Directory of Specialty Societies Resources

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Listings in "Specialty Societies" are groups, with national or international membership, devoted to a specific area of stamp collecting, such as air mail, Vatican City, or cancellations.

Subcategories

• Regional Focus
• Thematic Focus

Resources in This Category

• American Air Mail Society

  http://www.americanairmailsociety.org/
  Promotes aerophilately through publications, member auctions, and an annual meeting.

• American Ceremony Program Society

  http://www.stampceremony.org/
  Organization promotes the collection of commemorative programs and related materials produced to complement new stamp issues.

• American First Day Cover Society

  http://www.afdcs.org/
  Organization supports first day cover collectors, cachet makers, and dealers.

• American Revenue Association

  http://www.revenuer.org/
  Through a quarterly newsletter, handbooks, and catalogs, this organization supports collectors who specialize in revenues and other non-postal stamps.

• American Society of Polar Philatelists

  http://www.polarphilatelists.org/
  Group collects stamps and covers used in Earth's polar regions, and publishes a quarterly magazine containing articles about such material.

• American Topical Association

  http://www.americantopicalassn.org/
  Promotes topical and thematic stamp collecting by publishing reference works and checklists and organizing the National Topical Stamp Show.

• Armenian Philatelic Association

  http://www.armenianphilatelic.org/
  Group focuses on Armenian philately and other nations' stamps that are related to Armenia.

• Art Cover Exchange

  http://www.artcoverexchange.org/
  Facilitates trade of covers bearing hand-drawn or printed art and other decorations.

• Auxiliary Markings Club

  http://www.postal-markings.org/
  Group studies covers bearing handstamps, machine markings, labels, manuscript notations, and other indications that the covers received special attention in the mails.

• Christmas Seal & Charity Stamp Society

  http://www.seal-society.org/
  Organization publishes catalogs about and supports collectors of Christmas seals and other charity stamps from around the world.

• Cinderella Stamp Club

  http://www.cinderellastampclub.org.uk/
  Collectors' association encourages the study of all non-postage stamps including revenues, telegraph stamps, seals, and poster stamps.

• Civil Censorship Study Group

  http://www.c-c-s-g.org/
  Collectors in group focus on mail that was censored while in transit.

• Cover Collector Circuit Club

  http://www.covercollectors.org/
  Organization facilitates the exchange of covers between collectors around the world.

• Errors, Freaks & Oddities Collectors' Club

  http://www.efocc.org/
  Group focuses on stamps that exhibit evidence of production errors such as misprinting or misperforation.

• First Issues Collectors Club

  http://www.firstissues.org/
  Organization promotes the collection of the first stamps issued by any country or stamp-issuing entity.

• International Machine Cancel Society

  http://www.machinecancel.org/
  Organization is dedicated to the study of machine postal markings plus the history of machine inventors and patents.

• King George VI Collectors Society

  http://www.kg6.info/
  Group studies the stamps issued by members of the British Commonwealth from 1936 to 1952 during the reign of King George VI.

• Local Post Collectors Society

  http://www.localpostcollectors.org/
  Organization promotes the study and collection of stamps issued by modern local posts.

• Mailer's Postmark Permit Club

  http://www.shaulisstamps.com/mppc/
  Assists individuals who wish to cancel the stamps on their own mail by providing instructions on how to obtain mailer's postmarks and maintaining records about such markings.

• Maximum Card Study Unit

  http://www.macsu.org/
  Group shares images of members' postcards with matching or related postage stamps.

• Meter Stamp Society

  http://www.meterstampsociety.com/
  Group of collectors is dedicated to the study of postage meter stamps, personalized photo stamps, and other stamps printed on-demand.

• Metropolitan Air Post Society

  http://www.mapsnewyork.org/
  New York-based club's members focus on airmail postal history and event covers.

• Military Postal History Society

  http://www.militaryphs.org/
  Organization's members study philatelic materials related to wars, including prisoner-of-war letters, patriotic covers, censored mail, and military postal markings.

• Mourning Stamps and Covers Club

  http://www.mscc.ms/
  Collectors in club specialize in the study of black-bordered covers used to send mourning letters and cards in the 19th and 20th centuries.

• National Duck Stamp Collectors Society

  http://www.ndscs.org/
  Organization caters to collectors of waterfowl hunting permit and conservation stamps.

• Post Mark Collectors Club

  http://www.postmarks.org/
  Postmark collecting, the National Postmark Museum, and publishes a monthly bulletin for members.

• Postal History Society

  http://www.postalhistory.org.uk/
  Group dedicated to studying letters, covers, and other mail from around the world publishes a quarterly journal and reference books, and hosts an annual conference in England.

• Postal Label Study Group

  http://www.postal-label-study-group.info/
  Club's members collect registration and express labels, airmail etiquettes, official seals, and other labels used on mail.

• Postal Stationery Society

  http://www.postalstationery.org.uk/
  Group focuses on the collection and study of stamped envelopes, postal cards, and other postal stationery items from all countries.

• Poster Stamp Collectors Club

  http://www.posterstampcc.org/
  Caters to collectors of stamp-like labels issued to promote events.

• Precancel Stamp Society

  http://www.precancels.com/
  Supports collectors of stamps bearing cancellation markings applied before the stamps were used to mail a letter or package.

• The Perfin Society

  http://www.angelfire.com/pr/perfinsoc/
  Group based in the United Kingdom focuses on stamps with perforated initials.

• The Perfins Club

  http://www.perfins.org/
  Organization's members collect stamps perforated with designs, initials, and numerals.

• United Nations Philatelists, Inc.

  http://www.unpi.com/
  Group is devoted to the collection, study, and exhibition of the stamps and postal history of the United Nations.

• United Postal Stationery Society

  http://www.upss.org/
  Group is devoted to the study and collection of postal stationery including stamped envelopes and postal cards from all countries.

• Universal Ship Cancellation Society

  http://www.uscs.org/
  Club promotes the study of the history of ships in the U.S. navy and other maritime organizations and the postal history and postal markings used on those vessels.

• Wreck & Crash Mail Society

  http://www.wreckandcrash.org/
  Group specializes in the collection of mail that was delayed or damaged due to accidents.

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