The
QCCS Inc. is a club of approx. 100 members who collect
postcards,
trade
cards and
cigarette cards.
Our membership is mainly from within the state of Queensland but also includes
people in most of the other states of Australia and several overseas countries.
Our sister club is in Washington Crossing, PA, USA.
Queensland is one of the six states
in Australia, and the northernmost on the eastern coastline. The main
population base is in Brisbane, the state's capital city, which is situated
in the state's south east corner. Brisbane is a popular tourist destination
and the city hosted the Commonwealth Games in 1982, Expo in 1988 and the
Goodwill Games in September 2001. It has been voted as Australia's most
liveable city.
All forms of card collecting are popular
hobbies throughout Australia. There are independent card collecting
groups in New South Wales, Victoria, the Australian Capital Territory and Western Australia. The
New South Wales Postcard Collectors
Society and the
Western Australian Card Collectors Society
are
the other clubs with websites. There are some full time and a number of
part time dealers in cards in each state of Australia but not many have retail
premises. Most attend dedicated card fairs which are held regularly in Sydney
and Melbourne and/or more general collectibles fairs and swap meets throughout
the country. Postcards and sometimes cigarette and trade cards can usually
be found at philatelic and coin fairs.
Meetings
Our group meets on the last Tuesday
of each month (December excluded) at the Brisbane Sporting Car Club, Unit 1/206 Montague
Rd, West End which is centrally located in Brisbane just west of
the city centre. Meetings start at 7:30pm. The format of each
meeting usually involves a discussion of official business, followed by
new business and announcements, then a presentation on a card related topic
(always interesting and of high standard) followed by refreshments and
informal mingling. Cards are often brought along for trade, sale
or just to be shown off and the lots from our bi-monthly postal auction
of 200-250+ lots are available for inspection. Unsold lots are available
for direct purchase at the reserve price at the next meeting. Members
have access to a large library of reference books and journals. Visitors who wish
to attend, see how we operate or bring some cards for assessment or sale are welcome.
Membership
Yearly membership fees are AU$30.00
within Australia; Pacific and New Zealand AU$35.00 and AU$39.00 for rest
of world which provides the member with 6 issues of our club Bulletin (each
is 8-10 pages long) and five postal auction catalogues as well as entitlement
to attend meetings and borrow from our extensive library of card related
reference books and journals.
Executive
At the society's AGM in August 2007
the following club executive personnel were elected:
President:
Alan McNaughton
Secretary: Nel Stevens
Treasurer: Ernie
Goleby
Editor of Bulletin:
David
Johnson; Compiler of Bulletin: Roy Pugh
Auctioneers: Reg Stonard & Roy Pugh Librarian: Judy
Sneyd
Webmaster: Marcel
Safier
Contact
Our contact address for correspondence
and membership is:
The Secretary, QCCSI, P.O. Box 896, Indooroopilly, QLD, 4068,
Australia.
E-mail correspondence can be sent to
the webmaster Marcel Safier msafier@ozemail.com.au.
Articles and ads for inclusion in the Bulletin can be sent direct to the
editor David Johnson.
| News:
2008 marks the centenary of the Great White Fleet visit
which was extensively covered in postcards. It is also marks the centenary of
the Franco British Exhibition which Queensland took part in through the
auspices of Henry Mobsby, photographer for the Queensland Intelligence and
Tourism Bureau who produced many cards featuring his photography including cards
of the event.
An ASUS laptop computer has now been purchased to compliment
our Sony data
projector the club has owned for the last 3 years to streamline digital
slideshows.
It is becoming increasingly difficult for members
to obtain new material. Anyone who has postcards, cigarette cards or they wish
to sell is welcome to contact the club!!
If you are compiling lists of Queensland cards,
whether a member or not we would be pleased to hear from you!
Historical, philatelic and other groups are welcome to enquire about guest
speakers from amongst our membership on a wide variety of card, collecting and
historical themes. Alan McNaughton lectured to the New Farm Historical Society
on a history of postcards that including rare early Brisbane examples and a
number of New Farm. Your webmaster Marcel Safier has spoken to the Toowong History Group and
the Toowong Historical Society about early postcards of Toowong and to the New
Farm Historical Society on early photographers of Fortitude Valley. |
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