St Louis Stamp Expo (EXPO) Show has been the host of several of the USPS’s Official First Day of Issue Ceremonies over the years of the show. Hosting one of these ceremonies is an honor and is a special event where the USPS, the stamps designers, philatelists, and special philatelic organizations are gathered to introduce a new stamp to the country.

If you are interested in more information about First Day of Issue Ceremonies check out:

American Ceremony Program Society (ACPS)

Links to:
Virtual Ceremonies

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Nathan Esbeck
Master of Ceremonies

Babatunde Deinbo
Mayor, Berkeley, MO

Diana Nygaard
Acting Postmaster of St. Louis, U.S.P.S

Unveiling of the
Wedding Blloms Stamp

Presentation of both the
Wedding & Celebration Blloms Stamp

Estelle Bell
Customer Relations Coordinator, U.S.P.S.

St Louis Stamp Expo (EXPO) Show was the host for Regency-Superior Stamp Auctions from 1993 – 2016.

In 1990, David Kols started Regency Stamps, then in 1992 he purchased Superior Galleries of Beverly Hills established in 1929 to form Regency-Superior Auctions. Regency-Superior was one of the nation’s leading Auctioneers specializing in the sale of classic postage Stamps, Coins, Sports and Space Memorabilia. Regency-Superior operated out of two locations, Beverly Hills and the Central West End of St. Louis.

Regency-Superior held some 125 auctions, selling almost $150 million worth of material during its time in business from 1990-2017.

Wayne L. Youngblood was the VP Consignor Relations for Regency-Superior wrote many excellent introductions in the Auction Catalogs about the Saint Louis Expo highlighting the theme and related information about Saint Louis. Wayne remains an active philatelist, author, editor, and owner of WY Stamps.

Attendance Buttons at Expo was the solution in 1997 when the Henry VIII hotel required a means to identify paid attendees at the show so that the parking lot attendant would allow them out of the parking lot without paying. While they are no longer required to get out of the parking lot at the Renaissance, the buttons are still used to verify that attendees have paid when entering the show floor.

The USPS logo was on all buttons as they had been paying the cost of the buttons under their advertising budget but that ended in 2019. The buttons were designed by a mail carrier named Scottie. while we don’t know Scottie’s last name, he was a key contributor who deserves note in the history of Expo.  Scottie was a mail carrier out of one of the post offices in north St. Louis.  The USPS found that he had some artistic talent and gave him an unofficial job of designing special postal cancels for events and shows in St. Louis, like Expo.  Scottie would take Tom Minor’s cachet design, develop the USPS cancel and show buttons, then have them created.  Scottie was said to have used only MS Word in his design of the cancels, which anyone who has used MS Word would know could not have been easy.  Scottie created all the cancels for the show until 2010, when he retired from the USPS.  Thanks for your contributions to the show, Scottie!

Penney Kols and Tom Minor have created them since 2010.