Stamps for The Wounded

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Stamps for The Wounded Mar 8, 2014 13:12:34 GMT -5 Admin Bear, kacyds, and 4 more like this

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Post by JanetC on Mar 8, 2014 13:12:34 GMT -5

On another thread oquiststamps made mention about sending some stuff to stamps for the wounded. Well this got my curiosity up to check out this program. It is a program run by the Lions Club to help our wounded military. It seems like a great program so thought I would post a couple of links here.

www.angelfire.com/va2/ayrhill/SFTW.htm

articles.philly.com/2000-12-15/entertainment/25580051_1_stamps-veterans-hobby

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Dorincard Linking Member You, too, can create maxicards Posts: 675 Location (Country): USA	Stamps for The Wounded Mar 8, 2014 13:41:24 GMT -5 khj likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Dorincard on Mar 8, 2014 13:41:24 GMT -5 We should contribute; they paid a tribute...
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Dorincard Linking Member You, too, can create maxicards Posts: 675 Location (Country): USA	Stamps for The Wounded Mar 8, 2014 13:42:51 GMT -5 khj likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Dorincard on Mar 8, 2014 13:42:51 GMT -5 The back side of that postcard:
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Admin Bear Administrator Stamp Bears Supporter Loving Member Appreciation Month!! Posts: 7,335 Location (Country): USA	Stamps for The Wounded Mar 8, 2014 16:29:33 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Admin Bear on Mar 8, 2014 16:29:33 GMT -5 this is a great idea!! i have an idea i think you will like.. link coming in a few minutes.
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oquiststamps Linking Member Stamp Bears Supporter Posts: 190	Stamps for The Wounded Mar 8, 2014 17:18:24 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by oquiststamps on Mar 8, 2014 17:18:24 GMT -5 Awesome. They will appreciate it I am sure. I have been sending stuff their way for the last couple of years. Have a donation box in our office. When it fills up I send it. Thanks Janet for starting this thread. Lisa
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Stamps for The Wounded Mar 2, 2020 16:20:39 GMT -5 kacyds and khj like this

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Post by ferthalangur (aka Rob) on Mar 2, 2020 16:20:39 GMT -5

Greetings,

I am reviving this thread, instead of starting a new one under "Announcements." Let me know if this is the wrong thing to do.

Stamps for the Wounded (SFTW) is alive and well and accepting donations of any and all kinds of philatelic material: stamps on paper, collectible stamps, covers, blocks, revenues, BOB, supplies, recent (last 5 years) Scott Catalogues, etc. The charity will also accept cash donations that help to pay for the cost of shipping material out to veterans, and to cover operating expenses (storage facilities, postage for shipping materials out to veterans etc.). SFTW is an all-volunteer organization ... nobody gets paid or compensated in any way. It is our way of thanking our veterans for their service.

I have been donating my surplus philatelic material to SFTW for years. I also have, on occasion, provided some advice to local people who inherited a stamp collection and were made a super "low-ball" offer for the collection by a stamp dealer. I have helped them estimate a Fair Market Value of their collection if they wanted to donate it to SFTW.

Recently, I started to volunteer with SFTW, which is based near my home. One of the things that I am trying to help them with is outreach to veterans of the U.S. military services who would like to receive philatelic material from SFTW. The organization receives a lot of donations, but we've had some trouble keeping up with finding veterans who want stamps. I started by creating a web site for the group : www.stampsforthewounded.org . The web site is still under development, and is under review by the officers of the charity. I am hoping that a proper web site will help get the donations out to more vets who collect, or want to start collecting.

So ... if you are a stamp collector who is also a US veteran (any age, any branch of service), you may request to receive boxes of stamps. Alternatively, if you are a US veteran who would like to get into stamp collecting, you may request stamps and a "beginner's kit" that includes an album, stock bookds or cards, tongs, hinges, mounts, etc. We ship out boxes of US stamps, Worldwide stamps, US FDCs, Worldwide FDCs, and other covers. As you can imagine, we also receive some "stuff" that does not fall into any of those categories. I am hoping to make a list for our vets who might be interested in receiving specific items. What you get is like buying one of those "Mystery Boxes" that you see advertised. Depending on which category you request, you are certainly going to receive a lot of stamps on-paper, but we also mix in material from the collections that are donated. I am quite certain that you won't find an Inverted Jenny in there. There is certainly going to be a lot of stuff that most collectors would consider "junk." However, there is definitely some good stuff to be found, and some of the fun and therapeutic value comes from sorting, soaking, researching, arranging, etc.

Check out the web site ... there is a contact form for donors, and there is another one for veterans who want to start receiving material. There is also information for people who are interested in volunteering ... if you live in "the DMV," or if you can set up a program to work with veterans in VA facilities or at home.

_rob_

I collect:
- An undefinable subset of world-wide stamps, 1840-1963
- Stamps of Iceland, 1873-2003*
- Stamps with bees on them

I am a volunteer, and the webmaster, of Stamps for the Wounded (SFTW). SFTW is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that provides stamps, covers, supplies, etc. to U.S. veterans.

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Stamps for The Wounded Mar 7, 2020 11:09:09 GMT -5 kacyds, zepherusbane, and 1 more like this

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Post by ferthalangur (aka Rob) on Mar 7, 2020 11:09:09 GMT -5

So I wonder if anyone is interested in my babbling about some of the stuff that we receive and/or send out through SFTW? I can also post some pictures.

I suppose that it would be interesting for a broader audience to post on the SFTW web site as a blog, but perhaps that is "too much information" for donors.

We basically accept anything philatelic, in addition to stamps cut/torn from envelopes. The fun part is sorting it out and sending it out again. We pull some material that might sell at local shows to help pay the bills ... mostly the cost of the storage lockers and the postage for sending boxes of stamps out to veterans.

Sometimes the material is pretty unremarkable ... although I find old collections interesting even when they are not valuable. I've seen stamp albums that were worked on by juvenile / beginner collectors in the early 1900's. Some of that material, even the low-value broken sets, became valuable later on. Stamp mounts did not exist early on, so they created their own with small slivers of gummed paper (from envelopes?) or they used glue or paste. It can be painful removing those hinges, especially from unused stamps.

Another donation that is interesting, but sometimes a bit complicated to figure out what to do with, are old dealer stocks. Of course, I don't know whether they were donated by the dealer directly ... or if they were purchased by a collector/accumulator who bought up a dealer's stock ... or received a pile of dealer surplus or defunct dealer's material in one of those "Mystery Boxes" that you see advertised.

If anyone on StampBears is in the DMV (if you don't know the term, you're not!) and would like to spend a few hours now and then volunteering, we'd be happy to have you.

We're also looking for veterans who are interested in receiving materials. I will keep on saying that, because I'm sure that some StampBears are vets and we'd love to send you boxes of stuff to keep you working stamps constantly.

I collect:
- An undefinable subset of world-wide stamps, 1840-1963
- Stamps of Iceland, 1873-2003*
- Stamps with bees on them

I am a volunteer, and the webmaster, of Stamps for the Wounded (SFTW). SFTW is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that provides stamps, covers, supplies, etc. to U.S. veterans.

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Stamps for The Wounded Mar 9, 2020 7:49:52 GMT -5 angore likes this

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Post by zepherusbane on Mar 9, 2020 7:49:52 GMT -5

Mar 7, 2020 11:09:09 GMT -5 ferthalangur (aka Rob) said:

We're also looking for veterans who are interested in receiving materials. I will keep on saying that, because I'm sure that some StampBears are vets and we'd love to send you boxes of stuff to keep you working stamps constantly.

ferthalangur (aka Rob), I'm a veteran, but I didn't feel that I should sign up and take away resources from other vets who might not have the resources to get their own stamps. I tend to keep supplied with stamps to work on by trading with people here on Stamp Bears or buying a few pounds of kiloware every so often. I think it's great what the organization is doing.

Worldwide collector of stamps and covers! I gave up on limiting to only certain countries.

khj Administrator Stamp Bears Supporter Posts: 9,890 Location (Country): USA	Stamps for The Wounded Mar 14, 2020 9:41:29 GMT -5 kacyds, coastwatcher, and 1 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by khj on Mar 14, 2020 9:41:29 GMT -5 I was looking for some specific S/S's last week, when lo and behold, what did I run across... Antigua 1247(2Nov1989), $5 APS, Stamp for the Wounded. 2018 Scott catalog mint = $6.50
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Stamps for The Wounded Mar 12, 2021 16:34:44 GMT -5 Gordon Lee, guyana1230, and 1 more like this

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Post by ferthalangur (aka Rob) on Mar 12, 2021 16:34:44 GMT -5

So I am wondering whether any folks who are readers of American Philatelist have spotted the two references to Stamps for the Wounded in recent issues?

Both references talk about the "supply side" ... encouraging people who have philatelic materials that they don't want to keep for themselves, can't sell for a reasonable price, etc. to donate them to the charity.

Neither addresses the fact that we need more on the "demand side" ... (US) veterans who are interested in receiving boxes of stamps or covers for their own collections, or to introduce family members to collecting, or whatever they would like to do with them.

We want to give this material to veterans ... we have tons of it ... literally! The name of the organization is somewhat misleading, and I think that it discourages some vets who would enjoy getting stamps from us. You don't have to be a hospitalized or outpatient vet, or wounded in any way. Even if your military experience left you unscathed, you stepped up to serve our country, and you took the risk of paying a price.

We have so much material that our biggest expense is storage. I have not done any substantiating math, but I think that if we were to add 50 new recipients tomorrow, our biggest problem would getting the boxes out to the P.O. We have volunteers sorting stuff as it comes in into the broad categories that we ship out again ... and then those boxes of sorted stuff stack up, to the point where the stacks are collapsing.

So, if you are a veteran, please don't be shy about requesting material. If you know veterans who collect, or you know veterans who might find some enjoyment and calm through collecting, please point them our way.

I collect:
- An undefinable subset of world-wide stamps, 1840-1963
- Stamps of Iceland, 1873-2003*
- Stamps with bees on them

I am a volunteer, and the webmaster, of Stamps for the Wounded (SFTW). SFTW is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that provides stamps, covers, supplies, etc. to U.S. veterans.

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