Steven Carl WALSKE

Year of Birth: 1952

Occupation: Businessman

Languages: English, French

Nationality: USA

Expert since: 1995

Member of AIEP since: June 2006

National Expert Organisation: former Trustee, Philatelic Foundation

Personal Reference Collections: French Franco-Prussian War; France-USA Transatlantic Mail; USA Civil War Postal History; USA Western Mails Postal History

Personal Forgeries Collections: Sperati forgeries of the world

Current Areas of Specialisation: Franco-Prussian War Postal History; American Civil War through-the-lines postal history American Western Mails postal history

Type of Expert: Expert who does not issue certificates but who is active as regular or occasional consultant to philatelists, other experts, organisations or expert committees.

Major FIP Exhibition Awards: Franco-Prussian War (Grand Prix National 1999)

Main Publications: Transport of Mails in Wartime France 1870-71 (1986); The Pony Express, A Postal History (2005); Special Mail Routes of the American Civil War (2008); Mails of the Westward Expansion (2105)

Membership: FRPSL; Académie de Philatélie (corresponding member); APS; France and Colonies Philatelic Society; US Philatelic Classics Society.