It will only happen if it's made to happen...
Your input is needed!

The CSA has purchased the rights to the Dietz Catalog and is moving forward on a project to publish a new Confederate Catalog in 2010, an ambitious time frame. The Editorial Board of the CSA Catalog needs your thoughts and comments to ensure the format and content of the new catalog will best meet your needs. Please take the time now to help us do that.

The following questionnaire has few actual questions because we want your thoughts and ideas.

First some basic questions:

1) Your comments on what layout you would like to see in the new catalog. This can include the size of the volume and how the information is presented.

2) Your comments on how the provisionals (adhesives, envelopes and handstamped paids) should be listed. This may include whether all provisionals should be listed together, segregated by type or with the handstamped paid provisionals included with the other handstamped paid markings.

Review the list of topics below and provide any specific comments you have. Be as detailed as possible. If desired, you can reference individual topics by the associated number.

1. Provisionals (U. S. after secession and Confederate)
2. Stampless (handstamped paids, manuscript paids, due markings)
3. General Issues
4. Essays and Proofs
5. Officials/Semi-officials
6. Patriotics
7. College covers
8. Special Services (blockade, cross-border, express, trans-Mississippi, Louisiana Relief Committee, etc.)
9. Prisoner-of-War
10. Flag-of-Truce
11. Inland waterway usages
12. Postmarks and cancellations
13. Army field cancels
14. Carriers and locals
15. Fakes - A separate book on fakes is in the works, thus this section will be scaled back in the CSA Catalog. Please report dangerous fakes to Peter Powell for possible inclusion in this separate volume. Do not report common counterfeits or their use on cover to Peter Powell.

As with any catalog of this type, it is important for collectors to report errors in the old catalog, unlisted material since the1986 edition, as well as any ideas or suggestions. This is your catalog. Don't assume the editorial board or section editors are aware of all changes just because an item may have appeared on eBay recently or in an auction catalog some time in the past. Check the Section Editors' page for contact information on the proper person to contact.

Feel free to provide any other comments or ideas you may have to make the catalog the best ever. We strongly urge everyone to review the topics above and provide your comments.

Thank you!
CSA Catalog Editorial Board

Send comments to:

Patricia A. Kaufmann
10194 N. Old State Road
Lincoln, DE 19960

or e-mail Trish at
E-mail preferred if you are comfortable using it, but we'll take the feedback any way we can get it!