The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-03
New Varieties

The New York Sun reports an additional variety in the four-cent Washington -Bicentennial. It con- sists of broken lines in the tri- angle of color between the collar and 1732, also a white dot on the queue above the right shoulder. In the Arbor day stamp the seth of of the upper right pane on plate POSTS reveals an incomplete tree in the background opposite the boys shoulder. It Is almost im- possible to check up on all the va rieties of issues such as the above. They are forever cropping out and will as long as lynx-eyed collectors are looking for them with micro scopes.
 This City the Host
 Waterbury will play host to the annual conference of the Southern New England Stamp clubs in 1893. This city was selected for the 11th session at the recent gathering in in Hartford which was featured by a bourse and also a visit to tho new Hartford post office.
 New Post once
 A new fourth-class post office was recently established at the George Washington Birthplace Na- tional monument which is near Wakefield, Virginia. First day covers are at q premium, 1t Is. re- ported. oddly enough the acting postmaster, or should 1t be post mistress, is Miss Julia l.. Washing ton, a collateral descendant of George Washington.
 Swiss Commcmoratives
 To observe the 50th anniversary of the famous Gotthard railway in Switzerland that country on We'd nesday of this week issued set of three commem orative stamps. They are in ten, twenty and thirty cent values. Pictures of the railway or the more famous Gotthard Tunnel are ignored for personalities. On the Decent stamp is the likeness | of Louis Favies, builder of the tun- mel. The twenty shows Alfred
 Escher, first president of the ad- mtNistration of the Gotthard so- ciety, and the thirty reveals Emil Welt, federal councillor the year tho railway started.
 Covers Received
 | Recent cacheted covers received
 by this department include the Lafayette college centennial; United Stamp society conventoin in
 Boston; Washington celebration at
 Winston Salem, North Carolina;
 Post Office dedication at New
 burgh, N. Y., Washington celebra- ton at Perth Amboy N. J.
 U. S. Convention
 | The following officers were eiect-
 cd at the annual convention of tho
 United Stamp societies held in
 Boston over the past week end:
 President, Hugh Wallace Smith;
 vice president, Walter Fl. Wycher. Ply; secretary, Elmer l.. Clark, and 1933 convention will be held at
 Brooklyn, N. Y., with the Interna-
 tipnal club playing host.
 | Editorial Too Long
 | IA contributor to this column asks that a recent editorial in the Wa bury Democrat be reprinted. It was entitled "Philatelists Battle" and
 appeared Wednesday evening,
 March 2. Its subject was the
 spreading campaign in this coun- try to secure permission to repro-
 duce U. s. stamps in entirety and
 not merely the borders as the law
 now allows. Before stating that
 copies of the same can be ob-
 tained from the Circulation Depart ment check will have to be made
 Fancy Cancellations
 | "In looking over my U. S. dupli- cates recently I came across sev- eral cancellations 1 have never mo-
 ticed catalogued. They are very
 common and are found on all late
 issues. On most of the low value
 stamps you can find what could be
 called the "Prisoner Cancellation"
 Among these you will find all tho
 characters depicted with "bars" or
 'Iines' running across the front Of
 them similar to those found on q
 cell in a prison. Of course the
 wavy lines suggest to me as though
 they had reached up and moved
 tno DaTb bO tnoy So.u
 through them. Then again on the
 hNgher values you will find not
 only the bars but also number ] suggesting the number given a
 prisoner on entering a jail to serve
 e term. I recently saw q "clerk
 number cancellation collection"
 which I will never forget as a
 "rogues gallery collection of pos-
 tage stamps." Do these presidents and men honored in recent com memoratives deserve such treat
 ment? should people of another
 race, whom we honored on stamps
 take this as an insult? But walt,
 here is another cancellation which
 is quite comomn. would sug- , gest 1t be called "the black eye cancellation" Among this group you might find Grant or Monroe
 or any of the presidents with one or both eyes blackened or maybe you noticed 1t over his mouth oi
 nose or even over their entire DOT. trait. At the present time in Wash.
 ington the senate is wrangling over ,, an economy program. Well, here ii ,, one small item to consider ,. save on ink .. :. Give us can. ceilation on each and every piece of mail that would serve as Q me. , mento to the one we honor on oui stamps. Make 1t simple but beau !. tiful B. L. K.
 e Olympic Cachet
 - There will be no official cache
 applied to covers in connection |. with the issuance of the Olympic . games stamps in Los Angeles. Al i. yet the exact date for the stamps tt {. 10 on sale is unknown. This Il q due to the fact that the three cen
 rate for first class mall has no f yet been approved by congress r rtThirty days will elapse between th'