Evening star., 1933-04-16

hold covers. Commemorative requested
on wrappers.
Il; The post ofiice dedication at Miami,
Fla. will take place July instead Of
April 10, as announced.
w. q. Piper, IS Raritan road, Linden,
N. j., Will sponsor q two-color cachet
commemorating the anniversary Of the
first newspaper published in America
d704l. April "a. One cover free. Send
unscaled.
On April 27, % and 20, Henry p.
Fallon, 822 East Anderson street,
Savannah, Ca, will sponsor series
of cachets In different colors commemo-
rating historic events In the annals of
Georgia colony. Use commemorative
on wrappers.
Paul H. Wunder, America Arways,
Roosevelt Hotel, New Orleans, will be
responsible for a cachet In honor Of
the fifth anniversary Of the first flight
A. M. 10, New Orleans to Atlanta, May
/. Airmail covers only.
M A. Campbell will be the sponsor
of q Mayor Anton Cermak memorial
cachet, May 8. His address is 3005
North Clifton avenue, Chicago, Ill. Use
commemo1 atives on wrappers.
The Post Office Department has an
applied to covers carried on the first
voyage OF the S. S. Washington. Covers
for foreign countries should bear neces-
sary postage while covers to be returned
to this country should bear regular rate.
Seapost Clerk S. S. Washington, New
York City, will take care Of the routine
detail of cachetiug.
An airport at Little Rock, Ark, will
be dedicated on q date not yet an
nounced. Covers may be sent to Carl
Aslon, 1901 MCGOWAN street, Little
Rock.
Roscommon Chamber of Commerce,
Roscommon. Mich, will handle covers
for the dedication of the airport Of that
town, about July T.
To raise additional funds for a mon
ument to Cardinal Mercier, series
of six different pictorial post cards will
be offered fer sale in Belgium at double
face value or one franc each. Collec-
tors are invited to send 100 francs to
the Post Office, Brussels, for 100 cards.
One-half Of each such remittance will
be used for the memorial.
The Folger Shakespeare Library, East
Capitol street, possesses a supple
mentary treasure in a large, unsorted
collection of stamps which the donor,
~. l.,
accumulated from packages and let
tiers received in the course Of his half
century quest for literary souvenirs and
relics of the life and art of William
Shakespeare. 1t was Mr. Folger s
standard practice to preserve the wrap
pers of the parcels in which his ac-
QUESTIONS came to him as well as the
covers from communications sent by
book dealers in many different foreign
countries. In the course of time ne
gathered considerable philatelic
harvest, which as yet has not been ar
ranged. but which, it is presumed.
eventually will be regularly catalogued
and entered in suitable albums.
Col. Lawrence Martin, recently named
as first holder of the new chair" of
geography at the Library of Congress,
collects stamps showing maps Since
cartography is his particular specially,
this is a normal interest on his part.
Others who value map stamps might
care to communicate and exchange
with him.
An interesting example of the man
ner In which depression brings out Of
cards is afforded by the experience of
Oliver Owen Kuhn. managing editor
of The Star, who recently received in
the ordinary routine of his days mail
a letter bearing a contemporary
1-cent stamp and a 2-cent stamp Of
the Columbian issue of 1893. The
latter had lain unused somewhere for
40 years. Hard times" brought it out,
with the result that Mr.. Kuhn has an
especially attractive cover to add to
his collection.
At the st. Petersburg. Fla, Stamp
Club recently mosaic picture, yard
in height, representing the Box Sing
ing Tower was exhibited. It was in
natural color. and was made entirely
of fragments of postage stamps, care
fully selected for the purpose and put
together with Infinite skill and patience
Those who saw it described it as "a
beautiful work of art
The Bureau of Engraving and Print