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1 EDMONTON STAMP CLUB Volume 107, Number 10 December 2018 ISSN: Mailing address: P.O. Box 399, Edmonton AB T5J 2J6 Website: THE OTHER CHRISTMAS SEAL LUTHERAN TB SANITARIUM - WHEAT RIDGE, COLORADO Regular meetings St. Joseph High School Cafeteria, Street, 6:00 pm December 10 th January 7 th & 21 st, 2019

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3 3 E.S.C. BULLETIN Volume 107, Number 10 The Edmonton Stamp Club dates back to The Club is Life Chapter #6 of the Royal Philatelic Society of Canada and Chapter #680 of the American Philatelic Society. The editor welcomes communications of all kinds letters, comments and articles. Deadline, 7 days before first monthly meeting. These may be forwarded to Fred Tauber, Edmonton Stamp Club, Box 399, Edmonton, Alberta, T5J 2J6, click contact on our website or to fxtauber@shaw.ca Board of Directors Area code 780- Barnes, Richard President rtbarnes@shaw.ca Schutte, Robert Past President rschutte@telusplanet.net Dykstra, Ed Vice President eddykstra@shaw.ca Lockau, Jim Vice President jimlockau@gmail.com Rod Verrier Treasurer vcorp1@telus.net (summer meeting coordinator) Stein, Warren Secretary warren.stein@worleyparsons.com (Archivist) Tauber, Fred Membership fxtauber@shaw.ca (Webmaster-edmontonstampclub.com & Editor-Bulletin) Kuester, Peter Director peju@shaw.ca (Circuits Manager) Pacey, Jeff Director jpacey@telus.net Spencer, Keith Director keithrspencer41@gmail.com (NWFSC, RPSC liaison) Hetke. Dave Director davehetke@yahoo.com Wissink, Barend Director wissink@mcsnet.ca Fast, Malcom Director mfast@beyondnumbers.ca Ken Bailey Director kbailey1@telusplanet.net Gary Belyea Director belyeagary@gmail.com Dave Pattison Director pattisond@gmail.com Piercey, David BNAPS liaison dpiercey@telus.net Kelly Liusz-Moser Spring Show coordinator liuszmoser@gmail.com Advertising rate schedule: Full page $30, half page $18. Nonmembers, $1.00 per line up to 5 lines. Ten issue discount 20%. Five issue discount 10%. Members, Free, up to 5 lines. Contact Fred Tauber at fxtauber@shaw.ca or Edmonton Stamp Club by mail.

4 4 E.S.C. BULLETIN Volume 107 Number 10 NOTICE WARNING: THOSE WHO WANTED A BRIDGE POST CARD. THE END OF THE OFFER IS GOING TO BE THE END OF DECEMBER. (December 31 st,2018 due to mail strike) Read the June ESC Bulletin for details, any post cards left over will be destroyed. With a 40-card run, only 80 post cards will be in circulation. So far, all the post cards sent have a different Edmonton postal cancellation. Two hundred years from now they might even be worth something. Barend Wissink HACKERS TRY TO GET YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION A recent form of phishing is rampant on the internet. They use public information about the ESC board of directors and send requests for payment from these names. Delete, do not reply. The Summer Auction Committee is now accepting auction lots for See Rod Verrier, Carol Warren at any club meeting. Trading Post Frank von Hausen, fvhstamps.com, , fvhstamps@aol.com. We buy & sell stamps of Canada, European, foreign and topicals. Postcards, postal history covers, Catalogues, Albums & accessories. Many discount prices. Weekly auctions. On Ebay ANGOLA #5_U, (8 bids) $31 CEYLON #13_U, (23 bids) $252 BRUNEI #N16_MNH, (13 bids) $35

5 5 E.S.C. BULLETIN Volume 107, Number 10 President s Message As many members are aware, we had to cancel the 12 November meeting because the school was closed for Remembrance Day. We tried to contact all our members to inform them of the cancelled meeting and the replacement meeting on 19 November. There are a substantial number of members that do not have their address on file with us. Judging by the time it took me to make my share of the phone calls it took 6 hours to contact most of the members without addresses plus follow up calls to members who did not have an answering service. Please if you have an address let us know what it is so we can quickly provide you with important information such as a cancelled meeting. We also have several members who have changed their phone numbers, again please let Fred know so we can contact you when necessary. The Spring Show is progressing. We have 13 dealers who have stated they will attend and a couple more tentative answers from two more dealers. It should be another interesting and successful show. Remember that we are again having the fun frames for members. It is both a fun time for members to display their collecting knowledge and stamps as well as providing pleasure for us to view our fellow members work. There are plans for a joint meeting in Red Deer of the Calgary Club, Edmonton Club and stamp collectors in Red Deer thinking again about forming a stamp club in Red Deer. More information will be available in the New Year. Please think of attending this one-day event. Don t forget that the Summer Meeting with the Summer Auction is coming up quickly. Get your lots in as soon as you can to Fred. It is first come first serve to get lots into the Summer Auction. Auction forms and information are available at the information table when you come into the regular ESC meetings. The Christmas Meeting is coming up on December 10. Enjoy your beginning of the Holiday Season. Take this opportunity to mingle and get to know your fellow stamp members better. Richard Barnes

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8 8 E.S.C. BULLETIN Volume 107, Number 10 Winged Victory - A True Mystery Stamp Series Richard Barnes The Balkans from roughly 1890s to 1930s was a cornucopia of fascinating, frustrating, philatelic forgeries and fantasies. Probably the best example of this is a series of stamps that first made news in the Philatelic Press in 1917as being used in North Epirus (Fig 1). This press release referred a set of eight crudely printed stamps based on a rendering of the statue of Winged Victory by Paionios (Fig 2). This set is listed to have seven stamps ranging in value from 1 lepton to 5 drachmai plus a surcharged stamp of 1 lepton on 10 lepta. There was as little care taken when printing these stamps as there was with the drawing of the design. There are numerous shade differences in these stamps suggesting different printings. These stamps can be found with two different double ring cancels, dated October 1917 from the cities of Gjirokaster or Sarande. Both these cities at the date of the postal cancellation were in the Italian zone of occupation. Why were Greek occupation (?) stamps being used in the Italian postal system? At a later unspecified date an additional set of five stamps was created by overprinting the Greek occupation stamps with Shqipenia on the top of the stamp, a large double eagle over the body of the stamp and Albanian currency on the bottom of the stamp. The five stamps listed are 2q on 1 lepton (Fig 3), 5q on 5 lepta, 10q on 2 drachma, 25q on 25 lepta, 50q on 1drachma (Fig 4). The majority of the Next page

9 9 E.S.C. BULLETIN Volume 107, Number 10 information in this note is derived from The Stamps and Posts of Albania and Epirus 1878 to 1945 by John S. Phipps. Fig 3 Fig4 Fig5 It is possible that the printing of bogus stamps continued after There are unlisted postage due stamps using the Albanian currency (Fig 5 [5q on 5 lepta]). This in turn was followed by another issue with the currency changed again to cents and francs. This bogus set has both stamps (Fig 6) and postage dues (Fig 7). Fig 6 Fig 7 The various stamp sets built upon the Winged Victory stamps unlike most of the interesting stamps created as per this region at this time were not adequately advertised. Probably because of this these different stamp sets did not make it into any stamp catalogue that I am aware of. I could not find any reference to these stamps on the web. The odd times I looked on dealer sites I did not find even one stamp from these different sets. Anyone having examples of stamps from these sets should let other stamp Next page

10 10 E.S.C. BULLETIN Volume 107, Number 10 collectors know what you have and get it published. Even the basic information of how many stamps compose a stamp set is presently lacking. Other nuggets of information such as; production numbers, dates of issue, number of printings per issue are needed. Please add to the information necessary to solve the mysteries surrounding the Winged Victory stamp series. Maybe somebody knows who is responsible for this series of stamps? Richard Barnes Recent Ebay BRITISH GUIANA #28_U, (9 bids) $23 / BRITISH GUIANA #51_MHR, (14 bids) $30 BRITISH GUIANA #171_MH, (13 bids) $54 BRITISH HONDURAS #1_MH, (15 bids) $34

11 11 E.S.C. BULLETIN Volume 107, Number 10 Meeting Dates The Edmonton Stamp Club meets Mondays at 6:00 p.m. in the cafeteria of St. Joseph High School, Street. Park to the north of the school and use the main entrance at the south-east corner of the school. For information about the club call or December 10 th Edmonton Stamp Club National Spring Show March 23 rd & 24 th, 2019 Edmonton BNAPS (British North America Philatelic Society) meets from time to time. All BNAPSers welcome. For information contact David Piercey at or Steven Friedenthal at Correction Barend Wissink's, article from November, Bridge # January 7 th & 21 st February 4 th & 25th March 4 th & 18 th April 1 st, 15 th & 29 th May 13 th & 27 th June 10 th (elections) In the article Medicine Hat Railway Bridge, the first post card was attributed to G.T. Anderson when it should have been T.G. Anderton. Anderton was a member of the N.W.M.P. In 1879 he took discharge from Fort Macleod to become a photographer. He is listed as the first Medicine Hat photographer A great big thank you to Rick Parama for the catching the mistake. Barend Ebay (all prices are converted to Canadian dollars) Macao #3_MHR, (11 bids) $31 / Macao #8_U, (11 bids) $53 / Macao #158b_MH, (12) $52

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13 13 E.S.C. BULLETIN Volume 107, Number 10 THE PANAMA CANAL STORY Part 4 Continued from November 2018 Ray Ireson Next page

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19 19 E.S.C. BULLETIN Volume 107, Number 10 The Stamp Gallery Featuring Canada, British Colonies, Europe And the Rest Of The World Ihor Rudyk Ave. open: Thursday to Saturday Edmonton, Alberta 10am to 5 pm T5N 0K2 Phone: ivrudyk@shaw.ca Over 500 Red Boxes Half Catalogue Or Less Unitrade Canada Specialized Catalog Available Dec 10 th,2018 Order your copy, only $35 (retail $45) Ebay USA #72P3_M, proof on India paper, (14 bids) $49 / #113E3e_MNH, (18 bids) $119 USA #190_U, (11 bids) $13 / USA #208_U, (14 bids) $28

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