Exhibit Copies from the Auxiliary Markings Club
The AMC exhibit copying service has a number of member exhibits available for purchase in bound or unbound formats.
AMC Member Auxiliary Markings Web Pages
Auxiliary markings web pages by AMC club members. Please contact the webmaster (on "home" page) to add your pages.
Featured Member Covers
Covers from Ginny Nightingale
A remarkable MissenT marking. (posted online - October 6, 2011).
(courtesy of Ginny Nightingale)
I'm into NY examiner's marks (& mourning covers) and was surprised to see this is a pointing hand
from the NY Registry Division. (posted online - September 13, 2011).
(courtesy of Ginny Nightingale)
Cover from Zeb Vance
(courtesy of Zeb Vance)
This censored letter was mailed from New York on March 3, 1943 to Argentina. I looked at the Auxiliary Markings Record and didn't see the "SPANISH LANGUAGE" handstamp listed. I believe it's obvious that the mark indicates that the letter is in Spanish and was applied to facilitate censoring. However was the mark applied by the sender or was it applied when opened by a non-Spanish speaking censor?.John Hotchner writes "Believe this would have been placed by the company sending the letter - a business letter more than likely, and would be to facilitate censoring." (July 31, 2007).
Covers from Chris Masters
(courtesy of Chris Masters)
"This is the mail / letter / package for which you sent postage" with 1905 Los Angeles duplex unusual Barry Station C.
(courtesy of Chris Masters)
"This is the mail for which you sent postage" auxiliary marking 1907 with Oakland duplex and pink (postage) due. Five markings just to collect postage - no wonder the postal workers are busy.
(courtesy of Chris Masters)
"Returned for postage. Postage due 1/2 cent" appears to be 1923-1924 from the franking. Looks like the mailer gave up and never remailed the card. A rare Due marking because of the improper 1.5 cent franking?
(courtesy of Chris Masters)
A huge pink finger auxiliary marking with "OUT" August 13, 1920 for unclaimed general delivery. Can see Return to...Unclaimed...From...------Don't see any OUT on fingers on the website? Mailed San Francisco July 28, 1920 arrived new Orleans August 12, 1920 and OUT (that was fast) the 13th. Large pink "A" and something else I can't read on printed side. Finger is over 3" long and 1 1/4" tall. The printed side scan (below) is also an appropriate subject matter.

Cover from Ginny Nightingale
(cover courtesy of Ginny Nightingale)
"The Byrd Antarctic Issue (Scott 733) was issued in connection with the Byrd Antarctic Expedition of 1933 and for use on leters mailed through the Little America Post Office established at the base camp in the territory of the South Pole. In addition to the postage charge of 3 cents, letters sent by the ships of the expedition to be cancelled in Little America were subject to a service charge of 50 cents each" (Scott Specialized Catalogue of U.S. Stamps).
There is a limited season for incoming and outgoing mail at the South Pole. Letters were sent down for cancellation; if they missed the return trip they had to be held until the following year. Linn's Stamp News (April 15, 2002, page 28), however, indicates that there was a little more to the story (click on article for full size version) ...
Auxiliary Markings Club Awards Presented
Philatelic Show 2012 (Northeastern Federation of Stamp Clubs), Boxborough MA (May, 2012) - Auxiliary Markings Club Awards
Tony Wawrukiewicz U.S. International Mail Franked with the Non-Official Definitive Non-Denominated Letter Stamps 1978-1995
- Auxiliary Marking Club - President's Award
Nancy and Doug Clark Got Postage?
- Auxiliary Marking Club - Graham Award
WESTPEX 2012, San Francisco CA (April 2012) - Auxiliary Markings Club Awards
Louis Fiset 1871 Commune of Paris Prisoners’ Mail
- Auxiliary Marking Club - Certificate of Merit
Ameristamp Expo, Atlanta GA (January 2012) - Auxiliary Markings Club Awards
Kathryn Johnson Ceylon Too Late Markings
- Auxiliary Marking Club - Certificate of Merit
- Single frame gold medal
- Single frame reserve grand medal
MILCOPEX, Milwaukee, WI (September, 2011) - Auxiliary Markings Club Awards
Edward Fitch U.S. Rural Free Delivery Auxiliary Handstamp Markings
- Auxiliary Marking Club - Certificate of Merit
- Silver medal
APS StampShow, Columbus, OH (August, 2011) - Auxiliary Markings Club Awards
Ralph Nafziger Auxiliary Markings on U.S. First Day Covers
- Auxiliary Marking Club - Certificate of Merit
- Gold medal
Minnesota Stamp Expo (2011) - Auxiliary Markings Club Awards
Earl H. Galitz Bulgaria in the First World War
- Auxiliary Marking Club - Certificate of Merit
- Vermeil medal
- Military Postal History Society Award
TEXPEX Stamp Show (2011) - Auxiliary Markings Club Awards
John H. Barwis The Path to a Philadelphia Exchange Office for United States-British Mails"
- Auxiliary Marking Club - Certificate of Merit
- Gold medal
- Grand Award winner for multiframe exhibits (top show honor)
ROMPEX Stamp Show (2011), Denver, CO - Auxiliary Markings Club Awards
Ralph Nafziger U.S. First Day Covers in the Mailstream
- Auxiliary Marking Club - Richard B. Graham award
- Gold medal
Tim Bartshe Reposted, Advertised and Unclaimed: How the South African Republic Dealt With Undeliverable Mail from the 1890s to 1900
- Auxiliary Marking Club - President's Best One Frame Exhibit Award
John Hotchner 20th Century US Auxiliary Markings Documenting Delay or Inability to Deliver the Mails
WESTPEX Stamp Show (2011) - Auxiliary Markings Club Awards
Roy C. Teixeira German and Austrian Internees in the Acores (May 1916 - October 1919)
- Auxiliary Marking Club - Certificate of Merit
APS AmeriStamp Expo (2011) - Auxiliary Markings Club Awards
Steve Volis Odessa: Clandestine Mail Surveillance, 1920-1940
- Auxiliary Marking Club - Certificate of Merit
TEXPEX Stamp Show (2010) - Auxiliary Markings Club Awards
Ralph Nafziger U.S. First Day Covers in the Mailstream
- Auxiliary Marking Club Richard B. Graham award
Anthony Wawrukiewicz The Return to Writer/ Sender Process, the Beginnings, 1859-1975
- Auxiliary Marking Club President's Award
Tim Bartshe Reposted, Advertised and Unclaimed: How the South African Republic Dealt With Undeliverable Mail from the 1890s to 1900
- Auxiliary Marking Club - Certificate of Merit
NAPEX Stamp Show (2010) - Auxiliary Markings Club Awards
K. David Steidley An American in Paris: Mail Handling by the American Express Co. in Paris, 1895-1939
- Auxiliary Marking Club - Certificate of Merit
PIPEX Stamp Show (2009) - Auxiliary Markings Club Awards
Jerry Johnson Delays in Delivery of the Mail
- Auxiliary Marking Club Richard B. Graham award
WESTPEX Stamp Show (2009) - Auxiliary Markings Club Awards
Paul Phillips A Matter of Language
- Auxiliary Marking Club - Certificate of Merit
ROPEX Stamp Show (2009) - Auxiliary Markings Club Awards
Jeffrey Shapiro The Prexies at Work
- Auxiliary Marking Club - Certificate of Merit
NAPEX Stamp Show (2009) - Auxiliary Markings Club Awards
David M. Skipton The Blue Pencil: Imperial Russian Censorship of Prison, Exile and Internee Mail
- Auxiliary Marking Club - Certificate of Merit
CHICAGOPEX (2008) - Auxiliary Markings Club Awards
Ralph Nafziger First Day Covers in the Mailstream
- Auxiliary Marking Club Richard B. Graham award
Gary Hendren Twisted Caps – Twisted Mail
- Auxiliary Marking Club President's award
ROPEX Stamp Show (2008) - Auxiliary Markings Club Awards
Stephen Suffet Woody Guthrie, His Life and His Songs
- Auxiliary Marking Club - Certificate of Merit
PNSE (2008) - Auxiliary Markings Club Awards
Bill Drummond FAM 18: Transatlantic Ocean Ops of Pan American
- Auxiliary Marking Club - Certificate of Merit
Southeastern Stamp Show (September, 2008) - Auxiliary Markings Club Awards
Nancy and Douglas Clark Got Postage?
- Auxiliary Marking Club - Certificate of Merit
- Silver medal
Philadelphia National Stamp Expo - Auxiliary Markings Club Awards
John Warren Civil Censorship in India 1939-1945
- Auxiliary Marking Club Richard B. Graham award
Tim Bartshe Rate Regulations of Transvaal UPU-Union 1893-1910 as Interpreted through Postage Due Markings
- Auxiliary Marking Club President's award
ROPEX Stamp Show (2007) - Auxiliary Markings Club Awards
Regis Hoffman Letters to the Stars
- Auxiliary Marking Club - Certificate of Merit
WESTPEX Stamp Show, San Francisco, CA (April, 2007) - Auxiliary Markings Club Awards
Dale Forster Loose Ship Letters of Australia
- Auxiliary Marking Club - Certificate of Merit
ROPEX Stamp Show (2006) - Auxiliary Markings Club Awards
Alfred Kugel The Allied Intervention in Russia 1918 - 1925
- Auxiliary Marking Club - Certificate of Merit
Southeastern Stamp Show (September, 2005) - Auxiliary Markings Club Awards
Regis Hoffman Letter to the Stars
- Auxiliary Marking Club Richard B. Graham award
- Vermeil medal
ROPEX Stamp Show (June, 2005) - Auxiliary Markings Club Awards
Alfred Kugel The Allied Intervention in Russia 1918 - 1925
- Auxiliary Marking Club - Certificate of Merit
PIPEX Stamp Show (May, 2005) - Auxiliary Markings Club Awards
Ralph Nafziger First Day Covers in the Mailstream
- Auxiliary Marking Club - Certificate of Merit
WESTPEX Stamp Show (April, 2005) - Auxiliary Markings Club Awards
Peter Baker Censor Marks, Cachets and Postal Marking of the Free French 1940 - 1945
- Auxiliary Marking Club - Certificate of Merit (first time awarded)
ROPEX Stamp Show (June, 2004) - Auxiliary Markings Club Awards
(click on award to see enlarged image)
John M. Hotchner 20th Century United States Auxiliary Markings Documenting Delay of, or Inability to Deliver, the Mail: The First Fifty Years
- First winner of the Auxiliary Marking Club's Richard B. Graham Award
- ROPEX Gold
- APS Medal of Excellence 1900-1940
- Dusty Millar Award
Ada M. Prill Uh-Oh - Mistakes in U. S. Auxiliary Markings
- First winner of the Auxiliary Marking Club's President's Award
- ROPEX Silver
Nancy and Douglas Clark
- Free Markings Used in Maine - vermeil
- Maine Stampless Period Forwarded Mail - vermeil
- P. H. Brennan Hand Delivery Service - silver
Dave Allan Cooper, Sr. Canadian Pacific Express Uncalled For and Undeliverable Notices
Thomas M. Fortunato The Diversity of Ceramics and Ceramic Materials
- ROPEX Gold
- ATA 1st
- Hale Award
Gary Hendren Twisted Caps - Twisted Mails
Jeffrey Shapiro ConPHessions of a PHat PHilatelist
- ROPEX "Most Popular"
- ROPEX Silver Bronze
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