Museum News

December 21, 2003

Added 60 more covers to bring the Collection up to 1162. This batch finishes Jon Burdett's Pearl Harbor collection. Thank you, Jon!

I expect the next batch sometime around the New Year's weekend.

Fixed a minor pagination bug in the Historical Interest dynamic page generator. Unfortunately, the investigation of that bug revealed a larger bug which I do not have time to fix right now. One manifestation of this bug can be seen in the Historical Interest section where clicking on some ship names will display a page with no entries listed. I will correct this error when I give the Museum its first overhaul -- date TBD.

November 30, 2003

Added 68 more covers to bring the Collection up to 1102. We welcome a new contributor to the Museum: Jon S. Burdett. The majority of the covers in this batch are from Jon's Pearl Harbor collection - specifically ships with names from A to P. His collection has many excellent cancels from 1940 and 1941 and many with "Pearl Harbor" in the killer bars. The remaining ships, S - Z, will be in the next batch. Welcome Jon!

In addition, Tom Bougher contributed several more WWII-era submarine covers. Thank you, Tom!

November 4, 2003

Added 24 more covers to bring the Collection up to 1034. This batch consists mostly of submarine covers. Nine covers, most from or related to the submarine U.S.S. Argonaut (SM-1), are from Tom Bougher, a new contributor. Welcome Tom!

The rest of the covers are from Steve Shay and all have hand drawn / hand painted cachets by Gow Ng! Thank you, Steve!

September 1, 2003

Added 69 more covers to bring the Collection up to 1010. This batch consists mostly of U.S.S. Arizona (BB-39) covers but also includes an eclectic mix of covers from Steve Shay and a cover from a new contributor, Marc Dollinger. Thank you Steve and welcome and thank you Marc!

The following updates were made to the section on the Locy System:

  1. Added description and examples of new Locy types 11 and 12
  2. Added definition of variant c, formerly unused but now used with Type 12 cancels
  3. Modified definition of variants t and u to omit references to -1 and -2 variants (which have no standard for placement of the ship's name within the dial)
  4. Modified definition of variants A and B so they now apply to types 2-1 and 2-2
  5. Added an example of a Parcel Post Oval postmark
  6. Added an example of an OFR2 Meter postmark

Additional updates:

  1. Curator's Letter
  2. Updated the Featured Cover (in the upper left corner)
  3. Modified pop-up menu to work in Netscape 7.x

Old News:

  1. Year 2002
  2. Year 2001
  3. Year 2000

 

Last Updated: December 21, 2003
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