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Spellman Museum post Rider Volume 33 No. 1 1post riderMUSEUM OF STAMPS & POSTAL HISTORYD avid BallExecutive DirectorOur Rebuilding SeasonVolume 33 Number One Fall 2017 Dear philatelic friend,It s been three months since I became Executive Director (ED) of the Spell-man Museum. Before that you have to go back a dozen years since the institu-tion had one. Henry Lucas (Education) and George Norton (Curator) have been here running programs, giving tours and maintaining our STAMPS and POSTAL HISTORY . Each week George conducts our evaluation service and Henry is visiting a school or conducting a Boy Scout merit badge program. We are also excited to welcome Lelia Elliston as our Director of Development. And then there are the dedicated volunteers that are here several days a have been thinking a good deal lately about what a stamp museum in the 21st century should look like.

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1 Spellman Museum post Rider Volume 33 No. 1 1post riderMUSEUM OF STAMPS & POSTAL HISTORYD avid BallExecutive DirectorOur Rebuilding SeasonVolume 33 Number One Fall 2017 Dear philatelic friend,It s been three months since I became Executive Director (ED) of the Spell-man Museum. Before that you have to go back a dozen years since the institu-tion had one. Henry Lucas (Education) and George Norton (Curator) have been here running programs, giving tours and maintaining our STAMPS and POSTAL HISTORY . Each week George conducts our evaluation service and Henry is visiting a school or conducting a Boy Scout merit badge program. We are also excited to welcome Lelia Elliston as our Director of Development. And then there are the dedicated volunteers that are here several days a have been thinking a good deal lately about what a stamp museum in the 21st century should look like.

2 Suffice to say, our current approach would look very recognizable to the great philatelists and stamp dealers who built it more than a 50 years ago. Since 1960 the number of collectors has drifted down, what we collect has changed, and how we acquire material has changed. stamp dealer James Lee, who recently won a major award from APS, says that 15 years ago 85% of his sales were from shows and 15% from the internet. Today his numbers are exactly reversed. It doesn t mean the hobby is dead. It means we STAMPS on envelopes are part of post -al HISTORY . When the envelope tells a story or the cancel says First Day of Issue you should leave the STAMPS in place. Usually, however, the only thing on the cov-er of interest is the stamp .

3 Let s look how we can safely remove it from the until about 20 years ago the adhesive that held the stamp to the envelope was water-activated. This meant to adhere it you licked the gum and to remove it you soaked the piece of paper with the stamp on it in a bowl of water. Once the gum released you could dab the STAMPS dry with a paper towel, place them between two sheets of wax paper, and put a few heavy books on top overnight to prevent things aren t quite so simple. The self-adhesive glue will not come off with water. All is no lost however. Peter Butler, writing in the October 2010 issue of The American Philatelist explained the Win-ter method. William P. Winter, a chemist, wrote a letter to the editor of The American Philatelist explaining his ideas of a solution to the problem.

4 The letter was published in the July 2008 issue and made mention of a solvent called Bestine and a pinch of talcum powder. Use an eyedropper to suck up a small amount of Bestine and apply it, a few drops at a time, to the envelope side as op-posed to the stamp side of the piece. Use it sparingly. Allow it to soak through the paper, which becomes translucent quickly. Turn the piece over, roll it slightly, and you will see a corner of the stamp come away from the paper. Proceed to peel off the stamp slowly. This process takes only a few seconds. Wait too long and you will have to start News Well Worth Saving! Note that the paper has no adhesive on it. The adhesive is still on the stamp and, as you would expect, is still sticky.

5 However, the solvent has broken down the adhesive sufficiently to not allow the re-application of the stamp anywhere. Carefully lay the stamp face down on a paper towel. Don t worry if it curls, that is normal. After the Bestine has evaporated, (twenty minutes at the most), dip your finger in talcum pow-der, just a touch, and wipe it on the back of the stamp . The stickiness will disappear, ready to accept a hinge and be mounted in your album. The stamp never really gets wet, so drying is not a big issue. I often leave the STAMPS on paper overnight before using your STAMPS by putting them in an envelope (collectors often use semi-transparent glassine envelopes) or in a stock book designed for STAMPS . In an upcoming article we will discuss albums and exhibit pages you might consider.

6 If you need supplies (or STAMPS ) come see us at the Spellman. We have new supplies for sale in our store and often have gently used ones from other collectors you can have for substantially Spellman Museum post Rider Volume 33 No. 1must embrace change to stay relevant. As we reissue the Spellman expect to see us a lot more on the recently learned that the institution will have to reapply for tax-exempt status as well as the longer process of reaccred-itation. This makes for a period of rough sledding for a non-profit. We plan to retool every aspect of our institution. Bringing the Museum post Rider newsletter back to life is just the start. We want you as a key ingredi-ent to our Spellman Reissue Campaign.

7 Expect a new website, a new interpretive experience when you visit and scholarly publications which highlight great rarities in our we work toward reinstating our non-profit status and obtaining museum accreditation we remain the vibrant and well-respected center for philatelic knowl-edge. We have a great facility and a library with 15,000 volumes, all relying on your support. Our STAMPS and POSTAL HISTORY amount to million artifacts from the holdings of Eisenhower, Ridgway, Steinway, and of course Spellman. Like many great institutions we need revitalizing. Please watch your mailbox for our Re-Issue Campaign membership letter and show your support. Great teams undergo rebuilding seasons in which they reinvent themselves.

8 This is Rebuilding from page 1 The Museum post Rider is a publication of the Spellman Museum of STAMPS & POSTAL HISTORY . Letters, articles, news items, and images should be sent to the Editor, Randy L. Neil, @ Articles should be in a MS Word file; images as jpg or tif files at 300 dpi. All rights reserved. Material in this issue may not be reproduced without prior permission. ThoughtsRandy L. NeilEditorI was introduced to the Spellman Muse-um in the philatelic press when I was growing up in Kansas in my midteenage years back when this great institution was being founded in the late 1950s. Because I had been able to attend the 5th Interna-tional Philatelic Exhibition in New York in 1956, I had been fortunate enough to see, up close, the very awesome (the only term I remember using to describe it to my friends when I got back home) stamp collection of Francis, Cardinal Spellman.

9 Those were the days when our hobby had many regularly-published periodicals that served the pastime. I was a young writer for one of them (Weekly Philatelic Gossip) and was fond of reading, many times a month, about how diligently, and with a great deal of love, Cardinal Spellman actively promot-ed philately especially how effective he was in drawing young people to the pastime. I had also visited Philadelphia s unique National Philatelic Museum where part of the Cardinal s collection was always on dis-play and witnessed dozens of kids poring over it one Saturday when I was there. I have always admired the Spellman Mu-seum and have been continually awed over these many years at its work in spreading the gospel of this hobby.

10 And I am hon-ored to have the chance to help its work by becoming your editor. Thank Jeff BrighamWe all know the Scott Standard Postage stamp Catalogue, the standard reference work for collectors in the But what do you do if you have a stamp , or piece of POSTAL stationery, or other philatelic material from a foreign country, but it s not listed in Scott? If you know what country it s from, the best place to start is a catalog from one of the many other philatelic publishers around the world. The library at the Spellman Museum has many of these. Have a printing error or color variety on a George V stamp that doesn t seem to match the Scott description? Try the stanley gibbons Cata-log, the Scott of Great Britain.


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