Evening star., 1933-02-05
BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT.

Junior ph1latellStS OF washington
and vicinity will have an opportunity
to display their best collections IN an
exhibition contest sponsored by the Boy
Scout Stamp Club and the Stamp De-
partment of The Star, February 8 to 20.
Certificates Of award will be given
for neatneSS, skill in arrangement and
knowledge of philately in several en-
try classes, including blocks. covers,
United States and foreign. w. Irving
Glover, Second Assistant Postmaster
General, will head q board of judges
to decide the honors.
Any boy or girl collector under ID
years Of age may compete. Appllca-
ton blanks and contest rules may be
had by sending stamped self-addressed
envelope to the Boy Scout Stamp Club,
1103 Vermont avenue northwest.
A display Of stamps and covers is
being arranged for public showing in
the Scout Department, the Hecht Com
pany, during the week beginning to-
morrow.
The Boy Scout Stamp Club recently
sponsored a cachet from Mount Yer
non on the anniversary Of the death
of George Washington. Over $4,000
covers were received and mailed.
The club officers are: William Osmun,
president; Huston Buchanan. secretary;
Roger Kirk and William Seitz, sales
managers. F. o. Hinz and Walter
Mac Peek are advisers.
The Washington Stamp Club OF the
Air got OF to running start last
Sunday over Station VOL. Albert F.
Kunze discussed postage stamps in their
relation to American history. theme
he will further develop today at 1:l5
o'clock from the same station. An in
vitation to listeners to write for an IN
struction and information sheet brought
flood of answers to the studio on
Monday and Tuesday. There were
more letters from adults than from
children. but the proportion Of mascu-
line to feminine names was about the
same. The geographical area repre-
sented was that from Norfolk, Va, to
Philadelphia. Pa.
The club is sponsoring Christopher
Columbus contest and prize will be
awarded for the most complete list OF
stamps designed to honor the great
discoverer. Lists must be entered this
week and the winner will be announced
Sunday, February 10.
A second invitation to the public to
participate in the first day cover serv-
ice of the club is made in connection
with the forthcoming Oglethorpe stamp
For the present this service is free to
all
Mail for the club should be ad-
dressed in care Station VOL, Annap-
Oils Hotel, Washington.
The Washington Branch of the So
ciety of Philatelic Americans will meet
Tuesda- evening at o'clock at 1103
Vermont avenue. The public is invited.
Preparations for the Branch auction,
February %, are under way. Members
are asked to send in stamps to be sold.
The Washington Philatelic Society
will meet Wednesday evening at 8
o'clock at the Carlton Hotel, 933 Six
teenth street. There will be an auc-
ton Of approximately 90 lots Of stamps.
The public is invited, but only mem
bers may bid.
The Stamp Club of the Paul Junior
High School held "a meeting extraordi-
nary" recently at the home Of John
Henshall, president. A program Of en-
tertainment had been arranged to test
the philatelic knowledge of the men,
bers. In conclusion a philatelic menu
Of refreshments was served.
Two Washington collectors won prizes
at the exhibit Of the Baltimore Phila-
telic Society. They were Col. G. S.
Hamilton, with showing of Mexican
issues. and w. Hayden Collins, with
United States revenues.
H. A. Robinette. Washington phila-
telic specialist, will conduct an impor-
tant auction in New York on February
18, at 2:30 o'clock. A total Of GAS lots
of United States will be sold
Charles Kohen Of the Hobby Shop
announces the removal of his business
to 7l6 Seventeenth street northwest
On Saturday, February II, between
12:45 and 2:45 o'clock, he will receive
certified members of the junior high
school stamp clubs, and each visitor
lope of so stamps with Mr.. Kohen's
compliments.
James F. Duhamel. wellknown phila-
telist, writes: washington should be
regarded as a mine for philatelic rare
ties. with Alexandria, Annapolis and
Baltimore in its neighborhood. These
three cities about 1845 issued the ia
nous postmasters' PROFESSIONALS, and
came to Washington. There may be
some Of the covers packed away in old
trunks, boxes, hooks and corners of
Washington houses Occasionally one
| comes to light. and finds a ready pur-
chaser at from $1,000 to $4,000.
"One of these stamps, showing a
young lady on horseback with a letter
for delivery, was issued in Washington,
but never put in use. William Jones
was postmaster Of Washington for quite
long time, and he was very enter
prising official He may have intended
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