Air Mail (group details)

The Annual Day of Aerophilately, a joint meeting of the Air Mail Study Group and the Canadian Aerophilatelic Society, takes place on Sunday, 1 Nov., at the Vincent Graves Greene Foundation, 10 Summerhill Ave., Toronto.

Agenda (all times EST)
10:00 - Vincent Graves Greene library opens before the meeting and during the afternoon
11:00 - Two presentations: 1) Bob Galway, “Cherry Red Airways - Saskatchewan’s Pioneering Frontier Flight Service”; 2) Marc Castel, new CAS website.
TBD - Lunch on Yonge St.
TBD - display of exhibits including:
• Sam Chiu, "Hong Kong Wartime Airmail September 1939 to December 1941"
• Les Selby, "The Golden Age of the Rigid Airship"
• Dave Bartlet, Chris Hargreaves and Marc Castel, exhibits displayed at ORAPEX 2026

A Zoom link will be set up for remote attendance to the morning presentations. For more information and to get the Zoom link, contact Chris Hargraves at hargreavescp@sympatico.ca.

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Newfoundland (group details)

The Newfoundland Study Group will hold a Zoom session on Saturday, 28 November, at 12:00 noon Eastern Standard Time.

Richard Judge will give a presentation on Recent Applications of Spectroscopy in Philately. He will discuss how techniques including XRF, FTIR and fluorescence spectroscopy are being applied to actual stamps and real philatelic problems.

You'll see investigations involving catalogued color varieties, questionable overprints, gum authenticity, pigments, printing differences and elusive varieties — including studies of the famous “Prussian Blue” shades.

For more information or to join the meeting, contact Martin Goebel at nfldstudygroup@gmail.com.

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