their membership to hopefully reconsider and continue to support the Society. Please contact Ed Vallery with your renewals or if you have a question about your current membership.

We thank you for your continued support.

Dispatch of TNCP #35

In mid-October, our Editor, Martin Oakes, will dispatch the print version of TNCP #35 to the our hardcopy members. By the time you read this, a download link for the digital issue of TNCP #35 should already be waiting in an email for our digital members.

For those members subscribing to the hardcopy version, please remember you can also download the digital version from TNCP Member's Archive.

Those of you receiving the digital version of the newsletter know that we have had some difficulty making sure that all of you receive the email with the download link. In the dispatch email Martin had requested a confirmation that you have received the email and successfully downloaded TNCP #35. If you have not sent that confirmation back to Martin, or if you have not received the email for TNCP #35 please contact Martin Oakes as soon as possible. We appreciate your assistance.

If you have not received an email from the Society for either #34 or #35 you may want to check the spam folder of your email program. Some email programs will flag messages with links and route them to the spam folder. Be sure to add Martin's email address to your "safe addresses" list so future messages will be filtered properly.

Submissions Deadline for TNCP #36

Just a quick, but important reminder that our Editor, Martin Oakes, has chosen December 10, 2011 as the deadline for submissions to The New CartoPhilatelist.

The date for publication will be in early January 2012. Those of you interested in submitting an article should contact our Editor, Martin Oakes prior to submission.

Martin has said that material and articles for Issue #36 are required and mentioned, "The hardest part about being an editor is having enough good articles of varying length to fill the pages. Please write about your favorite map stamps and tell us why they are important to you."

Issues 34 & 35 contained a translated article that was first published in French, in another philatelic journal. As the Society is international in scope, we have various members that can sometimes volunteer translation resources. For those of you that have non-english articles and would like to see them translated and published in The New CartoPhilatelist please contact our Editor Martin Oakes.

Martin Oakes Wins Silver Medal for Comprehensive Maps Exhibit

Martin Oakes, Silver Medal, ATA-NTSS 2011-06

TNCP Wins Silver-Bronze Medal at PhilaNippon 2011

	The New CartoPhilatelist, the official Journal of the Society, was awarded a Silver Bronze medal at PhilaNippon 2011. The six day event lasting from July 28th thru August 2nd was held in Yokohama Japan. The New CartoPhilatelist competed against newsleters and journals from 30 different associations and organizations. Four consecutive issues from 2010-2011 were submitted and highlighted the Soceity's decision to use the MagCloud POD service for printing of the Journal. Society President David Wolfersberger and Editor Martin Oakes wish to thank everyone that has helped in making TNCP so successful for the Society.
PhilaNippon 2011 Silver Bronze Medal for The New CartoPhilatelist (August 2011)

Dispatch of TNCP #34

In mid-July, our Editor, Martin Oakes, dispatched both the print and digital versions of TNCP #34 to the membership. For those members subscribing to the hardcopy version, please remember you can download the digital version from TNCP Member's Archive.

Those of you receiving the digital version of the newsletter know that we have had some difficulty making sure that all of you receive the email with the download link. In the dispatch email Martin had requested a confirmation that you have received the email and successfully downloaded TNCP #34. If you have not sent that confirmation back to Martin, or if you have not received the email for TNCP #34 please contact Martin Oakes as soon as possible. We appreciate your assistance.

If you have not received an email from the Society for either #34 or #35 you may want to check the spam folder of your email program. Some email programs will flag messages with links and route them to the spam folder. Be sure to add Martin's email address to your "safe addresses" list so future messages will be filtered properly.

Atlas of Vatican Cartophilately Series

In recent issues of Vatican Notes, the official journal of the Vatican Philatelic Society, there have been two in-depth articles on Vatican CartoPhilately. The articles, are written by James Hamilton, a member of the Vatican Philatelic Society and also a new member of our Society. James is also an Arago volunteer who has written numerous articles on Vatican City philately. In a recent interview on the Arago web site, James recalls his childhood interest in stamps and how he "quickly became interested in stamps from Europe and used an atlas to locate the issuing countries, thereby learning geography as well." A similar view, perhaps held by many fellow cartophilatelists. Later in the interview, James mentions that Arago's online exhibit of "Allan Lee's Maps on Stamps Volume 6 was spectacular." Jame's article "Atlas of Vatican City Carto-philately" is divided into three parts. Part one considers maps on stamps or postal cards of the world Europe and Italy. Part two looks at maps of the Western Hemisphere, Africa the Near and Far East. Part Three considers topographical maps, historical travels on maps and outlines of continents or count ires on stamps. Part one was published in Second Quarter 2011, Vol. 59, No. 348, and Part two in Third Quarter 2011, Vol. 59, No. 349 of Vatican Notes. We will have an update once the third part in the series has been published.

More Europa 2011 IYoF Featuring Maps

Satellite Map of Austria on Second Europa 2011 IYoF Issue

Austria Post has issued on September 8, 2011, a mini-sheet featuring a map of the country for their second Europa 2011 IYoF issue. The mini-sheet, shown below, is covered with what appears to be a satellite image, with a light transparent overlay acting as a mask of a cut out area depecting the shape of the country of Austria. In the upper right hand corner of the sheet is a single €1.70 denomination stamp showing a forest scene.

Austria, 2011-09-08, Europa 2011 IYoF

Trees with Map of Europe on Albania Europa 2011 IYoF Issue

On July 30th, 2011, Albania Post issued a single stamp and mini-sheet featuring both featureing a map of Europe amoungst a group of trees. The 200 Lekë denominated single depicts most of central and southern Europe. Portions of the British Isles, Ireland, Scandinavia are missing from the map design on the single stamp. More of the map is shown on the 250 Lekë denominated mini-sheet.

Albania, 2011-07-30, Europa 2011 IYoF

[ there were some comments on the New Issues blog about how some of the 2011 Europa stamps were not correctly depicting a map of EU members. Perhaps there is more information on the Post Europ site If any of our European members or Europa collectors can provide more information, please contact the web admin. ]

Samson, Isles of Scilly, UK Issue Map Cinderella

Isle of Samson UK Cinderella Issue April 2011

CartoPhilatelic New Issues Blog

The Society's New Issues Blog has has been updated with some more recent new issue images. Be sure to sign up for email or RSS notifications when new posts are published. Thanks to all of you that have submitted images and information on new issues. Keep the information coming! Go to http://blog.cartophilately.org to access the New Issues information.

Update of Contact Information

Recently more and more internet providers (ISPs) are exercising strict screening of email messages and if those messages come from (ISPs) that are prone to be the source of many unwanted email messages. The Society is currently examining a single source method to communicate with the members via email. Even if you are receiving the printed edition of The New CartoPhilatelist Journal (TNCP), you can still send us an email address that we will register.

Prior to using this new service, we ask that any member of the Society update their information. We would like to confirm contact information for all our members. If there have been any changes within the last two years or if you would like to add or change something, please forward your name, full postal address to our Editor, Martin Oakes. Be sure to include an email address and web site URL if you have one.