News
Welcome to the American Air Mail Society News page. Here we will provide up to date listings for:
- Regular Auction notices will be posted unmder the Auctions Tab Above when we start a new auction. The actual auction listing will alco be posted on the Auctions page on the start date. We have about four to eight auctions each year. We also post price results of the auctions on the Auctopms [age
- Each month we post that month’s issue of the Airpost Journal. (APJ), for members. We also send monthly email to all members with a link to download that month’s PDF issue of the APJ.
- The NEWS and the Conventions pages will have information for the AAMS Conventions that will be held once a year at regular APS credited stamp shows.
- Our News Page also has a reminder that we have airmail related books and other literature on sale. The APS Library maintains a bookstore that includes our books, CDs and catalogs. Our list of publications is found by clicking from the Home page: Resources and then Publications.
- AAMS Official Announcements will be placed in these pages. Scroll down a few pages to view.
Go to the Auctions Tab to get recent Auctions Information
Bylaws Update Election
The Vote on the updated ByLaws will be held on April 13, 2024 during
The Philatelic Show at Boxboro.
Full information about this Bylaws update election can be found on the home page of this website under “about our Society” and further down to “Bylaws and Constitution”
Exhibition at Adelaide South Australia 2019
AVIATION THEMED PHILATELIC EXHIBITION ANNOUNCED FOR ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA IN 2019
The Australian Airmail Society in conjunction with the South Australian Philatelic Council will host Aeropex 2019 at the popular Torrens Parade Ground Drill Hall in Adelaide 6-8 December 2019.
This will be an all-classes national philatelic exhibition conducted under the auspices of the Australian Philatelic Exhibition. All exhibits will have a dedicated aviation theme and can be entered as competitive or non-competitive. The Australian Philatelic Federation will also draw on the countries with whom they have judging and exhibiting accords to attract some of the best airmail exhibits from around the world.
This will be a special event among many celebrating the epic flight from England to Australia made by Adelaide’s own Ross and Keith Smith together with mechanics Wally Shiers and James Bennett. Departing England in a Vickers Vimy bomber the crew arrived in Australia on 10 December 1919 after a trip taking 28 days. They also brought with them 364 letters from England and places en route, the first international air mail received in Australia.
More information will be released at a later date.
Martin Walker – saphilatelist@gmail.com
Also see the show website: http://www.aeroberlin2019.de/PH0WelcomeD.php
AAMS Updated Website
Dear fellow Aerophilatelist,
Hopefully by now you have had a brief opportunity to see our upgraded website. It is our intent to give you a clean, easy to navigate feel with a understandable way to view the ways we collect. Since it was predominantly based on previously published headings going back to 1935 it may be that the title or direction may require attention. We trust that you will help in this endeavor. There also may be some pages that are no longer collected.
As you assist us in populating these 47 (or so) pages we ask that you show pity on your poor Webmaster (and his lackeys). If you write more than the two to three paragraphs we are forced to either to publish far more introductory content or edit what you give us in order to fit the space. Remember, these 47 pages are launching pads (or in the case where no one longer collects, a grave) to get to more content. The single page will include URLs to societies and links to other resources so there is no need to share everything at once. The same is true with images. We know you want to send every cover in your collection but instead just send the best or most representative example. There remains much to do on the site and when you send us pages instead of the 2-3 paragraphs requested we get overwhelmed.
Please send your articles to the webmaster decrotty(a)yahoo.com in MS Word Format or equivalent. One example of an equivalent is Open Office which is readable by some versions of MS Word. I think that Open Office also will save your document in MS Word format. I highly recommend the image editor Irfanview.com for scanning and editing your images. Please send them as jpg or png formats and at 200 dpi (dots per inch). Attach the document and image(s) to an email. We also use Dropbox to the same email address. Thanks much to those who have already contributed. We will be working with your submissions in the near future if they are not already posted.
Please be patient as we work to bring you the new site you deserve.
Respectfully,
David Crotty, Webmaster
David Ball, Lackey
Lee Downer, Lackey 1st Assistant
Auction 306 starts September 15, 2018.
