From: stamps@optonline.net   
      
   NAPEX 2010 will repeat its "The Alphabet Challenge" competition - a   
   special group of one-frame exhibits, this year all based on the letter   
   "J." The exhibits will be judged using standard American Philatelic   
   Society rules.   
      
   NAPEX 2010 is the Washington, D.C.-area World Series of Philately   
   show, which will be held June 4-6, 2010 at the Hilton McLean Tysons   
   Corner in McLean, Va., just a few miles from Washington, D.C.   
   Admission is free and open to the public.   
      
   The Alphabet Challenge exhibits "are not necessarily topical. They can   
   be traditional, too, because there could be exhibits on, for instance,   
   Jordan," said show chairman Darrell Ertzberger.   
      
   Last year was the first NAPEX Alphabet Challenge, featuring the letter   
   "L." National Postal Museum Philatelic Curator Cheryl R. Ganz won the   
   competition with her exhibit, "LZ126, ZR3 Los Angeles," about mail   
   flown by the reparations Zeppelin USS Los Angeles, built in Germany   
   for the U.S. Navy.   
      
   Also scheduled for NAPEX 2010 are commercial dealers and cachetmakers   
   bourses, world-class philatelic and literature exhibits, judging   
   seminars, national stamp society meetings, and the "Important New   
   Collectors" beginners area. Societies meeting at NAPEX 2010 are the   
   American Air Mail Society, Colombia/Panama Philatelic Study Group, and   
   the Society of Australasian Specialists/Oceania.   
      
   There is a special NAPEX 2010 hotel rate of $130 at the Hilton McLean   
   Tysons Corner.   
      
   For more information on NAPEX, visit www.napex.org, write to NAPEX   
   2010, P. O. Box 1312, Falls Church, VA 22041-1312, or contact show   
   chairman Darrell Ertzberger at mteton@aol.com.   
      
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