American Society for Philatelic Pages and Panels     |   home Our Mission   |   What are Pages and Panels   |   Join Us - Free Pages and Posters!   |   Event Calendar   |   Annual Auction   |   The Page & Panel Journal   |   ASPPP / Page / Panel News   |   Downloads   |   Show and Tell   |   Stamp Posters   |   Souvenir Pages   |   Missing Year 2000 Souvenir Pages   |   American Commemorative Cancellation Pages   |   American Commemorative Panels   |   Other USPS Pages   |   Regional USPS Pages   |   Privately-Produced Pages and Panels   |   International Philatelic Pages   |   Page and Panel Shipments   |   USPS Subscription Information   |   For Sale by the ASPPP   |   Buy-Sell-Trade Ads   |   Web Site Changes   |   Acknowledgements   |   Recommended Links To Other Philatelic Websites   |   Contact Us   |   Member Services Our Mission Our mission is to promote interest in all philatelic pages and panels. The ASPPP was formed as the "US Souvenir Page Society" in 1984 by Bud Scrantom to fill the philatelic void that existed for collectors of US Souvenir Pages (now called American Commemorative Cancellations), Commemorative Panels and Stamp Posters  (the forerunners of Souvenir Pages that appeared on Post Office bulletin boards from 1959-1981). Through our quarterly publication, The Page & Panel Journal, we accumulate and distribute information on these collectibles; we illustrate errors, varieties, oddities and other rarities, and list known plate number coils and booklet-pane plate numbers on Souvenir Pages, as well as watermark varieties of the Pages themselves. We also update our members with news and events related to Pages and Panels. To encourage collectors to buy, sell and trade Pages and Panels, we allow members to place free ads in each Page & Panel Journal. Each May through July we run an annual auction of Page and Panel material (the 2004 auction contained 1,339 lots from individual Pages and Panels to year sets to entire collections). You must be an ASPPP Member to bid in the auction. The ASPPP is Affiliate #165 of the American Philatelic Society, and Chapter #87 of the American First Day Cover Society.  Our membership meets at various philatelic exhibitions during the year (go to the Event Calendar web page for the latest details).