Evening star., 1933-06-18
BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT.


The stellar event on this weeks phila-
telic program will be an auction sale of
postage stamps, first-flight covers, etc.
to be held by the Post Office Depart
ment at the Boys Club Third and c
| streets northwest, Thursday.
There will be approximately 40 lots
| offered, and the entire collection will
be on display from 10 am. to pm.
Wednesday.
The first item on the list is miscel-
| laneous lot Of approval sheets and pack
cts The second and third are lots of
$500 cancelled stamps, foreign coun-
tries. In the fourth lot are 1000 foreign
| uncancelled, with 225 miscellaneous
cancelled specimens. Lot 912 is $500
stamps, cancelled foreign
Among the f1rst-hight covers are sew
eral lots Of Portland to Bangor. Me,
flights. Also various Western routes, in
cluding Bismarck, N. Oak; Amarillo,
Tex; Pueblo, Colo; Santa Fe, N. Mex. ;
Kansas City-Dallas: Phoenix, Ariz
Trinidad, Colo; Wichita Falls, Tex
Salina-Denver; Valley City, N. OAK;
Minneapolis, Mimi, and others.
Lot 928 includes New York Chicago
day flight, September /, 1927. and sew
eral Miami-Nuevitas-San Pedro de
Macoris
Lots s31 and s37 have u S. S. Akron
christening covers.
Other lots contain yorktown and
Wethersf1eld covers. George Washington
Bicentennial occasions, several airport
dedications, etc.
The material has been accumulated
by the Division Of Dead Letters and
Dead Parcel Post 1t will be sold as
part Of q general sale Of unclaimed ar
ticles. The bidding on the philatelic
offerings should begin about $3.50 pm.
For the other things to be disposed Of
the bidding will start at 10 am.
The Washington Stamp Club of the
Air will have two meetings this week
| The first will be held at 80 O'Clock
| this afternoon, the second at 6:45
| O'Clock Tuesday evening. Both will be
broadcast over Station VOL, and both
will be devoted to consideration of the
| recent Massachusetts Bay Colony COM
memorative stamp. The speaker will
| be the leader, Albert F. Kunze.
Station KNOW, Austin, Tex. and
| Station WHUB, Anderson, Ind, are
| joining In the work Of the club. Regu-
lar programs, arranged by Mr.. Kunze
soon will be put on the air by each Of
these transmitting units.
The Washington Airmail Society will
meet tomorrow evening in room 1895
National Press Building Louis J.
Heath will speak. The public is invited
The society is sponsoring special
cachet in tribute to James Mattern
round the world flyer. Send covers to
| Miss A. Maline, Box 1927, Washington
The Washington Branch Of the So
! ciety Of Philatelic Americans will meet
| Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock at 1914
! TWenty-third street. There will be an
| auction Of 86 lots Of good United States
| and British Colonial stamps. Visitors
| are welcome.
The Washington Philatelic Society
| will meet Wednesday evening at 8
O'Clock at the Hotel Carlton. Sixteenth
| street.
Isaac Gregg. chief, information serv-
ice, Post Once Department, was the
speaker at the meeting Of the Alexan-
dria Stamp Club Wednesday evening
last He told of his experiences as a
| collector and as a writer about stamps.
When youth at boarding school," he
said, II was bitten by the stamp collect
| ing bug. All the spare nickels and
dimes that I could scrape together went
| for foreign and domestic stamps. ]
accumulated very valuable collection
| Of United States. stamps, especially OF
departmental issues. But one day one
of my pals suggested that we buy a
! sail boat. The idea struck me as bully
So down to stamp broker I went with
my entire collection, and parted with
1t for mere song. I thought at the
time that I would get more pleasure