Guide to the Collectors Club of Seattle Ephemera Collection
1954-1962

Scope and Content

The collection consists of stamps, illustrated envelopes, postcards, album sheet, and bulletin relating to the first day of issue of the 3¢ king salmon stamp in 1956 and the Seattle World's Fair in 1962. Items associated with the first day of issue of the 3¢ king salmon stamp include a stamp album sheet, cacheted envelopes designed by local artists, postcards depicting salmon and salmon fishing, and a monthly bulletin of the Collectors Club of Seattle. Additionally, there are two sheets of stamps celebrating the Collectors Club of Seattle participation in the Centex Philatelic Exhibition at the Seattle World's Fair in 1962.

Restrictions on Access

Collection is open to the public.

Historical Background

In 1956 the Post Office Department issued a "Conservation Series" of three wildlife-themed stamps. These 3¢ stamps were intended to emphasize the importance of conservation by depicting three threatened species: the wild turkey, the pronghorn antelope, and the king salmon. Because of the petitioning efforts of the Collectors Club of Seattle, a local philatelic (stamp collecting) club, the king salmon stamp was first issued in Seattle in connection with a meeting of the Sockeye Salmon Commission on November 9th, 1956. In 1962 the Collectors Club of Seattle also participated in the Centex Philatelic Exhibition at the Seattle World's Fair.

Processing Info

Processed by Paul Nasenbeny, 2004.

Inventory

Folder

Item

Date

Three-cent king salmon stamp series

1

1

First day album sheet of 3¢ king salmon stamps

1956

Cacheted envelopes with 3¢ king salmon stamps

1956

2

2

"Boy Scouts Conserve, Scouts on Stamps Unit, Collectors Club of Seattle"

3

"First Day of Issue, University of Washington School of Fisheries, Wildlife Conservation Series 1956"

4

"Wildlife Conservation"

5

"Wildlife Conservation, Collectors Club of Seattle"

6

"Wildlife Conservation, King Salmon, First Day of Issue, 1956"

7

"Wildlife Conservation Series 1956, Seattle Washington Nov. 9 1956, King Salmon, Collectors Club of Seattle"

8

"Wildlife Conservation Series of 1956"

Postcards with 3¢ king salmon stamps

1956

3

9

"Boating salmon in Elliott Bay with Seattle skyline in background"

Photographer: Josef Scaylea

10

"Chinook salmon"

11

"Fishing at Seattle's front door"

Photographer: Josef Scaylea

"Elliott Bay offers real sport for the lovers of salmon fishing. Annual derbys are held and salmon up to 50 pounds are often caught within sight of Seattle's main business section."

12

"Puget Sound salmon fishing"

Photographer: Josef Scaylea

13

Salmon jumping dam on Yakima river

1921

Photographer: D.C. Bartley

Stamped 1956.

4

14

Monthly bulletin announcing the first day of issue of the 3¢ king salmon stamp

Oct., 1956

Folder

Item

Date

Centex Philatelic Exhibition at the Seattle World's Fair

5

15

Sheet of stamps commemorating the participation of the Collectors Club of Seattle in the Centex Philatelic Exhibition at the Seattle World's Fair

1962

Subject Terms

Organizations:

Collectors Club of Seattle.

Subjects:

Commemorative postage stamps--United States.

Fishes on postage stamps.

Postage stamps--United States.

Genre Headings:

Postage stamps.

Postcards.

Stamp collections.