Post Mark Collectors Club Annual Convention

For those who may be interested, here is an announcement for the
annual convention of the Post Mark Collectors Club:

Post Mark Collectors Club Meets July 21-24 in
New London, CT, for 49th Annual Convention


NEW LONDON, CT – May 26, 2010 – Members of the national Post Mark
Collectors Club will gather here in late July for their 49th annual
convention, bringing their interest in postal history and its paper
collectibles back to New England for the first time in 12 years.

The July 21-24 convention will draw more than 100 collectors and
guests to New London for four full days of postmark discussions and
trading. Highlights will include a side trip to Block Island, Rhode
Island, where there will be a special pictorial cancellation marking
the occasion, educational sessions on historic postmarks, post office
and postal history, and a special U.S. Postal Service temporary
station on-site.

Members of the club collect postal cancellations from U.S. and foreign
towns and cities, and their conventions always feature auction sales
of historic postmarks and valuable postal history and related
collecting material. There are also special exhibits and tables full
of tens of thousands of postmarks that are free for the taking by
members. This year, there will also be sales tables, open to the
public, with a strong emphasis on markings from discontinued post
offices, pictorial cancels, cacheted first day and special event
envelopes prepared by
the Connecticut Cover Club, and other philatelic material.

Also available for inspection and sale will be PMCC’s Directory of
Post Offices, the world’s only published guide to all currently
operating U. S. post offices, available in individual state lists or
as a comprehensive
book.

The Post Mark Collectors Club was founded in 1946 and has held yearly
conventions since 1962. In addition to uniting collectors, the club
also maintains the largest U.S. museum dedicated to historic
postmarks. Located in Bellevue, Ohio, the Margie Pfund Postmark Museum
has well over a million postal cancellations on covers and cards, many
from post offices that might otherwise be long forgotten. It also
features thousands of post office photographs and an extensive library
of postal reference books.

The July convention, most of which is open to the public, will feature
a set of special commemorative covers, along with a temporary U.S.
Postal Service substation that will postmark outgoing mail with a
cancellation specially designed for the event. The site of the
convention is the Radisson Hotel, 35 Governor Winthrop Blvd. in New
London. Hours are 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday,
and 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday.

For more information about the convention, contact Andrew Mitchell at
860-243-9026, , or P.O. Box 5, Tariffville, CT
06081 More information about the Post Mark Collectors Club can be
found at www.postmarks.org.

If you can attend, enjoy!

Donna
http://www.uspsdistricts.com/provdist/
Philatelic Finds