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Chairperson
Michael O. Perry
P.O. Box 1194
Rainier, OR 97048
2007 Annual Board Meeting Committee Report
The booklet committee has not made much progress on the 3rd edition Booklet
Cover Catalog, but I hope to get started again this fall. I continue to
keep Research Paper Number 2 up to date (it covers
all the booklets and convertible booklets issued since 1977).
2005 Annual Board Meeting Committee Report
The committee has about a dozen members who communicate by
phone, email and mail.
Work on the Third Edition Booklet Cover Checklist has
resumed and John Larson will be making a presentation at
Indypex. I'm still keeping Research Paper #2 updated. Sam
Frank is working on Volume Three of the Littlefield "Book
about Booklets" (Airmail and Back-of-the-Book issues).
Committee member Alan Moll has been showing two exhibits,
"Parcel Post Insurance Booklets" and "Wheat Ridge Christmas
Seal Booklets."
2004 Annual Board Meeting Committee Report
The committee has about a dozen members who communicate by phone, email and
mail.
Work on the Third Edition Booklet Cover Checklists will resume once I retire in
June. I'm still keeping Research Paper #2 updated. Sam Frank has completed
Volume One of the long-awaited Littlefield "Book about Booklets" (Flat Plate
issues), recently published.
Committee member Alan Moll has recently exhibited "Parcel Post Insurance
Booklets."
2002 Annual Board Meeting Committee Report
The committee has about a dozen members. We are still looking into
publishing a Third Edition of the BIA/USSS Booklet Cover Checklist. While
everyone agrees we need to complete this project, progress has
been very slow because the committee is unable to come to an agreement
of the format(s) in which to present the data. Some people want to
retain the same format used in the first and second editions, while
others desire an easier to use format. Drafts of possible alternatives
have met with mixed reviews (or even worse, no response). Until this
question can be put to rest, efforts are mainly focused on obtaining
actual examples of every known booklet cover issued between 1900 and
1977 so they can be scanned. One option being considered for the Third
Edition Checklists is to have a set of high quality images of each
BIA/USSS Booklet Cover Type.
Alan Moll continues to exhibit his Parcel Post Insurance Booklet
collection.
Since the USPS made the decision to eliminate "true" booklets from their
stamp offerings in 1999, there has been a significant drop in interest
in booklet collecting. For ten years, we had to deal with a seemingly
never-ending glut of new booklets that made it virtually impossible to
study them properly. It would seem there is a lot of information that
needs to be presented, and now would be a good time to start. But,
nobody has stepped forward to get the ball rolling.
2000 Annual Board Meeting Committee Report
Sam Frank is nearing the end of the editing process for the book about
booklets that Don Littlefield created. The first volume will cover the
flat plate booklets and hopefully will be ready to publish soon. Also,
efforts are underway to obtain photocopies of all booklet press sheets
so as to be able to create plate layout drawings for every booklet issue
produced by the BEP since 1977 (similar to the layout drawings in
Research Paper #2). In addition, a possible revision of the BIA Booklet
Cover Checklist remains on the back burner. While most booklet
collectors agree we need to update the old Second Edition checklists
issued in 1975, it has been next to impossible to get the collectors
with detailed knowledge about the early flat plate booklets to become
involved.
The Dummy Booklet Study Group is currently working on articles about two
new dummy booklets (the first article will was in the June issue of The
Specialist, with another article to follow later). As a followup, I
hope to write an article explaining how and why the BEP may have used
those two new dummy booklets to evaluate the Goebel 4-color booklet
forming machine they bought ten years ago. Articles published by the
Booklet Committee in 1999 included an overview of the H-rate booklet
(January, 1999), an article about a cover variety on an 8¢ airmail
booklet (February, 1999), an article about the new Flag & City booklets
(April, 1999), and an article about the end of booklets as we have known
them for almost 100 years (July, 1999).
The main focus of the Booklet Pane Committee has been, and continues to
be, informing members of the new plate number combinations found by
collectors. To accomplish this, the Internet has become invaluable. Since
the USPS has decided to quit making booklets containing panes of
stamps attached to cardboard covers, booklet collectors are having to
deal with the transition to the new forms of vending booklets,
convertible booklets and self adhesive ATM sheetlets. After being
flooded with so many booklet issues over the last ten years, it is
expected the committee will now probably look back and try to publish
information about the earlier material where it was overlooked.
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