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Links of Interest
Philatelic Societies
American Philatelic Society - The APS was founded in 1887 and
is the world's largest collector organization with members in
110 countries. It is supported entirely by membership dues, gifts and the sale of publications and services. Founded in 1886, the APS is now in its second century of service to stamp collectors and postal historians.
Confederate
Stamp Alliance - The CSA was founded in 1935 and is a non-political
organization dedicated to fraternity, research, and cooperation
among collectors of Confederate stamps and postal history. Advantages
include the CSA Authentication Service and an award winning quarterly
journal, The Confederate Philatelist. Click here to download a CSA
membership application in PDF format. Can't
open PDF files? The PDF format is viewable with free software
- Adobe
Acrobat Reader. If you don't have this, you can download
it for free here.
U.S. Philatelic Classics Society - The USPCS is the successor
of "The Three Cent 1851-57 Unit" (Unit Number 11) of
the American Philatelic Society. It was originally founded by
a group of '51 to '57 specialists that included Dr. Carroll Chase,
Stanley B. Ashbrook, and Leo J. Shaughnessy. Since its founding,
the Classics Society has broadened its scope to include postal
issues and postal history from the stampless era up to the Bureau
Issues, as well as the occasional Confederate. Membership advantages
include the award winning quarterly magazine, The Chronicle.
Confederate Postal History Projects
Confederate
States Catalog and Handbook - In October 2006 the Confederate
Stamp Alliance announced acquisition of the rights to the New
Dietz Confederate States Catalog and Handbook, last published
in 1986. The 21st century edition of the Confederate States
Catalog and Handbook is long overdue and will no doubt be
in much demand by collectors, serious students and dealers. The
new catalog will take advantage of all of the marvelous changes
in technology that have occurred in the past three decades, including a full color catalog. The publication
goal is 2012.
Click on "interview" below to hear APS Stamp Talk host Nancy Clark discussing the CSA Catalog project with Editor-in-Chief Trish Kaufmann.
Civil War and Confederate Postal History Articles Online
From Richmond to Columbia: Following the Trail of Frank Baptist and the 1864 Transfer of the Confederate 10-Cents Stamp Steel Printing Plates The Confederate Stamp Alliance and the Smithsonian National Postal Museum are pleased to award its first scholarship to CSA member Kevin P. Andersen for this study published in the 4Q 2011 issue of The Confederate Philatelist.
Arkansas
Postal History - Dr. Bruce Roberts' 35
years of accumulated knowledge on the subject. This non-commercial
site is dedicated to the accumulation and dissemination of information
about the postal system in Arkansas and in Indian Territory. Bruce is the section editor for
Arkansas in the 2012 CSA Catalog.
Civil
War Postal History of Vicksburg, Mississippi - A William S.
Parks in-depth study of one town. A well researched subject which
will be the place for researchers to turn now and far into the
future.
Rebel Dollars and Documents, Yankee Stamps -
by Michael Mahler.
On October 1, 1862, a broad tax program designed by the United States Congress to offset the rising costs of the Union Civil War effort took effect, including a detailed schedule of documentary stamp taxes. In a stance at once consistent and paradoxical, the US government considered these taxes payable also in the eleven "rebellious states" otherwise known as the Confederate States of America. This presentation shows, via intact stamped documents, how those taxes were collected. Okay, so this isn't strictly Confederate, but it is a rich, fascinating and heretofore completely unrecognized subfield of US Civil War era fiscal history. This presentation includes illustrations of 50 documents stamped within the Occupied Confederacy, and 45 more stamped retroactively after the war, as well as a census of all recorded examples in each of these classes.
Confederate Exhibits Online
The Buck Boshwit Collection - The scanned collection of Confederate Tennessee Postal History (as well as Arkansas and magnificent adversity covers) formed by the late Buck Boshwit of Memphis. Buck won virtually every one of the Confederate Stamp Alliance exhbit awards including the coveted CSA Trophy, as well as many national philatelic exhbit awards. Prior to the auction of most of his collection, the Boshwit family allowed Buck's wonderful collection to be scanned by the Shelby County Archives Department of the County Register so that it would remain available to future students and researchers. Take the time to enjoy this magnificent collection so lovingly put together over many years.
General Helpful Sources - Philatelic and non-philatelic
Library of Congress - This link is directly to the Civil War section, an essential resource for the researcher with a very deep range of every kind of information - from books and photographs to video, movie and audio history.
Arago - People, Postage and the Post - the Confederate section of the SmithsonianNational Postal Museum. A resource for the study of philately and postal operations. One of the many research projects with which I have been involved. This is an outstanding and continually evolving resource. Lucky for Confederate specialists that this was one of the first sections to be included. It was unveiled at the Washington 2006 international exhibition.
U.S. National Archives - On-line access to art works, census data, US legal manuscripts, the Federal Register and so much more. An invaluable source.
2-Clicks Stamps - a stamp collecting directory that provides collectors an online philatelic guide with a database of 3,500 classified philatelic web pages, all under a specific category - an excellent resource.
AskPhil
(short for "Philately") is provided as a service
to offer general answers to questions about stamp collecting.
It is a the non-commercial, all-reference site sponsored by the
Collectors Club of Chicago and covers a broad range of subjects.
Highly
iTools Use the best tool for the job. Find and share the best tools to get whatever you want done. Simply.
Joe
Luft's Philatelic Research Page - An extensive selection of
worldwide philatelic links.
Virtual
Stamp Club - An on-line philatelic newspaper or magazine, with
a very active "Letters to the Editor" section. In the
forum, you'll find news, information, opinions and advice.
Stamp
Link - "Your on-ramp to the hottest sites in stamp collecting"
Collector
Cafe This online community guide sponsored by Stanley Gibbons,
provides articles and news on more than 90 collecting interests.
Visitors can contact other collectors and post free advertisements
in the classified section. Collector Cafe contains links to hundreds
of specialist dealer sites and is a valuable source of information
for every collector.
Stamp
Forgery Guide - Worldwide
sources of information on forged stamps and stamp expertising
searchable by country or expert, past and present, with over 1700
listings.
General Civil War Websites of Special Interest
American
Civil War -
"Your history site on the Web". While not philatelic,
this is a comprehensive Civil War site with forums that may be
of interest and is a good source for research projects.
Brian and Maria Green - Dealing in paper memorabilia of the Civil War - autographs, letters, documents, diaries, currency and stamps. Brian has been in the business for forty years and visits major Civil War shows around the country. Brian's wife, Maria, shares his enthusiasm for things Confederate.
Jim
Stanley & Associates - Jim is a collector and purveyor of
museum quality investment grade Civil War artifacts, images and
documents. If your interests go beyond "paper", you
may want to visit Jim's site.
Museum Quality Americana - This is a division of Cal Packard, LLC. Cal and his daughter Sarah sell quality historical artifacts and documents. A nicely done and most interesting site that specializes in Civil War materials with emphasis on "paper".
The Battery Relics - Cecil Hooper's Civil War relic website "Giving History a Future". Cecil has a small section of documents and letters as well.
Confederate Railroads - David L. Bright's excellent resource. You will find each railroad, its location and length, its type and size of rail, the number of cars and locomotives it had when the war started, and the names and technical data of each locomotive. There are also lists of stations on each road and comments about most Confederate cities, taken from a Confederate railroad guide. There are well over 7,500 transcriptions of the railroad issues-related documents that he continues to find and post.
Philatelic Retail Dealers - Respected Competitors
John L. Kimbrough - My esteemed online competitor. John and I both have a passion for Confederates. His site also has articles and an in depth section on Confederate fakes. John is a respected author as well as a fellow member of the CSA Authentication Service.
Richard Frajola - One of the most knowledgeable U.S. students/dealers in the country, also a former postal history auctioneer. While his specialty is mostly quality U.S., he also knows and handles Confederates. He maintains a popular Message Board for collectors/dealers on his site as well.
Auction Houses that offer Confederates
Schuyler J. Rumsey - San Francisco
Robert A. Siegel - New York
Philatelic Exhibition Websites
APS Show Calendar - lists all the major national shows
New York 2016 - the next big international show
NAPEX - Washington, DC area - the premier East coast show
WESTPEX - San Francisco area - the premier West coast show
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