Jerry S. Palazolo of

Memphis, Tennessee Memphis is a city in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States, and its county seat. Situated along the Mississippi River, it had a population of 633,104 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the List of municipalities in Tenne ...

, is a collector and expert of

postage stamp A postage stamp is a small piece of paper issued by a post office, postal administration, or other authorized vendors to customers who pay postage (the cost involved in moving, insuring, or registering mail). Then the stamp is affixed to the f ...

s and

postal history Postal history is the study of postal systems and how they operate and, or, the study of the use of postage stamps and Cover (philately), covers and associated postal artifacts illustrating historical episodes in the development of postal system ...

of the

Confederate States of America The Confederate States of America (CSA), also known as the Confederate States (C.S.), the Confederacy, or Dixieland, was an List of historical unrecognized states and dependencies, unrecognized breakaway republic in the Southern United State ...

. He is also owner of a retail wine and liquor business.

Collecting interests

Palazolo is a collector with knowledge of all aspects of postal history of the Confederate States of America. However, he specializes in the study of postal history of

Tennessee Tennessee (, ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Kentucky to the north, Virginia to the northeast, North Carolina t ...

Mississippi Mississippi ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern and Deep South regions of the United States. It borders Tennessee to the north, Alabama to the east, the Gulf of Mexico to the south, Louisiana to the s ...

and

Arkansas Arkansas ( ) is a landlocked state in the West South Central region of the Southern United States. It borders Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, Texas to the southwest, and Oklahoma ...

, from the founding of postal systems in those areas and on through 1869.

Philatelic activity

Jerry Palazolo has served as editor and co-editor of various philatelic handbooks and catalogues. He has amassed a library of philatelic literature of over one thousand documents. At the

Confederate Stamp Alliance The Confederate Stamp Alliance is a philatelic organization dedicated to the collection and study of postage stamps and postal history of the Confederate States of America (CSA). It is an affiliate (No. 73) of the American Philatelic Society. Hist ...

, Jerry Palazolo is chairman of the Authentication Service.

CSA Catalog project

Jerry S. Palazolo is on the editorial board of the CSA Catalog project which is updating

August Dietz August Dietz (October 19, 1869 – September 26, 1963) was a philatelist, editor and publisher, who specialized in the study of mail and postal history of the Confederate States of America. Early life Dietz was born in Prussia on October 19, 18 ...

’s ''The Postal Service of the Confederate States of America'' and re-publishing it as the ''Confederate States Catalog and Handbook'', planned to be published in 2010.

References

Jerry S. Palazolo
{{DEFAULTSORT:Palazolo, Jerry S. Philatelic literature American philatelists People from Memphis, Tennessee Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Historians from Tennessee Historians of the American Civil War

Collecting interests

Philatelic activity

CSA Catalog project

See also

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