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Editorial
Board
Patricia
A. (Trish) Kaufmann - Editor-in-Chief
Lincoln, Delaware
Trish Kaufmann
is the Editor-in-Chief of the forthcoming Confederate States
Catalog and Handbook. Kaufmann began collecting Confederate
postal history in her teens and quickly became engrossed in exhibiting,
writing and research on the subject. She served as editor of The
Confederate Philatelist, official publication of the Confederate
Stamp Alliance, from 1973-1987 and co-editor prior to that from
1970-73, a total of 17½ years. In March 2006, she was appointed
Associate Editor of The Confederate Philatelist, renewing
that duty to assist the new editor, Dick Sine. Kaufmann is also
well known as the co-owner/auctioneer/manager of John W. Kaufmann,
Inc., the former Washington, D.C. philatelic auction house that
bore her late husband's name. The firm held its first sale in
1971 and was closed in 1989, a year after John Kaufmann's sudden
death of a cerebral aneurysm. Trish Kaufmann has resided in Lincoln,
Delaware since 1991, continuing to pursue her passion for Confederate
philately.
Francis
J. (Frank) Crown, Jr.
Capshaw,
Alabama
Frank Crown,
a retired U.S. military officer, began collecting stamps at the
age of 6 and started collecting Confederates about the age of
15. His Confederate collecting focused on the postal history of
Columbus, Georgia, but he also developed a keen interest in the
postmasters' provisionals of Georgia. He published numerous articles
on Confederate postal history and has edited several books on
the subject including Confederate Postal History, Surveys of
the Confederate Postmasters' Provisionals, and Preliminary
Census of Georgia Postmasters' Provisionals. He has always
had a deep interest in the 19th century postal history of Georgia.
For many years he was editor of Georgia Post Roads, the
publication of the Georgia Postal History Society. He also prepared
and published the Georgia Stampless Cover Catalog and Handbook.
Jerry
S. Palazolo
Memphis,
Tennessee
Jerry Palazolo,
a retail wine and liquor store owner, counts his collecting interests
as Southern states postal history with an emphasis on the states
of Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas from earliest settlement
through 1869, as well as Confederate postal history of all areas.
Palazolo has been editor and co-editor of various catalogues and
handbooks relating to postal history. His philatelic and southern
history library comprises over 1,000 bound volumes along with
various runs of philatelic and historical journals and a large
holding of most major philatelic auction catalogues.
Kaufmann,
Palazolo and Crown currently work together as part of the Confederate
Stamp Alliance Authentication Service of which Palazolo is Chairman
and Kaufmann the Recording Secretary. Kaufmann is also the current
Alliance Vice President, while the other two catalog editors have
both served as president. All three carry the honorary title of
"general" within the Confederate Stamp Alliance and
have accumulated numerous awards for research and writing. Kaufmann
and Crown contribute to the annual update of the Confederate section
of the Scott Catalog and worked together as part of the
Confederate States Postmaster Provisional Revision Committee for
the Scott Catalog in the late 1990's. Kaufmann and Palazolo
also worked together as researchers for the National Postal Museum,
a division of the Smithsonian, on their extensive cataloging project,
"Arago", which was unveiled May 27, 2006.
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