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| land. and Mr.. Wander Horst of South
Carolina was the first consul.
Readers interested In the story are
! invited to send to the Bristol Develop
ment Board, Bristol, England, for
booklet, The Birthplace of America"
Specimens of the N. r. A. and Byrd
stamps were placed in the cornerstone
of the new church of SITS. Peter ana
Paul, Fleet1ood, Mount Vernon, N. Y.
Rangley, Me, has a dog team for the
delivery Of mail.
A resident of Philadelphia, reported
| to have used 81 different aliases in his
operations, has been convicted OF C.
| frauding stamp dealers and has been
sentenced to serve three years in a
Federal penitentiary.'
A philatelic nature fake is reported
! from San Antonio, Tex. Post ONCE
clerks finding quantities Of unstampea
letters among mail collected from cor
ner boxes, concluded that ants had
glue. But would any self-respecting
ant condescend to q diet OF mucilage?
The Library Of Congress possesses the
, earliest known cover bearing New
| York postmark. 1t was used in carry
| ing a letter to George Washington in
care Of Ben Franklin, and shows
/ the date of September 2, 1856.
Junior collectors of Oakland. Calf,
have held q most successful exhibition
of their stamps under Board of Educa-
tion auspices. There were 160 lots on
display, representing more than 1000
boys and girls attending 43 different
schools.
Among holy personages commemo-
rated on the stamps of Hungary are:
SITS. Stephen, Elizabeth, Emery, Gisela,
Lazlo and Gerard.
The Wall Street Journal says: Every
Autumn when the Grand Palais throws
wide its doors for the International Au-
tomobile Salon, a Paris stamp fair opens
stamp here is listed under a transport
heading. And while flags fly, bands
play and crowds jostle for place at the
motor transport exhibition. over the
way little banners f1utter, long tables
stretch their glamorous path under
crimsoning trees, stamp collectors from
many lands crowd leafy aiSleS as the
little stamp fair plays side show to the
automobile salon.
Few motor enthusiasts can match
the interest and delight of philatelists
assembled here. For not since 1929,
when rare postage stamps reached in
the Paris marts their peak value, has
there been such boom in philateiy.
The unusual interest was presaged at
Rue Drouot sales early in october, when
keen competition for French colonial
issues was only equaled by interest in
the Moldavian series. A stamp cata-
logued at S1,875 and sold for S265. is
sued the year before Moldavia became
part of Rumania told as truly and as
quickly as any posted letter that this
was an early birds year, when bar
gains in stamp rarities went to him who
came first and saw clearest.
THE breaking up Of great collections,
such as the Manus collection of Amster-
dam, valued at S450,000. and covering
70 years-almost the entire period of
stamp collecting-began last Winter in
London. The auctioning of the Hind
collection, called on the continent the
greatest collection of stamps that
america has ever seem plus issuance in
many lands of new and short series of
stamps commemorating artists, poets
and dramatists, have Whetted interest
in philately and stimulated stamp mar
kets.''
Eddie Isenhart, Moberly Philateic
Society, Moberly, Mo-, will have
special cachet for Christmas day, to be
mailed at Santa Claus. Ind. Covers
unsealed and unstuffed but 3-cent
stamp for forwarding should be in
closed.
J. L. Gloss, 1542 Wieland street Chi
cago, Ill, will sponsor an Andrew
johnson birthday cachet for December
29. Presidential cover collectors take
note.
According to Paul H. Reed, Cuba,
Cyprus and America are in Alabama:
Denmark, England, Holland and Scot
land in Arkansas: Grenada, st. Helena
and Samoa IN California; Malta and
Trinidad in Colorado: Hanover in Con-
necticut; Egypt in Georgia: Jamaica.
Palestine and Peru in Illinois; Algiers,
Brazil, Ireland, Mexico, Oldenburg and
Poland in Indiana; Hamburg, Panama.
Persia and Schleswig in Iowa; Angola
IN Kansas; Arabia. Chad and New
Foundland in Kentucky, and Baden in
Maryland. Cancellation collectors may
check with the Postal Guide.
Flag cancellations may be had from
Dostmasters at Reinheck, Iowa; Wash
burn, Wis; Plainville, Kans; Rhane.
N. OAK, and Hamburg, N. j.
An exceedingly colorful and inter-
eSting periodical Is the Collectors Mag
azine or Collectionneur, recently estab-
isf1ed at Quebec. Canada. and printed
IN french and English. The publisher
is the International Press Clipping
Service. In the first number are arti-
cles on "The Joy of Being a Collector"
Jacques Cartier and the discovery of
Canada, the origin of printing in Can
ada. ocean steam navigation, Notes on
Some Modern Forgeries," "Canada's
First" the Vienna Congress, new is
sues, "St. Helena's Stamps" etc. The
Canadian Philatelic Society has in
dorsed the publication.
Happy Days, the c. c. C. weekly, has
an interesting stamp column, edited by