Evening star., 1933-02-19

Italy has brought out new Air Post
Special Delivery stamp. The denomina-
tion is 2.25-L, the color blue-bla The
design shows plane above the clouds.
H Gordon Harris of London has pub
lished book on Postage Stamps and
Greek Mythology" The chapter head
ings are: Apollo, Ariadne, Artemis,
Athena, Atlas, Britomartis. Clio. De-
| meter, Europa, Hebe, Rera, Heracles.
Hermes. Hestia, Hope, Iris, Medusa,
| Minos, Talos, Triton. Zeus and olympic
Games, with philatelic Illustrations ap-
propriate to the text.
Sixteen volumes of United States
stamps, collected by the late John Kay
of Detroit, have been sold to an uniden-
titled purchaser for approximately
The Post Office Department, in the
period beginning January /, 1882, and
ending November Is, 1882, had requests
for SO commemorative or occasional
stamps The subjects advocated to be
! memoriali2ed in this was included: u
S. S. Akron, Yankee Clipper, French
Legionnaires, Battle of Toms River, CEN
tenary Of first special service Tor the
blind, Boy Scouts, Navy worthless, Fort
Necessity, Mothers day, Lafayette Col
lege centennial, 250th anniversary Of
city of Norfolk. baby Lindbergh, cherry
festival, Empire State Building, Flag
day, Col. brakes oil we'll, centennial of
Dubuque, Gnadenhutten m sSacre,
Hoover Dam. Morse telegraph, centen-
| NAL of discovery Of the source of the
Mississippi, 150th anniversary Of found
| ing Of the Society of the Cincinnati,
Wisconsin tercentenary, Byrd expedi-
ton, pioneer wagon train, Armistice
day. Chicago Worlds Fair, planting of
| first navel orange tree, eclipse of the
sun, founding of Maryland, speed trials
at Daytona Beach, memorial to Thomas
A. Edison, Charles Carroll, william Nc
Kinley, Maj. Gen. Ward, James Cardi-
nal Gibbons, Gen. Lafayette, Robert
E. Lee, Thomas E. Watson, Col. William
Crawford, James McNein Whistler,
| Andrew jackson, Henry Clay, Col. Fran
els Vigo, Buffalo Bill, william Holmes
Joseph Dutton, Lord Baltimore, Kos
ciuszko and John Philip Sousa.
| None of these was approved. The
| official list of commemorative is: Wash
| ington Bicentennial series, IL denom-
nations, January /; Olympic Winter
game, 2-cent, Lake Placid, N. Y, jan
uary IS; Arbor day, 2-cent, Nebraska
City, Nebr., April %; tenth Olympiad,
8 and cent, Los Angeles, Calf, June
IS; Daniel Webster, Scent, three Offices
IN New Hampshire, october "a, and
William Penn, Scent, two offices in
Pennsylvania and New Castle, Del, Oc-
tober "a
The department issued a new Scent
George Washington regular issue, Wash
| ington, June Is, and new Scent air.
Fr nil rnc7J'ar ochi7Ofny1
tember 26.
Three special cachets were officially
sponsored by the department: Mount
Vernon, February %; George Washing
ton National Memorial. Alexandria,
May IL, and Benjamin Franklin Sta
ton, Washington, September 26.
The Associated Press says: There's
thorn In the flesh of stamp collec-
they want 1t removed just now.
It's the restriction making photo
| graphic reductions of United States
stamps illegal, although it permits parts
Of the border to be reproduced at four
times the original size.
"PhilatelistS agree that this provi-
sion greatly handicaps the practice of
their avocation. For instance, it makes
it impossible for them to see pictures
OF Umted states stamps before pur-
chasing them, or to buy albums which
by containing reproductions, would aid
them in arranging their collections.
But not all of them are content
with the bill introduced by Representa-
tive Montague of Virginia, which would
liberalize restrictions by placing them
in the hands of the Postmaster Gen.
eral.
''The American Philatelic Society
backs the proposed measure. but the
Collectors Club of New York City,
many Of whose members belong to the
society. opposes it, believing It would
not accomplish the result desired by
the great body of philatelists.
WED better let well enough alone
opponents of the proposed legislation
say in effect, until such time as we
can be sure the secret service will not
oppose liberalization on the grounds
that it would aid counterfeiting.'
'On the other hand, Second Assistant
Postmaster General Glover calls the
assumption that counterfeiting would
be aided by liberalization ridiculous
GA counterfeiter would not work
from magazine illustration he saws.
He would go to the post Office. buy a
stamp and work from the original
He says the present law seriously
hampers the stamp collecting business.
which is growing faster than any other
business"