We are pleased to announce that the Museum has introduced new features to enhance your experience when exploring the collections.
Search Box Integration – A search bar is now available on both the homepage and in the top menu. It allows you to search the collections, individual pages (by selecting the option “deep search in collections” to include the full text of each page), as well as collectors and rarities—accessible from anywhere on the site.
Improved Collection Pages – You can now enlarge collection pages to see every piece in greater detail. Navigation has also been simplified: you no longer need to return to the main collection page to move between pages.
These improvements have been made possible thanks to your generous donations, from the Friends of the Museum, and more updates are on the way. We warmly invite you to continue supporting our Museum so that together we can keep our hobby visible and accessible, and provide high-quality access to the world’s finest stamp collections—wherever you are.
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Former APS President Wade Saadi passed away after a long illness on October 9, 2025. Saadi became APS president in 2008, succeeding Nicholas G. Carter, who passed away in office. He was re-elected as APS president in 2009 and 2011, and served on the board as past president from 2013 to 2016. Before becoming APS President, Saadi served on the APS board as a director-at-large, and as chairman of the Board of Vice Presidents, as well as chairing the Membership Committee.
“The APS family is saddened to learn of Past President Wade Saadi’s passing on October 9, 2025,” said APS President Mark E. Banchik. “Wade’s exuberant personality and positive attitude live on in all he touched. There is a little bit of Wade in all of us as we strive by example to make the world a better place. Please join me and the entire APS family in supporting Wade’s family, and celebrating his enrichment of our lives.”
A collector since childhood, Saadi was a writer, researcher, and exhibitor on U.S. Classics. He served 17 years as 1847 and 1851 section editor of the journal for the U.S. Philatelic Classics Society. His exhibit of the U.S. 1847 issues was considered one of the finest studies of the shades and cancellations of that issue. Another exhibit, Struck on Stamps, studied the evolution of early U.S. cancellations, winning multiple FIP gold medals.
Saadi was president of World Stamp Show – NY 2016 which generated $700,000 in profit for the support of other philatelic organizations. A past president of the U.S. Philatelic Classics Society and the Collectors Club of New York, he also served on the Smithsonian National Postal Museum’s Council of Philatelists, chairing their New Initiatives Committee and overseeing their Arago project.
Recognition of Saadi included the APS Luff Award for Outstanding Service to the Society in 2017 and the Collectors Club Lichtenstein Award in 2015. He signed the Royal Philatelic Society of London’s Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in 2010 and received the Classics Society Distinguished Philatelic Award in 2014.
Residing in Brooklyn, New York, Saadi was president of Pencom Systems for more than 50 years. The firm recruited high technology and scientific professionals with an emphasis on the financial services industry in the New York City area. His wife, Gail, frequently accompanied him to many stamp shows and events.
[written by Ken Martin and published on the APS website]
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The Collectors Club of Chicago has donated $5,000 to be named the Boston 2026 World Expo Philatelic Literature Library Sponsor.
Few hobbies can claim the wealth of abundant resources that philately has. The ever-growing number of books, periodicals, catalogs, articles, web sites, applications, videos and other reference material continue to fill home bookshelves, libraries and computer hard drives around the world in every possible language.
Boston 2026 and the Fédération Internationale de Philatélie (FIP) recognize the importance of these works in the scholarly pursuit of knowledge through the exhibition’s judged literature competition. All entries will be made available for viewing by show-goers in a special reading room set aside to showcase the breadth of material available to philatelists.
It is fitting that the Collectors Club of Chicago has agreed to sponsor the literature library, as their very charter has as its primary objectives the documentation, preservation, advancement and promotion of philately through education, study, research and services. This most recent gift added to their prior contribution boosts the organization to “Boston 2026 Directors” donor level status.
Collectors Club of Chicago has a long history of publishing original philatelic literature that has earned numerous awards globally. The club has been an early advocate for on-demand publishing, which is a recent expansion for philatelic literature.
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Museum of Philately: New Features
Simon Martin-Redman, President of the Museum of Philately, writes:
We are pleased to announce that the Museum has introduced new features to enhance your experience when exploring the collections.
These improvements have been made possible thanks to your generous donations, from the Friends of the Museum, and more updates are on the way. We warmly invite you to continue supporting our Museum so that together we can keep our hobby visible and accessible, and provide high-quality access to the world’s finest stamp collections—wherever you are.
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Wade Saadi (1949–2025)
Former APS President Wade Saadi passed away after a long illness on October 9, 2025. Saadi became APS president in 2008, succeeding Nicholas G. Carter, who passed away in office. He was re-elected as APS president in 2009 and 2011, and served on the board as past president from 2013 to 2016. Before becoming APS President, Saadi served on the APS board as a director-at-large, and as chairman of the Board of Vice Presidents, as well as chairing the Membership Committee.
“The APS family is saddened to learn of Past President Wade Saadi’s passing on October 9, 2025,” said APS President Mark E. Banchik. “Wade’s exuberant personality and positive attitude live on in all he touched. There is a little bit of Wade in all of us as we strive by example to make the world a better place. Please join me and the entire APS family in supporting Wade’s family, and celebrating his enrichment of our lives.”
A collector since childhood, Saadi was a writer, researcher, and exhibitor on U.S. Classics. He served 17 years as 1847 and 1851 section editor of the journal for the U.S. Philatelic Classics Society. His exhibit of the U.S. 1847 issues was considered one of the finest studies of the shades and cancellations of that issue. Another exhibit, Struck on Stamps, studied the evolution of early U.S. cancellations, winning multiple FIP gold medals.
Saadi was president of World Stamp Show – NY 2016 which generated $700,000 in profit for the support of other philatelic organizations. A past president of the U.S. Philatelic Classics Society and the Collectors Club of New York, he also served on the Smithsonian National Postal Museum’s Council of Philatelists, chairing their New Initiatives Committee and overseeing their Arago project.
Recognition of Saadi included the APS Luff Award for Outstanding Service to the Society in 2017 and the Collectors Club Lichtenstein Award in 2015. He signed the Royal Philatelic Society of London’s Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in 2010 and received the Classics Society Distinguished Philatelic Award in 2014.
Residing in Brooklyn, New York, Saadi was president of Pencom Systems for more than 50 years. The firm recruited high technology and scientific professionals with an emphasis on the financial services industry in the New York City area. His wife, Gail, frequently accompanied him to many stamp shows and events.
[written by Ken Martin and published on the APS website]
BOSTON 2026: Collectors Club of Chicago Named Sponsor
Latest from BOSTON 2026:
The Collectors Club of Chicago has donated $5,000 to be named the Boston 2026 World Expo Philatelic Literature Library Sponsor.
Few hobbies can claim the wealth of abundant resources that philately has. The ever-growing number of books, periodicals, catalogs, articles, web sites, applications, videos and other reference material continue to fill home bookshelves, libraries and computer hard drives around the world in every possible language.
Boston 2026 and the Fédération Internationale de Philatélie (FIP) recognize the importance of these works in the scholarly pursuit of knowledge through the exhibition’s judged literature competition. All entries will be made available for viewing by show-goers in a special reading room set aside to showcase the breadth of material available to philatelists.
It is fitting that the Collectors Club of Chicago has agreed to sponsor the literature library, as their very charter has as its primary objectives the documentation, preservation, advancement and promotion of philately through education, study, research and services. This most recent gift added to their prior contribution boosts the organization to “Boston 2026 Directors” donor level status.
Collectors Club of Chicago has a long history of publishing original philatelic literature that has earned numerous awards globally. The club has been an early advocate for on-demand publishing, which is a recent expansion for philatelic literature.
The press release:
https://fepanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/PR-2025-10-07-CCC-Sponsorship.pdf
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