Stamp collectors searched through stacks and folders for gems and rarities on Saturday at the 31st Strait Stamp Show in the Guy Cole Event Center.
Collyer Church of Bainbridge Island said he tries to come each year.
“It’s a good little show,” he said. “The people are friendly and the exhibits are fascinating and they show what people really collect.”
Sequim Mayor Brandon Janisse exhibited at the show for the first time and won the purple ribbon for the “Most Attractive” exhibit with his “Philatelic Remembrance of Extinct Zoo Endlings! Thylacine and Quagga (1883-1936),” a look at stamps and envelopes of extinct animals and successful conservation efforts around the globe.
Janisse said he’s been looking for elements in the exhibit for about six months, and he’s been a stamp collector for a few years now.
“I’ll take what I learned and possibly exhibit at other shows,” he said.
The show remained a stop for a few Canadian visitors such as Esther Monasch with the Victoria Stamp Club who has come for 10 years now. She’s been looking for a range of stamps from Japan and Canada along with a variety of other things.
Monasch said the only thing that would keep her from visiting Sequim each year would be a bumpy ferry ride over.
Victoria stamp club members helped encourage the first Strait Stamp Show in 1994, according to Strait Stamp Society members. Club meetings are held at 6 p.m. on the first Thursday of every month at Sequim Bible Church, 847 N. Sequim Ave.
Brandon Janisse, a stamp collector and Sequim’s mayor, stands with his exhibit focusing on stamps and envelopes about extinct animals and successful conservation efforts around the globe. Janisse said he’s been looking for elements of the exhibit for about six months, and he’s been a stamp collector for a few years now. “I’ll take what I learned and possibly exhibit at other shows,” he said.
Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash/ Collyer Church of Bainbridge Island looks through a dealer’s stamps at the Strait Stamp Show in Sequim on Aug. 9. He tries to visit the Sequim show each year and said “It’s a good little show.” “The people are friendly and the exhibits are fascinating and they show what people really collect,” he said.
Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash/ Vera Felts stands by her “Northern Pacific Railway Poster Stamps” exhibit on Aug. 9 at the Strait Stamp Show. She said the exhibit focuses on the complete collection of 26 stamps highlighting the railroad’s amenities, such as baked potatoes and a dining car in 1915. She believes it’s one of two known complete collections. “It’s fun to research and so fascinating,” she said. Felts plans to give a presentation on the collection next spring in Moses Lake.
Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash/ John Ullmann with Ullmann Collectibles of Edmonds exhibits for the seventh year at the Strait Stamp Show on Saturday. Ullmann said he’s been in the stamp business for 55 years and finds the Strait Stamp Society in Sequim to be a great club with great people. He said he likes to visit the Sequim area early with his wife so they can take in the sights.
