WESTPEX 2008

Stamp Show

Tropical Fruit Stamps to be Issued at WESTPEX Stamp Show

First Day of Issue Dedication Will Take Place on Show's Opening Day

BURLINGAME, Calif. — The new 27-cent, Tropical Fruit definitive stamps in five designs will be dedicated and issued at the 2008 WESTPEX Stamp Show, on April 25 at the San Francisco Airport Marriott Hotel in Burlingame. The special ceremony, which coincides with the stamp show's opening day, will take place at 1 p.m. in the Irvine Room.

Five definitive stamps picture tropical fruit that look good enough to eat. Illustrator Sergio Baradat created art that visually slices or halves five tropical fruits – pomegranate, kiwi, star fruit, papaya and guava - depicting them in eye-catching and mouth watering color. Designed by Ethel Kessler of Bethesda, Md., the stamps go on sale nationwide April 25, 2008 in Post Offices, on usps.com and by calling 800-STAMP-24.

These stamps will be available in the following formats:

• · Pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) Pane of 20.
• · PSA Coil of 100.

WESTPEX is the largest and most successful stamp show held west of the Mississippi. For 48 years WESTPEX has been the place on the west coast where stamp collectors and dealers from all over the world meet to show, buy, sell and talk philately. WESTPEX 2008 will be held April 25-27 at the San Francisco Airport Marriott Hotel.

The WESTPEX Exhibition will include more than 5000 pages in 322 frames of worldwide stamps, postal history and postal stationery. Guest societies include COPAPHIL, the Colombia/Panama Philatelic Study Group, the British Caribbean Philatelic Study Group and the Ethiopian Philatelic Society along with meetings of numerous other societies, clubs and study groups. For complete details and schedules of the WESTPEX events and the show theme souvenir items, see the web site www.westpex.com, or at WESTPEX, Inc. P.O. Box 201579, San Francisco, CA 94121.