Evening star., 1933-08-20

N. j., cover unsealed: September 4,
Labor day Frank w. Coyce, Ramsey
stamp Club, l0l5 Elm street, Bir-
mingham, Ala; September 80, visit OF
U. 8. s. Constitution cold Ironsides"J
Preston Sawyer, 20 Campbell street
Santa Cruz, Calf; October /, post
office dedication, ]. H. Wilkens, 1924
l06th street, Richmond Hill, L. l.,
N. Y, and October 27, Navy day, E
Wallster. 103 Schiller road, Dedham,
Mass.
The above cachets are gratis, but
commemorative stamps should be used
on wrappers IN compliment to sponsors.
standard 6& size envelopes are speci-
fed.
Edward w. Bailey reports the fol-
lowing post Offices still using flag can
celations: LOnoke. Ark; Elsinore and
Moneta, Calf; Norton, Mass. Acker-
man and Utica. Miss; Harrison, Nebr.
Stone Harbor, N. j.; Bow Bells, N Oak.
Grampian and Hallstead, Pa; Cross
vile, Tenn; German, Tex; Wash
burn, Wis, and Lowell, Wyo. Send self
addressed envelope and 3 cents in
wrapped coin to postmasters indicated
for each cover wanted.
Among the stamps whose designs
show birds of different varieties are the
following: Abyssinia, Scott's No. Ala
SOmali ostrich: New South Wales, A-26
emu; New Zealand. A-26, kiwi; Austria
Asa. white-shouldered eagle: Liberia
ASS, sea eagle; Greece, 0-2, short t-toed
eagle; Yugoslavia, A-12, the mythical
turul; st. Lucia, A-10, falcon; Czecho-
Slovakia, Nj, wind-hover; Armenia
A. short-toed eagle; Mexico, ABS
eagle; Japan. A-12. goshawk: Bo-
livia, A-61, condor, and Guatemala, A-8
quezal. The list could be prolonged
considerably.
A royal collector whose name is omit
ted from most lists of eminent phila-
telists is Wilhelmina, Queen of the
Netherlands. When the Columbian
commemoatives Of 1893 were issued a
full set was sent to her by the Dutch
minister at Washington. She was then
l3 years old, and had been Queen
about three years. Presumably, heI
interest in stamps has not abated since
that time, but the matter has not had
exceptional publicity.
Crown Prince Humbert Of Italy
shares the stamp collecting enthusiasms
of his mother, Queen Elena.
Richard Mop. Cabeen, writing in the
Chicago Tribune, discusses rouletting
Roulette" he says, lis a French word
which means a little wheel or roller
and in English it is applied to various
little rollers used by engravers to put
texture on their plates, and to rollers
used to mark paper, an example OF
which is the tracing wheel of the
dreSSmakerS
In philately, 'rouletting' applies tc
all sorts Of cuts, Sits and holes made
! in sheets of stamps to facilitate theil
separation, in which no paper is ac-
tually removed in the operation. When
] paper is removed collectors use the
word 'perforation' to define the method
The regular roulette. and the mos
common one, consists of row of shor
cuts separated by small spaces. Les!
common are the roulettes in curved OIL
broken lines, such as 'serpentine,' saw
TOOTH curved lines 'oblique' fanc
'serrate' All Of these roulettes are ap.
piled to the sheets of stamps after ths
printing operation is completed"
Recent applicants for membership ir
the Society of Philatelic American:
gave their occupations as follows: Sales
man, printer, contractor, school prin-
,, clerk. service manager student, ma
| chinist. fire department employe, Gov.
eminent clerk, accountant, chemist
policeman. department manager, civil
engineer. postal clerk, salesman, broker
and newspaper man. The list testifie;
to the essential democracy of STAMP
collecting.
Christ Nelson of Minneapolis pasted
a. stamp on one side of each of six
silver dollars and an address on the
other side Of each and mailed them
to his six grandchildren in Detroit
and New York City. All were de-
livered.
Golfers says: Secret service Offices
in several countries now use a method
Of opening suspicious mail that sur
passes steaming the flap or removing
the letter through a hole under the
stamp. They slice off one edge of the
envelope and then mend it SO perfectly
with paper pulp and special press
that 1t defies detection"
Weekly Philatelic Gossip says: "Oi
the 100000 mail bags handled BY
the British post Office in 1882 only 4(
we're lost or stolen"
The tenth convention of the Ameri-
can Air Mail Society will be held at
the New Yorker Hotel. New York 6ity
Thursday, August 81. to Saturday
September g. The program is as fol-
lows: Thursday, 9 am, registration;
10. business session; 2 pm, business
session; 8. bourse. Friday, 10 am.
business session Saturday, 10 am
business session; pm, auction; 7
banquet L. B. Gatchell, president, is
in general charge of arrangements
Donald E. Dickson will serve as auc-
tioneer, and the exhibition judges will
be: George w. Anglers. Ray v. Bahr
Walter Conrath. Carter Glass. jr., H
H. Griffin, Erik Hildesheim, Fred w
Kessler. George D. Kingdom. Francis
B. Leech, Guido Lodigiani, Willis M
Pott. DR.. H. S. Radasch, Charles G.
Riess. Harry A. TRULY, Karl B. Weber
and Holcomb York.
Lieut.. Col. Charles S. Hamilton, pop-
ular Washington philatelist, has beer
invited to serve on the Committee oi
Honor of the international Air Post
Exhibition, to be held in London next
May. He has accepted the appoint.
ment. and barring accident, will sail fol
England early in the Spring.
Others on the committee include
Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd. Loui:
Bleriot. Sir Arthur Whitton. Sir Allen
Gotham, Sir Elliott Verdon Roe. DR.
Hugo Eckener, Charles w. A. Scott. Mr.
and Mrs. James A. Mollison. Loro
Wakefield and Viscount Rothermer
The Marquis of Londonderry. British
air minister. will be honorary president
Col. Hamilton is a veteran collector
Of general issues. He began as boy
but temporarily was distracted and sold
his album. Later. in 1902, he made q
new start. specializing for while in the
stamps of the Philippines and later in
the stamps of Mexico. With regard to the
latter he is an acknowledged authority
He is a member of the American
Philatelic Society, the Society of Phila-
telic Americans and other organizations
devoted to philately. and has been .
contributor to the philatelic press fol
approximately Is years With Mayo