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Meetings
Both members and guests are welcome to attend the club’s gatherings. The club meets the first and third Thursdays of the month at 7:00 p.m. The first Thursday’s meeting features a members’ exchange and the club’s business meeting. The third Thursday’s meeting highlights members’ new finds, questions and answers and programs on a variety of philatelic topics.
Upcoming meeting dates, locations and topics include:
- Dec. 4, Gere Branch Library: Business Meeting, Exchange, Show and Tell.
- Dec. 18, Gere Branch Library: “One Frame Exhibiting for Dummies,” by George Wagner.
In 2009, meetings will be held at Gere Branch Library on the first Thursday and at Walt Branch Library on the third Thursday.
Here are the addresses for the libraries:
Anderson Branch Library, Havelock
3635 Touzalin Ave.
Lincoln, Neb.
Eiseley Branch Library
1530 Superior St.
Lincoln, Neb.
Gere Branch Library
2400 S. 56th St.
Lincoln, Neb.
Walt Branch Library
6701 S. 14th St.
Lincoln, Neb.
LINPEX 2009
You can find out details about LINPEX 2009 in the Club’s LINPEX section of the Web site.
LINPEX 2008
The annual Lincoln Philatelic Exposition was held Saturday, Feb. 23-24, 2008. A good crowd of people attended both days. Exhibitors displayed 100 frames of their collections. Six dealers offered their wares at the bourse , while the U.S. Postal Service ran its booth. A children’s table offered young collectors the chance to begin their collections with stamps costing only a penny. The club offered a show cover honoring the U.S. Flag and its more than 50 appearances on stamps in the last 50 years.
Media Coverage
LINPEX received some favorable coverage in the media:
2008 LINPEX Palmares
GRAND, USSS, and Gold
- Tim Lindemuth: 20-cent U.S. Flag of 1981.
Gold
- Eliot A. Landau: OH FREEDOM: The 1940 13th Amendment, Commemorative, the Stamp, its First Day Covers and Postal Uses
- Thomas P. Myers: Riches of Colombia Airmails, 1932–1940
- Steve Henderson: U.S. Army Censorship Markings, 1941 to 1948
- Kenneth Pruess: The State of Taxes
- R. Timothy Bartshe: Postal Stationery of the Orange River Colony–Usages from 1901 to Union (1913)
- Sergio Lugo: Syndicato Condor–Pioneer South American Airline.
Vermeil
- Gregory Frantz: Spitsbergen
- Sergio Lugo: Leather in the Mails, Also AAPE
- Robert Locke: Allied Military Government stamp issues at the conclusion of WWII
- Carl G. Marks: Korea, The Forgotten War, Also AAPE & Most Popular
- Paul Phillips: The Postal History of the Province of Nablus, 1949-2005
- Gregory Frantz: Sweden Local Post.
Silver
- Steve Suffet: Postal History of the U.S. one-cent Liberty Series Stamp
- Alan Anderson: U.S. Official Mail, 1983–1993
- Rusty Morse: The 1993 Oregon Trail Frontiers in First Days
- Robert Hoff: Who looked at and read the mail
- Paul Phillips: The Six Day War of 1967–Its short-term consequences for the Palestinian population.
ONE FRAME EXHIBITS
Gold
- Thomas P. Myers: The 1916 Overprints of Peru
- R. Timothy Bartshe: Registration Marcophilly of the South African Republic (Transvaal), 1881–1900.
Silver Bronze
- Dave Bize: Nebraska Territorial Centennial Issue of 1954.
Bronze
- Alan Anderson: They used what to mail that letter?
- David M. Frye: Cancelled by Request: Cancellations Gathered from Small-town Post Offices in Lancaster County, Nebraska.