December 30:  Examples of plate number singles from the 32¢ era have been added.

December 28:  Examples of plate number singles from the 29¢ era have been added.

December 27:  New plate numbers reported for 2004 37¢ Garden Flowers booklet.

December 26:  Examples of plate number singles from the 4¢ era have been added.

December 21:  New Scott numbers reported for recent 2004 issues. Preliminary issues for 2005 announced.

December 8:  New plate number S4444 reported on the 2003 Flag stamp, Scott 3632A.

December 3:  APNSS member Doug D'Avino reports that a recent Linn's Stamp Yearbook includes plate numbers that appear on one of the Looney Tunes press sheets.  Further details appear on the New Plates web page.

November 29:  An imperforate pane (no die cutting) of the 2003 Purple Heart stamp was pictured in Linn's Stamp News.  Further details appear on the 2003 web page.

November 26:  APNSS Circuit Director Myron Schmidt reports finding new plate numbers for the Holiday Ornaments booklets.

November 21:  APNSS Circuit Director Myron Schmidt has our circuit procedures in place.  Any APNSS members interested in participating in circuits, please click here to contact Myron directly to get yourself on the list.  We need both buyers and sellers!  Click here or click on the link at the left to go to the Circuits web page for more information.

November 16:  Stampshows.com and the Texas Philatelic Society have added links to the APNSS web site from their sites.

November 10:  New Scott numbers and plate numbers reported for recent 2004 issues.

October 28:  We have added a Search capability to our web site.  You can now enter a Scott Catalog number, plate number, issue name, topic or other search data and get quickly and easily to the pages that include that information.

October 26:  We have added a new page for APNSS Circuits.  Watch this space and Plate Numbers for details.

October 19:  New Scott numbers, additional details on two newest Sea Coast coils.

October 13:  As reported in Linn's, a new plate number has been reported for the 13¢ Washington on bluish paper, Scott 365, dating from 1909.

October 9:  New plate number reported on 2004 Snowy Egret coil.

October 7:  APNSS has a new Circuit Director!  Myron Schmidt of West Virginia has agreed to get the APNSS Circuits going and to coordinate the activities.  Watch this space and Plate Numbers for additional details.

October 6:  New Scott numbers reported for recent 2004 issues.

October 2:  Plate number reported for new Sickle Cell Anemia stamp.

September 30:  We have added a couple of illustrations of faked Kansas-Nebraska overprints on plate number singles.

September 28:  New plate number reported for 2004 Snowy Egret booklet stamp.

September 9:  The September issue if Plate Numbers is in the mail.  Be sure to check out the auction items.

September 4:  We have added a new page illustrating examples of the various plate number prefixes used by private security printers.

September 3:  New plate numbers reported for 60¢ Coverlet Eagle, Purple Heart second printing, and 9-Mile Prairie airmail.

September 2:  We have added a new page illustrating examples of selected plate number singles and strips of the popular Transportation Coils series.

September 1:  Some visitors have reported problems viewing the Sacramento show pictures in their browser.  I have loaded the original (larger sized) pictures onto a separate page.  If you still can't view them, click on the email link on that page and I'll be happy to send them to you in a return email.

August 28:  New plate number P33333 reported for $1 Wisdom stamp of 2003.

August 28:  Plate numbers reported for USS Constellation, James Baldwin, Navajo Necklace issues of 2004.  New plate number reported for R. Buckminster Fuller stamp.

August 24:  Eric Chaulsett has sent pictures from the Sacramento show.  Click here for details.

August 22:  Our booth at the Sacramento APS show was quite successful.  Thanks to visitors Patrick Cunningham, Mike Newkirk, Dan Pagter, Alvin C. Beckett, George Mertens, and Carl Shaff, all of California; Merle Wright of Idaho, Bill Rader of Montana; Charles Waller; Janet Gillis of Pennsylvania, and Steve Wittig of Missouri, for stopping by and signing our guest book.  And a big thank you to APNSS President Eric Chaulsett for organizing our booth and exhibits, and to Eric and George Mertens for manning the booth throughout the show.  A complete report will appear in the September issue of Plate Numbers.

August 18:  We have added a new page illustrating examples of high-value Priority Mail and Express Mail stamps issued since 1981.

August 15:  Website visitor Stephen Esrati suggested an easier way to find information on all of the various Sea Coast coils.  We now have a new page spotlighting just the Sea Coast coil issues of 2002, 2003 and 2004.

August 11:  New plate numbers reported for 2003 Snowy Egret coil and 2003 Atlas coil.

July 26:  New Scott numbers reported for Fuller, Disney, other recent issues.  Plate numbers corrected based on latest reports for the three Wilma Rudolph formats.

July 21:  New Scott number reported for the water-activated Sea Coast coil with 2004 date.

July 20:  New plate number for the recent Disney stamp reported by new APNSS member Myron Schmidt.

July 18:  New plate number reported for (10¢) Atlas self-adhesive coil.  Corrected new plate numbers for 23¢ Wilma Rudolph convertible booklet and vending booklet.

July 15:  Plate numbers and positions reported for new John Wayne, Cloudscapes issues.  New plate number reported but not verified for Noguchi issue.

July 12:  New plate number 2222A reported for 2002 37¢ self-adhesive Flag coil, Scott 3632.  Plate numbers 3333 and 6666 reported on the imperforate error, Scott 3632b.

July 10:  Plate numbers and positions reported for new Olympics and Disney issues.

July 5:  The 2005 edition of the Hebert's Catalog of Plate Number Singles is now available!  Price $30 to non-members, $27 to APNSS members, postpaid.  Available through Hebert's publisher Jim Ragsdale.  The 2003 edition sold out, so be sure to get yours early.

July 5:  Plan now to join us at the APS STAMPSHOW August 12-15 in Sacramento.  Additional details below as announced in April (See News Archives)

July 2:  The July issue of Plate Numbers is in the mail.  Watch for yours.  Let the Secretary know of any changes or corrections to your address.

July 1:  Scott numbers reported for recent new issues.

June 19:  Examples of plate number material for U.S. possessions have been added. Stamps qualify if they are overprints of regular U.S. issues.  See the Examples page.

June 17: 

• In response to a visitor's request, I have re-done a number of Examples pages using a larger and more legible font for the descriptions.  I started at the front of the list, so if you are waiting for a later page, please email me and I'll try to get to it sooner.
• Booklet panes with plate numbers have been added to the Second Bureau Issue page.
• Since I can't find examples of plate number singles of all of the Offices in China issues, I have temporarily added scans of plate blocks.  Please email me if you have scans of PNS to add to this page.
• News older than 3 months is now archived.  There's a link to the Archives at the bottom of this page.
• It has been reported that some stamp images can be viewed fine in Netscape 7.1 but do not display well (or at all) when using Internet Explorer 6.0.  If you notice PNS examples that don't display, please email me (there's an automatic link at the bottom of each web page) and tell me which images have the problem.  Please mention what browser you are using (how do you get to the Internet?) and I'll try renaming the image and re-uploading it, as that frequently solves the problem.

June 15:  You can now receive an email automatically every time this page changes.  Just click on the link at the bottom of this page.

June 15:  New plate number reported for Snowy Egret booklet.

June 14:  New Scott numbers assigned to recent issues such as Air Force Academy and water-activated Eagle coil.

June 13:  A new web page features examples of plate number singles of various Postal Savings stamps.

June 12:  Editor/Publisher Jim Ragsdale reports that he expects to have the latest 2005 edition of the Hebert's Catalog of Plate Number Singles available in late June.  Click here for ordering information.

June 12:  Examples of Airmail Special Delivery stamps have been added to the Special Delivery page.  Special Handling stamps have been added to the Parcel Post page.

June 10:  More plate number single examples added to the Airmails page.

June 6:  We have added a link to Ron Maifield's web site featuring plate numbers for modern booklets.

June 5:  Additional images added to Washington-Franklin examples, Officials, Postage Dues.

June 4:  Additional plate numbers reported for 37¢ Garden Flowers convertible booklet.

June 3:  A new web page features examples of plate number singles of the 2¢ Reds of the early 20th Century.

May 30:  Plate numbers reported for American Dancing and WW2 Memorial issues.

May 28:  Plate number reported for water-activated 2004 Sea Coast coil.  New plate number reported for 2004 Snowy Egret coil.

May 21:  Plate number reported for Lewis & Clark (Discovery) issue.

May 19:  We've added a counter to our initial page to track hits on our web site.

May 17:  Plate numbers on the Dr. Seuss issue appear only in the LL and LR positions.

May 16:  Plate number reported for 4¢ Chippendale Chair issue.

May 15:  I have now seen examples from both the original 10,000 coil of the Sea Coast self-adhesive, and of the new 3,000 coil, and can report that the second printing (P2222) is noticeably more "red" than the original, which is paler and more "orange."  While there is apparently no significant design difference to cause Scott to assign a major catalog number, the color difference may warrant an eventual minor Scott listing.

May 12:  Scott Publishing reports that there will be no new Scott catalog number assigned to the (5¢) Sea Coast coil of 3,000 that was issued April 6.

May 11:  Plate number reported for Isamu Noguchi issue.

May 9:  New plate number P4444 reported on redesigned 37¢ Purple Heart, Scott 3784A.

May 6:  Plate number reported for the new (25¢) American Eagle pre-sort water-activated coil.

May 6:  Editor Michael Schreiber of Linn's Stamp News reports some additional printing details about the "2004" (5¢) Sea Coast coil of 3,000, Scott 3785.  It reportedly has a "slightly higher" 2003 date than stamps from the coil of 10,000 that was issued in 2003.  The original 2003 stamps have plate number P1111, while the 2004 stamps have plate number P2222.

May 2:  Plate number reported for Mancini issue.

May 1:  We have added a link to the ASDA web page.

April 27:  A new APNSS web page shows examples of plate number singles of Early 20th Century Commemoratives.

April 20:  New plate number reported on Atlas self-adhesive coil, Scott 3770.

April 18:  New Scott numbers assigned.  Additional plate numbers reported for Scott 3207A and 3208A.

April 11:  APNSS will be at the Sacramento APS STAMPSHOW in August

APNSS president Eric Chaulsett will be hosting an APNSS table at the American Philatelic Society's STAMPSHOW from August 12-15 in Sacramento, California.  It will be held in the Convention Center in downtown Sacramento.

Our table will display some plate number singles as well as color copies of stamps.

We will also be displaying PNS's on postcards set up on easels.

We will have a stereo-microscope set up to view a very partial plate number and have visitors attempt to guess the actual number.  Copies of Jim Ragsdale's article on How To Determine Partial Plate Numbers will be available.

Any West Coast members wishing to help staff the table during show hours would be really welcome.  If anyone has ideas or would like to provide any materials, they would be appreciated.  Email APNSS president Eric Chaulsett for details.

Eric is looking forward to seeing any of our members at the show and recruiting new ones.  Please stop by the table and say Hello!

April 11:  USSS reports additional plate numbers for 13¢ Franklin bluish paper issue (Scott 365) and 4¢ Washington unwatermarked perf 10 (Scott 465).

April 10:  New plate numbers P2222, P3333 reported on revised Purple Heart stamp of 2003 (Scott 3784A). Dr. Seuss issue reported with plate number S111111.  New Air Force Academy stamp reported with plate number S111111.

April 9:  Plate number V2222 reported on 37¢ Antique Toys booklet (Scott 3645f) of 2003.  Plate number P2222 reported on 10¢ Clock (Scott 3751).  Plate number V2222 reported on 37¢ Snowy Egret coil (Scott 3829).

April 4:  APNSS has joined the Philatelic Webmasters Organization (PWO), and we have added a link to their site.  PWO now references APNSS on its site.

April 4:  We have added a link to Robin Harris's web site featuring US coil and booklet plate number singles.

April 1:  Sea Coast self-adhesive "all-around" coil of 3,000 (Scott 3785) to be issued April 6, new plate number P2222 appearing every 27 stamps