Evening star., 1933-05-21

Camp Wis, Frank Garrett WARD, o3lo
DrexeI avenue, Chicago, Ill, covers un-
sealed; June 10. anniversary OF COM
pletion Of st. Johns Church (Patrick
Henry oration), New southern Pnlla-
telist 109 East Cary street, Richmond,
Va; June IL, thirty-flrst annual con-
vention of American Institute OF Bank
ing. w. F. Binion, First National Bank,
Chicago, Ill, covers unsealed; June IA,
l76th anniversary of Old Glory, Ivan
Hallberg. 1907 street northwest, Wash
ington; June %, jubilee year reunion,
College Camp, Wis, Mr.. Ward, as
above; July 2, Jackson memorial air
port dedication, H. L. Buck. American
Legion. Fairbault. Mimi; about July
8, airport dedication, Carl OLSON looi
McGowen street, Little Rock Ark: and
July 16, municipal airport dedication,
Frank C. Haldeman, jr., American
Legion, Merced, Calf. covers unsealed.
All of these cachets are gratis. Use
standard 634 size envelopes. Commemo-
rative stamps on wrappers.
Stuart H. Lampe. 4019 Fourth avenue
south, st. Petersburg, Fla, has de-
signed an attractive and capacious
loose leaf album for cover collectors
use.
Robert T. Burgess, jr., is responsible
for a new philatelic magazine, Post
age, published at Ballston, Va.
Frederick A. voight. sheboygan
Wis. has compiled a booklet describ-
ing the plate varieties of the George
Washington Bicentennial issues.
The superintendent of documents,
Government Printing ONCE, has for
sale Senate Document 176, Seventy
second Congress, Second Session"
which contains a list of all first, sec
| ond and third class post offices in the
United States. The pamphlet consists
of 106 pages and the price is 10 cents.
Cancellation collectors desiring copies
should send coin or money order re-
mittance.
Add to the list of seagoing stamp
collectors Commodore A. P. Randall
of the United States Lines. The editor
of this department crossed and. re-
| tured with him in 1880 on the S. S.
George Washington. He now presides
over the S. S. Leviathan.
]. Murray Bartels, writing in Stamps,
says: "Unquestionably there has been
a revival in the interest in United States
postal cards. Less than SO varieties
constitute the complete set. and none
Of them Is very difficult to obtain.
"If we disregard one or two water
| marks, undoubtedly the rarest United
states card is the Mckinley 1-cent black
| with full face portrait This card Is
known in several essays with slight
variations in the features Of the mar
| tyred President, but none Of these was
considered a satisfactory likeness, and
all we're officially rejected.
"Just one box of 500 were sold at the
New York post Office
! OF this lot. 312 were used. Mr.
| Bartels' firm in 1902 bought all that
could be recovered. Presumably, since
that date they have been distributed
among collectors throughsthe ordinary
commercial channels.
The following philatelic riddle is sub
mitted to readers of The Star:
| His portrait appears on a series oil
| African stamps. He was born British
| subject, served as soldier in the Con-
| federate Army, as a sailor in the United
| States Navy and as war correspond
ent in Abyssinia, found "the most cele-
brated lost man in the world" and ac-
complished "the greatest news beat OF
the age" was member of Parliament
| and the author of five or six best SELL
ers." To the end of his life he affected
an alias. What was his real name?
Authorities say that prices of philatelic
material soon will rise. The depression.
outside New York has had little adverse
| effect upon philatelic sales. Harry B.
Mason. Washington dealer, says: 1T is
remarkable, but 1t is true that hard
times have not brought many good COL
| lections into the market. few amateur
albums have been offered. but serious
| collectors have not been willing to sac
| rifice their priced specimens. Normally
it might be supposed that the slump
would force action: actually. the con-
trary appears to be the case. Stamp
I expect that they will rise with the
return Of prosperity. The fortunate
people will be those who buy before
| the boom"
| Mr.. Mason, it is worthy of mention,
/ has a new collector in his family-htS
infant grandson, Richard Buffum Rynex,
born April /.
! The children of the John Quincy
Adams School Stamp Club have in
vited President Franklin D. Roosevelt to
visit their philatelic exhibit, to be held
as part of the annual demonstration OF
school work, June ST. The club has
approximately IS members, and about
| "a of the total roster will display ex-
| amples of their best specimens. Mrs.
| Dorothy Rus is faculty adviser.
The Washington branch of the So
ciety Of Philatelic Americans will meet
| Tuesday evening at 8 O'Clock at 1914
| Twenty fourth street. The session viii
| be devoted to trading and to a discus
| sion of a possible change of name.
At the branch auction last Tuesday
night several hundred lots of fine speci-
mems were sold. There was large at
| tendance of members and visitors.
The Washington Philatelic Society
will meet Wednesday evening at 8
o'clock at the Carlton Hotel Sixteenth
street An auction sale will be held, and
the public is invited.
The editor of this department of The
Star is in receipt of many appeals for
stamps They come from veterans in
Government hospitals. other shut-ins
and children. If readers would care to
/ help in what appears to be legitimate
and worthwhile philatelic philanthropy
their contributions of duplicate speci-
mems, sent to The Star, Stamp Depart
ment. will be forwarded to the appn
| cants indicated.
STEAMSHIPS.