Evening Star Newspaper, May 9, 1937, Page 40

By courtesy of David H. Davenport, The Star reproduces two covers carried home from Hongkong and Macau, respec- y, by the first Clipper ship plane to make the complete trans- Pacific trip, San Francisco to the Asiatic mainland, and return, Each envelope is attractively cacheted with appropriate em- tivi blems and inscriptions. BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT. ‘The Post Office Department's offi- cial list of United States stamps, fully | illustrated, may be published within the next fortnight. It was learned yesterday that five revisions of proof have been made and that actual print- ing is scheduled to begin immediately after a final check-up. There will be 119 pages of text and 483 cuts. Con- | trary to expectation, it is indicated that privately manufactured issues from 1847 to 1893 are included. Reve- nue productions also will be described and reproduced. The price of the booklet probably will approximate 50 cents. Copies will be available at the office of the superintendent of docu- ments, Government Printing Office. Postmaster General James A. Farley | soon will announce three stamps of a character as yet unreported.. One is rumored to be intended to adver- | tise professional nurses’ organizations; another may be a Boy Scout publicity label. New stamps for trans-Atlantic air- | mail also are being discussed. The disaster to the Zeppelin Hind- enburg at Lakehurst Thursday eve- ning created a flurry of speculation in covers carried by the ship on her 10 crossings of the Atlantic last year. Demand was general, supplies scant | and prices, consequently, rose Friday and yesterday beyond all reasonable expectation. Meanwhile, covers carried by Olip- ber plane to Macau and Hongkong April 21 to 28 reached their respective destinations safely; and covers brought back to the United States from the same points were delivered to ad- dressees. Floyd Walleker, Washington collector, is one of a very few persons who arranged for round-trip mark- ings. He has two covers with United States stamps canceled at San Fran- cisco. Hongkong stamps canceled at that terminus and return indorsement at San Francisco May 4. Each en- velope bears two cachets, westward and eastward bound. Howard S. Olmstead, jr., of Alex- | andria, specializing in airmail covers, has agranged a round-the-world &angit system of his own. His en- velopes were flown across the Pacific, now are in en route to Paris and will be forwarded from that city to Wash- ington by the first trans-Atlantic carrier to make the trip under the contract shortly to be awarded by the Post Office Department, Recent developments suggest rapidly growing interest in the projected con- ference between Government officials and representative philatelists. Dis- | cussing the plan, Elmer C. Pratt, stamp editor of the Camden Courier- —Star Staff Photo. for a century or two and not turn into dust in 25 or 50 years as our present quantity production issues most prob- ably will. “Rancor, philatelic or political, abusive tactics on any side, heated charges and counter-charges will get nowhere. A frank, honest, heart-to- hear{ discussion on all phases and from all angles cannot help but be beneficial to the Government agencies, the Post Office Department, the col- lectors and the general public, who, after all, are the real backbone of this stamp-issuing business.” The whole world, more or less. is preparing to celebrate the sesqui- centenary of the Coastitution of the United States. “Many foreign gov- ernments” are reported to be getting ready to bring out special sets of “com- { memorative” stamps—obviously to sell | to American collectors. Ecuador has | announced ordinary postage and air- | mails to be released July 4. Each series will consist of seven values, | and the designs will show the Star | Spangled Banner, | France likewise, according to in- | formation from Paris, will take phil- | atelic advantage of the opportunity. Mexico has installed new stamp- | printing machinery, purchased in Germany, and it is indicated that all current Mexican stamps will be re- issued in improved format and style. | The coronation stamp of Great | Britain, 112d. brown, will be releasec Tuesday or Thursday. New regular | postage issues, bearing the portrait cf King George VI, should go on sale simultaneously. The denominations of the latter are: 12d, 1d and 21:d. Dealers in Washington have re- ceived limited stocks of the new In- ternational Exposition colonial stamps of France. The list includes 26 ter- ritorial divisions scattered all over the globe. A complete showing totals 155 different space fillers. Peru has & new 2-centavo stamp, carmine, presenting Santa JRosa, pa- tron of the City of Lima. The new Queen Astrid semi-postal stamps of Belgium are intended to finance parks and playgrouhds for children. | Miss Mary Adams Stevens, employed in the Post Office Department for 16 years.and known to scores of stamp collectors, died on Friday., April 30. | She had helped to build up the Philatelic Agency in the days of its | infancy and in its service attended | several conventions and exhibitions. | Robert Hooper, 17, a student at the Post, writes: “Callectors must bear in | mind that the Post Office Department | is now producing stamps for the pur- | pose of franking mail. How long | these stamps will last, how they are | perforated, so long as they are sep- arated from their fellows, and how | beautiful they are, in reality are secondary considerations. * * * “However, these collectors do spend about $10,000,000 a year, for which they demand no mail service and thus do enter the picture and become the Government's best customer, as the sales to them show almost 100 per cent profit. That's worth going after in any business. “It is quite possible that the con- ference, if the problems are ap- proached in an open and frank man- ner by both sides, may give us not only stamps that will frank mail, but also stamps well centered, well printed—and printed on lasting paper that can be collected and preserved STAMPS. EXTRAORDINARY FREE OFFER—Turks Caicos, 85 U. S.. Caymans, Western Samoa, Baden. All for 3¢ postage. Approvals sen Viking, I_Hanson Brooklyn, NATIONAL STAMP MART 1317 F St N.W.. Bm. 411, Dist. 3217 STAMP ALBUMS Sets. Single 1l and see NEW SHIPMENT OF ELBE STOCK BOOKS AND ALBUMS. Pushkin & Hitier Sheets, other new Foreign Issues. Ensraved velopes for 5c Army-Navy Stamp. 4o and B ‘each. CULLEN'S STAMP SHOP, 529 G st. n.w. Metropolitan 8817. WHITNEY'S STAMP MART 102 12th St. N.W. Met. 6593 STAMPS—COINS—AUTOGRAPHS Bousht and Sold 716 17th st NW, District 1272 UYENO’S STAMP SHOP 1205 Penn. Ave. N. Met. 9014 This is to give notice that the stamp ahop. formerly known as the Rislto Stamp hop, has moved and become associated thothe Potomac Book & Art Shop. at st. n. 913 G st U. s issues Great Featuring . new Britatn “and British Colonies, and the POTOMAC BOOK & ART SHOP 913 G_Street N.W. Miss Agnes Johnson Announces the Opening of I The | FIDELITY STAMP CO. i Store May 13, at 2 p.m. Friends’ Academy, who had planned to enter Harvard University in Sep- tember, died at Georgetown Hospital | Monday night from injuries sustained in a picnic accident. Miss Agnes ohnson, with whom he worked last | Summer, says of him: “He was an ardent stamp collector. His knowledge | of stamps and his intelligent interest in all stamp affairs made him the friend of many collectors years older than his own age and he will be greatly missed by those who had the pleasure of knowing him.” ! ey i The Fidelity Stamp Co. announces the opening of a store at 420 Star Building, Pennsylvania avenue and Eleventh street, Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Both United States and foreign material will be stocked, as well as albums and accessories. The RIMLESS | purchased in Fleet street. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, mail order division of the firm will continue in operation at the Barrister Building. ‘The Rialto Stamp Shop has removed to 913 G street, where it will be con- ducted in co-operation with the Poto- mac Book and Art Shop. Gerard Ten Eyck Beeckman is in Pittsburgh for the. week end. Rollin E. Flower, president of the Buffalo Stamp Club and philatelic editor of the Buffalo Evening News, was guest of homor at a luncheon given by Washington friends at the Hotel Harrington on Tuesday. Charles Kohen, a veteran Washing- ton philatelist as well as & veteran of the A. E. F, is an active candidate for department commander of the American Legion. His platform is a philosophy of practical social service to which he has been faithful for many year. The name of Harry B. Caton of Alexandria should have been included among those of exhibitors of Austrian stamps at the Washington Philatelic Society meeting of May 5. He dis- played the earliest specimens shown on that occasion. Dr. Emil Ferdinand Hirschberger contributes the following interest- ing story of a sensational devel- opment in Great Britain: “On the outer wall of the Fleet Stret branch post office in the newspaper cen- ter of London there is an auto- matic stamp-vending machine for the convenience of the public after office hours. But before this mechanical sales agent was placed in use it was tried out at the factory and by the post office department and, in order to save real stamps, rolls of adhesive paper of the size of regular stamps, but lacking denomination and in- scription, were employed in the tests. The “dummy” rolls showed a rectangle inclosing a green oval-shaped colorl spot looking very much like a poached | egg. And, by mistake, a few of lhe; trial rolls remained in the machine when it was installed in Fleet street. The public regarded the monsters with astonishment at first, then decided that they must be a new variety of | postal issue, affixed them to mail and | posted them. There was nothing for | the postal authorities to do but accept | the “‘make-believes”—because, like reg- | ular stamps, they had been paid for! doing ordinary postal duty. “The trial rolls, as it happens, were not exactly new. They had been used in the mobile automatic postal ‘stations’ sent out through the | country to demonstrate to the public the utility of such inventions. But | they had been given away, not sold. Speculators, however, heard of their rural distribution and hastened to buy them up from all who had re- ceived and preserved them. The post office officials accepted them on | cover for a few days, since they had | no proof that they had not heen; Meanwhile, | all rolls not released were recalled, | and the ‘stamps’ mutilated with a | color brush to destroy their value to | collectors. Also, plain white paper | was prepared for further demonstra- | tions. | “But the damage was done. Mint ‘poached eggs' are regarded as a bona fide ‘variety, and are being sold on the philatelic market at 10 shillings each. Used coples are quoted as ‘not available.’” In an effort to gratify Polish- American sentiment, another stamp Beautiful ENATONTAETHPIX NANEMEITHMIOY \OMNNN 18371937 Immediately following the refusal of the United States to bring out a stamp for the tercentenary of Harvard, the government of Greece pro- duced this rich and graceful philatelic tribute to the Uni- versity of Athens, an institu- tion of higher learning estab- lished only 100 years ago. The composition shows Pallas Athenae, goddess of wisdom, the color is bistre brown and the denomination is 3d. —Star Staff Photo. GLASSES ‘8.85. —The very newest in Rimless Glasses—at a price that is within the reach of every one! This outstanding price includes white, single- vision lenses mounted in the beautiful “Flexo” mounting;-white or pink gold-filled. Use Your Charge Account or Our Convenient Budget Plan. CPTICAL DEPT e Gaer b Sh STREET FLOOR in homage to Kosciusko has been proposed. Georgia statesmen have appesded to Mr. Farley to authorize a commem- orative to honor the late Senator Thomas E. Watson, journalist and orator who took an active part in the unsuccessful pacifist campaign to prevent American participation in the World War. A. E. Geldhof, stamp editor of the Chicago Herald Examiner, advocates collecting used rather than mint blocks. He argués that relatively they are rarer and that they also are easier to handle and to mount in album pages. Nicholas Sanabria, New York dealer, recently sold a specimen of Mexico's scarce 1928 airmail 25-cent, brown carmine and slate green, Scott's No. 904, for $2,800. ‘The Collectors Club of New York has purchased a new home at 32 East Thirty-fifth street, Manhattan. According to the New York Herald Tribune, approximately 100 covers were rescued from the wreck of the Hindenburg. The greater part of the postal cargo, as might have been ex- pected, was destroyed. The Edward L. Pierce collection of 30,000 stamps has been presented to the Princeton University Library. Hungary on Wednesday last brought out a stamp in tribute to the memory of Frenc Kolcsey, author of the national hymn, and a similar com- memorative for Mihaly Vorosmarty, D. C, MAY 9, poet. The denominations are 5f and 25¢, respectively. Cecil Betron, philatelic editor of the Detrolt News, suggests that the Amer- ican Philatelic Society may ask for & souvenir stamp for the convention scheduled for August 31 to Septem- ber 3. ‘The University of Lwow is pictured on one of the new stamps of Poland. Don Grieve, philatelic editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, also expresses interest in the conference. “At pres- ent,” he says, “the wet process of print- ing is being used, and it is not satis- factory so far as good-looking stamps are concerned. The dry process, which is in use in most foreign nations, allows stamps.to be printed without smearing the paper with ink and, as the name implies, the paper is dry and does not stretch or shrink after printing. * * * Cost of the change will be the only objection raised to the plan. * * ¢ Collectors know that the benefits would be enormous and when the time comes they are urged to put all the pressure possible on their Con- gressmen to have the legislation passed.” 5 W. B. Angle, president of the Chambersburg-Stamp Club, sends his | indorsement in the message: “We are heartily in accord with your sug- gestion and will co-operate in what- ever way we cal Collectors are advised to preserve current Spanish stamps on cover, ex- actly as received. They reflect the philatelic aspect of the civil war so directly that it is most important to Last and First From Aden So they went through the mails, | i PR3 s Shown by courtesy of E. Irving Fulton, the upper cover herewith reproduced was mailed at Aden, British colony on the Red Sea, the last day on which the stamps of India were in service there. The lower envelope represents a first-day mailing of the new independent series of stamps, released April 1 —Star Staff Photo. MONDAY—-LAST DAY To Buy Kann’s 69¢ “Budget® —Stock up . .. it will probably be a long time before you find these fine stockings at such a low price! New colors, of course! Stockings 39-.. Street Flooor. annA “The Avenve™=Tith, Sth snd O Sts. —Six-way indirect reflector with bronze finished metal standard, heavy graceful base and a cool looking fabric or painted shade. —Better-sight bridge lamp with three-way gradu- ating light! A graceful, bronze finished style with fabric or painted shade in pretty colors. %w—nn» " 0 s 1937—PART TWO. Souvenir of Tragedy This envelope, bearing German airpost stamps, was brought from Frankfurt to Lakehurst by the Zeppelin Hindenburg on her maiden trip over the Atlantic just a year ago. Similar covers are in the stamp collections of President Roosevelt, Secretary of the Interior Ickes and several other prominent philatelists. —Star Staff Photo. keep them intact and undisturbed. |green. The design shows a plane General Franco, by the way, is de- | flying over a mountain. picted on four new issues of his gov- | ] — ernment—10c, -green and red; 20c,| ‘There's always & lot of fun in a brown and red; 30c, carmine and hobby” Irvin Cobb declares, “and | black; and 50c, blue and red. | the right one will keep & weary old | e - | age away.” | Japan on April 29 released three | aviation propaganda stamps of the| The Washington Stamp Clut of following values: 2s plus 2s, carmine; | the Air will meet from Station WOL F. Kunze, leader, will continue his discussion of stamps and history. China has b;uugh!- out three new airmail issues, and Danzig announces an air defense set. The Washington Collectors’ Club, Branch 5, Society of Philatelic Ameri~ cans, will meet at the Thomson School, Twelfth street, Tuesday evening at 8. Senator F. Ryan Duffy of Wisconsin will be guest of honor and principal speaker, The public is invited to | attend. ‘The Washington Philatelic Society will hold its annual meeting at the Hotel Carlton, Sixteenth street, Wednesday evening at 8. As usual, members only may be present. The Viking's Crew, No. 8, American | Naval Cancellation Society, will meet at the home of Mrs. Fred D. Riggles, 35 Rhode Island avenue, Friday eve=- ning, at 8. Collectors interested in marine postmarks especially welcome. The Government Printing Office Stamp Club will meet in the green room of the G. P. O. Building Thurs- day evening, May 27. All philatelists of “the largest printing establishment in the world” and their friends are assured a cordial invitation. Teachers Work Movies. School teachers from all parts of South Africa are qualifying as mov- ing picture operators. How to work projectors and use them as aids to lessons is being taught by experts in 3s plus 2s, violet; and 4s plus 2s,'tomorrow evening at 8:45. It | SPECIAL PURCHASE!? Just 118 Pieces of Fine Canvas-Covered bert | special classes at Pretoria. 3 Smart Styles $9.98 to $11.98 Values Choice ® 18 New Round-end Hat Boxes, 18 in. ® 23 Women's Ward- robe Cases, 26 in. ® 18 Women's Pull- man Cases, 26 in. —Planning a trip? Looking for a grand gift for a graduate? Getting married? Well, here is your luggage—at a real saving! Sturdy, well-made pieces every one—covered with a double striped brown or gray fabric with leather bound edges. Light in weight . . . Swanky to look at and a comfort to travel with! Plan to shop early—we expect a “sell-out.” Luggage Dept. 6.99 12—18-in. Hat Boxes and 47—18 to 24 in. Overnight Cases. $6.95 to $7.95 val- S ™ “The Avenue"—7th. 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