50 Years as an APS Club
The Western Monroe Philatelic Society was founded by a group of friends who
enjoyed stamp collecting in February of 1961.
In 1963 they joined the American Philatelic Society as member.
Although we lost our last founding member a few years ago the club is
still going strong.
We meet each month and talk about stamps and will frequently
have
a club produced presentation on a variety of topics.
Recent presentations have included early air mail covers,
duck stamps, the World Colombian Exposition of 1893, watermarks and many more.
We also have had guest speakers from other local clubs who recently
gave talks about collecting Christmas Seals, the history of the Railway Post
Office and stories about the postal service in exotic places around the world.
Members often bring in interesting items for show and
tell or unusual items that might need some help from follow members for proper identification.
We regularly have silent auctions, buy, sell and trade stamps
to each other and the popular Kiloware nights when we all dig through mountains of donated
stamps looking for some lost treasures.
New members are always welcome, please come join us as we start
another 50 years of exploring the world through stamp collecting.
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