Vol. 19, No 11, Nov, 2023
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Postcard News From Courthouse Square
Get Out to a Postcard Show....It will do you good!
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This issue has information on upcoming postcard shows. We hope you find this issue informative and adding to your interest in postcards and postcard collecting. Let us know if you have ideas for upcoming articles or contributors. Your feedback is welcome. Our subscriber membership is over 16,800 and an ad or article can get wide circulation.
We are enjoying our 19th Year producing and hosting
Postcard News from Courthouse Square!!
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Load Those Postcards in the Car, Come on out to a Show!
It will do you good! It will do everyone good!
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Editors Note: From Jim Taylor, CourthouseSquare.net
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All-Time Best of Show
(EVER)
Demaris Swint
The Best of Show Award, as used over the years at some of our Courthouse Square Antique Postcard and Paper shows is presented to the best display of postcard collecting at that show. We have had competitive exhibits at some but not all of our shows, and we have been fortunate over the years to have a wonderful collector/dealer/organizer/volunteer/cheerleader at most all of the shows I have produced (and many others have been fortunate to have her at their shows as well.) For a number of years, in addition to her collecting skills and interests, she also walked the show floors handing out snacks for all to enjoy. She organized National Postcard Week swaps. She cooked meals for the collectors and dealers in Wichita. (Not just ‘one and done’, but every year she attended. My award for “ Best of Show “ would go to Demaris Swint, for all of her leadership, her kind nature, her deep knowledge of the diversity of the hobby and collectors, her organizing skills…..it could go on and on. She promoted the hobby like no other, whether it was serving the International Federation of Postcard Dealers(IFPD) as a past Secretary and Treasurer, and of course head cheer leader, or being the ‘keeper of the flame’ for National Postcard Week and International Postcard Week, or organizing countless “Post-Crossing” meet-ups in conjunction with our shows, providing and encouraging ‘cross over’ interests of the different generations of collectors.
Demaris will forever be our “Best of Show”
NO ONE, has come close to serving as she has.
Demaris passed away very recently. She will be missed by all who knew her. For all she did for all of us, for so many……She is my all-time favorite “Best of Show”, and we will retire that award at my shows. No one else could come close. Rest in Peace, Demaris. Thank you for being my friend.
....Jim Taylor
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See DETAILS of 2023-24 Show Schedules Below!!
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CHECK WITH THE PROMOTER TO MAKE SURE THE SHOW HAS NOT BEEN CANCELED or otherwise modified. We do not "harvest" calendar dates of show at random off the internet, as some internet pirate sites do. We only run other show schedules sent to us directly from the promoter. We only run OUR schedule here on our CourthouseSquare.net website, in Barr's Postcard News, on Jim Mehrers Postal History website. Any other location you find info on my shows(and many other shows as well) is at the very least unauthorized, and promoter is unaware of unauthorized ad, information possibly false or out of date information, and many have been known to contain incorrect contact and other info. We stand by our listings, not responsible for others who steal it for their own purposes(SEO) and personal gain.
If you are a promoter with shows in this calendar, and need to update any part of your listing, email us immediately.
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Presented by:
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When in Houston area, visit Spring Antique Mall
Tracy Bradford co-host of
Spring 2024 Houston Metro Postcard and Paper Show
Holiday Inn - Houston Intercontinental Airport, Fri-Sat, Mar 15-16, 2024
Vendors, Contact Tracy for a Show Contract
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Tracy has 1000's of Postcards and Paper Items in the Mall
See Below!
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Rocky Mountain Antique Festival
July 13-14, 2024 (Sat-Sun)
9th Annual
Rocky Mountain Antique Festival
((Lots of Vintage Postcards, Supplies,
Photos, and Paper))
Rocky Mountain Antique Festival,
First National Bank Exhibition Hall at
The Ranch
5280 Arena Cir
Loveland, CO, 80538
Sat 9a to 5p
Sun 10a to 4p
Heritageeventco@gmail.com
Gail Kinney, HEC
Heritageeventcompany.com
Loveland, CO,
Heritage Event Co, Gail Kinney
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(Tell Helmfried Luers you saw it HERE!)
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When in Dallas, visit Mantiques and Neat Stuff
New Location: 301 W 8th St (Bishop, Arts District)
Dallas Metro's #1 Source for Great Antiques
and over 10,000 Vintage Postcards and Old Photos
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Postal History Rarities in Jim Mehrer's Sale 135
Several rare postal history items are offered in Jim Mehrer's Postal History Mail Bid Sale #135. Among the lots is the complete set of Pan-American Exposition "Zinkie Covers." In 1901, Frank Zinkie prepared a set of six covers, each bearing a different denomination of the Pan-American commemorative set. The covers were postmarked on November 1, with one of the rarest types of flag machine cancels, an Exposition slogan type assigned the catalog number B01-19 (originally B01-20C) in William J. Bomar's "Postal Markings of United States Expositions." The set remained intact until it was split up beginning in 1947. The current owner spent more than two decades locating and acquiring the individual covers to reassemble the rare set.
Also offered in Mehrer's sale is a newly discovered example of the famous and fabulous "Eagle and Thunderbolt" American machine cancel, tying a red two-cent Washington on a full cover with an advertising corner card. The killer portion of the spectacular cancel features an eagle's head profile and the numeral "1" in a five-point star, surrounded by several thunderbolts. It was used in a trial test for one day - January 2, 1895 - in Boston, MA. Of the 10,000 pieces of mail that passed through the machine that day, it is believed that fewer than a dozen have survived.
The catalog includes hundreds of covers and cards bearing classic U.S. Navy ship cancels from a 30-year collection. Featured are a rare 4-bar postmark from the U.S.S. Oregon, and a 3-bar postmark from the U.S.S. Rijndam, which is believed to be unique.
The "First Day Covers and Early Usages" section of the sale contains a one-cent parcel post stamp (Scott Q1) canceled on July 1, 1913, which was the first day that such stamps were permitted on first class mail. The "Stamps on Cover" section contains a one-cent Washington (Scot 408) with the U.S. Automatic Vending Machine Company's private perforations Type II, used on a picture postcard.
Among the hundreds of auxiliary markings in the catalog is the very rare "Mail Injured / by Pneumatic Tube / Illinois Cent.Tube Station." hand stamp, applied in Chicago, IL, on a picture postcard from Seattle, WA, to Grand Rapids, MI, in 1909. The newly discovered example is believed to be just the second such copy known.
Jim Mehrer's Postal History Mail Bid Sale #135 contains more than 8,100 lots, nearly all which are individually described items. The sale runs from October 6 through November 28, during which time it will be posted on Mehrer's web site at www.postal-history.com. Printed copies of the catalog are available for $5.00 to U.S. addresses and $15.00 outside the U.S. Order from: Jim Mehrer's Postal History, 2405-30th Street, Rock Island, IL 61201.
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Postcard News from Courthouse Square
2023-2024 Antique, Postcard & Paper Americana Show Schedule
Get Out to a Postcard Show....It will do you good!
Show Promoters, advertise your shows in our newsletters.
$20 per show, runs until after show occurs, email jmtaylor@ipa.net
Subject to approval or rejection/refund by CourthouseSquare.net
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Always check with contact person for a show before planning trips.
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