A legal size addressed envelope with 77 postage affixed must be enclosed. The Collectors Club of Chicago formed the Arthur Salm Foundation to conduct research as an aid to stamp collectors. The CCC provided a matching grant. A technical advisory group has been formed to assist the officers.
All testing is done by a outside laboratory.
The information in this report came from a speech presented by Susan E. Morton, U. S. Postal Service Crime Laboratory, San Bruno, Ca. at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, New Orleans, 1986. It was brought to our attention by Collectors Club member Ken Gilbart, who took part in the investigation and thefindings. The dealer is not named since he, and his wife, committed suicide rather than go to trial and they were never found guilty or innocent. No. 6 in the series. Report No. 2 studies the quality of paper products including mounts, stock pages and glassine envelopes.