ARIPEX/NORDIA/APS Exhibition Slated for Tucson The first World Series of Philately exhibition in the new millennium takes place January 19-21 at the Tucson Convention Center on Church Street in Tucson, Arizona. The annual ARIPEX exhibition is also the site for the NORDIA 2001 show and the American Philatelic Society's winter meeting. The combined show will feature outstanding entries not only from competitive exhibitors here and abroad but also extraordinary items, many never seen before, from postal museums and administrations of the United States and the Scandinavian area countries. In addition to the materials on display, the noted stamp engraver Czeslaw Slania will be present all three days of the show to autograph souvenir items of his art for collectors. The show is preceded by tours to many of the important sightseeing attractions in the vicinity of Tucson as well as a two half-day postal history symposium featuring experts from the U.S. and Nordic countries. See also: Six collectors who have won high international honors have accepted NORDIA 2001's invitations to show five frames each of what are recognized as the Gems of Nordic Philately. The Smithsonian Institution's National Postal Museum will display plate proofs of the 24-cent jenny air mail that illustrate how the famous inverted air mail occurred. Included in this exhibit is a block of four of the valuable invert on loan from a private collector. The Museum also will display the $1 U.S. lamp invert, better known as the CIA invert because of its being purchased by a CIA employee for the CIA. The American Philatelic Society (APS) will show the original Hammarskjöld stamp pane that was found inverted and that led to the U.S. Post Office Department purposely printing millions more of these inverted stamps to destroy the finder's value. John Birkinbine of Arizona will exhibit frames of Arizona covers that explain the importance of the territory in linking the East to California during America's gold rush. George J. Kramer of New Hampshire will display his Pony Express covers that have won numerous philatelic awards. All this will be in addition to a 500-frame competitive NORDIA 2001 exhibition, a 300-frame ARIPEX World Series of Philately national competition, a 100-frame single-frame APS exhibition, and a 50-frame youth competition showing that will include both youngsters from the U.S. and Nordic countries. Entries for the NORDIA 2001 competition are closed, but prospectuses are still available and applications are being accepted for the APS, ARIPEX and Youth competitions. Eight Nordic postal administrations and the U.S. Postal Service will be on the floor with their own employees selling current stamps. The 75-dealer bourse with a good representation from Europe is all but sold out. The special tour programs are filling up. They have been arranged so that collectors can take their spouse and enjoy a vacation in America's Southwest. Tours start on Tuesday before the exhibition opens and continue on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons. On Wednesday and Thursday mornings a Postal History Symposium will be held at the headquarters hotel. Advance registrations are required for the tours and symposium. Registrants will be invited free to the Postal History Foundation's Mexican Fiesta on Thursday evening. It is not too early to download your Registration Form and return it so that you will not miss any of these events. This includes the dinner at Old Tucson on Friday and the Arizona Philatelic Ranger banquet-Nordia palmares on Saturday night as the number that can be accommodated is limited and many reservations already have been made. (You save money too by registering in advance.) All the plans point toward a busy week. A large number of hotel reservations have been received from overseas as well as across the United States. The United States Stamp Society (formerly the Bureau Issues Association) and the Scandinavian Collectors Club are holding annual conventions. The APS is conducting its winter meeting at this event. The headquarters hotel is the Presidio Plaza Hotel (formerly the Holiday Inn City Center) and expected to become a Radisson Hotel at the end of the year. Tel: 520-624-8711; Fax: 520-624-9963. Ask for the special NORDIA 2001 at ARIPEX stamp show rates which are $110 single and $117 double. The price includes a full breakfast. Bulletin One If interested in attending, click on the commissioners' page and notify your commissioner you want Bulletin One and the Pre-Registration Form for the Show, Tours and Events. Hopi Indian Pottery Selected as NORDIA 2001 Grand Prix Awards The five Nordic federations are cooperating in this exhibition which was proposed by officers of the Scandinavia Collectors Club in the United States as early as 1985. Active planning has been under way for more than a year. About 75 dealers will be on the bourse. Besides an outstanding showing of Nordic philatelic material, the exhibition will highlight Arizona postal history and let visitors actually see the stagecoach (not a replica) that carried mail from Tucson to Tombstone, Arizona, the town that was too tough to die. Any visitors who arrive early will have the opportunity to take NORDIA 2001-arranged tours to visit Tombstone, see the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum and view the Kartchner Caverns which were a million years in the making. This is one stamp exhibition that you won't want to miss.
To All Stamp and Postal History Collectors: The Symposium featuring presentations on various aspects of postal history will take place on Wednesday and Thursday mornings, 17-18 January 2001, just prior to the opening of the exhibition. Collectors interested in postal history will have the opportunity to learn from recognized experts not only about their findings but also how to do their own research. The program will go beyond providing just Nordic information so that collectors of other areas also will find information of interest at the symposium. The American Philatelic Society has scheduled its winter meeting with NORDIA 2001 and ARIPEX. The leading U.S. Philatelic Specialist Society With all this activity, this exhibition will truly be a Philatelic Stampede into the New Millennium. We are inviting collectors from Nordic area countries and members of the Scandinavian Collectors Club (SCC) to show exhibits of their finest stamps and postal history. Three Grand Prix awards will be given - Grand Prix NORDIA, Grand Prix Nordique and Grand Prix International. The jury will judge the exhibits according to FIP standards, as is traditional for NORDIA shows in the Nordic countries. Purpose of the Exhibition Our goal is to make this more than an exhibition and traditional stamp show. We are in the process of planning tours and social events to produce a fun-filled international event for the entire family with time for meeting others, socializing and vacationing, as well as learning more about the Nordic area and about Scandinavian philately.
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Arrangements NORDIA 2001 is being arranged by NORDIA 2001, INC., an independent not-for-profit corporation established by the Scandinavian Collectors Club and organized under the laws of the State of New York. It is a 501(c)(3) corporation and contributions from US citizens are tax deductible to the full extent of the law. Those wishing to support this undertaking may join NORDIA 2001 by submitting the Member-Sponsor Application and Contributions Form. NORDIA 2001 will stage about 550 frames, while ARIPEX plans an additional 250 in a national competition. The American Philatelic Society will hold its winter meeting in association with this event and will continue its annual one-frame exhibitions with at least 100 frames. All three competitions will be judged by separate juries for separate awards. With both the Scandinavian Collectors Club and the American Philatelic Society holding conventions, a large attendance is forecast. The headquarters hotel is the Holiday Inn City Center, which is adjacent to the Convention Center. The hotel is now accepting reservations for special rates. Telephone: 520-624-8711 or Fax: 520-624-9963 and ask for the special rates for NORDIA 2001 at ARIPEX. Each day brings us closer to this extraordinary event. You want to make your hotel reservations and send in your show pre-registration form as soon as possible. In the meantime, I will be pleased to respond to any questions about arrangements. You and your family will find NORDIA 2001 one of the best vacations you have had, mixed with just the right amount of philately-and Nordic area philately at that. Hope to see you there. Gordon C. Morison
Origin of NORDIA 2001 Show Site Postal History Foundation American Philatelic Society Scandinavian Collectors Club Contact to NORDIA 2001 Gordon C. Morison Tel: +1 301-299-7103 |