Shared by Ron Breznay, President of the Wyoming Valley Stamp Club

The Wyoming Valley Stamp Club has had a dedicated display case at the Hoyt Library in Kingston,Pennsylvania for several years. The displays are changed frequently. Next to the case, we place packets of stamps for the taking as well as stamp magazines and information about the club and stamp collecting.

We set it up there because we met at the library on the third Saturday of the month from 2015 until the COVID shutdown in 2020. The library has since reopened, but we have not resumed meeting there because they changed their Saturday hours. However, we left the case there and continue to maintain it as part of our mission to promote stamp collecting in the local community.

Club member Tom Bowman made the case, which measures 31” x 22.5” and slopes from 5” at top to 2.5” at bottom. It is secured by a lock. The case was installed at the library in 2016. The displays are changed more or less monthly, and we place stacks of stamp packets, philatelic magazines, and information about the club and the APS by the case for members of the public to take.

Below is a list of the displays that we’ve had in the case. I plan on installing a new display next week, which will mark Valentine’s Day.

I have photos of 34 displays, with multiple photos of some of the displays. These are shown in the Community Outreach folder on our Bublup site, which also includes information about other community outreach projects of the club. Because this site is intended as a forum only for club members and contains some sensitive club documents, we would not provide links or invitations to the general public. Perhaps we will develop a mirror site that will include most of the folders and be available to the general public, but this main site is still under construction. In the meantime, anyone interested in accessing information can visit the Wyoming Valley Stamp Club Facebook page. 

Hoyt Library Displays

In March 2020, the library closed due to the COVID 19 pandemic. The Postcrossing display remained until the Summer display was installed in July 2022.

How are you promoting the Hobby?

Do you have promotions that you or your stamp group have done?  Please share!  To share your ideas, send a brief write-up with any supporting photos to wendy@stamps.org.