This coming weekend April 27-29 is the biggest show in the San Francisco Bay Area of the year, Westpex. This is always the most exciting philatelic event for me every year, and it has gotten to the point where I wouldn’t miss it for anything. This year, the sponsoring organizations are the United States Philatelic Classics Society and the American Revenue Association. While I don’t belong to either organization (one can only afford so much dues per year), they are still both areas of interest for me, so it should be a great show.

Highlights of the coming show include Bill Gross’ Court of Honor exhibit “United States Classic, 1847 – 1869, and their 1875 Re-issues”, will show some rarities that are almost never seen. If you recall, Bill Gross is the collector who purchased the plate block of the inverted Jenny last year and traded it for the only known copy of the 1-cent Z-Grill in private hands. You can’t get much more exciting than that for a US collector!

If anyone reading this is planning on attending the show, let me know via the e-mail address shown on the About Me page, and we can see if we can meet! It would be nice to meet up with some of the people that read Philatelic Tidbits. Dean and I both plan to be there, so let us know!