Evening star., 1932-12-04


men, historical occasions, postal carriers,
| including railroad trains. steamships
and airplanes; maps and flags cover the
walls. From the ceiling hangs a model
plane,
A descendant of Thomas Lynch. a
signer Of the Declaration of Independ-
ence. Mr.. Glover is native of Brook
lyn, N. Y, but his hcme before coming
to Washington was at Englewood, N. j.
Mrs. Glover who died aoout year ago,
was cne of the most eminent woman
philateliSts in the United States.
Will Discuss Revenue Stamps.
Tine Washington branch of the Society
of Philatelic Americans will meet Tues
day evening, December 6, at O'Clock,
at 1926 Massachusetts, avenue north
west. Lieut.. Col. B, B. Wilcox, U. S. A,
president OF the Duluth branch, will
spsak on early United States revenue
stamps He will illustrate his talk by
d!3play ing specimens from his collec-
ton. The public is invited
1n2 Washington Philate.ic Society is
sponsoring a s.amp exhibition this week
a. the Washington Building, as an
nounced IN The Star November 26.
Members will meet at supper at the
Madrillon restaurant tomorrow evening
at $50 c'clCck. Albert F. Kunze, prcsi-
dent, will have charge of the formal
opening ceremonies of the exhibition at
8 O'Clock. On Thursday evening the
Division of Dead Letters of the Post
Once Department will auction I69 lots
OF foreign ana domestic stamps, sal
vsged from returned mail The sale will
takc place III the exhibition hall, begin
n!ng ct $50 O'Clock.
Ine Boy Sccu. Stamp Club of Wash
-ns .ol VIII Apply speciaI CO chev on
0tSIRber IA, the anpiVeIta1y o. the
ueatn OF George Washington, to all SELF
addressed envelopes received for that
2urpese before December 10. Covers to
be cacheted should be sent to the club,
at 1l03 Vermont avenue.
Watch fer Manchuria Issue.
Washington collectors are watching
for the rirst specimens of the new
government of Manchuria. set of 18
stamps has been issued. They were
printed in Japan under the direction
OF the Imperial japanese Government
Printing Bureau. The Il to 10 fen
stamps show the so-ealled White Tower,
and the l3 to so fen and the l yuan
stamps the portrait of Pu Vi, the for
mer boy emperor" OF China.
The recent air mail stamps of the
Italian colony of Cyrenaica, Africa, are
exceedingly attractive. The set shows
only two designs, but both are beauti-
full There are so, rs and 80 centisimi
denominations, and /, and 5 lire
denominations, colored violet, red
blue. gray-black, yellow-green and car
mine. respectively.
Am2ng hundreds of Navy men who
collect stamps Rear Admiral Frederic
R. Harris OF New York is popular for
his devotion to the hobby. There are
many sides TO philately of a decidedly
human interest character" he says.
1T is great relief and undoubtedly
could be prescribed with advantage by
nerve specialists to forestall the thing
known as nervous breakdown y
Admiral Harris recently contributed an
interesting article on The Liverpool
Cup" to Stamps magazine.
A new set Of Hungarian stamps pre-
sents gallery of portraits of eminent
citizens of that country, as follows:
If. Imre Madach, poet; IF, JanoS
Arany, poet; If, IguI Semmelweis,
physician; Of, Lorsnd Eotyos, physi-
clan; l0f, Istvan Szechenyi, statesman;
16f, Ferenc Deak, statesman; 20f,
Ferenc Liszt, composer; 3ef, Lajas Kos
suth, statesman; 32f, Istyan Tiszar
statesman; 4of, Mihaly Munkascsy,
painter; 50f. Sander Korosicsoma, ex-
plorer; 70f, Farkas Bolyai mathemati-
clan. In general design the series re-
sembles similar set issued by the
German Republic in 1926.
Ralph A. Kimble of Chicago for the
past several years has been discussing
stamps at regular intervals over the air
from WMAQ. He also has written a
popular book about stamp collecting.
Postage stamps" he says, tell the
story Of the world. and record the ex-
perience of the human race"
Poetry does not often appear on
postage stamps, but an exception may
be noted for the Scent blue Lexington
Concord stamp of 1925, which quotes
| four lines from the pen of Ralph Waldo
Emerson in tribute to the Minute Man
who fired the shot heard round the
world"
Five famous inventors have been hon.
ored in United States stamps. They
are: Benjamin Franklin, whose portrait
| appears on many issues; Robert Fulton,
2-cent 1909; John Erickson, scent
| 1925; Orville Wright, 2-cent 1928 aero
nautics conference, and Thomas Edison,
2-cent 1929, electric light.
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