MEMBER BENEFITS

Membership in the China Stamp Society is open to all collectors of Chinese Stamps and the stamps of related areas. Member benefits include:
  • The China Clipper magazine (six issues per year)
  • Buying and selling Chinese stamps in the Online Stamp Sales area of the website
  • Discounts on books, publications on DVDs and other items sold by the CSS
  • Discounts on expertization and identification services
  • Borrowing privileges from the CSS's library of reference materials on Chinese philately
  • A free translation service for postal markings and other philatelic items
  • Eligibility for scholarships for young collectors
  • Meetings at national, regional and local shows
  • Local area chapters
RECENT EVENTS

2008 NATIONAL CONVENTION
 
 This years National Convention was held October 10-12 at SESCAL/Americas 2008 in Los Angeles, California.  Next year it will be held at BALPEX 2009 on Labor Day Weekend, Sept. 4-6, in Baltimore, Maryland. 
At SESCAL/Americas 2008 the Society put on a seminar on Exhibiting Chinese Philately at 4 PM on Friday. It was a great success. The Board of Directors met at 9 AM Saturday, the Membership Meeting was at 11, and the CSS luncheon followed. Twenty-seven members signed the sign-in sheet.  There were informal gatherings of CSS members for dinners each evening. 
The show had 53 dealers and 588 frames of exhibits.   Exhibitors had the choice of only being in SESCAL 2008, the US World Series of Philately (WSP) show, or being in Americas 2008, the international show, which enabled them to receive both FIP medals and WSP medals.    
David Lu’s exhibit, Chinese Airmails and Their Forerunners, won a WSP Gold, the CSS Best Exhibit of China Award, the Michael Rogers Best Asia Award, the China Stamp Society Chia Nan Chapter Award, an American Airmail Society Medal and the Asociación Filatélica de Costa Rica Award. H. James Maxwell’s exhibit, Rates During the Post-War Chinese National Currency Era, won an International Large Vermeil, a WSP Gold, the Paul Ke-Shing Chang Chinese Postal History Award, the James R. Lee Memorial Award and the APS Medal of Excellence: 1940-80. Hugh Lawrence’s exhibit, Philatelic Footprints on the Road to the Liberation of Shanghai: The Late Civil War Forerunners and Provisional Issues of East China, won an International Large Vermeil and a WSP Gold.   Edward J. J. Grabowski received an International Large Vermeil and a WSP Gold for his exhibit, Indochina and the French Offices in China: Postal History of French Colonial Allegorical Group Type. May Xu received a WPS Vermeil for her single frame exhibit of The International Aerogrammes of China (1948-1949), and Kam Sik Wong received a WSP Silver for his single frame exhibit entitled Collection of Rare Chinese Stamps.
 
 
                                  
  Some of the members that attended this years National Convention
 
    
     The Society booth at SESCAL/Americas 2008  

                                                                                      
                                                                                           Michael Rogers addressing the members



Friday nights informal dinner. Clockwise are Rich Boyd, David Lu, H. James Maxwell,
Richard Cates, Chuck Fagan, Tom  Massa, Pat Skain and Paul Gault 
 
                                                  
                                        The Board of Directors.  L to R, Paul Gault, Rick Kavin, H. James Maxwell, Michael Rogers, Tom Massa and Danny Ko.    Director Aaron Li is not in the picture. 
 
   
    The Membership Meeting at the National convention

25-YEAR MEMBERSHIP PINS
 
The following members were awarded 25-year membership pins at the National Convention at SESCAL/Americas 2008 in Los Angeles:
 
Chang Li-kow                                          Steven C. Frumkin
Garry D. Hart                                           Fukui Kazuo
Gordon Jeffrey Lechance                          Nyle C. Monday
Steven Palwick                                        Howard Wolk
Wong Ching-wai                                      Oscar L. Woods
James C. Yeh                                         Yiu Chung-tung
 
UPCOMING EVENTS
 
For more information go to Meetings and Shows

FUTURE NATIONAL CONVENTIONS WILL BE HELD AT:
 
BALPEX 2009, Sept. 4-6, Labor Day Weekend, Baltimore, MD
SESCAL 2010, Oct., Los Angeles, CA
                                             CHICAGOPEX 2011, Nov. 18-20, Chicago, IL                                             
 
FUTURE REGIONAL MEETINGS WILL BE HELD AT:

APS StampShow 2009, August 6-9, Pittsburgh, PA
APS StampShow 2010, August 12-5, Richmond, VA
APS StampShow 2011, August 11-14, Columbus, OH
It is fun collecting Chinese stamps.