Evening star., 1934-04-22

Ludwigskirche and the Kirche st. Ap-
nual. The list is: 40c-l5c, dark
brown: 60c-20c, tangerine; l-fr-50c
dull violet; 1.50fr-75c, deep blue; 2fr-
lfr, deep carmine 3fr-2fr dark olive;
5fr-5fr, orange brown.
The new Lisbon Geographical So
ciety stamp of Portugal differs from
issues Of the past. The horseshoe
with the name of the society is up
right and a small iron cross has been
introduced in the lower portion of the
design.
Roger @. Williams. transatlantic
flyer, is scheduled to leave Floyd Ben
nett Field, New York, April 80. with
II members of his corps. They will
visit Cleveland, Detroit, Toledo Lam
sing. St. Paul, Chicago. Cincinnati
Pittsburgh, Philadelphia. Baltimore
and Washington. The tour is de-
signed as an event of National YOUTH
week, and the planes will carry mai
in specially prepared covers. a diff
ferent cachet being applied at each
stop.
Those interested may write John
C. Ptasznick. 252 Washington street
Newark, N. j.
The Philatelic Club. Junior High
School No. 3. West State street. Tren-
ton. N. j., will have a cachet for the
150th anniversary of Trenton as capi-
tai of the United States. May 2.
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Club, $40 Main street. Danville, Va.
announces a cachet for the dedication
of the new Danville Post Office. May
80
Hammer. S OAK uses a hammer as
supplementary cancellation. Ingle-
smith, Pa. has blue ink; Lincoln,
Mich, and Pinnacle, Ark. red, and
Lilac, Nebr., purple. Weissport, Pa,
has the l3-star flag die.
R. c. Bingham. stamp editor. Illi-
nois Central Magazine, has been elect
ed president of the Roosevelt Philatelic
Society. Chicago.
The Montgomery Stamp Club. Nor
ristown. Pa. had a first anniversary
banquet March 81.
The thirty-eighth annual conven-
ton of the Texas Philatelic Associ-
alton opened Friday at Hotel Rice,
Houston.
The New England Hobby Collectors
show will be held at Horticultural Hall,
Boston. in December. Henry Schu
macher. IL South Fairview street. Bos-
ton, has charge of correspondence.
The Record Stamp Club. Philadel-
phia. had a first annual banquet
April 7.
The Hartford Stamp Collectors Club
and seven other groups of stamp en-
thusiastS recently staged a successful
Eighty frames were dis
played, and attendance approximated
5 1000.
The Buffalo Stamp Club announces
an exhibition, bourse, dinner and en-
tertainment, May 12
Eighty-SiX members attended the
first birthday banquet of the Topeka
Stamp Club.
Prof Murray Rice. Alfred Univer-
sity. discussed the stamps of Guat-
NAAeAAet az q buiiHuNb VA lAlC w Cl4oN LAlG
N. Y, philatelists, March %.
A cane made Of stamps was exhib-
tied by A. J. Simmons. Jamaica, at the
third annual Brooklyn and Long
Island Stamp Exhibition April s.
The late Representative Ernest r.
Ackerman. according to the New York
left as part of his
estate a stamp collection appraised at
S207217
Mr. Ackerman died October 1s,
1881, and is remembered as an en-
thusiastic and keenly intelligent phi
lateliSt.
Robert B. Irwin, totally blind, is an
ardent stamp collector His wife fur
nisheS the eyes of his hobby, he says.
Joseph w. Jones, Bristol, Tenn, has
a unique collection of autographed
covers, representing the penmanship
of Presidents, cabinet members, Con-
gressmen, diplomats and distinguished
visitors from abroad.
E. c. Wiekham, writing in Stamps
New York, tells of a cover,
franked with Byrd stamps. sent around
the world in 1913 days. 1t was mailed
at Buffalo, November 81. travelled by
way of Liverpool, Cairo, Bombay and
and was received back
March 10.
Charles Heath and his son Frederick
Of Philadelphia were the real inventors
of the adhesive postage stamp. They
sold the idea to Rowland Hill, and
Hill presented the plan in Parliament