The Internet Journal of PASIC, the 
Paintings and Arts on Stamps Internet Club. 
11th Year, 26th Edition: Dec. 2007 - Jan. 2008

A message from the President

Dear PASIC members,

In December 2007, PASIC, one of the largest and the oldest philatelic clubs on the Internet, celebrates its 11th anniversary. Congratulations to all our members!

In 2007 our member from the USA, Roy Berliner, added over 2000 new records to our Art on Stamps database, in MS Excel format (Menu-> Resources -> Download Free Databases). For more information about these databases please click here.

Thanks to the webmaster of this site you can also access the database online (Menu-> Resources -> Query Databases Online).

We have extended the possibly of use for our principal asset, the Art on Stamps database. Thanks to our member Jose Nascimento from Portugal, you can download an interesting Art on Stamps database system.

For more information about  the Access database you should contact by e-mail its developer, Mr. Jose Luis Nascimento, by clicking here (eliminate the "spaam" from the address).

Don't hesitate to take two interesting polls on art on stamps and compare your preferences with those of other visitors. For more information please click the links listed under the Resources tab in the menu.

A Happy Art on Stamps collecting,

Victor Manta
PASIC President and Founder, PWO, AIJP

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     The last months brought further interesting developments of our club. PASIC, already one of the oldest and biggest philatelic clubs on the Web, continues its steady grow and counts at time:

 **** 837 members from 85 countries ****

     Our 689th member is Mr. Hamid Jafar Al-Najjar from..., yes, you have guessed, IRAQ! Our 200th member is Mr. Herbert N. Shapiro from the USA, our 250th member is Mrs. Melany Gosling from Canada, our 300th member is Mr. Chuck Olson from the USA, our 350 member is Mrs. Ingrid Duda from Germany and our 400th member is Mr. Rafael Zarco from Spain. The 500th member is Mr. Ed Cramer from the U.S.A. The 600th member is Mr. Nguyen Lam from Vietnam. The 700th member is Michael Warren from the USA. The 800th member is Nita Vasile-Traian from Romania.

     We welcome all new members and we wish them a good time among us, and also many interesting contacts with other members of our community!

     The country with the biggest number of PASIC members continues to be the USA. It is numerically followed by Romania, Canada, China, India, Israel, Philippines and France.

     In 1999 PASIC applied, through its President, for its affiliation with the American Topical Association (ATA), the biggest and over 50 year old association, that successfully promotes the topical philately in the whole word. By the decision of the ATA's Board of Directors, PASIC was granted on Jan. 10, 2000 the affiliate status of the ATA. Please see below the (reduced) the Charter, that was signed by Mr. Paul E. Taylor, ATA Executive Director. 

Paintings and Arts on Stamps Internet Club is an Affiliated Member of the American Topical Association

The Paintings and Arts on Stamps Database Project

    In order to better helping all Internet fans of Art Stamps, the PASIC President (being also the author of the Arts on Stamps database, downloadable from this site) started with some PASIC members a new project called The Paintings and Arts on Stamps Database Project (PASDP). It was started at the beginning of the year 2000, with the explicit goal of improving the database. The purpose is the completing of the database with the names of all artists whose masterpieces are displayed on stamps (a big work!) and then the offering of the a querying (searching after desired criteria) of the mentioned database. This way stamp collectors can filter-out the issues of interest, in order to know what exists in their field and then to look into catalogues for more information. We don't replace the catalogues, but only add what they are missing, i.e. a search & select function for all known art stamps of the world. For more information please consult the Download DB page (Free Huge Database in the Menu).
    The work on PASDP has been started at time and several updates of the database, in its new format, were already uploaded to the artonstamps.org server.
    A new database project was started in 2001 and has already some very interesting results, thanks to our members Roy Berliner from the USA and Jose Luis Nascimento from Portugal. The later one is actually much more then a simple database, it is a full database environment, with many exciting possibilities. You can get it from the Download DB page (Download Free Databases  in the Menu Resources).
    You can also browse our database on-line. Give it a try!

PAGES OF PASIC MEMBERS

    We publish some pages written by our members. The page of Francis Kolarits from the USA challenge us with an interesting Art Trivia. The pages of Dr. Claude Wainstain from France tell us (in English, but also in his mother tongue) who was Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and also the amazing story of a masterpiece painted by Renoir and hated by his model. The page of Danish stamp collectors George Kringelbach and of Avram Rudaizky presents the Gonzaga - Cycle of the Italian painter Tintoretto and shows the particularity of artist's style. Victor Manta, the author of this site, tells the history of Romanian "shot" and then overprinted paintings stamps.

Wrong E-mail Addresses of Some PASIC Members 

Several PASIC members could not be reached by my last newsletters. I ask them all to re-join our club by sending me by e-mail a message that includes their name and their new e-mail addresses.  Because it is a lifetime membership, all records will be maintained in the database, but for members who could not be reached, the e-mail address field will be eventually replaced by Not on Line, what will prevents our active members from mailing to nowhere. Please consult the Members List at least two times yearly, and contact us by e-mail if one or more published e-mail address are not valid. The list being so large, we aren't  able anymore to check the validity of all e-mail addresses.