Evening star., 1933-06-11

Tripolitani has beautiful new series
| for the annual agricultural fair. Rep
resentative examples are the 10c. purple,
showing an ostrich, and the 81 plus
| IL, showing stalking cheetah.
| Australia has new ultra marine
Official. stamp. overprinted 20. S."
Czechoslovakia will bring out two
| commemorative stamps in tribute to
the Slovak leader, Pribina, traditionally
supposed to have been responsible for
| the introduction of Christianity to that
section of the world. The denomina-
tions will be sob and TX.
i Estonia win issue three special stamps
June % in connection with a national
| music festival The values indicated
are 2, anw los
Germany has a new 60pf, claret and
black, stamp of the Hindenberg por-
trait medallion design.
Lithuania has brought out new COM
memorative series. The stamps are
large horizontal oblongs and show vari-
| Gus portraits. The values listed to date
are: SC. green and carmine; 10c, blue
and carmine; l5c, orange and carmine;
| 60c, red brown and sepia; IL, vermil-
| lion and brown, and 81, blue, green
and brown. Both imperforate and
perforated IA are indicated.
I Reunion has two recently issued pro-
visionals, surcharges Of the standard
| 1907-1917 designs-50c on 45c, violet
brown and red orange; SOC on CSC,
violet brown and gray green.
New cachets and sponsors are: June
IA, Flag day, Wilmer c. Kipe, 470l
Old York road, Philadelphia, Pa; same
| date. same event, Richard A. Schultz,
BIB Liberty street, Beacon, N. Y, only
one cover free; June Is, Oglethorpe
anniversary. o. r. Watts. Brookhaven
| Cover Exchange, log East Eighteenth
street, Chester, Pa. June IS. State
| encampment, G. A. r., cachet director,
| Chamber of Commerce, Newark. Ohio,
covers unstuffed, and July IA, National
Air Races, Woodruff De Cilva. assistant
director Of airports, Los Angeles. Calf.
All these cachetS are gratis. Use
standard 6s4 size envelopes. Com
memorative stamps on wrappers In
compliment to sponsors.
Vittorio Lobianco, director, Unione
Filatelica Nazionale S. A. oil. Rome, Is
en- route to America to take charge Of
the exhibition of Italian philatelis.s
at the Century Of Progress Worlds
Fair, Chicago. He will reach New YORK
June 20.
Berlin is in Connecticut, Egypt in
Georgia, Lisbon in New Hampshire,
Italy in Texas, England in Arkansas.
Venice in Illinois, Edinburg in Virginia,
Ireland in Indiana, Turkey in North
Carolina, Orient in Ohio, Rome in New
York, Norway in Maine, Ottawa in
Minnesota, and Tripoli in Wisconsin
At least such is the claim of Norman
Ehrenberg, a junior collector who has
crariol rnOorS he
Other curiosities he has found In
clude: Sun, Louisiana; Moon, Ken
tucky, and Star. Texas. Also, Love
Virginia; Joy. North Carolina; Bliss
Idaho, and Paradise, Pennsylvania.
DR.. H. E. Radasch, writing in Stamps
says: THE first mail carried by air.
plane was at Allahabad, India, or
February l8, 1911, during the Indian
Exhibition of Arts and Crafts (NIid.
provinces Industrial and Agricultural
Exhibition). This was brought about
by the cooperation of Capt. Wind
ham and the postmaster general of the
, provinces. The mail consisted of about
$500 letters and was carried by the
aviator, M. Picquet, from the exhibi-
ton grounds to Naini Junction, about
5 miles distant. - A specia
cachet was applied.
Aic SSSoAu CUuIlIIy 10 carry Lldl
by airplane was Italy On September
10, 1911, at the military aviation meet
ing at Bologna, mail was carried. tn,
pieces bore special inscription ane
postmark."
Collectors interested in stamps q.
Z mentioned in fiction may care to lool
up a novel entitled Stolen Stamps,
published in 1925. It was the work O
the late DR.. j. Brace Chittenden. 4
!; philatelist of distinction, he was q ma
I tive of Connecticut, spent more than /,
quarter century as professor of mathe
= maticS at the Brooklyn Polytechni,
Institute, organized the library of tn,
+. Collectors Club. New York City ant
5 sponsored valuable publication on tn,
postal issues of Mexico. He died Marcl
20, 1928.
The d. H. Hills Drug Store, Asbur,
!. Park, N. r., has a stamp department
!. The May issue Of the Druggists Circu
} lar contains an article about the expe
:. riment. But the idea Is not as new o