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LIBRARY: Audio Visual

Updated May, 2010

All slides are 35-mm format in color. Videocassettes are VHS format. Most of the earlier media (such as slides, audiocassettes, and typewritten narrative scripts) have been incorporated onto modern computer-compatible compact discs (CD), but the original media and scripts are retained for archival purposes. Where “CD” is indicated as the media, a duplicate CD is on file. All presentations are in English unless otherwise noted in the description. The Audio-Visual holdings of the SCC Library are known officially as the Robert D. Lipscomb Audio-Visual Section, named in memory of Lipscomb who was instrumental in producing the slides for many presentations of the SCC Delaware Chapter 13 and subsequently donating the programs to the SCC Library.

  • A-V 1Swedish Postal Documentation - Covers Illustrating Early Postal History of Sweden
    • Media: CD
    • Subject: Sweden
    • Source: Swedish Post, 1974 Postmuseum, Stockholm
    • Description: audiocassette (30 minutes) and narrative script (62 pages), program documents Swedish postal history
  • A-V 219th Century Stamps, Covers, Cards, and Cancels
    • Media: CD
    • Subject: Norway
    • Source: R. Frigstad
    • Description: audiocassette (30 minutes)
  • A-V 3A Presentation on the Wavy-Lines Typographed Issues
    • Media: CD
    • Subject: Denmark
    • Source: W. J. Banks
    • Description: narrative script (42 pages)
  • A-V 4A Presentation on the Bisected, Surcharged, and Franco-Betalt Handstamps of the Faroes
    • Media: CD
    • Subject: Faroes
    • Source: W. J. Banks
    • Description: narrative script (42 pages)
  • A-V 5What You Wanted to Know About Iceland But Were Afraid to Ask
    • Media: Audio Cassette Tape Reel
    • Subject: Iceland
    • Source: Sigudur H. Thorsteinsson
    • Description: two audiocassettes and tape reel of a 60-minute July 1977 interview in Chicago with Thorsteinsson, who presents a general overview of Iceland philately and price trends
  • A-V 6Round-Table Question-and-Answer Session With Four Dealers
    • Media: Audio Cassette
    • Subject: Scandinavia
    • Source: SCC Chicago Chapter 4 October 27, 1977 meeting
    • Description: 60-minute program
  • A-V 7Part 1: Norway #1, Coat-of-Arms 4-Skilling Blue Issue of 1855
    • Media: CD
    • Subject: Norway
    • Source: E. Lundstrom's HAFNIA 76 Grand Prix Exhibit
    • Description: Part 1 of a 3-part program, see also A-V 8 and A-V 9 for Parts 2 and 3 of Lundstrom's exhibit
  • A-V 8Part 2: Norway #2-15, King Oscar I and Coat-of-Arms Skilling Issues of 1856-68
    • Media: CD
    • Subject: Norway
    • Source: E. Lundstrom's HAFNIA 76 Grand Prix Exhibit
    • Description: Part 2 of a 3-part program, see also A-V 7 and A-V 9 for Parts 1 and 3 of Lundstrom's exhibit
  • A-V 9Part 3: Norway #16-21, Post Horn Skilling Issues of 1872-75
    • Media: CD
    • Subject: Norway
    • Source: E. Lundstrom's HAFNIA 76 Grand Prix Exhibit
    • Description: Part 3 of a 3-part program, see also A-V 7 and A-V 8 for Parts 1 and 2 of Lundstrom's exhibit
  • A-V 10The Science and Art of Measurements on Stamps
    • Media: Article
    • Subject: Philately
    • Source: Carl H. Werenskiold
    • Description: photocopy of Werenskiold's article: "Philatelic Measurements," 1965 Congress Book, pp. 107-116 (19 slides and audiocassette recorded missing in 2003)
  • A-V 11Iceland's District Post Offices and Selected Collecting Stations
    • Media: CD
    • Subject: Iceland
    • Source: Wayne C. Sommer
    • Description: slides from 1973-77 with views of District Post Office sites from which cancellers were distributed, one-page list and two maps showing locations of post offices
  • A-V 12Early First Day Covers of Denmark 1935-50
    • Media: CD
    • Subject: Denmark
    • Source: Allen Warren
    • Description: narrative script (6 pages)
  • A-V 13Early Danish West Indies Philately and the British Post Office in St. Thomas
    • Media: CD
    • Subject: DWI
    • Source: Victor Engstrom
    • Description: audiocassette (18 minutes) and narrative script (7 pages)
  • A-V 14Forwarding Agents, Foreign Post Offices in St. Thomas, Classic Stamps, and Combination Covers
    • Media: CD
    • Subject: DWI
    • Source: Victor Engstrom
    • Description: audiocassette (20 minutes) and narrative script (10 pages)
  • A-V 15The Definitive Stamps of the Danish West Indies 1874-1917
    • Media: CD
    • Subject: DWI
    • Source: Victor Engstrom
    • Description: audiocassette (21 minutes) and narrative script (8 pages)
  • A-V 16Pakke-Porto (Parcel Post) Issues of Greenland - "The Bears"
    • Media: CD
    • Subject: Greenland
    • Source: SCC Delaware Chapter 13
    • Description: narrative script (4 pages) and three supplementary articles from The Posthorn (19 pages)
  • A-V 17Scandinavian Airmails
    • Media: CD
    • Subject: Scandinavia
    • Source: SCC Delaware Chapter 13
    • Description: audiocassette (30 minutes) and narrative scripts (6 pages and 34 index cards), program covers issues of Denmark, Finland Iceland, Norway, and Sweden
  • A-V 18STOCKHOLMIA 86 - A Preview
    • Media: Video Cassette
    • Subject: Philately
    • Source: STOCKHOLMIA 86
    • Description: 2 copies
  • A-V 19Early Norwegian Steamship Mail Services
    • Media: CD
    • Subject: Norway
    • Source: F. C. Moldenhauer
    • Description: narrative script (5 pages) about Norwegian steamship company cancellations from Moldenhauer's Gold Medal collection, Norway B9E (The Maritime Postal History of Norwegian Steamships, by F. C. Moldenhauer, Robson Lowe Ltd., London 1971, 32 pages) complements this program
  • A-V 20Polish Philately
    • Media: Video Cassette
    • Subject: Poland
    • Source: Dr. James Mazepa Chicago Passport to the World
    • Description: 60-minute talk show
  • A-V 21German Philately
    • Media: Video Cassette
    • Subject: Germany
    • Source: Bud Hennig and Austin Dulin Chicago Passport to the World
    • Description: 60-minute talk show
  • A-V 22Stamp Collecting
    • Media: Video Cassette
    • Subject: Philately
    • Source: Les Winick and Bob Weisz Chicago Passport to the World
    • Description: 60-minute talk show
  • A-V 23What to Collect in Scandinavia When You Have Run Out of Things to Collect
    • Media: DVD
    • Subject: Scandinavia
    • Source: SCC Chicago Chapter 4 AMERIPEX 86
    • Description: narrative script (4 pages), comprehensive showing of Scandinavian material other than mint and used stamps
  • A-V 24Collectors Club of Chicago
    • Media: Video Cassette
    • Subject: Philately
    • Source: Richard Drews and Les Winick Chicago Passport to the World
    • Description: 60-minute talk show
  • A-V 25The Video Guide to Stamp Collecting
    • Media: Video Cassette
    • Subject: Philately
    • Source: Gary Burghoff, 1988 Premiere Home Video
    • Description: 50-minute program, introduction to stamp collecting
  • A-V 26Philatelic Oddities of Denmark
    • Media: CD
    • Subject: Denmark
    • Source: Dr. Willy E. Melberg's one-frame exhibit
    • Description: narrative script (5 pages)
  • A-V 27Forgeries of Scandinavia (Iceland, Denmark DWI, and Finland)
    • Media: CD
    • Subject: Scandinavia
    • Source: Dr. Willy E. Melberg
    • Description: program in four parts: #1 = Iceland (11 slides + 2-page script), #2 = Denmark (13 slides + 1-page script), #3 = DWI (9 slides + 1-page script), and #4 = Finland (25 slides + 2-page script), see also A-V 58 and A-V 64
  • A-V 28Adulterated Covers - The Dark Side of Postal History
    • Media: CD
    • Subject: Sweden Norway
    • Source: Torbjorn Bjork SESCAL 88 seminar
    • Description: narrative based on "The Dark Side of Postal History," by Torbjorn Bjork, The Posthorn, February 1989, pp. 3-7
  • A-V 29Part 1: The Faroe Islands Extracts from a Postal History Collection Part 2: The Faroes
    • Media: CD
    • Subject: Faroes
    • Source: V. A. Anderson's HAFNIA 76 Gold Medal Exhibit Chris McGregor's Gold Medal Exhibit
    • Description: one-page description of the slides and an audiocassette presentation by E. Menne Larson of the Anderson exhibit Chris McGregor's collection was sold at Thomas Høiland Auction #12, November 1995, text of slide descriptions in English and Høiland auction lot descriptions in Danish, see also E&C 7 (photocopy of McGregor's Faroes Collection)
  • A-V 30Christmas Seals
    • Media: CD
    • Subject: Denmark United States
    • Source: Annette Gruber, 1988 revision SCC Delaware Chapter 13
    • Description: narrative script (9 pages) and audiocassette (13 minutes)
  • A-V 31Stamps of Iceland
    • Media: Video Cassette
    • Subject: Iceland
    • Source: Nýja Bíó hf., Reykjavik, Iceland
    • Description: 60-minute presentation about the production and issuance of Iceland stamps, also interviews of Iceland specialists and their collections (2 copies)
  • A-V 32Queen Christina of Sweden 1632-1689
    • Media: Video Cassette
    • Subject: Sweden
    • Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art Public Broadcasting Service
    • Description: 55-minute nonphilatelic program
  • A-V 33Selected Danish Kings and Stamps from Their Reigns
    • Media: CD
    • Subject: Denmark
    • Source: Melville Bro SCC Delaware Chapter 13
    • Description: narrative script comprising 25 index cards
  • A-V 34Denmark - The Jewel of Europe
    • Media: Video Cassette
    • Subject: Denmark
    • Source: Video Visits Series, 1991 International Video Network
    • Description: 52-minute nonphilatelic program about the country and its people
  • A-V 35Finland - Fresh and Original
    • Media: Video Cassette
    • Subject: Finland
    • Source: Video Visits Series, 1990 International Video Network
    • Description: 50-minute nonphilatelic program about the country and its people
  • A-V 36Norway - Nature's Triumph
    • Media: Video Cassette
    • Subject: Norway
    • Source: Video Visits Series, 1992 International Video Network
    • Description: 55-minute nonphilatelic program about the country and its people
  • A-V 37Swede - Nordic Treasure
    • Media: Video Cassette
    • Subject: Sweden
    • Source: Video Visits Series, 1991 International Video Network
    • Description: 53-minute nonphilatelic program about the country and its people
  • A-V 38The Private Local Post of Denmark
    • Media: CD
    • Subject: Denmark
    • Source: Melville Bro and Howard Schloss SCC Delaware Chapter 13
    • Description: narrative script comprising 36 index cards
  • A-V 39Vikings in America
    • Media: Video Cassette
    • Subject: Vikings
    • Source: NOVA, WGBH / Boston 1995
    • Description: 60-minute nonphilatelic program, see also A-V 46 The Legacy of the Kensington Runestone
  • A-V 40Domestic Cancels Iceland
    • Media: CD
    • Subject: Iceland
    • Source: SCC Delaware Chapter 13
    • Description: narrative script comprising 24 index cards
  • A-V 41Foreign Cancels Iceland
    • Media: CD
    • Subject: Iceland
    • Source: SCC Delaware Chapter 13
    • Description: narrative script comprising 24 index cards
  • A-V 42The Slesvig Plebiscite Era, 1939-41
    • Media: CD
    • Subject: Schleswig-Holstein
    • Source: Frank D. Correl 1999
    • Description: narrative script (15 pages), article ("The Slesvig Plebiscite Era," by Frank Correl, The American Philatelist, November 1994, pp. 988-1001) and two-page chronology of the plebiscite era complements this program
  • A-V 43Minor Variety on Norwegian Stamps
    • Media: CD
    • Subject: Norway
    • Source: Robert D. Lipscomb SCC Delaware Chapter 13
    • Description: narrative script comprising 21 index cards
  • A-V 44The Stamps of the Danish West Indies
    • Media: CD
    • Subject: DWI
    • Source: Robert D. Lipscomb SCC Delaware Chapter 13
    • Description: narrative script comprising 26 index cards
  • A-V 45Postal History and Stamps of the Faroes
    • Media: CD
    • Subject: Faroes
    • Source: SCC Delaware Chapter 13
    • Description: audiocassette and narrative script (9 pages)
  • A-V 46The Legacy of the Kensington Runestone (1362)
    • Media: Video Cassette
    • Subject: Vikings
    • Source: Runestone Museum Alexandria Minnesota
    • Description: 10-minute video (to be shown with A-V 39, Vikings in America) and supplementary text and maps (8 pages)
  • A-V 47Swedish Numeral Issues of 1872 to 1891 ("Rings")
    • Media: CD
    • Subject: Sweden
    • Source: David Engdahl
    • Description: narrative script (8 pages)
  • A-V 48Stamping and Stomping through Denmark - 1971- 1974- 1979
    • Media: CD
    • Subject: Denmark
    • Source: Walter Johnson / Duprin Copy Centre, Woburn, Massachusetts
    • Description: index of slides (5 pages), program illustrates stamps from this period and scenes that the stamps represent, includes 100 enlarged color reproductions of the slides
  • A-V 49New Glamour for Old Crowns - King Carl the 16th Gustav of Sweden
    • Media: Video Cassette
    • Subject: Sweden
    • Source: International Historic Films, 1990
    • Description: 88-minute nonphilatelic program
  • A-V 50Heirs to the Vikings - King Harald of Norway
    • Media: Video Cassette
    • Subject: Norway
    • Source: International Historic Films, 1990
    • Description: 58-minute nonphilatelic program
  • A-V 51Mini-sheet III (issued November 20, 1985 for HAFNIA 76 International Stamp Exhibition, Copenhagen)
    • Media: CD
    • Subject: Denmark
    • Source: Toke Nørby
    • Description: detailed presentation of printing method and varieties, narrative script comprising 11 index cards
  • A-V 52Finland ― The Struggle for Freedom through Philately
    • Media: CD
    • Subject: Finland
    • Source: SCC Delaware Chapter 13
    • Description: May 2009 revision, one-page presentation outline and five-page narrative script; see also A-V 66
  • A-V 53Danske Postestempler - Danish Mail Cancels
    • Media: CD
    • Subject: Denmark
    • Source: Dr. Willy E. Melberg
    • Description: reference (19 pages) comprising introduction (1 page), list of town cancels (12 pages), and illustrations (6 pages)
  • A-V 54House of Communications
    • Media: Video Cassette
    • Subject: Denmark
    • Source: Post & Tele Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2001
    • Description: 10-minute presentation
  • A-V 5519th Century Swedish Cancel Collecting
    • Media: CD
    • Subject: Sweden
    • Source: SCC New England Chapter 5
    • Description: narrative script (22 pages)
  • A-V 56Finland Airmail to America by Transatlantic Clipper 1939-41
    • Media: CD
    • Subject: Finland
    • Source: Robert W. Lang SCC Delaware Chapter 13
    • Description: narrative script (5 pages) and flight timeline (1 page)
  • A-V 57Danish Railway Stamps
    • Media: CD
    • Subject: Denmark
    • Source: SCC Delaware Chapter 13
    • Description: narrative script (5 pages) and text cards
  • A-V 58Finland Forgeries Reference Collection
    • Media: CD
    • Subject: Finland
    • Source:
    • Description: one-page list of stamps identified by catalogue number, see also A-V 27 and A-V 64
  • A-V 59Greenland - Its Post Before 1940
    • Media: CD
    • Subject: Greenland
    • Source: Chris McGregor's Gold Medal Exhibit at HAFNIA 87
    • Description: photocopy of exhibit (88 pages), see also E&C 19
  • A-V 60A Most Satisfying Hobby - Collecting the Stamps of Sweden
    • Media: CD
    • Subject: Sweden
    • Source: Jerry D. Moore 2001 SCC Golden Gate Chapter 21
    • Description: narrative script (12 pages)
  • A-V 61Iceland River Challenge
    • Media: Video Cassette
    • Subject: Iceland
    • Source: National Georgraphic Society 1986 video
    • Description: 60-minute nonphilatelic presentation
  • A-V 62Viking History Through Stamps
    • Media: CD
    • Subject: Vikings
    • Source: SCC Delaware Chapter 13
    • Description: narrative script (7 pages)
  • A-V 63The "Í GILDI" Overprints of Iceland
    • Media: CD
    • Subject: Iceland
    • Source: SCC Delaware Chapter 13
    • Description: narrative script (8 pages)
  • A-V 64Finland's First Stamps - The Oval Issues & the Problem of Forgeries
    • Media: CD
    • Subject: Finland
    • Source: Ed Fraser, 2001
    • Description: in-progress exhibit by Ed Fraser, emphasizing detection of forgeries and misrepresentation challenges in philately (the latest revision of this exhibit can also be viewed on-line at the SCC website www.scc-online.org), see also A-V 27 and A-V 58
  • A-V 65Iceland Minor Varieties Through 1994
    • Media: CD
    • Subject: Iceland
    • Source: SCC Delaware Chapter 13
    • Description: narrative script (4 pages)
  • A-V 66Finland - The Struggle for Freedom Through Philately
    • Media: CD
    • Subject: Finland
    • Source: Robert W. Lang SCC Delaware Chapter 13
    • Description: narrative script (6 pages)
  • A-V 67Cancellations and Postal Markings of Sweden
    • Media: CD
    • Subject: Sweden
    • Source: James Burgeson
    • Description: James Burgeson's presentation at the SCC national meeting, Rocky Mountain Stamp Show, Denver CO, May 2005
  • A-V 68Destinations of Early Iceland Mail, 1873-1902
    • Media: CD
    • Subject: Iceland
    • Source: Roger G. Schnell, M.D.
    • Description: PowerPointTM presentation based on Dr. Schnell's article in Collectors Club Philatelist, Vol. 85, No. 4, July-August 2006, pp 227-32
  • A-V 69Denmark's 1933-40 Tête-Bêche Stamp Pairs
    • Media: Slides
    • Subject: Denmark
    • Source:
    • Description: one-page summary and three reference articles about the manipulation of tête-bêche varieties during 1933-40 that started appearing on the philatelic market in 1971
  • A-V 70Ten presentations on different aspects of Norwegian philately: #1 = Luftpost / Airmails (History of
       the Zeppelin and Its Mail) #2 = History of Blood and Fargerike Sopfer / Dyed Yarn, #3 = Different
       Ways of Collecting Postcards #4 = Vardo-Archangelsk #5 = Krigs og Feltpostforeningen (War &
       Fieldpost Society), #6 = Norsk Helpost / Norwegian Postal Stationery, #7 = Norsk Skipsposthistorisk
       Forening (Norwegian Ship Postal History Society) #8 = Norvegiana Presentasjon, #9 = Petsamo Postal
       History, 1920-1944, and #10 = Skipspost Trøndelag
    • Media: CD
    • Subject: Norway
    • Source: Norsk Filatelistforbund (Norwegian Philatelic Federation), 2007
    • Description: ten presentations, in Norwegian and English, on Norway-related philatelic subjects (in video, PDF, and PowerPoint formats), summary of the ten sections: #1 = video and slide programs, #2 = two thematic exhibits by Marit Eling of 64 and 16 pages respectively, #3 = 53 examples cited by Konrad Moe, #4 = 38 slides of a postal-history exhibit titled Russland via Vardo by Jan Lauridsen, #5 = 37 slides #6 = 17 slides by Tore Berg, #7 = 12 slides, #8 =, 42 slides on thematic collecting by the Norwegian Cover Club, #9 = 17 slides, and #10 = 66-page exhibit of ships covers on the Trøndelag route
  • A-V 71Sweden Ship Mail Markings: "FRÅN DANMARK" Marks
    • Media: CD
    • Subject: Sweden
    • Source: Ingemar Wågerman and Bert Steiner, Seaposter Jan.-Feb. 1987, Pages 7-10
    • Description: with annotations by Anker Jonsson, includes four-page Seaposter article as ancillary text
  • A-V 72Cancellations and Postal Markings of Sweden
    • Media: CD
    • Subject: Sweden
    • Source: James Burgeson
    • Description: narrative script (5 pages)
  • A-V 73Sweden 1872-1891
    • Media: Slides
    • Subject: Sweden
    • Source: James Burgeson
    • Description: selections from James Burgeson's Gold Medal Exhibit, narrative script (6 pages)

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