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BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT. The Washington correspondent of the stamp department of the New York Sun, referring to Postmaster General Tarley s collectors’ edition of | his gift stamps, says the reprints “are exact reproductions in every particu- lar.” A proper comment in the cir- cumstances would be: “All out of step, except Johnny."” Don Grieve, stamp editor, Cleveland Plain Dealer, writes: “It is interest- | ing to study these reprints and to try | and determine just what they should be called. In the first place, they are | not postage stamps, as they were not issued to pay postage and are not | available to the general public. Fur- | thermore, they are imperforate and | ungummed. They are not plate | proofs nor specimens, as they were | made from plates already approved. They might be called special print- | ings, and we will have to let it go at | that.” | At the Garfleld-Perry Stamp Club | ‘meeting, Hotel Carter, Cleveland, Sat- urdan evening last, it was reported that imperforate copies of the ctr- rent 20-cent Golden Gate stamp and | Inverted center copies of the contem- porary $5 stamp have been seen in the hands of dealers and collectors in the Middle West. Michael L. Eids- ness, jr, told the crowd: “If such | freaks really exist, they are honest | mistakes and not intentional produc- | tions, like Mr, Farley's presentation | novelties. Former administrations | had no patience with experiments of | that sort.” A stamp to mark the centenary of the admission of Arkansas to the | Union has been requested by the | Little Rock Philatelic Society. The | date of issue suggested is June 15, | 1936. | Representative John P. Dockweiler | of California has requested a stamp to commemorate the completion of Boulder Dam, “the eighth wonder of the world.” A collector who advocates a ll.lml.ll for the Dionne quintuplets reports that the Canadian postal authorities have refused 1o consider his sugges- tion, but -ays he intends to appeal to Mr. Farley io authorize one issue for each baby. Iy | | Anzac stamps to commemorate the ‘The Connecticut tercentenary date is a matter of controversy among his- | torians. Some say the first set!lement | was in 1633, some insist on 1636, and | “postes Egyptiennes” in conformity the official decision of the Tercen- tenary Commission is 1635. Hence, the commemorative stamp will appear | stamps must bear the word ‘postage.’ this year—probably on April 26 Practically every town in the State is agitating for first-day privileges, and it is indicated that the Post Office | engineers. inventors or mountain | Department will be accommodating. | guides—six portraits for which candi- | The new 2-cent “electric eye” ex- perimental stamps were printed from plates 21149 and 21150. | set for the convention of the Rotary | Saar stamps of all varieties and‘mg the Summer. denominations were withdrawn Febru- ary 28. ‘The Post Office Department of Can- ada announces a special series of six stamps for the silver jubilee of King George. Included in the set will be lc, green, portrait of Princess Eliza- beth; 2c, brown, portrait of the Duke of York; 3c, red, portraits of King George and Queen Mary; 5c, blue, por- trait of the Prince of Wales; 10c, green, view of Windsor Castle, and 13¢, blue, view of the royal yacht Britannia. Distribution arrangements have not been completed, nor first day of sale decided. | Prance will bring out a stamp to| MICHAEL L. EIDSNESS, JR., Associate editor Stamps Magazine, New York, is touring the United States in aid of the success of the American Philatelic Society Con- vention and Exhibition to be held in Washington next August. He is a native of Towa, and will celebrate his 42d birth anniver- sary Thursday in company With his father, whose natal anniver- sary also occurs on March 28. Mr. Eidsness entered the postal service in 1907 and was superin- tendent of the division of stamps from 1922 until his resignation in 1933. As premier chief of the Phil- atelic Agency he earned an in- ternational reputation as “the best friend of stamp collectors,” and as a writer and lecturer on stamps he has added to his celebrity. Elected honorary patron of the American Philatelic Society when President Roosevelt was similarly honored, he likewise is an hon- orary member of the Washington County Stamp Club and many other philatelic organizations. —Harris-Ewing Photo. | landing at Gallipoli, 1915. Egypt announces a new set inscribed | with the decision of the recent postal congress at Cairo that “all postage Austria’s next series of charity | stamps will consist of a gallery of | | dates now are being considered. Mexico will have a special low value Clubs to be held in Mexico City dur- | | France is about to assume the sole administration of the New Hebrides, and a philatelic reflection of the | transfer is to be expected. | Cachets are announced as follows: | April 3, 75th snniversary, Pony Ex- press, Nat Arnold, 747 South Oak drive, Bronx, New York City, 1 cent | forwarding charge; April 4, Masteis | Tournament, Scott Nixon, Southern | Finance Building, Atlanta, Ga.; April 6 and 7, anniversary, Battle of Shiloh, | price of s Boyd's stamp in addi- Philatelic Soclety, the Baltimore |an envelope on which he writes his | Philatelic Soclety, the Westchester | request for such cancellation. Al of- | structed to use great care in obliter- THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MARCH 24 1935—PART TWO. permitied a Steinway piano to figure in the 10c Camilo Branco stamp of 1925. Queen Liliukalani, composer of “Aloha Oe,” was presented in the Hawall serles of 1890; Manual Gutierres, creator of the national an- them of Costa Rica, was shown on a stamp of that country brought out in 1923; and Plerre Benoit, Flemish composer, received philatelic recogni- tion in a stamp issued by Belgium | in 1934, | Mr. Norman calls attention to the ! fact that the list might be added to. | By inference, he would approve stamps in appreciation of the genius of such | musicians as Stephen Col- | lins Poster, Ethelbert Nevin and Ed- | ward Macdowell. | | News-Week for March 23 contains | John Quincy Adams School. Another meeting will be held at the same place next Saturday after- | ported to be decreasing. the following interesting paragraphs: “To post letters a century ago, New Yorkers had to tramp downtown to the old General Post Office in Lib- erty street. In 1930 Boyd's City Express Post decided money could be made by saving Manhattanities shoe leather, So, as a private firm, it set up its own mail boxes and be- came the city’s postman—two col- lections a day. After postage stamps came into use in the 1840s, the serv- ice cost correspondents the 2-cent tion to the necessary United States postage. “Gradually, the firm extended its range. It carried packages to Adams Express Co. offices. On April 3, 1860, when the first Pony Express rider galloped out of St. Joseph, Mo, headed West, his pouch doubtless carried many a Boyd-stamped letter. “In 1878 the Government cracked down, forbade private posts. But that didn't cramp Boyd's style. It changed its name to Boyd's Cily Dispatch and developed a business service of delivering monthly bills and statements. In its addressing and mailing department its list of thou- sands of names continued to grow. Those names are the key to its pres- | ent success as ‘the oldest agency for | direct advertising in the world.'” ‘The German government has ini- tiated a reform which ought to ap- peal to stamp enthusiasts in theoret- vation,” says a special dispatch to the New York Sun, “has just been | inaugurated at all German post of- fices. Any philatelist desiring a spe- cially light and clear cancellation on his covers has only to place them in | fices have been provided with special cancelling stamps for such corre- | spondence, and employes are in- | ating.” Fraudulent copies of Scott’s No. 594 United States are being circulated, | and collectors should beware of them. | Genuine specimens are 1 cent, deep gray-green, perforated 11, from rotary | press coil waste, plate curved side- wise, 1913 to 20mm wide. The plate number is unknown. | Buenos Aires is to have an inter- national philatelic exhibition in Oc- tober. Arrangements are in the hands of a committee headed by Dr. Ricardo D. Elicabe. A playlet about stamps was the First Nighter feature of the N. B. C. radio| network Priday evening. The author meant well, but there were numerous minor inaccuracies in his script. | | “The wave of interest that has been | surging through the ranks of stamp| collectors this Winter,” says the As-| sociated Press in a special dispatch, “has even engulfed the inmates of | Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, N. Y. Word has been received in Washing- ton that the Sing Sing Philatelic So- ciety has decided upon a special cachet for April 6, commemorating the four- red cachet first day, blue, second day, R. B. Trustt, Shiloh National Military | Park, Pittsburg Landing, Tenn.; date! commemorate the entry into service of the new French Line steamer Nor- First-day cover from Manila Pebruary 15 to Phillp Simms Warren, treasurer, Washington Philatelic So- ciety, shows beautiful stamps of n ew Philippine series. unspecified, sesquicentenary, founding | Magazine, New York, announces that of Harrisburg, Dr. John A. Fritchey, | friends of Beverly King are planning 2016 North Third street, Harrisburg,|a memorial to his name, but the | teenth anniversary of Warden L. E. Lawes as head of the institution.” Harry L. Lindquist, editor, Stamps ~—Star Staff Photo. mandie, “the world’s largest vessel.” The design has been engraved by De- caris after a drawing by Sebille; the value will be 150fr and the color blue. First day of sale will be early in April. ‘The Associated Press reports: “Ru- mania, which always seems to at- tempt to outdo its previous issues with new stamps that quickly catch the eye, has not failed to do so with its current contribution. “Available information is to the effect that the set is commemorative, with other details lacking. There are four values, bearing portraits of Crisan, Horia, Closca. | “Horia’s picture appears on two of the stamps, the 1-leu and the 10-lel. ‘While he is alone on the latter, dark blve, he is shown as the central figure with the others in the back- ground on the former, dark violet. “The 2-lei, dark green, bears the rtrait of Crisan, and on the 6-lei, ark brown, is Closca. Colors are all two tones, but frame lines are omitted. Each bears the date 1785.” The Netherlands announces & new charity series, the designs to portray the famous Dutch musicians Swed- incks and Dreipinbrooks. Indo-China will have a new series, 1c to $2, showing portraits of Bao-Dai and Monivong, nominal sovereigns. Bolivia has two new sets, one for airmail and one for regular postage. ‘The design for all values is a map of the country with important cities indicated. Airmail depominations range from 5-centavos to 10-bolivars; regular postage, 2 to 40 centavos. Newfoundland will observe the sil- ver jubilee of King George V with a series of four values—ic, rou;\bc, msuve; 7Tc, blue, and 24c, olive. - Australia is bringing out & set of 1Ps.. and date to be decided, Naval Hospital dedication, D. E. Hansen, mail clerk, United States Naval Hos- pital, Philadelphia. Use standard 6% size envelopes, ad- dressed and stamped. PFather Cox, Old St. Patrick’s Parish House, Pittsburgh, is sponsoring a first-day cover and cachet service for the silver jubilee of King George V, covers to be mailed in London May 6. A fee of 25 cents is charged to meet expenses, and any surplus will go to charity. “Musicians may be surprised to learn that their profession has a very definite link with one of the most popular hobbies of the day—philately, or, as it is more commonly known, stamp collecting,” says V. A. Norman, former stamp editor of the Brooklyn Eagle, writing in the Etude for Feb- ruary. “A small collection of ‘music stamps’ 1s not too difficult to com- plete. None of the stamps are very expensive, although it may take search- ing among stemp dealers to locate them.” Hermes, the supposed inventor of the lyre and the flute, Mr. Norman continues, is represented in the stamps of Greece, Uruguay and Liberia, while Thoth, Egyptian god of music, is shown in the Geographical Congress stamps of Egypt, 1925. Three ctamps of tie Belgian Congo show a native orchestra, the players displaying drums, flutes and harps. The French Somaliland issues of 1915 offer a kettle-drum performer in action, and the Tripolitania in the 25c value of the 1931 Agricultural SEY( Exposition series depicted an Arab 8 'k ““Parl musician playing a flute. portrayed in the 1925 sports series of Hungary snd the 1929 series of Russia, ‘There are post-horns in the stamp designs of Austria, Crete, Denmark, Germany, Norway and Sweden. Germany has paid philatelic tribute to Bach and Beethoven and has hon- ored Wagner with a music-drama series of nine values; Austria brought exact form this expression of appre- ciation will take has yet to be decided and suggestions are invited. Those interested are requested to communi- cate with Mr. Lindquist promptly. Gov. Harold G. Hoffman has do- nated a large silver trophy as grand prize for the New Jersey Philatelic Pederation exhibition, Hotel Madison, Atlantic City, April 5 and 6. The third annual Atlantic City Stamp Club will be staged coincidentally. Judges selected are Stephen G. Rich, Sidney Lake, Charles W. Gramm and Vincent Domanski, jr. Miss Grace Church is the faculty adviser of the Theodore Roosevelt High School Stamp Club. A second meeting of representa- tives of the junior stamp clubs of ‘Washington, in preparation for the American Philatelic Society Conven- tion and Exhibition next August, was held under the presidency of Albert G, iSTAMBE .o . L. STAMP ALBUMS Stock Books. Catalogues, New Sets. Stngle Stampe. Philatelic Supplies. Call and see me T also BUY Collections Harry B. Mason, 918 F N.W. Stamps—Coins—Autographs Bought and Hobby Shep 716 17th St. N.W. DIst. 1272 _1107_Pa. Ave.. Next to_Star Office. . 8. Im| APDroy: 'u-u ltl'meum' 3¢ for roval nts enclosing 3 TOViking Sas GonDest Wou 1 Hite Broaony ¥ = Still on Display, Uncut Sheets of Ungummed Stamps Package Stamps, U. S. and Foreign; Single U. S. and Foreign Stamps; Albums out a musician’s set in 1922 to com- memorate Hadyn, ; Poland has stamps £ fl‘;‘:’mm&lflw Lisst, in the Heroes of Pelu‘uetlfl'Tl-m PALAIS ROYAL and Collectors’ Supplies. All attractively priced 11th & G Sts, District 4400 P. Kunze in the assembly room of the Board of Trade, Star Bullding, yesterday afternoon. Rules for preliminary school ex- hibits were discussed, and ways and means considered. Those present included Philip Simms Warren, treasurer, Washing- ton Philatelic Soclety; Gerard Ten Eyck Beeckman, stamp editor, C. C. C. Weekly; Charles E. Combs and Wil- liam Clark, Paul Junior High School; John Fegan, Eastern High School; Gar Chamberlin and Harold Atkin- son, jr, Bethesda-Chevy Chase School; Robert Bilsborough, Mollie M. Lewis and Marvin Schwartz, Roose- velt High School; Genevieve Reimer and Irene Sloane, Macfarland Junior High School, and Billy Wood Stevens, noon, and Mr. Kunse invites all Junior collectors interested to atiend. ‘The Washington Stamp Club of the Air will have a broadcast meeting from Station WOL Tuesday evening at 6:45. Mr. Kunze will speak on “The Life and Work of Maimonides and the Stamp in His Honor.” The Collectors’ Club, Branch 5, So- clety of Philatelic Americans, will meet at the Thomson School, Twelfth street, ‘Tuesday evening at 8. Visitors wel- come. The Washington Philatelic Society will meet at the Hotel Carlton, Six- teenth street, Wednesday evening at 8. Public invited. 4 Calanthe Lodge meets tomorrow to celebrate its sixty-seventh anniver- sary. The rank of Knight will be conferred. Syracusians Lodge conferred the Knight rank on six Esquires, Earnest O’Roark, master of work, directed the dramatic team. Past Chancellor Harding of Forest Oak Lodge exem- plified the part of king. Supreme Representative Vandervort was the speaker of the evening. DELAY IN 40-HOUR WEEK BILL SOUGHT Board of Trade Committee Sug- gests Postponement Until Na- tional Legislation Passes. Delay in the enactment of a 40- hour week work bill for women in the District was asked by the In- Rathbone Temple, Pythian Sisters, ; Wi will have a card party at 2146 Geor- gla avenue April 2 at 8 pm. On ship on District business houses might result if the bill is passed. Robert B. Swope, vice chairman of the committee who presided in the absence of Thomas P. Littlepage, who is 1ll, named a subcommittee to call ‘upon sponsors of the measure in Con- gress to delay its passage until after national legislation on the subject. A second subcommittee was named to call upon the Merchants and Manufacturers Association to ascer- tain sentiment of business men on the subject. The committee also opposed the proposed new smoke abatement law recently drafted by People’s Counsel William A. Roberts. Broad powers conferred on the District Commis- sioners by the proposal were held ically happier countries. “An inno- |° Radio Interest Drops. March 29 this temple will hold a Ninth street. Adapted from s carfoon by R. D. Handy. Taxes are going up—like a skyrocket. Congress is striking the match to light the fuse that sets off the rocket, and you, the taxpayer, are bound fast to it. Do you know how your tax- payer money is being expended— in what sums, to what purpose, and to what result? Do you know that California pays twice as much taxes as the people of the whole Nation paid in the year Sumter was fired on? That the State of Louisiana pays more in taxes each year than the entire Louisiana purchase cost? That every man, womag and child in the United States is paying about $75.00 each year in taxes— while in France the payment is $55.00 and in Germany only $37.00? 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