07/29/2008 Contact:
Fred baumann
Also available in pdf format
APS U.S.
Stamps of Chris Calle Album
 The American Philatelic Society is
pleased to make available a free album of U.S.
Stamps of Chris Calle in conjunction with StampShow 2008, coming August 14–17 to
the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford.
The full color mini-album
showcases United States stamps designed between 1984 and 1998 by
the Connecticut stamp designer, himself the son of U.S. stamp designer
Paul Calle. Created for free use in the public domain, the album
is available as a pdf file that can be reviewed
or downloaded.
The album is unusual in several respects,
beginning with its illustrated biographical sketch of Calle that
details his family background, artistic heritage, and professional
experience. Calle has designed both United States and stamps for
foreign entities as diverse as Sweden, Marshall Islands, and the
United Nations. He also has an extensive background as the producer
of well over 1,000 different cachets for first-day covers.
Of the
three pages with spaces for Calle’s U.S. stamps, users
can choose which of two versions of the final page they wish to print
and use. One includes a space for the 29-cent Moon Landing 25th Anniversary
stamp that Calle designed with his father in 1994. A second version
of the same page also includes spaces for the $2.40 Moon Landing
20th Anniversary stamp Calle designed in 1989, and the $9.95 Express
Mail-rate Moon Landing 25th Anniversary stamp by Chris and Paul Calle
that also was issued in 1994. Since these two high-value stamps alone
are valued at $24.75 unused and $18.00 used in the current Scott
catalogue, it was felt they might deter younger collectors. The remaining
30 stamps in the mini-album currently are catalogued at $21.75 mint
and just $7.25 in used condition.
Also included are two additional
pages. One has Calle’s photo
with space for an autograph as well as room for other Calle stamps
and covers. Chris will be available at the American Philatelic Society
booth during much of StampShow in Hartford. The second page is blank,
but has a heading for Calle’s latest stamps: a pane of 15 Portraits
of the Wild West commemoratives to be issued by Marshall Islands
on the morning of August 14, the first day of the show. There is
a final page as well, with information about the APS, its Reference
Collection, and the Young Stamp Collectors of America.
Collectors
can download the pdf file for all of the nine pages in the U.S.
Stamps of Chris Calle album, and then decide at their leisure which pages
they wish to print for their own collections.
Chris and Paul Calle
are among the 16 stamp designers with Connecticut connections noted
in another APS album for Stamps of Connecticut. This 18-page
album is still available online.
More information about APS
StampShow in Hartford is available.
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