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 124 members as of May 20, 2009. 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.
MCSC MEETINGS
ARLINGTON - JUL 1
The July 1 meeting at Arlington will feature a giant US and Foreign Mixture Pick. Meeting will be held at the Bob Duncan Community Center, 2800 S. Center Street in Vandergriff Park (Mapsco 97A), at 7:30pm (with meeting room available from around 6:30pm).
IRVING - JUN 17
Program to be announced. Members can turn in lots for July auction. The Mix Pick will be a good Worldwide 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. The room will be available from around 7 pm.
GRANBURY - JUN 23
Program will be on "Stamp Printing Methods," a 45-minute APS slide show describing the various printing methods used for stamps and how to recognize each by close examination of the stamps themselves. The meeting will be held at Tarleton State University"s Langdon Center, in the Rock House (corner of Bridge and Stockton Street) at 7:00 pm.
VISITORS ALWAYS WELCOME
MEET'N'EAT
ARLINGTON - JUL 1
Angelos Spaghetti & Pizza House, 1101 E Pioneer Pkwy (East of Collins), Arlington ; 817-274-7242;
(Fort Worth MAPSCO 83W).
More details.
IRVING - JUN 17
Pappy’s Catfish & Oyster Bar, 831 North Belt Line, Irving.
More details.
EXPO 2009 DONORS
MCSC thanks:
Ray Cartier
Alliene Franklin
Rich Urso
Bob Werry
For recent contributions to EXPO 2009.
QUICK INFO LINKS
Irving Meeting
dates and locations
Meet'N'Eat
dates and locations
Newsletter
full-graphics version
Stamp Show
EXPO 2009 info
MCSC Auctions
Auction Sheets
BOD & EXPO MEETINGS
BOD 04-25-09
notice
EXPO 03-14-09
recap
EXPO 2009
QUICK INFO LINKS
Items to be added:
Official Program
Schedule of Events
EXPO Show Committee
Advance Flyer
Official Hotel
EXPO Prospectus
Awards List
Dealer List
EXPO Cachet/Cancel
MCSC 2009 Officers
TSDA STAMP SHOWS
The Texas Stamp Dealers Association (TSDA) sponsors a series stamp shows in Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio.
NEXT SHOW
Dallas - July 10-11
Richardson Civic Center
Houston - Oct 31 - Nov 1
Ramada Plaza Hotel
San Antonio - Aug 22-23
Norris Conference Center
For more information (addresses, hours, etc.).
EXPO 2009 CALENDAR OF EVENTS
The EXPO 2009 Calendar gives a chronological sequence of events for EXPO 2009
View the EXPO 2009 Flyer (draft)
as a
WORD document,
or as a
PDF file.
For questions, suggestions, problems, etc. regarding this website, please contact Jim Myers
This website was last updated: June 14, 2009.
Count for 2004-8:
2007-08 MID-CITIES STAMP CLUB
OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS
Susan Baker
Ken Wills
Ken Aldridge
Skip Ely
Joel Dahlin
Dick Phelps
Herman Dallof
Peter Elias
Tom Turner
- president
- 1st vice president
- 2nd vice president
- secretary
- treasurer
- immed. past president
- director
- director
- director
HOW'S YOUR PHILATELIC KNOWLEDGE ?
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.
Do you know ...
- which philatelic organization sponsors an annual Holiday
Cover contest through its' Texas Philatelist
journal
?
- the year railroad cars were first used for mail service
in the U.S. (and why this service came to an end on Sept.
28, 2004)
?
- which US stamps, valued at $22,000, were reportedly stolen in-transit from a FedEx shipment Sept. 1. ?