Have I Told You Philately

Have you read this feature published last Sunday by Manila Bulletin?

http://focusfeature.mb.com.ph/2017/09/03/have-i-told-you-philately/

Some excerpts from the article by Alexa H. Bacay:

"One of the active stamp collecting clubs in the Philippines is the Cebu Stamp Club, Inc. (CSCI). Founded by Richard Allan B. Uy in 1996, it now has 461 members worldwide and is still encouraging other stamp collectors to join the club."

"Uy himself started out as a young philatelist. He shares that when he was in his teens, he opened a steel cabinet that was full of letters and envelopes with stamps from China and Taiwan. His grandfather being in the import/export business had regular correspondence with these countries, thus the many stamps that got Uy into the hobby of collecting. Soon he found himself exchanging doubles with his friends who shared the same interest."

"Meanwhile, Uy dreams to have the Cebu Stamp Club on a stamp someday. He shares that they were responsible for the concept of the Tres de Abril stamp, where they collaborated with the Cebu City government through the Cultural and Historical Affairs Commission and the Stamp Advisory Committee of PHILpost. The stamps bore the artwork of a Cebuano artist, and were released on June 12, 1998, as part of a set."

Have fun!

Alyssah and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

Take your time in looking at pictures
and reading Miss Alyssah Xenia C. Alcala's website on --

http://www.freewebs.com/alvier/

-- for some philatelic inspiration!

So much have been her philatelic accomplishments, which you will read about, that any Filipino collector would take pride in her successes.

Here's her introduction to the site:

Mabuhay and welcome to my website devoted to my philatelic collection and exhibit entitled "Her Majesty QUEEN ELIZABETH II."   As you browse each page,  you'll have a glimpse of my previous exhibitions, achievements, and future undertakings.   Likewise,  you will also find out the generous people who in one way or another have significantly improved my collection and made it possible to compete in various philatelic exhibitions.  Hope you will enjoy your visit in this humble website of mine and I'll be yearning for your frequent visit as I will be updating this website from time to time. May your visit here be the start of our philatelic friendship and cooperation in our beloved hobby of stamp collecting.   I am also interested with philatelic items about Soccer and Philippine Presidents.

Happy Philately !

Yes, yes indeed. Happy philately!

all about the stamps

Have you read this article?

http://www.eaglenews.ph/all-about-the-stamps/

This was published in yesterday's eaglenews.ph and titled All About the Stamps.

philatelic exhibitions

There's only one listed for the Philippines in Wikipedia's list of philatelic exhibitions --

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_philatelic_exhibitions_(by_country)

It's the "PHICIPEX 1954 Philippine Centenary International Philatelic exhibition, Manila, 25 April-9 May 1954".

CORROS error

Here's a love story about the CORROS error written by Jaime Laya (former Central Bank governor, and chairman of his high school philatelic society), published in the Manila Bulletin of today's date:

http://www.mb.com.ph/its-the-spirit-that-counts/

Have fun!

Philippine revenue stamps

Are you new to revenue philately?

This site provides a good introduction to the revenue stamps of the Philippines --

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenue_stamps_of_the_Philippines

Check it out!

Jose Marco

A very interesting read!

Article by Paul Morrow, published on November 16 in Pilipino Express, about Jose E. Marco --

http://www.pilipino-express.com/history-a-culture/in-other-words/395-jose-marco.html

Excerpts --

"The historian E.D. Hester wrote to Marco in 1954 and pressed him to explain the contradictions in one of his latest alleged discoveries. Marco wrote back and said that he was not familiar with the historical details of the book in question and, like Hester, he could not understand its author’s confusion, either. Apparently Marco tried to buy Hester’s silence on the matter by enclosing a gift of four extremely rare and valuable wartime postage stamps. But this didn’t fool Hester because he had worked in the very government department that had issued the special stamps and he knew at a glance that Marco’s stamps were worthless fakes."

"After his mysterious education, Marco claimed he was, and perhaps he really was, a teacher from 1903 to 1910, a postmaster from 1911 to 1920, the secretary of a lending library in 1914, and an interpreter/clerk of court in Bacolod from 1920 to 1929. At some point he was also the president of a stamp-collecting group called La Sociedad Filatélica de las Islas Filipinas."