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INFORMATION ABOUT
THE MARITIME POSTMARK SOCIETY

The purpose of this official MPS webpage is to interest prospective members in our Society, and to facilitate their joining by:

• Supplying general information

• Showing examples of what we collect

• Indicating the quality of our "Seaposter" publication
  with excerpts & partial contents from several past issues

• Providing up-to-date contact information to our club officers.

• A new member inquiry section.

• Supplying useful links

OFFICERS

GENERAL INFORMATION

SEAPOSTER is the official journal of the Maritime Postmark Society. It is published bimonthly to encourage the study and collecting of all merchant marine markings and postmarks, as well as PAQUEBOT markings and postmarks. (ISSN #0048-9891). Articles and news items on these subjects are solicited by the editor, Tom Hirschinger. Annual dues are $10 in the U. S. and Canada and $15 overseas by airmail printed matter. Dues are payable to the Secretary-Treasurer. The Maritime Postmark Society is Unit #37 of the American Philatelic Society.

"Seaposter" excerpts and partial contents are shown below.

WHAT WE COLLECT--INTERESTING COVERS
SUBMITTED BY SOCIETY MEMBERS

Paquebot: Bahamas
correctly used at Tokyo, Japan!
(submitted by Fred McGary)

Paquebot: Norway
correctly used in Sweden!
(submitted by Fred McGary)

Paquebot: US postal stationery
correctly used in Singapore!
(submitted by Fred McGary)

Paquebot:  Canada
correctly used in Milwaukee, Wisconsin!
a tough marking!
(submitted by Fred McGary)

"SEAPOSTER" EXCERPTS

(Article from March-April 1999 Issue,
Authored by Fred McGary,
Reprinted with Permission)

World Wide Web Shipping Information

One of the most interesting addresses I have found is a site that has a lot of information on Great Lakes shipping. www.oakland.edu/boatnerd/ has a lot of varied information of all facets of Great Lake Shipping, but, the section I find the most interesting is the various reports from points along the Great Lakes from people who live nearby and list all of the ships that go by that location each day.

Last winter I downloaded a complete file of all the ships that passed through the canal at Sault Sainte Marie during 1998. I eliminated all of the US and Canada ships and now have a five page list of all the foreign ships who went through. I have began to write them and requested they mail me a cover from the canal if they return this year. I hope to obtain a variety of covers from various countries with the Sault Sainte Marie paquebot mark.

The mailing address for the Wescott Company who run the "mail in the pail" boat from Detroit is also listed along with all ships which pass Detroit.

I found a list of ships visiting Milwaukee, but, it is much shorter than the other two and does not include many foreign ships.

PARTIAL CONTENTS OF THE 5-6/2008 "SEAPOSTER"

• Gus Lund memorial

• Pre-publication offer on US seapost reference

• Auction #156 results

• New paquebot markings illustrated

• Hong Kong maritime mail

PARTIAL CONTENTS OF THE 3-4/2008 "SEAPOSTER"

• Cover fakery with S. S. River Dennis

• New paquebot markings illustrated

• An S. S. Deutschland bisect cover

• Banana boats of the United Fruit Company

PARTIAL CONTENTS OF THE 1-2/2008 "SEAPOSTER"

• Article defining & explaining rates of postage
  for ship letters & steamboat letters.

• Numerous new paquebot marks illustrated:
  Castries, Saint Lucia; Hull, England; Monte Carlo, Monaco; etc.

• Auction 156 lots

PARTIAL CONTENTS OF THE 7-12/2007 "SEAPOSTER"

• Japanese icebreaker Shirase cover

• Newly reported paquebot markings from:
  Bar Harbor Maine, Cadiz Spain, Bridgetown Barbados,
  Halifax Canada, Lisbon Portugal, Miami Florida,
  Road Town British Virgin Islands & much more

• Effort to determine earliest paquebot mark in the world

PARTIAL CONTENTS OF THE 5-6/2007 "SEAPOSTER"

• Newly reported paquebot markings from:
   Belfast Northern Ireland (1923!), Cagliari Italy, Cardiff Wales, Cobh, Ireland, Dover England, Guernsey Channel Islands,
  Ponta Delgada (spelling error), etc.

• Results of Auction 154

• Auction 155 lots (exceptionally numerous)

• Mail from the SS Allemannia (Hamburg-American Line)

PARTIAL CONTENTS OF THE 3-4/2007 "SEAPOSTER"

• Netherlands Indies Postal Agencies at Singapore & Penang

• Stamps of the Suez Canal Zone (& forgeries)

• Post-War German Ship Mail (Hamburg-American Line)

PARTIAL CONTENTS OF THE 1-2/2007 "SEAPOSTER"

• Paquebot mail from a tugboat (USS Genesee)

• 2 different paquebot marks now at Sydney Australia

• New marks from Honolulu, Immingham, Port of Spain, etc.

• Lots listing for auction #154

PARTIAL CONTENTS OF THE 7-10/2006 "SEAPOSTER"

• Ship Paquebot marks used on US seaposts, 1927 - 1941

• Research ship Polarstern by Phil Shreiber

• Results from auction #152

• Lots listing for auction #153

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PARTIAL CONTENTS OF THE 5-6/2006 "SEAPOSTER"

• Paquebot marks of Massena New York

• Newly reported paquebot marks

• Norway's coastal ships again canceling mail

• Information sources on Swedish ferries

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PARTIAL CONTENTS OF THE 3-4/2006 "SEAPOSTER"

• New paquebot marks

• Auction 150 prices realized

• Auction 152 lots

• Ed Drechsel obituary

PARTIAL CONTENTS OF THE 1-2/2006 'SEAPOSTER'

• New Orleans paquebot marks 1895 - 1993

• Ships letter form used at Qinhuangdao China in 1987

• Two new Japanese seapost markings

PARTIAL CONTENTS OF THE 7-10/2005 "SEAPOSTER"

• Unrecorded paquebot cancel possibly from Middle Congo

• Marks reported by Paul Bradshaw

• Chookai sea post cancel

• New mark from Sanya China

• Auction 150 listing; Auction 148 results

PARTIAL CONTENTS OF THE 3-4/2005 'SEAPOSTER'

• Japanese sea posts, 2002 - 2005.

• Auction 147 (quite large!)

PARTIAL CONTENTS OF THE 1-2/2005 'SEAPOSTER'

• Steamer cancels of Finland, a translation from the German with extensions by Ed Drechsel.

• Late fees at Rabaul Wharf, New Guinea

• Loose letters & late letters explained

PARTIAL CONTENTS OF THE 9-10/2004 'SEAPOSTER'

• Paquebot cancellations of New York City (many illustrations)

• Paquebot mail in the 21st century

• New paquebot marks reported

• Paquebot markings of Rouen France

PARTIAL CONTENTS OF THE 7-8/2004 "SEAPOSTER"

• "Uncommon Haitian domestic mail carried by ships of the K. W. I. M. Line" by F. Burton Sellers

• Oredering instructions for the 50th anniversary cancel of the Monhgan Boat Line in Maine

• Results for auction 142, 143 & 144

• Listings for auction 146

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PARTIAL CONTENTS OF THE 5-6/2004 'SEAPOSTER'

• Rare mail from Canadian Pacific Railway Company 'Princess Sophia' 1912 - 1918 (by Gene Paterson).
  [Here is a related cover, contributed by new member Bill Coates:
  
  Please click the image above for a substantially enlarged view.}

• New York supplementary mail explained by Norm Thetford

• Auction #145

PARTIAL CONTENTS OF THE 3-4/2004 'SEAPOSTER'

• "Greenland's paquebot handstamps" lengthy scholarly article with illustrations by W. Joseph Schlitt.

• Memorabilia from the ill-fated White Star liner Arabic

• Auction #144

PARTIAL CONTENTS OF THE 1-2/2003 'SEAPOSTER'

• The FRA marks of Scandinavia (lengthy, with illustrations & tabulations)

• Ordering information for Mario D. Kurchan's new book Argentine Maritime Postal History

• A paquebot cover from the Japanese icebreaker Skirase serving in the Antarctic

• Information about this official webpage!

PARTIAL CONTENTS OF THE 9-10/2002 'SEAPOSTER'

• Meter cancels used on board M. S. Kungshold (IV) by Ernst Schilling

• Examples of new German ship markings

• Boite Mobile (Movable Box) markings

• Labels used on High Seas Mail of the Royal Mail Lines

• New auction #137

PARTIAL CONTENTS OF THE 1-2/2002 'SEAPOSTER'

• Recent paquebot marking confusion at German ports

• Examples of new paquebot markings from Spain, Denmark, Germany, Norway, South Africa & Poland

• Euro updates for Finland, Greece & Portugal

• Prices realized for Auction #132

PARTIAL CONTENTS OF THE 7-8/2001 'SEAPOSTER'

• F. Burton Sellers on UPU paquebot regulations properly observed

• Cutty Sark Tall Ships Race 2001

• "The Mysterious R. S. Cyclops"

• Forwarding of passenger & crew mail in a collective envelope

• Consignee mail

• New Auction #132

• Prices realized for Auction #130

PARTIAL CONTENTS OF THE 5-6/2001 'SEAPOSTER

• Research Ship Cyclops covers

• New Auction #131

• Auction 129 results

• Experience getting paquebot marks by Dick Ferris

PARTIAL CONTENTS OF THE 3-4/2001 'SEAPOSTER

• Gebe Peterson on Home Lines markings 1946-1988, with illustrations & bibliography

• A set of covers for the opening of the 2001 Great Lakes shipping season

• New Auction #130

• Prices realized for Auctions #126 & 128

PARTIAL CONTENTS OF THE 1-2/01 "SEAPOSTER"

• How to obtain Detroit River Mail Boat Service covers

• New Greenland paquebot markings reported

• Illustrated article in Danish on Greenland paquebot marks

• MPS Auction #127 prices realized

• MPS Auction 128 listings

PARTIAL CONTENTS OF THE 7-8/00 "SEAPOSTER"

• Cancels of the S. S. Saginaw

• John Hart on the S. S. Costa Rice (Part 2)
  accompanied by many illustrations

• New Auction #126

• Prices realized for Auction #124

PARTIAL CONTENTS OF THE 5-6/00 "SEAPOSTER"

• Johan Hart's article on ships of the K. N. S. M.
  (Royal Netherlands Steamship Company)

• New Paquebot markings

• Book Review of John Rawlings' The Postal History
  of the Nord Deutscher Lloyd Sea Post Services
  on the Bremen-New York Run 1919-1939

• A recommended source
  for quality rag envelopes for covers

• New Auction #125

• Prices realized for Auction #123

PARTIAL CONTENTS OF 3-4/00 "SEAPOSTER"

• How to obtain the next SHIPWATCH annual listing

• 1999 annual statement

• Advance notice of a Liberty ship visit to Cleveland

• Several unidentified paquebot marks have surfaced

• Bavarian cover with NOT ON BOARD postal marking

• New Auction #124

• Prices realized for Auction #122

PARTIAL CONTENTS OF 1-2/00 "SEAPOSTER"

• M/V Nordland Saga--Sunk Two Shipyards! by M. Longseth

• 2 illustrated pages with new markings

• Gene Peterson on the Home Lines 1946-88

• Reunion event for the Swedish American Line

• New Auction $123

• Prices realized for Auction #121

PARTIAL CONTENTS OF 11-12/99 "SEAPOSTER"

• Paquebot Marks of the French Southern
  & Antarctic Territories

• Current Greenland paquebot practices

• Prices realized for Auction #120

• Auction #122

PARTIAL CONTENTS OF
OTHER RECENT "SEAPOSTER" ISSUES

• Illustrated article on the SS Prince George, 1948-1996.

• New Paquebot marks, compiled by Martin Longseth

• Åland gets 3 new Navire cancels

• Data on the SS Knute Rockne,
  furnished by Gene Peterson

CLASSIC ARTICLES FROM
HISTORIC ISSUES OF "SEAPOSTER"

• Johan Hart on Cancels and Shipmarks of
  Dutch Shipping Companies (March-April 1995,
  reprinted November-December 1996)

• George D. Stribley on the maritime markings
  of Greenland (Sept.-Oct. 1948)

• Capt. Carl W. Ehlerding on German ship post
  at Yokohama (Sept.-Oct. 1948)

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  MEMBER INQUIRIES NEW

  JIM BURGESON WRITES:

  "The Paquebot marking appears to be what Edwin Dreschel calls “Helsingør 1”, except, mine is a good 23mm long and he shows 21mm.  He defines his measurements as; “ left edge of ‘p’ to right edge of t”.  The Helsingør 1 mark is the only one for Denmark shown with a dot after the ‘t’.  And mine has the dot.  It must be the one but what about the measurement?  Mine is on a card cancelled 1901 which would be pretty early in the use of this marking and perhaps his example is much later."

  

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