The Christmas Seal & Charity Stamp Society

APS affiliate #101, 1914 US Christmas Seal

Purpose

The CS&CSS was created to promote and improve the hobby in various ways; members exhibiting their collections, primarily at stamp shows, and sharing articles and information through our journal, Seal News, and by writing and editing specialized catalogs for sale, and creating free Christmas Seal albums on computer CD. Members meet at national and international stamp shows where they put our hobby and publications on display and give away Christmas Seals in society booths.

1939, 1929

What The Society Does

The Society publishes catalogs for seal collectors and there are many recently completed and ongoing projects. Literature is the Society's main source of income, and members donate their work. Green's Catalog, named for CS&CSS member #2 Dick Green, was first published in 1930, and it remains the Bible of worldwide Christmas Seal collecting. It is divided into 3 parts, US National Christmas Seals, US Local Christmas Seals, and Foreign Christmas Seals. The 2009 edition of Green's part 1 is now nearly 200 pages long. This edition illustrates and prices all US National Christmas Seals, 1907 through 2009 Spring, including perforation and type varieties, sheets, proofs, essays etc. Seals tied on cover by postmark have been added and prices have been brought up to date.

Many of our titles are now available on CDs, enabling anyone with a computer, software and a printer, to publish their own color catalogs. Keeping Society literature current and making it more useful is a primary goal of the CS&CSS. The 1984 edition of Green's part 2, US Local Christmas Seals, is currently being revised by Brian McInturff. A 2008 supplement to the 1984, Green's part 3 foreign section was finished by Charles Hoger, who has been editing Society literature for over thirty years. Tim McGinnis just finished his revision of the Easter Seal section of Mosbaugh's All Fund Catalog, and is beginning work on Boys Town seals, listed in Mosbaugh's Catholic section. Cliff Beattie recently finished his catalog of Canadian Easter Seals, and revision of Green's Canadian Local Christmas Seals. Our President, Lou Caprario, recently finished his Christmas Seal Button Book. George Painter is working on a census of Christmas Seals tied on cover. Many projects remain. Someone needs to consider creating an illustrated topical index to Christmas Seals. If your interested in writing for the CS&CSS, please contact me, John Denune, (740) 587-0276; I'm Green's Part 1 editor and your webmaster, 234 E. Broadway, Granville, OH 43023 jdenune@roadrunner.com

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Seal News, our award winning Quarterly Journal

Editor of Seal News: David Teisler
268 Linden Avenue, Red Hook, NY 12571
845-758-9278 teisler@abct.org

1924, 1934

CS&CSS Auction

Auction Manager: Joseph D. Ward Jr.
801 N. Bay Country Circle, Wichita, KS 67235-1953
316-729-6426 sealward@aol.com

1928, 1930

Meetings of The Society

Modern Meetings of The CS&CSS Where we had an Educational Christmas Seal Booth
1986 Ameripex, Chicago
1989 Stamp Expo '89, Washington, DC
1997 Pacific '97, San Francisco, CA
1997 VAPEX, Virginia Beach, VA
1999 MIDAPHIL, Kansas City, MO
2001 ROPEX, Rochester, NY
2003 Stampshow, Columbus, OH
2006 Washington 2006 World Philatelic Exhibition
2007 VAPEX, November 9-11

2009 APS Stampshow August 6-9, Pittsburgh, PA

2009 StampExpo 400, September 25-27, Albany, NY

1993-S1 ALA Spring Issue, 1979-T4 ALA Design Experiment

Officers of the Society

President: Louis Caprario lcaprario@aim.com
91 Fairview Ave, West Orange, NJ 07052
973-736-9034

Vice-President: Robert W. Messler, Jr MESSLR@RPI.EDU
3 Harvest Place, Ballston Lake, NY 12019-9125
518-877-5346

Secretary-Treasurer: Florence Wright fwright2@rochester.rr.com
PO Box 18615, Rochester, NY 14618-18615

Board of Governors

John Denune, Jr., your webmaster jdenune@roadrunner.com

Jerry Grigatis jerrygrigaitis@aol.com

John M. Hotchner jmhstamp@ix.netcom.com

Cliff Irving 2hike@comcast.net

Henry G. Law HENRYGLAW@aol.com

Joseph D. Ward Jr. sealward@aol.com

Governor and Director at Large:

Dean Schraufnagel schrauf@uic.edu