| Time | Meeting | Room |
|---|
| Wednesday April 24, 2013 |
| 9:00am | APS "On the Road" Course (7 hour 30 minutes)
Collecting Union and Confederate Civil War Patriotic Covers with Instructors, Ken Lawrence and Jim Kloetzel | Anaheim Room |
| 10:00am | Auction Viewing (8 hour)
Schuyler Rumsey Philatelic Auctions | Bayside III |
| 6:00pm | Collectors Club of San Francisco Dinner (3 hour)
Presentation: The Victor Hugo cover franked with three examples of the iconic Great Britain 1858-79 1d rose-red plate 77 by Abed Habib Najjar | Vineyard Room |
| Thursday April 25, 2013 |
| 9:00am | APS "On the Road" Course (7 hour 30 minutes)
Collecting Union and Confederate Civil War Patriotic Covers with Instructors, Ken Lawrence and Jim Kloetzel | Anaheim Room |
| 10:00am | Schuyler Rumsey Philatelic Auction (all day) (12 hour)
| Bayside II |
Auction Viewing (10 hour)
| Bayside III |
| 1:00pm | Society for Czechoslovak Philately (SCP) (5 hour)
Board Meeting (Members only) | Room 4096 |
| Friday April 26, 2013 |
| 9:30am | Grand Opening Ceremony (30 minutes)
| Irvine Room |
| 10:00am | Schuyler Rumsey Philatelic Auction (all day) (12 hour)
| Bayside II |
Auction Viewing (8 hour)
| Bayside III |
Opening of WESTPEX Exhibits and Bourse
| 2nd Floor |
WESTPEX YOUTH AREA (8 hour)
10 AM - 6 PM - open for all youth | Santa Clara - 2nd Floor North |
| 11:00am | Netherlands Philatelists of California (2 hour)
General Meeting and members to bring Show & Tell items | Newport Beach Room |
| 12:00pm | Docent Tour of Exhibits with Bill Dwyer
| 2nd Floor Registration |
| 1:00pm | Germany Philatelic Society Inflation Study Group (GPS)
Presentation: Extraordinary Frankings from the Inflation Period of Germany, 1919-1923 by Charles Williams | Anaheim Room |
Rossica Society Northern California Chapter (2 hour)
Presentation: An Overview of RSFSR Postal Rate Fundamentals by Randy Woodward | Room 4096 |
The Wreck & Crash Mail Society (W&CMS)
Presentation: What's Eating Your Mail by Steve Berlin (Please bring unusual interuptions of Mail to Steve's presentation or to the W&CMS Booth D.) | Newport Beach Room |
| 2:00pm | Docent Tour of Society for Czechoslovak Exhibits (SCP)
Meet Tom Cossaboom, SCP Director, at the SCP Booth. | |
Germany Philatelic Society (GPS)
Presentation: The Stamps of the South German States 1849-1874 by Dickson Preston | Anaheim Room |
American Air Mail Society (AAMS) (2 hour)
AAMS Activity Report and Board Action, Presentation: Post-War Airmail of Czechoslovakia by Ross Wood, Pillage Trophy Exhibits: 12 one-frame exhibits of aerophilately | Irvine Room |
| 3:00pm | Presentation by Fred Gregory, author of Hawaiian Foreign Mails to 1870
Hawaiian Mail to and from Germany before 1870 | Anaheim Room |
International Cuban Philatelic Society (ICPS) (2 hour)
Board Meeting (Members only) | Room 6096 |
General Show Tour with Wallace Craig
| 2nd Floor Registration |
| 4:00pm | United Postal Stationery Society (UPSS) (2 hour)
Board Meeting (Members only) | Room 4096 |
| 5:00pm | Western Cover Society (WCS) (4 hour)
Board Meeting (Members only) | Room 5096 |
| 6:00pm | Germany Philatelic Society Dinner (GPS) (3 hour)
Those attending to meet at 6 pm and go to Scoma's (Tickets sold by mail in advance) | |
Closing of WESTPEX Exhibits and Bourse
| 2nd Floor |
| 6:30pm | Arizona Philatelic Rangers Dinner (2 hour 30 minutes)
Terrace Cafe, 1100 El Camino Real, Milbrae. No host cocktails at 6:30 and dinner at 7:00 pm. (guests welcome) Pick up tickets from Seny Birkinbine, Booth 50. | |
| Saturday April 27, 2013 |
| 8:00am | Germany Philatelic Society (GPS) (2 hour)
Board Meeting (Members only) | Room 8024 |
| 9:00am | Western Covers and Franks books signing by Oscar Thomas
Author at the UPSS Booth in the Jr. Ballroom Lobby near the Anaheim and Irvine/Newport Beach meetings rooms on the 1st Floor of the hotel 9 to 10 am | |
International Federation of Aero-Philatelic Societies Congress (FISA) (3 hour)
| Bayside I |
| 10:00am | Schuyler Rumsey Philatelic Auction (all day) (12 hour)
| Bayside II |
Allied Military Government Collectors' Club (AMGCC) (2 hour)
General meeting, presentation: Collecting beyond the back-of-the book-the revenue stamped paper of the Free Territory of Trieste by club president Dave Beeby, Show and Tell | Santa Barbara Room |
U. S. Philatelic Classics Society (USPCS)
Presentation: Fancy Cancels on the US 1851-1861 Issues by Wade Saadi, APS President | Anaheim Room |
International Society of Guatemala Collectors
Members' meeting with an open invitation to all | Room 4096 |
Ryukyu Philatelic Specialist Society (2 hour)
General Meeting, Presentation: Ryukyu Islands: The Most Exotic US Possession by Gary Weiss, and Show and Tell | Room 5096 |
Cats on Stamps Study Unit, an ATA affiliate (1 hour 30 minutes)
Presentations: The Mountain Lion in Philately by Marci Jarvis, Editor, Cat Mews, Journal of the Cats on Stamps Study Unit and by Zara McDonald from the Bay Area Puma Project | Room 6096 |
Germany Philatelic Society, Chapter 24 San Francisco (GPS)
| Room 8042 |
Auction Viewing (8 hour)
| Bayside III |
Opening of WESTPEX Exhibits and Bourse
| 2nd Floor |
Western Cover Society (WCS) (2 hour)
Presentation: Western Postal History (Dakota Terrritorial, Nebraska Territorial and Western Express postal history items) by Ken Stach, Editor of the Western Express | Irvine Room |
WESTPEX YOUTH AREA (7 hour)
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM - open for all youth | Santa Clara - 2nd Floor North |
| 11:00am | Docent Tour of Society for Czechoslovak Exhibits (SCP)
Meet Lou Svoboda, SCP Director, at the SCP Booth. | |
American Philatelic Society Town Meeting (APS)
with Wade E. Saadi, APS President, and Kristin Patterson, APS Director-at-Large | Anaheim Room |
Golden Gate Scandinavian Collectors Club (SCC)
Presentation by Jerry Moore: On the Way to Gold by Way of Judges' Critiques (Try to see Jerry's exhibit before meeting. New exhibitors may benefit from this exhibitor's experiences.) | Room 4096 |
Danzig Study Group (GPS)
(Open to all) Presentation by Burton Miller | Room 8024 |
United Postal Stationery Society (UPSS) (2 hour)
| Newport Beach Room |
| 11:30am | The Wreck & Crash Mail Society (W&CMS)
Presentation: What's Eating Your Mail by Steve Berlin (Please bring unusual interuptions of Mail to Steve's presentation or to the W&CMS Booth D.) | Room 6096 |
| 12:00pm | General Show Tour with Robert Pope
| 2nd Floor Registration |
International Philippine Philatelic Society (IPPS) (2 hour)
Annual meeting and Presentation: Officially Sealed Covers of the Republic Period by Jan Markels | Irvine Room |
| 12:30pm | International Federation of Aero-Philatelic Societies Lunch (FISA)
By invitation only for FISA Delegates and invited guests at the Elephant Bar Restaurant, 1600 Old Bayshore Hwy, Burlingame, CA 94010 | |
| 1:00pm | Germany Philatelic Society (GPS)
General Meeting | Bayside I |
Society for Czechoslovak Philately SCP) (30 minutes)
General Meeting (Members only) | Santa Barbara Room |
China Stamp Society, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter (CSS)
Presentation: Mengchiang's Unissued 1945 Kalgan Definitives by Steven Frumkin | Room 4096 |
British North America Philatelic Society, Golden West Regional Group (BNAPS)
General regional group meeting with some Show and Tell and ask | Room 5096 |
International Society for Portuguese Philately (ISPP) (2 hour)
| Room 8042 |
Canal Zone Study Group (CZSG) (1 hour 30 minutes)
| Room 8024 |
Presentation by Kristin Patterson
I'm a Beginner, NOT a Child! Suggestions for the Adult Stamp Collector Entering the Hobby | Newport Beach Room |
| 1:30pm | Society for Czechoslovak Philately (SCP) (1 hour 30 minutes)
Presentation: The Emperor's Czechs: Philatelic Remembrances of Czechs and Slovaks in the Austro-Hungarian Army 1914-1918 by Tom Cossaboom, SCP Director | Santa Barbara Room |
| 2:00pm | Germany Philatelic Society (GPS)
DVD Presentation by Ken Gilbert: The Life of Martin Luther in Philately hosted by GPS Chapter #23 | Bayside I |
American Association of Philatelic Exhibitors (AAPE)
An Open Forum on Exhibiting hosted by David McNamee | Anaheim Room |
Peninsula Stamp Club
Presentation: The Design & Production of Philatelic Exhibition Cinderellas by Bill Dwyer | Room 5096 |
Society of Indo-China Philatelists
Presentation: Vietnamese Philately by Richard Aspnes | Room 6096 |
| 2:30pm | American Chapter of the Iran Philatelic Study Circle (IPSC) (1 hour 30 minutes)
Annual Meeting | Room 4096 |
| 3:00pm | German Colonies Study Group (GPS)
Presentation: Effect of the Outbreak of WWI on Mail Service to and from the German Colonies and PO's Abroad by Lavar Taylor | Bayside I |
Judges' Feedback Forum (2 hour)
| Anaheim Room |
International Cuban Philatelic Society (ICPS) (2 hour)
Presentation: A guided tour of key Cuban philately Websites by Ernesto Cuesta | Room 6096 |
Eire Philatelic Association, Southern and Northern chapters (EPA) (2 hour)
Presentation: Garvin Lohman's Perfin collection by Bill O'Connor, Show and Tell (Participants invited to bring a recent acquisition to his/her collection) | Room 8024 |
| 4:00pm | American Topical Association Roundtable (ATA)
| Room 5096 |
| 6:00pm | Awards Banquet (3 hour)
(Ticket Required) | Irvine/Newport Beach Rooms |
Closing of WESTPEX Exhibits and Dealers Bourse
| 2nd Floor |
| Sunday April 28, 2013 |
| 10:00am | Schuyler Rumsey Philatelic Auction (all day) (12 hour)
| Bayside II |
Boy Scout Stamp Collecting Merit Badge Workshop (7 hour)
(Scouts and Leaders only) Sponsored by WESTPEX, conducted by Brian Jones, Assistant Scoutmaster. Preregistration and $12 fee required. Contact Brian Jones at bfj39@yahoo.com. | Irvine/Newport Beach Rooms |
Auction Viewing (2 hour)
| Bayside III |
Docent Tour of FISA/Aero/Astro Exhibits with Ross Wood, President of FISA
| 2nd Floor Registration |
Opening of WESTPEX Exhibits and Bourse
| 2nd Floor |
WESTPEX YOUTH AREA (5 hour 30 minutes)
10:00 AM - 3:30 PM - open for all youth | Santa Clara - 2nd Floor North |
| 11:00am | Women Exhibitors (WE)
| Anaheim Room |
Nepal & Tibet Philatelic Study Circle
| Room 6096 |
General Show Tour with Jaime Marckwordt
| 2nd Floor Registration |
| 12:00pm | Council of Northern California Philatelic Societies (CNCPS) (1 hour 30 minutes)
| Room 8024 |
| 12:30pm | Universal Ship Cancellation Society (USCS)
Presentation: Naval War of 1812 by Bob Rawlins | Anaheim Room |
| 1:00pm | Society for Thai Philately (STP) (2 hour)
| Room 4096 |
Friends of the Western Philatelic Library, Inc.
| Room 6096 |
CAL-REV and ARA (2 hour)
| Room 8042 |
| 4:00pm | Closing of WESTPEX Exhibits and Bourse
| 2nd Floor |
