TRISH
KAUFMANN began collecting Confederate postal history
in her teens and quickly became engrossed in exhibiting, writing
and research on the subject. She served as editor of The
Confederate Philatelist, official publication of the Confederate
Stamp Alliance, from 1973-1987 and co-editor prior to that from
1970-73, a total of 17 1/2 years. In March 2006, she was appointed
Associate Editor of The Confederate Philatelist, renewing
that duty to assist the new editor.
CSA President James Monroe appointed Kaufmann Editor-in-Chief
of the new Confederate States Catalog and Handbook in
late October 2006 after announcing the acquisition of the rights
to the New Dietz Confederate States Catalog and Handbook,
last published in 1986. The forthcoming volume will simply be
titled the Confederate States Catalog and Handbook. In
1931, August Dietz published the first catalog that bore his
name. Subsequent editions were issued in 1937, 1945, and 1959.
The most recent edition was published in 1986 and a new edition
has not been issued since. 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 two decades,
including full color. The publication goal is 2010, in an attempt
to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the Confederate Stamp
Alliance. The Alliance 75th anniversary celebration will be
held in Richmond, Virginia, in conjunction with the APS StampShow
in August 2010. An
extensive website explaining the catalog project may be found
at www.csacatalog.org
Trish
is also the webmaster.
Trish
is currently the President of the Confederate Stamp Alliance
for the 2008-09 term, the first woman to ever hold that position.
She was also the first woman and the youngest person ever bestowed
the permanent honorary title of "General" in the Confederate
Stamp Alliance (1985) and has won the CSA Haydn Myer Award twice
for service to the Alliance. She has been a member of the CSA
Authentication Service since 1996 and served as the Recording
Secretary from July 1996 - November 2007. She has won numerous
exhibitor awards including Grand Awards and Reserve Grand Awards
in national philatelic competition with both her Confederate
and Classic Valentine collections.
Trish
has been a section editor of The Confederate Stampless Cover
Catalog as well as a contributor to the 1986 New Dietz
Confederate States Catalogue and annual updates of the Scott
Specialized Catalogue. She has written innumerable philatelic
research articles, primarily on Confederates and U.S. antique
valentines and postal history for The American Philatelist,
The Congress Book, Smithsonian Magazine, Way Markings, The Confederate
Philatelist and the many other publications. Off and on,
she has also written a column entitled "Eye on the Market"
for The Confederate Philatelist on the status of Confederate
material in the philatelic marketplace. Beginning in January
2007, Trish began writing a monthly column entitled "The
Confederate Post" for The American Stamp Dealer and
Collector , the slick full color monthly publication of
the American Stamp Dealers Association. These are being archived
on this website on the articles page. Trish was surprised by a special feature on her by the editor, Randy Neil, in his column First Word in April 2008.
Society
affiliations include life membership in the American Philatelic
Society, Confederate Stamp Alliance, U.S. Philatelic Classics
Society, and the American Philatelic Research Library, of which
she is also a patron; she is also a member of the American Stamp
Dealers Assocation and numerous other collector organizations
such as the Collectors Club of New York. She has served on the
board of directors of the American Philatelic Research Library
(the first female member), the Society of Philatelic Americans,
the Virginia Postal History Society, NAPEX, and the World Stamp
Expo Advisory Board to the U.S. Postal Service
She
was on the CSA Postmaster Provisional Revision Committee working
with the publishers of the Scott Catalogue to revise
this important section of Scott, as well as serving in
a similar capacity revising the Confederate section of the Minkus
Catalogue. She works regularly with the Scott Catalogue
editors to maintain the Confederate sections of Volume I and
the Scott Specialized Catalogue. Additionally, she serves
as a researcher for the National Postal Museum, a division of
the Smithsonian, on their extensive cataloging project, "Arago",
which was unveiled May 27, 2006.
It
was Trish's definitive research on the 3-cent 1861 Postmaster
Provisionals, published jointly in both the 1984 and 2000
American Philatelist and The Confederate Philatelist,
that resulted in an entirely new section in the 2000 Scott
Specialized Catalogue. This section in the Scott Catalogue
immediately precedes the Confederate States section. Her research
was a 16 year project, which ultimately disproved the misconceptions
of over a century of prior catalog listings - both U.S. and
Confederate. Her second article, dedicated solely to the Madison
C.H., Florida 3-cent postmaster provisionals, is reproduced
with full color illustrations on this website.
In
1973, she was hired by John Kaufmann as his first employee and,
together with him, formed the Washington, D.C. philatelic auction
house of John W. Kaufmann, Inc. of which she served as Vice-president
until John's death in 1988 when she took over as President.
John and Trish were married in 1975. Trish was one of the first
female auctioneers in the country and
basically served as office manager as well as auction describer.
She closed the business in 1989 when she began working as a
consultant for Stephen J. Osborne, a dealer in the United Kingdom.
As of September 2000, Osborne permanently moved his business
back to England and
they now independently pursue their philatelic careers.
With
well over 40 years of philatelic experience, Trish works as an
independent philatelic consultant and dealer. Her collecting,
exhibiting, research and writing experience speaks for itself.
She was qualified as a philatelic expert witness in 2003 and
is available for court testimony in the fields of U.S. and Confederate
States stamps and postal history, as well as appraisals. She
will also be happy to handle your auction bids for major Confederate
auctions.
On
a personal level, Trish was happily remarried in 1992 to Capt.
Darryl Boyer and together they ran a wreck diving charter boat,
Surface Interval,
from 1991 through 2005. The sale of their boat in January 2006
gave Trish the opportunity to expand her philatelic sales department.
Darryl and Trish met while diving off the Mid-Atlantic coast
of Virginia in 1990 while she was training to become a SCUBA
instructor and he was looking for a dive boat to buy. Although
no longer an active Rotarian, she was the first woman elected
to the Princess Anne, Maryland Rotary Club in 1990. Trish is
also very involved in her calling to Reformation
Lutheran Church in Milford, Delaware where, among other
things, she created and maintains the church Website of over
80 pages.
