ph.: (516) 746-5543={ofc}
fax: (516) 294 0923={home}
Aerophilatelic Federation of the Americas
Lower Lobby - Ste. D, Elgin Tower Building
100 East Chicago Street, Elgin, IL 60120
(Does this organization still exist?)
data from an old article :
"Collecting Airmail, Cheryl Ganz, Editor"
panther.bsc.edu/~spezzill/colair.html
Aerophilatelic Society of Southern Africa
FISA-08
c/o Sec./Treas.: Dave Morton, dmorton<@>mweb.co.za
2 Anemone Ave., Welgedacht 7530, South Africa
British Air Mail Society
(formerly: British Aerophilatelic Federation)
Keith D. Hanman - @
55 Jubilee Avenue
Whitton, Middlesex TW2 6JA,
UK
IAS -
Irish Airmail Society
Karl Winkelmann @
5 Dalys Rd., Rochford, Essex SS4 1RA, UK
Mr. David Reid (c.2008)
18 Glenlucan, Killarney Road, Bray,
Co. Wicklow, Ireland
AMSNZ -
Air Mail Society of New Zealand
FISA-10
steve@philatelic.org.nz
P.O. Box 29-144, Fendalton
Christchurch, New Zealand
Tel.: 03-358-4838
Sec.: Alan Tunnicliffe @,
"The Air Mail Society of New Zealand was founded in 1930 at the commencement of regular aerial services in this country. ..with over half its members residing overseas."
FISA -
Fédération Internationale des Sociétés Aérophilatéliques
FIP
(International Federation of Aerophilatelic Societies)
Pres. (c.2008): Stephen Reinhard
= @
P. O. Box 110 
Mineola, NY 11501, USA
ph.: 516 294 0923={home}, 516 746 5543={ofc}
FIP Commission for Aerophilately (new url c.2006)
(lists others not here)
Source: FIP - See: 'Contacts' / 'Commissions'
(Alt URL: via AAMS - new alt url c.2007)
Stephen Reinhard
= @
c/o AAMS
P. O. Box 110
Mineola, NY 11501, USA
ph.: 516 294 0923={home}, 516 746 5543={ofc}
Albert M. Schneider, France:
Expertization of Balloon Mail (and France)
See Also: Topical Index : 'Balloon'
Dieter Leder, Germany:
- @
Expertization: Zeppelinpost; catapult mail
Hermann Walter Sieger, Germany
@
Expertization: German airmails of 1912;
air and zeppelin post, catapult and rocket mail.
Dr. Joachim Simon, Germany:
Expertization: Zeppelinpost; catapult mail ..
Aerophil
- Email
Kendall (Ken) C. Sanford APS, IDPA
613 Championship Drive
Oxford, CT 06478-1298, USA
ph./fax : 203-888-9237
AEROPHILATELY - Books and Covers from AEROPHIL (commercial)
"..world's largest stock of Aerophilatelic books - both new and used, and a large stock of air crash covers.."
(formerly located in Switzerland, Ken has returned to the USA)
ESPACE Lollini's Concorde Catalog
Featuring, "all the stamps worldwide issued about
the Concorde Supersonic airliner."
Their page offers movie clips too!
Concorde Briefmarkensammlung, Germany
Concorde covers & stamps
our Space related page
Specialized Collecting : Ist Thing first : aerogrammes
Topical Index : Aerophilately ...
By Sea
Navicula - .de
Super!
Ship Stamp Society (Alt URL)
10 Heyes Dr., LYMM, Cheshire WA13 0PB, UK
Covering all maritime themes - England,
'This is the specialist society for you, and one of the very few
which manages to issue a magazine every month.'
(Gibbons Stamp Monthly - April 1999).
Wreck & Crach Mail Society ; air, rail, sea, posts
Glen Stephen's Stampboard
data pg.
Mr. Brian Peace
3 Elms, Church Lane, Chapel Allerton
Leeds LS7 4LY England
See also: dealer
Ken Sanford's ' Aerophil '
He is Editor, "La Catastrophe"
The Wreck & Crash Mail Society was formed in the latter part of 1994, and is devoted to the collecting and study of all aspects of delayed and/or damaged mail and interrupted mail services.
Currently the Society is composed of four study groups, namely:
Air Crash Study Group,
Railroad Wreck Study Group,
Ship Wreck Study Group,
Suspended Mail/Conflicts Study Group.
Universal Ship Cancellation Society
747 Shard Court, Fremont, CA 94539-7419, USA
Interested in ships & lighthouses on stamps? Join the ship-stamp mailing list.
Send an e-mail to the majordomo
with no Subject, and the message line: "subscribe ship-stamp (your-email-address)" ; no parenthesis.
Ian Billings - @
of:
Norvick Philatelics
(Alt URL)
P. O. Box 119
Dereham, NR20 3YN, UK
ph.: 44-08450090939
Features the stamps of Great Britain, Special Event and First Day postmarks - Maritime themes
Including Lighthouse stamps and cancels.
Titanic Stamps
- from Stampville
Ed (Edwin)
Jackson's
Boats and Ships (on US Stamps)
a single frame exhibit.
by Land
The Pony Express
From the USPS '
History of the U.S. Postal Service
Pony Express Museum
914 Penn Street
St. Joseph, MO 64503-2544
The Wells Fargo Bank History Museum
420 Montgomery Street
San Francisco, CA 94104-1205
(search for "museum")
Automobiles on Postage Stamps
Here Jim @ Philately.com provides lists featuring autos by manufacturer!
Philatelic Land Rovers
by: T.F. Mills
Includes ANYTHING Rover-ish!
Philatelic Study Unit Motor Vehicles
Klaus Merkent
Firnhaberstrasse 2, D-86159 Augsburg, Germany
See Also:
Petersen Automotive Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Bill Boomer's 1940 Ford
Bill Boomer (@) also keeps
'
Bill's Philatelic Bargains, gotta 'down-size my collection', .ca-SK
Bicycles
Bicycle Stamp Club
ATA-11
USA contact: (c.2004, 2011)
Bill Eubanks,
@
21304 2nd Ave SE,
Bothell, WA 98021-7550, USA
U.K. contact: (c.2004, 2011)
Contact: Pres. Brian Sole
3 Stockfield Road, Claygate,
Esher, Surrey KT10 0QG, UK
Australia contact: (c.2004, 2011)
Tony Tiederman, @ (editor)
P.O. Box 90, Baulkham Hills,
NSW 1755, Australia
By Rail
Horst Brix's Railway Thematic Stamps (in German & much in
English)
Postal History of the First Transcontinental Railroad
by Bruce C. Cooper
"Perhaps one of the most important benefits to the public at large of the opening the Pacific Railroad in
1869 was the greatly increased speed and reliability -- and vastly decreased cost in direct Government
subsidies -- of the transport of transcontinental mail. (Government subsidies for construction of the
railroad were another matter, of course!) "
Mail By Rail (formerly 'Railway Mail Service')
From the USPS 'History of the U.S. Postal Service
Railway Mail Service Library
117 East Main Street
Boyce, VA 22620-9639
Belgium Railway Stamps by Frank Daems
and he covers general Europe
and writes
catalog software (freeware)
Jon Digranes' Norwegian Railways On Stamps
Hans Vink's Dutch Railways On Stamps
:
Jan Langenberg's Dutch Railways on Stamps
Kari Paananen's Finnish Railway Philately
Manfred Kopka's German Railway and World Philately (in German)
'Eisenbahn in Deutschland auf Briefmarken der Welt'
Trains of Europe
"In this site you will find my own pictures of trains, railways and
railway related subjects from different European countries and my
collection of European railway stamps. I'm grateful for any help in
determining types, serial numbers, descriptions of any of the items shown."
Other page links on site include:
European railway stamps / Railway Stations / Railway Artefacts /
The Dutch Railway Museum / Links /
The small track to Belgium / Facts from Holland /
Index of European Railway Resources / (3 different railway webrings)
- and more! - (new URL a/o 7/2001)
Includes a special page on Regional mail in N.E. Finland
Railway Philately Exhibit: A Survey of Rail Philately
"This Exhibit started as a one frame exhibit and like topsy it grew.
Please keep in mind that all of the items are available for purchase. "
from:
The Rail Philatelist (new URL a/o 7/2001)
Al Peterson
P.O.Box 25505 Colorado Springs, CO 80936
Phone : (719)-591-2341, (orders) (800) 807-RAIL
E-mail
conducts mail sales ...
Their listing in the 'Directory' at Collector's Mall.
Featuring other dealers related to rail mail as well!.
A Prague (.CZ) Museums Guide
If you are a steam engine fan this may be the place for you, as it shows the history of the use of steam engines for navigation in Prague. Podskali itself served as the centre for steam engine navigation and many sailors and raftsmen lived there. Open only Wed - Thu 10 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. and 1.30 p.m. - 6 p.m. -
Podskalská Custom House, Rasinovo nábrezí, Prague 2. The page also lists the
The Postal Museum, Nové mlýny 2, Prague 1 and
The National Technical Museum, Kostelní 42, Prague 7 - Phone: 37 36 51 with the description: "
If you are interested in technic and transportation, this is the museum to visit. Very
few tourists finds the way out to it, so if you get tried of the crowds at some of the
more popular museums it may be time to visit this museum. Open Tue - Sun 9 a.m. - 5
p.m."
Mobile Post Office Society
via Swanson
And:
Mobile Post Office Society
P.O.Box 51, Lexington, GA 30648-0051
via R. Kunz
The RPO Postmark Page by Rick Kunz -
@
Primarily U.S. related.
"... Most mail of this era originated in the cities and towns where it
received the local city's postmark. The
history of the RPO is recorded in the postmarks used on mail that was
taken to railroad station letter
boxes or handed directly to the clerks on the trains. ..."
Rick's chief aim is on page 2:
The Railroad Postmark Pricing Project
"This is an ongoing project, and collaborators and more data will be welcomed. Contact Rick Kunz if
you'd like to help."
Data provided:
Price Chart - by number sold
Rarity Factor Chart by number sold
Auctions included
Dealers included
Great Britain and Ireland Railway Letter Stamps 1957-2007:
Colour Edition: A Handbook and Catalogue [Spiral-bound]
The Railway Philatelic Group
"...established as the foremost source of published information on all
aspects of railway philately." - The Group publishes a quarterly journal,
Railway Philately, and
also runs an exchange packet,
a postal auction and an annual convention.
For details write:
F. W. Taylor,
@
5 Garth Lane
Widdrington, Morpeth
Northumberland NE61 5EN. U.K.
(Formerly hosted by Frank Wilson -
Frank sells related material via:
"MailByRail"
Frank J. Wilson
57A Bourne Road
Spaulding, Lincolnsshire, PE11 1JR, U.K.
Paper Heritage
P.O.Box 77 Heathfield TN21 0ZL England.
Telephone: 01435.865686
(International +44.1435.86.56.86)
email mail@paperheritage.co.uk ...
old: www3.mistral.co.uk/paper.heritage
- "Established in England in 1979, we attend fairs, mainly in Britain, and deal in stamps (but not postal history) of all coutries, except for Great Britain and the British Commonwealth."
(has a specific page for
TRAINS with the notation: "Country collectors may find a visit to our Full Railway List worthwhile, especially for China, Cucuta, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Turkey, to name but a few." - AJ ;) {c.2008}
See Also:
Dr. Robin David Gwynn : Expertization:
ship and rail wreck mail,
.nz
Jim Mehrer's Postal History: Literature section:
Railway Postal History Books
Some original works!
Where's That Vehicle Come From?
(or, Trainspotting for Road Users)
Trains & Stamps @ Amazon.com
A respectable listing! c.2008 aj.
Our
'Postal History' section for more on airplanes..ships.. & our
clubs section featuring specialist
Postal History clubs.
Topical Index : Rail...
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