Evening star., 1934-06-03

Egypt Is changing the colors Of
four stamps-the Ism and pom regu-
lar postage and the 10m and Ism
officials.
Belgian East Africa and Belgian
Congo have memorial stamps for King
Albert. In each case the denomina-
ton Is $50 fr., black. The designs
are similar, the central motif being
a portrait of the late monarch in
tropical costume.
Current cachets include: June S.
Gen. De Penado commemorative. Ar
thur Rothstern. Peekskill Military
Academy, Peekskill, N. Y; June 4,
Veterans Convention. Georgia Cover
Service, SIG West Thirty-ninth street,
Savannah, Ga; June 19, battle be-
tween the Kearsarge and the Ala
bama, E. D. Herrick. DownerS Grove,
ILL.,; June 81, 175th anniversary of
town, secretary, Chamber Of Com
merce, Culpeper, Va; June %, CEN
tenary Of Norwegian settlement, Ar
mold c. Peterson, Ottawa, Ill, un-
sealed; June 27, anniversary of Miami
and Erie Canal, Bill Asendorff, 2483
Warren street, Toledo. Ohio, and June
30, re-enactment of Indian massacre
Of 1853, w. c. Livingston, Box 44O,
st. Ignace, Mich, unSealed.
Also: June IL, 250th anniversary
Of town, Mrs. j. w. Lundy, Newtown,
Bucks County, Pa, use William Penn
stamp; June IA, Flag day, Louis G..
Nix, 1913 Maryland avenue north
east, Washington, D. c.; June IA,
Flag day. P. o. S. A., w. Eckert, sr.
713 High street, Bethlehem, Pa;
June IA, Flag day, C. L. Bennett,
3503 Race street, Philadelphia, Pa;
June IA, Flag day, c. A. Eisenhauer,
Mechanics Bank & Trust Co., Mo-
berly, Mo, and June IT, battle of
Bunker Hill, Keystone Cover Club,
424 West Palmetto street, Flor
ence, S. C.
Standard 6A size envelopes, self
addressed and stamped, are specified.
Commemorative on wrappers in COM
pliment to sponsors.
fredericksburg, Ind; Bowbelle, N.
Dak.: Halifax, Va; Hogansville, Ga;
Bayfield,, Wis, and North Grosvenor
Dale, Conn, have 13-star flag cancel
lations.
Frances G. A. Millar, librarian, Vet
erans' Administration Facility, Angus
ia, Ca, is the author Of a fascinating
paper on "Philately as a Phase of
Bibliotherapy," reprinted in the Medi-
cal Bulletin Of the Veterans Admins
tration, April, 1894.
"A philatelist working with his
stamps" she says, runs the whole
gamut of knowledge Under gen.
eral works come the philatelic period
icals and societies; under philosophy,
stamps such as the German one with
Emanuel Kant's picture; religion is
represented by the madonna and
child on the stamps Of Spain, Italy
and Hungary: sociology in the. SYM
bols Of the stamps of Soviet Russia:
philology in the picture Of Prof. L.
Zamenhof, father of Esperanto; nat
ural science, in the geological and bo-
tanical subjects, especially on the
stamps Of Liberia and Tanganyika;
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industrial exposition stamps, espe-
cially those Of France, Great Britain
and Germany; the fine arts on all
stamps bearing portraits or paintings;
literature by such stamps as the Ger
man ones with Schiller, Lessing and
Goethe, the Italian issue on Dante
and the Spanish with -Ibanez'
head: and last, history is the real
subject of most stamps. "*
Each stamp Is a little book in it.
self; one may read 1t briefly or at
length. -
Stamp collectors are doing a use
full and purposeful thing. Many of
the specimens which the philatelist
puts away this year are scarce next
year, and 80 he has something Of
value, without cost or much efIort.
The very possibility Of this rise in
value intrigues him.
THE work Is progressive. Under
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