Evening star., 1935-06-16
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BY d. III. DAVENPORT.


Collectors and dealers swarmed the
PhilaSelic Agency in the Postal Ad-
ministration Building during this last
week to take advantage Of the final
opportunity to purchase uncut sheets
and blocks of the special issue OF
stamps placed on sale March Is In
an effort to debate the fabulous
prices at which blocks from the orig
inal sheets presented by Postmaster
General Farley to his friends were
being offered for sale.
From the standpoint of the Post
Office Department the issue was
huge success, for when the last order
was filled late yesterday afternoon
the records disclosed that approx
mately $1,25o, 900 has been spent for
the reprints. This will bring the total
sales in the Philatelic Agency for the
year ending June 80 to an amount in
excess of 2,000, ,000-more than double
that of any previous year.
The last-day sale was handled In a
most efflcient manner by Supt Rob-
ert e. Fellers of the division Of stamps
and his associates, all of whom have
put in long hours during these past
three months.
The philatelic museum, long
dream of the Post once Department,
was opened in the administration
visiting Shriners as we'll as local phi
lateliSts were generous in their praise
of the efforts of j. w. Dunnington,
who had charge of the installation
of the exhibits. Additional space will
be allotted the museum in order that
stamps from all countries may be
added to the display.
Mail service to several post 0fficeS
in the Arctic Circle is only once a
year, and many cover collectors ar
range to secure postmarkS of these
northerly Offices. The Canadian post
office department has announced that
the r. M. S, NaScopie, owned by
the Hudson Bay Co., will leave Mon
treal with mail for this region on
July IS. Covers, however. must be
forwarded to the Chief Superinten-
dent, Post ONCE Service. Ottawa, not
later than July 8. Only stamps of
the Silver Jubilee issue and regular
issue of June 1 will be available for
the prepayment of postage.
Luxembourg, land Of royalty and
colorful postage stamps, has issued
set of stamps notable not only for
their beauty, but for their unusual
historic value. The issue represents
the first usage of postal stickers for
humane purposes.
The issue-15 large. colorful stamps
was created not only for normal
use but as means whereby pro-
feSSional men-doctors. lawyers,
professors architects-who are refu-
gees from the Hitler government
could be helped to establish them
selves in other lands.
In addition to the face value OF
the set. 81 .97, an additional 81 81. has
been added to the cost of the stamps.
There is no place In the world
where they can be bought for less
than double their face value. The
grand duchy has so decreed In its
agreement with the Internatio As
sociation for Aid to Intellectual Refu-
gees, which has its headquarters in
Geneva. @.i' w. %F -"
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A special cachet In honor OF the
159th anniversary of the signing of
the Declaration of Independence will
be used on all tirst-class mail from
Washington's birthplace on July 4.
Any one wishing cancellations for
that date may send stamped and
addressed covers to Postmaster, Wash
ington's Birthplace, Va.
Sponsored by David I. Rankin Post,
No. 234, Veterans of Foreign Wars, an
artistic and appropriate cachet will be
mailed June 81. 2S and 20 from VIII
knsburg, when the sixteenth annual
convention of the v. F. w. will be in
session at that time. Send names and
addresses for printed covers to N. M.
Mcdowell, v. F. w. headquarters,
Penn-Lincoln Hotel, Williamsburg, Pa,
with cents to cover costs. Use COM
memoratives ca outer cover If con-
venient.
Svend Yort will display his collec-
tion of stamps of Denmark at the
meeting of the Washington Philatelic
Society at the Carlton Hotel Wednes-
day evening. The public Is invited.
The Washington Air Mail Society
will hold its monthly meeting at 1885
Naticnal Press Building tomorrow
evening at 8 o'clock.
The Collectors Club will meet at
the Thomson School, Twelfth and L
streets, Tuesday evening.
Albert F. Kunze, leader of the
Washington Stamp Club of the Air,
will broadcast over Station VOL
Tuesday evening at Z o'clock.
A stamp club has been formed in
the Farm Credit Administration, with
Mrs. A. B. Lindsey as leader At a
meeting this last Friday the group
was addressed by Mr.. Kunze.
Junior Collectors.
Gerard T. Beeckman will speak be-
fore the Washington Federation of
Junior Stamp Collectors, meeting next
Saturday afternoon at 2 O'Clock In
IlkC DOdIo VI 1IduC IOO1H IO oGdE
Building. All Junior collectors are in
vited.
In the National Junior Stamp Ex-
hibition at the Collectors Club, New
York City. June and 8, 10-year-old
Marion Alice Lancaster, member of a
local Junior club, won a first prize for
her entry-a small portion of her
young g-folks-on-stamps collection. This
was her first try at an award In a
stamp exhibition.
SPECIAL SERVICES
Boyds Presbyterian Church to
Observe Fathers Day.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
BOYDS, Nd, June 15.-Two spe-