The United States Stamp Society (USSS) is a “non-profit” volunteer-run association of collectors devoted to the study of postage and revenue stamped paper produced for use in the United States and U.S. administered areas. Once concerned exclusively with the production of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, the USSS has expanded its coverage to all United States issues regardless of printer.
United States Stamp Society at Boston 2026 World Expo
We are two months away from our nation’s 250th Birthday and BOSTON 2026 the World Exposition, held once in every ten years in the United States. The show will take place at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center May 23-30, 2026. The show schedule of events and hotel accommodations can be found at: Boston2026.org.
The United States Stamp Society will be represented in super Booth 111, comfortably shared with the NY Collectors Club, US Philatelic Classics Society and the Philatelic Foundation.
The Society will hold its Board and General Membership Meetings at the show and will offer several presentations during the week:
United States Stamp Society Events Schedule:
May 23 Saturday
1:00pm Presentation: Rod Juell
“An Introduction to United States Stamp Collecting”
May 25 Monday
11:00 am USSS Board of Governors Meeting
1:00 pm USSS General Membership Meeting
2:00 pm Rod Juell
“The Men Who Made the Stamps of the 1920s “
May 26 Tuesday
1:00pm Roger S. Brody
“1765 Stamp Act – Instructions for Distributors”
May 27 Wednesday
1:00pm Gregory Shoults
The Production of Washington and Franklin Flat Plate Coils 1908 to 1915”
May 28 Thursday
1:00pm Roger S. Brody
“War of 1812 – Stamp Taxation”
Hopkinson Memorial Literature Award
Congratulations to Harry Brittain on his selection as the Walter W. Hopkinson Memorial Literature Award recipient for the best article or series of articles published in The United States Specialist during 2025. His winning three-part series, “The Coming and Going of China Clay in BEP Printing Paper: Kaolin Content in the 2¢ Stamps of the First, Second, Third, and Fourth Bureau Issues,” appeared in the June, September, and November issues of the journal.
For easy reference, the titles of the three-part study are as follows:
“The Coming and Going of China Clay in BEP Printing Paper: Kaolin Content in the 2¢ Stamps of the First, Second, Third, and Fourth Bureau Issues” ( June 2025). “The Coming and Going of China Clay in BEP Printing Paper.
Part II: Detailed Analyses of the Return of Kaolin in the Regular Issue, Commemorative, and Airmail Stamps Printed
between 1926 and 1935.” (September 2025) “The Coming and Going of China Clay in BEP Printing Paper. Part III: Kaolin
Content Trends in the Paper Used to Print Regular Issue, Commemorative, and Airmail
Stamps Between 1935 and 1955.” (November 2025)
United States Specialist Online
Each month the current issue of The United States Specialist will be available for reading or downloading as a PDF on the USSS website. The new feature can be found at “This Month’s Specialist” under the “Digital Specialist” menu. Members must be logged onto the site to enjoy this feature. An image of the cover of the current issue will be displayed, and pages can be flipped by clicking on the side arrows. Zoom and full screen and downloading features are also available.