The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-19
BY MRS. C. o. ROBINSON
Times Hobby Editor

DURING the past year American
- philatelists have been well
occupied with the activities in
United States postal issues and
philatelic exhibitions, and 1854 gives
promise of being equally prolific. In
addition, mucn foreign postal news
has been of interest to collectors.
Philatelists the country over were
pleased when Postmaster General
James A. Farley, speaking over the
radio, to open officially the national
stamp exhibition in New York said
in part:
MY office has made stamp
collector of me. have found the
art so fascinating that I have be-
come substantial patron of first
day covers and I hope to continue
the issuance of stamps that most
aptly reflect the best in our national
life. traditions, hopes and aSpira-
tons"
Collectors will welcome such a
prominent convert and envy his adj
vanced information and proximity
10 the source OF supply.
Doubtless the first commemora-
tive slated for 1884 will be an issue,
some time in March, to honor the
Maryland tercentenary. Details as
yet have not been released by the
government.
Mrs. w. E. Ochiltree, Connersville,
national president of the Ameri-
can War Mothers, headed a group
Of representative women which petit
toned for a commemorative stamp
in honor of Mothers day, May IS.
They were introduced by Repre-
sentative Virginia JenckeS of IN
diana Whistler's portrait of his
mother has been suggested as an
appropriate design.
A possible new variety has been
added to the current United States
series by the reprinting of the Lin
coin Scent stamp, which was placed
on sale Feb. 7 at the philatelic agen-
cy in Washington The shade of
the new print is sufficiently differ
ent to justify a claim by experts
that a new variety can be tabu-
lated.
First day covers from Little
America are on their way to col
letters. They were postmarked on
Jan. 30 and the actual arrival of
these messengers from the frozen
south will be a Byrd" of an addi-
ton to cover collections. Covers
still are being accepted for the re-
turn trip to Little America and an
official cachet will be applied to
the second series.
A patriarch in the philatelic field
the Scott Stamp and Coin Company
is celebrating its seventy-f1fth an
niversary. It publishes the most
important philatelic volumes in the
United StateS-the Standard Stamp
Catalogue. John N. Luff, who has
supervised its publication of twenty
three years, assembled one of the
finest stamp collections in the world.
1t is now the property of the Scott
company and is kept in locked
freproof vault and used as a stand
ard for reference.
The unusually fine cachet, made
from an etching by Don Emery,
will be applied to air mail covers,
sent to the Chamber of Commerce,
Daytona Beach, Fla, before March
l. 1t commentaries the fifth an
niverSary Of the first flight Of
! CAMPS.
From abroad we have among
others two new issues, one repre-
Senting peace ond the other pulchri-
tude.
Peace is expressed by an over
print, "Cour Permanente de Justice
Internationale" on six of the cur
rent Netherlands stamps They are
for use on official correspondence of
| the Permanent Court of Interna-
tional Justice at The Hague, but are
available at face value to collectors.
However, they are sold only when
cancelled.
Pulchritude is represented by the
pfennig stamp in the gorgeous set
of semi-postalS, issued by Germany
TO honor Wilhelm Richard Wagner,
on the fiftieth anniversary of his
death.
Each of the nine stamps COM
priSing the series. depicts a scene
from one of Wagners operas. The
5 pfennig featuring 'Das Rhein-
gold" can be placed with the
famous Spanish Goya. in the phila-
telic art gallery. It is an emerald
green. an appropriate color setting
for the undraped maidens, SWIM
ming about to guard a great lump
on gold at the bottom of the Rhine.
An innovation in postal paper is
inaugurated in this issue, with the
Nazi emblem, the swastika, used as
a watermark.
Italy, a source of excellently en-
1 prayed designs and artistic color