Lawrence To Head Americover 2008 Exhibition Jury
Ken Lawrence of Pennsylvania will be chief judge for Americover 2008, the annual show and convention of the American First Day Cover Society.
He will be joined on the exhibition jury by Harvey Tilles of North Carolina, Peter Martin of Connecticut, Tony Wawrukiewicz of Oregon, and Charles Verge of Ontario. Steven Zwillinger of Maryland is the apprentice.
The three-day World Series of Philately show will be held August 22-24 at the Fairview Park Marriott Hotel in Falls Church, Va., and will feature a large mostly-FDC bourse, cachetmakers bourse, top exhibits, a banquet, meetings, seminars, youth booth, pre-show area tour and post-show dinner event. A first day of issue ceremony and a forum by postal officials involved with first day covers is also likely.
Eliot Landau, a veteran WSP and first day cover exhibitor, won the Grand Award for best exhibit at Americover 2007 for his "The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial Series of 1945-46 and It's First Day Covers and Use." He will represent Americover at the WSP Champion of Champions competition one week before Americover 2008, during StampShow 2008 in Hartford, Conn.
Lawrence is a prolific researcher and author on many philatelic fronts but especially 20th century United States stamps and postal history. His articles appear in numerous journals and he has authored books on plate number coils and the Liberty series of postage stamps. He has been a consultant to a number of collectors and exhibitors of first day covers.
Martin is a past editor of First Days, Scott Stamp Monthly, and the American Philatelist, and has authored many articles in the philatelic press on revenue stamps and postal history of the National Parks, among other topics.
Tilles was a founder and first president of the North Carolina Postal History Society. He currently serves on the boards of the Postal History Society and the Military Postal History Society.
Verge is immediate past president of the Royal Philatelic Society of Canada and is an international author, exhibitor and FIP judge. He is also past president of the Éire Philatelic Association and the American Association of Philatelic Exhibitors, and a consultant to Canada Post, the Canadian Postal Museum, and the Canadian Stamp Dealers Association.
Wawrukiewicz is a specialist in the postal rates and auxiliary markings of the United States. He has exhibited modern U.S. postal history and authors a column on this subject in Linn’s Stamp News.
Zwillinger collects, exhibits, and authors articles on the cachets of Burma, India, Aden, British Somaliland, and Sudan, and has exhibited these areas at Americover and other national shows.
The Americover 2008 prospectus and exhibit application may soon be downloaded from the AFDCS Web site, www.afdcs.org
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