Mid-Cities Stamp Club
of ARLINGTON and IRVING, TEXAS
Welcome to the Mid-Cities Stamp Club Website. Whether you're a member or a visitor, thank you for taking the time to visit. We hope you'll find interesting and useful information at this site.
The Mid-Cities Stamp Club, founded in 1973 by Ray and Karen Cartier, is one of the largest and most active local stamp clubs in Texas. We counted 122 members as of March 20, 2008. The club hosts two meetings a month (one in Arlington, one in Irving) in the heart of the Dallas-Fort Worth area. We have an affiliate club in Granbury, TX. which meets once a month. More.
Program is "Clean Out Your Closet," where members can sell their surplus philatelic items. The mixture pick will be Worldwide.
This meeting will be held at The Irving Garden and Arts Building at 906 Senter Street, three blocks north of Shady Grove Road. Meeting begins at 7:30 pm.
Program to be presented by Dr. Ken Jones, on "Philately 101 – Back to the Basics." Please bring tongs, magnifying glass, and perforation gauge. The meeting will be held at Tarleton State University"s Langdon Center, in the Studio (corner of Bridge and Stockton Street) at 7:00 p.m.
Program will be "Your Most Unique Stamp," during which members are asked to talk briefly about their ugliest stamp, or most prized stamp, or most unusual stamp, etc. Meeting will be held at the Bob Duncan Community Center, 2800 S. Center Street in Vandergriff Park. The meeting will begin at 7:30 pm, with the room available around 6:30 pm.
Program will be a club auction.
This meeting will be held at The Irving Garden and Arts Building at 906 Senter Street, three blocks north of Shady Grove Road. Meeting begins at 7:30 pm.
Program to be announced. The meeting will be held at Tarleton State university"s Langdon Center, in the Studio (corner of Bridge and Stockton Street) at 7:00 p.m.
Program will be "Aircraft Built in Ft. Worth." Members may turn in auction lots for September. Meeting will be held at the Bob Duncan Community Center, 2800 S. Center Street in Vandergriff Park. The meeting will begin at 7:30 pm, with the room available around 6:30 pm.
Program will be an APS Slide Show. The mixture pick will be a very good U.S. commemorative mix.
This meeting will be held at The Irving Garden and Arts Building at 906 Senter Street, three blocks north of Shady Grove Road. Meeting begins at 7:30 pm.
Program is a 2004 slide tape program by The National Postal Museum, Smithsonian Institution - "BY THE SEAT OF THEIR PANTS: THE EARLY YEARS OF THE AIR MAIL SERVICE", featuring a small band of pilots who flew nearly 14 million miles delivering letters across the U.S. from 1918-1927. The meeting will be held at Tarleton State university"s Langdon Center, in the Studio (corner of Bridge and Stockton Street) at 7:00 p.m.
The Houston Philatelic Society will host the Greater Houston Stamp Show on September 19 – 21, 2008, at the Humble Civic Center, 8233 Will Clayton Parkway, Humble, TX., just east of Hwy 59N, north of Houston, near the Bush Intercontinental Airport.
The Texas Philatelic Society will hold meetings and have a table. The American Philatelic Society will also be attending and will have a table.
Hours are Friday and Saturday 10am – 6pm; Sunday 10am – 4pm. Admission and
parking are free. For a map and more information, please check the Houston
Philatelic Society
web site,
or e-mail
Denise Stotts
From club member and newsletter editor Peter Elias comes word of the 25th
Anniversary Party for the Dallas Postcard Club to be held Sept. 13 at 1pm
at the Timberglen Recreation Center, 3810 Timberglen Rd. in Dallas (near George
Bush Tollway and Midway Rd). Pizza provided by the club. Some members will share
club memories about the history of the club, after which there will be a member
postcard sale. If you collect postcards, or if you simply scan for stamps, post-
marks, etc., this event might be for you. (Note:
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The club auction held in Irving on July 16th was a real success, with club auctioneer Jerry Potter selling off 44 of 45 lots. More than 20 members were in attendance. If you are a club member and would like to submit auction lots in the future, you can download the club "Auction Lot Sheet" as a WORD document, or as a PDF file. The PDF version includes a page of instructions should you need it.
The club need volunteers in the following area:
The MCSC has bestowed upon Dick and Margaret Anne Little the designation of "Honorary Life Members."
Jim Camak, Stanley Christmas, Jerry Potter and Dave Stockbridge, have agreed to
serve on the Nominations Committee for the Board of Directors elections to take
place in November, 2008. Any MCSC member who wishes to run for an office should
contact one of the above by August 31, 2008.
Read pertinent Constitution and Bylaws
BOD election information
as a text file.
If your collecting interests have changed from those listed in the current MCSC handbook, please send a notice to Judy Christmas. The updates will be collected by Judy and then sent to all members.
Two of our EXPO programs, the Chance Board and Silent
Auction, literally depend on club member time and/or material
donations for their success. We are grateful to the following
members for their contributions to these EXPO programs:
[Due to space limitations, the list of donors is now maintained on a separate page.]
EXPO 2006 Contributors
EXPO 2007 Contributors
The club is thankful for its' many "sponsor"
members. Sponsor members donate $25.00 or more to
the club in lieu of the regular dues amount. The following
members are Sponsor Members for 2007:
Susan Baker, John Barrett, Eric Bomgren, Bill Bradshaw,
Robert Bray, Dr. James Camak, Malcom J (Jim) Carpenter,
Stanley and Judy Christmas, Kenneth Cox, Thomas Cunningham,
Herman Dallof, Shea and Von Dunn, Peggy Duvall, Travis Eaton,
Peter Elias, John Farr, Jean-Marc Fix, Kaye Harrison, Richard
Hildebrandt, Kenneth Kurruish, Dean Latas, Thomas (Tom)
Little, Jr., Steve Magyar, Jerold L. "Jerry" Mertz, Joe
Nazzaro, Dick and Penni Phelps, Jerome "Jerry" Potter, Jim
Rickman, Leona Faye (Lee) and Roy E. Swafford, Bob Tallon,
Martin Towb, Tom Turner, Stephen (Steve) Twenge, Robert (Bob)
and Jean Werry, Ken Wills.
The Mid-Cities Stamp Club continues to grow. We now have 113 members. The following new members have recently joined the Mid-Cities Stamp Club: Stephen M. Robbins (#434), Margaret S. Robbins (#435), Patricia Weidman (#436), Jean-Marc Fix, and Nathan Yawn. In addition, Billy Sack has rejoined the club. We hope you each enjoy your membership in the club.
For questions, suggestions, problems, etc. regarding this website, please contact Jim Myers at jasdmyers@earthlink.net
This website was last updated: August 26, 2008.
Count for 2004-7:
Irving Meeting dates and locations.
Meet'N'Eat list of dates and locations.
Newsletter current ed (full-graphics vers).
Stamp Show EXPO 2008 information.
Website recent changes.
Newly updated for:
Advance Flyer
Official Hotel
TPA Promotional Article
The theme for EXPO 2008 will be “Take Me Out to the Ballgame.” Everyone should "pitch" in and help make this show a success.

EXPO 2008 Chairman Stan Christmas has released the new color flyer for the 21st annual Mid-Cities Stamp EXPO
The EXPO 2008 Flyer can be viewed as a WORD document.
If you know an interested collector who is not on the club EXPO mailing list, why not email or mail them a copy of the flyer ? To get more information on EXPO 2008, go to our Stamp Show page.
The Texas Stamp Dealers Association (TSDA) is sponsoring a stamp show in Dallas, Jul 18-19, at the Richardson Civic Center (new location for 2008), 411 West Arapaho (exit US 75 at Arapaho and go west about 2 blocks), Richardson, TX 75080-4551.
The next show after the Dallas show will be in San Antonio,
Aug 23-24, at Hotel Monarchy, 2635 NE Loop 410 (exit 25B - Perrin
Beitel, San Antonio, TX 78217.
NOTE: The TSDA San Antonio show has been canceled, due to
the death of long-time San Antonio dealer and TSDA member
John Pearson, who also was the show organizer.
The next show after the (canceled - see above ) San Antonio show will be in Dallas, Sep 5-6, at the Richardson Civic Center (new location for 2008), 411 West Arapaho (exit US 75 at Arapaho and go west about 2 blocks), Richardson, TX 75080-4551.
All Dallas TSDA shows for 2008 will be held in a Fri/Sat format, with Fri. hours being 3pm-8pm, and Saturday hours being 9am-4pm. All other TSDA shows (Houston, San Antonio), will be held Sat/Sun, with the hours being 10a-5p Sat. and 10a-4p Sun.
Other upcoming shows where you might find TSDA members are the annual Greater Houston Stamp Show Sep 19-21, and the 21st annual Mid-Cities EXPO Nov 8-9.
The June 11 meeting of the Dallas Park Cities Philatelic Society (DPCPS) featured guest speaker Charles Shreve, who spoke about his experiences in helping William (Bill) Gross assemble the finest US collection to date. Shreve took his audience "behind the scenes" with some of the fascinating events during that time, including the story of how the auction alias ("Monte Carlo") for Gross was chosen (despite rampant speculation at the time, it was simply the name of the street where Gross lived), and how his (Shreve's) young son became the recipient of a 30K Confederate cover thanks to Gross. DPCPS supplied wine and snacks to accompany this fascinating presentation.
Our NEWS section contains capsulized items of philatelic interest.
While not necessarily "up-to-the-minute", the selected items are thought
to be of general informational value.
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The current edition (June, 2008) of our award-winning newsletter is now available from this site. (Note: this is the full-graphics version, best accessed via broadband.) Back-issues can be accessed at our newsletter storage site. Also, the current issue is available there in compressed format.
Richard Phelps
Susan Baker
Jerome Potter
Judy Christmas
Jim Camak
Ray Cartier
Ken Aldridge
Kaye Harrison
Tom Turner
- president
- 1st vice president
- 2nd vice president
- secretary
- treasurer
- immed. past president
- director
- director
- director