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sheryll*net · ‎01-26-2019

*** eBay Users' Stamp Club ***Meeting 26-28 January: "The New Year"

Please join us on this thread for our monthly meeting which runs from today 26 January until midnight Monday 28th in whatever part of the world you are in.

The topic will be “The New Year."

Please post scans or discuss items and topics that pertain to January of a change of years. Suggestions (not a complete list) are:

- new year stamps and postal stationery

- covers postmarked in January, especially if the reason is to do with the new year

- events or commemorations of events which occur (or occurred) in January, such as inaugurations of presidents, Australia Day, etc

- Chinese New Year allowed even if it occurs in February.

- date errors resulting from the change of year being an unerxpected event.

Sheryll in OR and Anne in NJ (eUSC Co-Presidents 2014-present)

malolo · ‎01-26-2019

Hi Sheryll - I've been posting cover with January dates on the chat board I manage. It would be interesting to have more people participate, keeping in mind it's for collectors of Swiss material. So if anyone has questions about Swiss stuff they are welcome to post questions here: https://www.quicktopic.com/51/H/qdRWHrshP637

On the personal level I'm working on an expanded exhibit for PIPEX titled:

Reflecting the Rise of Tourism During the Belle Epoque

Hotel Schweizerhof, Luzern : 1870-1914

All pages will be double pages, an example is attached.

sheryll*net · ‎01-27-2019

Very nice, Roger, and good luck! I hope to be exhibiting at PIPEX too! More on that later in the meeting...

While I have a scan handy, here is a 11 Jan 59 cover on which is (I can get away with blatantly mentioning it here) a penguin.

A PENGUIN! Looks like an Adelie???

jaywild · ‎01-27-2019

Sheryll—

Your cover has a notation from the [naval] base of the General Belgrano, the Argentine ship (formerly of the US Navy) sunk by a British submarine during the Falklands Islands War, producing the single greatest incidence of loss of life. In addition to its crew it was carrying reinforcements, although the ship hovered some days outside the 200-mile “exclusion zone” declared by the British, awaiting orders to land the troops. Subsequent to the sinking the Argentine Navy retreated to its home ports and took no further part in the war.

sheryll*net · ‎02-01-2019

Thank you, Roger and Jim, for posting. It was right up your alley, and I will keep a look out for any Swiss items worth posting on the thread.

I would have posted more, but lack of conected scanners and lack of up-to-date data meant I couldn't post my Chinese NewYear one-page exhibit of Swiss covers.

But I still can post a 1912 cover with inverted year. After getting it wrong in January, they just left it upside down all year. That's the pace of life in the New Hebrides...

sheryll*net · ‎02-01-2019

I will close the meeting now that it is February in all parts of the world. The next meeting will be February 22-24 and the topic will be 2019 Scavenger Hunt. I will post some ideas for it on a Scavenger Hunt brainstorm thread and welcome your contributions. We should end up with 4 groups of 5 topics, to make it easier to contribute to the hunt.

Sheryll