What's in the September/October 2006 Yule Log?

Feature Articles

• "Christmas Stamp Stories: Christmas Stamps With No Visible Value . . . by Pastor Wilmer Bloy, CPC #1363 . . . Pastor Bloy discusses and illustrates examples of the United States Christmas stamps for the years 1975, 1981 and 1991; stamps which have no franking on them.

• "Postcards Galore at APS STAMPSHOW in Chicago". . . by Richard L. Beecher, CPC #987. Richard  describes and illustrates several postcards with Christmas stamps that he picked up at the APS show. Included are postcards from New Zealand, Ecuador, Norway and Great Britain.

• "Exhibit Prospectus Now Available for 2007 ATA Topical Exhibition" . . .by George Griffenhagen. Contact the American Topical Association at P.O. Box 57, Arlington TX 76004-0057. Tel: (817) 274-1181 Email: americantopical@msn.com . See CPC Meeting 2007 for more details about the show.

• "Free Christmas Seals" . . . by Linda Lawrence, CPC #1040. For the cost of postage, Linda will send you Christmas seals. Linda describes the inventory of seals available in this article and is making these available to CPC members.

• "Christmas Philatelic Auction #95". . . with Mary Turner, CPC #720 . . . 79 lot auction includes many worldwide Christmas stamps with the minimum bid being half catalogue value. Also included in this auction are 20 different United States 1963 cacheted First Day Covers.

• "Summer -- A Time for Summer Conventions" by Tom Neufer Emswiler, CPC #894. Brief description of the annual international Santa Convention held in Copenhagen, Denmark in July 2006.

• "CPC Covers from the March Party" . . . now available from Vice-president Joan Klimchalk.

To see some of the regular columns in the Yule Log, return to the Yule Log page.

The Yule Log is edited by Jon Mills of Ottawa, Ontario. Christine Sanders of Englewood, Florida is the club's current president.

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