The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-13
MRS. G. o. ROBINSON
Times Hobby Editor

ONCE four OF the leading stamp
~ societies will be holding their
annual conventions during the
last two weeks of August, the
philatelic- minded vacationists will
have the choice Of several holiday
detectives. or if exceedingly agile,
they might be able to look in on
each of the meetings.
The twelfth annual convention
of the Precancel Society will be
held in Philadelphia from Aug. 20
to %, Immediately prior to the
meeting of the Society of Phil
atelic Americans in the same city
Aug % to 26. The Philadelphia
Evening Ledger is joining with
the two societies in plans for an
elaborate stamp exhibition to
which the United States govern
ment will send a fine display. The
postoffice department also will
provide a branch postoff1ce and
philatehc agency for the duration
of the show, to accommodate COL
leCtOrS.
The American Philatelic So
ciety meeting at Atlantic City
Aug. 81 to 81 is to be honored with
the issuance of a sheet of six g.
cent stamps of the Mount Rainer
design. The sheets will be printed
on special postage stamp press
to be included in the bureau of
engraving and printing display at
the exhibition to be held as a fea-
ture of the convention. The eX-
hibition will be invitational and
noncompetitive and will consist
of unusual stamps and covers dis
played by the owners of fifty of
the outstanding collections in this
country.
The new Decent airmail spe-
cial delivery stamp will be placed
on first day sale at Chicago Aug.
30 in considerable Of the request
of the American Airmail Society
holding its annual convention
there Aug. 30 to Sept. l. AS stated
before in this department the new
airmail stamp will carry the coat
of-arms of the United States as
its central design, but no decision
has been made as to it's color.
Both the Airmail Society and the
A. P. S. have issued sheets of at
tractive varicolored poster stamps
to advertise their conventions.
The A. P. S. Stickers are made
sheets Of four and may be pur-
chased for 10 cents a sheet plus
return postage from Walter j.
Molyneaux, Jefferson hotel S.
Kentucky avenue, Atlantic City,
N. j. The airmail labels are
printed in sheets of six with one
row inverted to make an interest
ing philatelic study. Information
concerning their purchase may be
obtained by writing the executive
Offices of the Airmail Society, 1889
South Kolin avenue, Chicago.
The postoff1ce department has
announced that postmasters at
Greenwood, Miss, Idaho Falls,
Idaho, and Tyler, Tex, have been
furnished special cachets for use
on first fight mail effective Sept.
l, and that air mail service will
be inaugurated in Hawaii shortly
after Aug. q. Postmasters at
Honolulu, Maalaoa, Hilo, and Lii
hue will cachet first flight mail.
Collectors wishing to receive these
cachets, send covers to the post
masters with orders to hold for
first flight
The l, 2, 3 and scent denom-
nations Of the National Park
series of the United States stamps
now have been issued and are
as beautiful a pictorial set as
collectors could wish. Their ad-
ditional size makes them an
arresting advertising medium
and as a means of revenue they
also have been a success. For the
five-cent value 10000 covers were
dispatched and 10000 stamps
sold on the first day at Yellow
stone Park postoff1ce and $1,000
stamps and 32.150 covers from
Washington, D. c. This proportion
seems to settle the dispute as to
whether collectors want their COW
ers Cancelled at Washington or
from the place the stamps intend
to commemorate. The remaining
values Of the series will not be
issued until after the air mail
special delivery is placed on sale.
DOSSIBLY the most important
Il foreign issue of particular in
terest to American collectors is
the Canadian commemorative
which was issued July /, to honor
the annual meeting Of the United
Empire Loyalists' Association in
Toronto. The Loyalists were citi-
zens of the American colonies who
immigrated into the Canadian
wilderness during the revolution
because they wished to remain
loyal to the British government.
the 400th anniversary Of the land
ing on Canadian soil of Jacques
Cartier who discovered the st.
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