WESTPEX 2010

Stamp Show

 

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Please contact the Meetings Committee to schedule a meeting or event. The meeting request form is found here.

All meetings are open to the public unless otherwise stated.

A map of the show can be found here.

 

CALENDAR OF EVENTS - as of March 12, 10
Unless otherwise noted all SOCIETY MEETINGS and SEMINARS are open to the public.

Time

Meeting

Room

Wednesday April 21, 2010

9:00am

APS Seminar (8 hour)
Computers in Philately presented by George Fekete. Fee is charged. Click here for more info.

Anaheim Room

10:00am

Auction Viewing (8 hour)
Schuyler Rumsey Philatelic Auctions

Bayside III

6:00pm

Collectors Club of San Francisco Dinner (3 hour)
Presentation: The Beginnings of the Postal Service in Poland's Second Republic: 1918-1920 by Professor Julian Auleytner of Warsaw, Poland

Vineyard Room

Thursday April 22, 2010

9:00am

Scandinavian Collectors Club All Day Seminar (SCC)
Half hour and one hour presentations

Bayside I

Post-WW1 Finnish-Russian Rebellions by Randy Tuuri (30 minutes)
 

Bayside I

APS Seminar (8 hour)
Computers in Philately presented by George Fekete. Fee is charged. Click here for more info.

Anaheim Room

9:30am

Selected Danish First Day Covers by Alan Warren (30 minutes)
 

Bayside I

10:00am

Swedish Perfins by Jerry Moore
 

Bayside I

Auction (12 hour)
Schuyler Rumsey Philatelic Auctions (all day)

Bayside II

Auction Viewing (10 hour)
 

Bayside III

11:00am

Pre-1950 Faroes by Geoffrey Noer
 

Bayside I

12:00pm

Norwegian Revenue-Stamped Paper by Paul Nelson (30 minutes)
 

Bayside I

12:30pm

SCC Philatelic Library by Paul Albright (30 minutes)
 

Bayside I

1:30pm

Danish West Indies by Arnold Sorensen
 

Bayside I

2:30pm

Stockholm Local Delivery - 1855-1907 by Mats Roing
 

Bayside I

3:30pm

Finnish Railway Mail to St. Petersburg by Roger Quinby (30 minutes)
 

Bayside I

4:00pm

Sven Ewert's Swedish Test Stamps by John Larson (30 minutes)
 

Bayside I

4:30pm

Third-Party Across-Lines Wartime Mail to and from Scandinavia by Ed Fraser (30 minutes)
 

Bayside I

7:00pm

Tiffany Dinner
No Host Cocktails 7 P.M., Dinner 8 P.M., Speaker: APS Vice President Nick A. Lombardi. (Contact Judy Jarvis.)

Vineyard Room

Friday April 23, 2010

9:45am

Opening Ceremonies 50th Annual WESTPEX (15 minutes)
 

2nd Floor

10:00am

Auction
Schuyler Rumsey Philatelic Auctions (all day)

Bayside II

WESTPEX Youth Activities (8 hour)
 

Santa Clara Room

Auction Viewing (8 hour)
 

Bayside III

Opening of WESTPEX Exhibits and Dealers Bourse
 

2nd Floor

11:00am

Docent Tour of WESTPEX Archive Exhibit (30 minutes)
Meet Kristin Patterson at Frame 1

 

1:00pm

Docent Tour of Exhibits
Meet Bill Barlow at 2nd Floor Registration

 

2:00pm

Rossica Society Northern California Chapter (2 hour)
Three 20 Minute Presentations: The Art of Exhibiting, Russian Insured Mail-an overview, Modern Russian Postal History by Dr. Ross Marshall (Questions and answers after each presentation)

Santa Barbara Room

3:00pm

General Show Tour
Meet Wallace Craig at 2nd Floor Registration

 

6:00pm

Closing of WESTPEX Exhibits and Dealers Bourse
 

 

Western Cover Society (WCS) (3 hour)
Board Meeting (Members Only)

Room 5096

6:30pm

Arizona Philatelic Rangers 50th Anniversary Dinner (2 hour 30 minutes)
No Host Cocktails 6:30 P.M., Dinner Meeting 7 P.M. at Broadway Prime Restaurant, 1316 Broadway, Burlingame, CA. 94010. By Invitation Only. (See John Birkinbine II.)

 

7:00pm

Scandinavian Collectors Club Dinner (SCC)
(For details see SCC Welcome Table at Booth #5)

 

Saturday April 24, 2010

9:00am

Scandinavian Collectors Club Board Meeting (SCC) (1 hour 30 minutes)
(Members Only)

Bayside I

Polonus Philatelic Society Board Meeting (PPS) (1 hour 30 minutes)
(Members Only)

Santa Barbara Room

10:00am

Auction
Schuyler Rumsey Philatelic Auctions (all day)

Bayside II

WESTPEX Youth Activities (8 hour)
 

Santa Clara Room

United States Philatelic Classics Society (USPCS)
Presentation: Pacific Northwest Mail Before Post Offices by Dale Forster

Room 5096

Ryukyu Philatelic Specialist Society (RPSS) (2 hour)
 

Room 8024

Auction Viewing (8 hour)
 

Bayside III

Opening of WESTPEX Exhibits and Dealers Bourse
 

2nd Floor

10:30am

Scandinavian Collectors Club (SCC)
Annual Meeting

Bayside I

Polonus Philatelic Society (PPS) (2 hour)
General Membership Meeting

Santa Barbara Room

11:00am

General Show Tour
Meet Wayne Manuz at 2nd Floor Registration

 

American Philatelic Society Town Meeting ( APS)
with Wade E. Saadi, APS President

Anaheim Room

CAL-REV and ARA
 

Room 4096

Netherlands Philatelists of California (2 hour)
Celebration of 40th Anniversary

Room 5096

International Society of Guatemala Collectors (ISGC)
Members / Board Meeting

Room 6096

British North America Philatelic Society-Golden West Regional Group (BNAPS)
Presentation: Reverand E. A. Butler, The Man from Sandy Point by Norris (Bob) Dyer

Room 8042

11:30am

Scandinavian Collectors Club (SCC)
Presentation: Iceland's Classic Stamps by Sigurður R. Pétursson

Bayside I

12:00pm

International Philippine Philatelic Society (IPPS) (2 hour)
Presentation: Philippine Revenue Stamps on Emergency "Guerrilla" Currency by Gary B. Weiss, M.D., PhD.

Room 4096

Germany Philatelic Society, Chapter 24 (GPS) (2 hour)
Members may bring interesting German Postal items to discuss.

Room 8042

1:00pm

Polonus Philatelic Society (PPS)
Presentation by Professor Julian Auleytner from Warsaw University (Poland): Provisional and Local Issues of the Polish Second Republic: 1918-1920

Bayside I

Peninsula Philatelic Club and CNCPS
Presentation: Get All Your eBay Questions Answered by Bill Dwyer

Santa Barbara Room

Canal Zone Study Group (CZSG) (1 hour 30 minutes)
 

Room 5096

China Stamp Society, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter (CSS)
Presentation: Commemoratives of the Last Empress: The Empress Dowager Issue of China by Ron Biell

Room 6096

2:00pm

American Association of Philatelic Exhibitors (AAPE)
 

Anaheim Room

International Society for Portuguese Philately (ISPP) (2 hour)
Show and Tell

Room 4096

Cats on Stamps Study Unit, ATA (2 hour)
 

Room 6096

East Bay Collectors' Club Philatelic Presentations
 

Room 8042

Brazil Philatelic Association-Annual Meeting (BPA)
Short business meeting followed by show and tell session of unusual items from members' collections and discussion of favorite sources for buying and selling Brazilian material

Room 8024

3:00pm

Docent Tour of Exhibits
Meet Jim Busse at 2nd Floor Registration

 

Educators Workshop (3 hour)
 

Santa Barbara Room

Judges Critique (2 hour)
 

Anaheim Room

Eire Philatelic Association(EPA) (1 hour 30 minutes)
Presentation on Irish Postal History by Dr. James Lawless

Room 8042

4:00pm

American Topical Associaton Roundtable (ATA)
 

Room 5096

6:00pm

Closing of WESTPEX Exhibits and Dealers Bourse
 

 

Awards Banquet (3 hour)
(Ticket Required)

Irvine/Newport Beach Rooms

Sunday April 25, 2010

8:00am

Scandinavian Collectors Club, Chapter 21-hosted frukost (SCC)
SCC and Chapter 21 attendees only (For details see SCC Welcome Table at Booth #5)

 

10:00am

Exhibitors' Guided Tour of Scandinavian Collectors Club Exhibits (SCC)
Meet at SCC Welcome Table at Booth #5

 

Auction
Schuyler Rumsey Philatelic Auctions (all day)

Bayside II

WESTPEX Youth Activities (6 hour)
 

Santa Clara Room

Western Cover Society (WCS) (2 hour)
Presentation: General Stephen Watts Kearny's Round-Trip Transcontinental Expedition-June 1846-August 1847 by Steve Walske, Western Cover Society Director

Santa Barbara Room

Auction Viewing (3 hour)
 

Bayside III

Opening of WESTPEX Exhibits and Bourse
 

2nd Floor

11:00am

Docent Tour of Polonus Philatelic Society Exhibits (PPS)
Meet Dr. James Mazepa at 2nd Floor Registration

 

Nepal & Tibet Philatelic Study Circle
 

Room 6096

12:00pm

Boy Scout Stamp Collecting Merit Badge Workshop (3 hour)
(Scouts and Leaders only)

Santa Barbara Room

Council of Northern California Philatelic Societies (CNCPS)
 

Room 4096

1:00pm

Society for Thai Philately (STP)
 

Room 4096

Friends of the Western Philatelic Library, Inc.
 

Room 5096

Universal Ship Cancellation Society (USCS)
Presentation: USS San Francisco CA-38, A Gallant Warrior by Steve Shay

Room 6096

2:00pm

Alameda Stamp Club
Five-minute talks illustrated by stamps, cards, or covers by each member on a subject of his or her choosing

Room 5096

4:00pm

Closing of WESTPEX Exhibits and Bourse
 

 

 

APS Education Course goes "On the Road"

The American Philatelic Society is offering the Computers in Philately course, taught by APS Instructor George Fekete, April 21 – 22, 2010 prior to WESTPEX as part of its continuing education series.  The computer has a plethora of uses for the philatelist.  Students taking this course will receive a toolkit designed to optimize use of the computer for a variety of philatelic tasks in this hands-on course. Software and technology that can be used to take advantage of graphics, drawing, scanning, database, publishing, and commercial philatelic applications will be covered. Students are invited to suggest topics not mentioned in the course description for possible integration into the curriculum. Computers will NOT be provided in this course, so each student should bring a PC or Mac. A basic knowledge of computer use is necessary to receive the most benefit from this course.

George is a lifelong stamp collector, a life member of both the American Philatelic Society and the American Philatelic Research Library. From 2003 – 2007 he served on the APS Board of Vice Presidents.  His other philatelic memberships include the APS Writers Unit 30, United States Stamp Society, Empire State Postal History Society, Auxiliary Markings Club, American Philatelic Congress, and the Rochester Philatelic Association. George has taught Computers & Philately with American Philatelist editor Barb Boal and the assisted Dennis Gilson in teaching the Washington-Franklins course at APS Summer Seminars.

 

The cost of the course is $195 for APS members and $295 for nonmembers and will be held at the WESTEX stamp show host hotel, the San Francisco Airport Marriott Hotel.  WESTPEX, April 23 – 25, 2010, is celebrating its 50th anniversary with 75 dealers from around the world.  Register for this course at the American Philatelic Society website, www.stamps.org on the Education page or by contacting Gretchen Moody, 814-933-3803. A $15 discount is available until March 31, 2010.  Learn about other "On the Road" courses at the APS website.