05/05/2008 Contact:
Fred Baumann
Also available in .pdf format
New APS Stamps of Connecticut Album
The American Philatelic Society
is pleased to make available
Stamps of Connecticut just in time for StampShow 2008— August
14–17 at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford.
The new 18-page album showcases United States stamps and postal
cards related to the state of Connecticut and its history. Created
for free use in the public domain — with generous permission
from Scott Publishing Co. to use its copyrighted catalogue numbers — it
is available as a pdf file that can be reviewed or downloaded
The album has space for 67 stamps
and six postal cards issued over 96 years, from 1922 to 2008.
These face pages of text describing how they relate to “the
Constitution State,” from
the arrival of the first large group of settlers in 1636 to the
voyage of the Groton-built nuclear submarine USS Nautilus under
the North Pole in 1958. Pages include “Early Connecticut
History,” “Connecticut and the War for Independence,” “John
Trumbull’s Images of the Revolution,” “Connecticut
Leaders and Leadership,” “Yale University — ‘Light
and Truth’,” “Connecticut and the Arts,” and “Connecticut
Signs, Symbols, and the Sea.”
The earliest stamp is the
1922 ½-cent Nathan Hale issue
(Scott 552). The most recent is the 42-cent commemorative showing
Albert Bierstadt’s Valley of the
Yosemite, to be issued
August 15 at APS StampShow 2008, designed by Derry Noyes, who
trained in Fine Arts at Yale in New Haven. Noyes is one of fifteen
Yale graduates and Connecticut residents who have designed modern
U.S. stamps, represented on a special page in the album that
was created with the help of stamp designer and Ridgefield resident
Chris Calle.
The album also drew on previous
publications, including David A. Kent’s “World Tour
Through Stamps: Connecticut,” published
in 1989 in Topical Time, and Judith Ann Schiff’s 2007 article, “Yale
on Stamps,” in the Yale Alumni Magazine.
The album
isn’t exhaustive. It was created as a topical
album with places for affordable U.S. issues, with enough descriptive
text to appeal to beginners and interested non-collectors, including
teachers, scouts and students, as well as general collectors
who have an interest in the history of the state. The 2008 Scott
catalogue value of all items needed to fill every space in the
Stamps of Connecticut album is $58.02 mint, or $23 used or first-day
canceled.
The Stamps
of Connecticut album
is number 2 in an ongoing series. Future albums are planned in
conjunction with 2009–2011
APS shows in Texas, Pennsylvania, Virginia, California, and Ohio.
The first album, Stamps of North Carolina, continues to be available
online.
More information about APS
StampShow in Hartford is available.
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