Evening star., 1935-11-10
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BY JAMES WALDO FAwCETT.

BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT.
The new ascent trans-pacific air.
mail stamp went on the press at the
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Friday at noon. Postmaster General
Farley. Secretary of Commerce Roper
and other officials attended.
Plate numbers are 21473 to 21476,
inclusive. Release date, at San Fran
cisco and Washington, November 90
Covers for dispatch to Manila and
the wayside calls included in the first
flight should be SO arranged as to
leave space for a cachet 2La inches
square; also, in the case of the covers
for the return trip from Manila, for
four stamps of the new Philippine
set-all the size of the duck hunters
license stamp.
Postal authorities have suggested
that collectors who are in doubt ss
to how to proceed to obtain covers
should apply for reprints of instruc-
tions published in the Postal Bulletin.
These may be had at the Philatel,c
Agency.
There will be a special stamp for
the trars-Pacifc mail to Canton, but
details are not yet available.
German interests are reported to be
organizing a transatlantic airpost
with a Canadian if not an American
terminus.
As forecast months ago, Arkansas
wants and probably will be granted a
centenary stamp. President Roosevelt
is rumored to have given his consent.
| California collectors are asking for
a stamp to mark the opening of the
Golden Gate Bridge in 1898.
! Government department mail, it
has been said. is carried free because
| it is much more economical to do so
| than to impose bookkeeping depart
ment overhead to record the mail sent
| by each Government bureau and
| charge for the same"
A Mark Twain cachet is announced
by R. l. Weiss, Elmira, N. Y. for No
vSmber 80.
| Philatelists are concerned to know
what variety or character Of postal
administration will prevail in the
Philippines under the new Common
wealth government. They remember
/ that in 1929 stamps to the value OF
2l7,800 pesos were distracted by the
employees of the Bureau of Posts, AN
due to an utter lack of auditing and a
general carelessness" deemed sylnpto-
matte Of the service.
Word comes from London that sec
ond editions of at least 36 different
Crown Colony silver jubilee stamps
have been printed. A careful check
will have to be made before the exact
number can be announced, but 1t Is
known that those which ordered COM
plete sets of four stamps each in
cluded: Antigua. Ascension, British
Guiana. British Solomons, Cayman Is
/ lands, Gibraltar. Grenada, Newfound-
land. Nigeria. Seychelles. st. Helena
st. Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, and
the British Virgin Islands.
Ecuador is preparing series of
stamps TO commemorate the visit OF
/ Charles Darwin TO the Galapagos
/ Islands a century ago. 1t was there
| that the great scientist hit upon"
| the essential fact Of mutation upon
which he established his famous
theory OF evolution.
! Portugal is to have a new loe air
mail value.
The government of Costa Rica has
decided to issue stamps for Cocos
Island. a colonial possession in the
Pacific with romantic historical con-
notations. Eight values are sched-
uled. as follows: 4c, brown; &c, deep
violet: Csc. orange; Csc, purple; 40c
chocolate; soc, yellow; &c. light green
and sc. dark green. First distribution
during December.
Japan will have stamps to mark the
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vention with Manchukuo, but the
so-called silk" issues, about which
I there was talk a few weeks ago, will
not be released.
| bulgaria has two new stamps-1L,
! sepia and red, and 81. lilac brown
and blue-for Sunday delivery use.
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Belgium's mourning stamp for the
late Queen Astrid appropriately re-
produces King Leopold's favorite
photograph of his wife. 1t shows
a lovely and gracious lady as she
was at the time of her marriage.
wearing the coronet of jewels pre-
sented by Great Britain as wedding
gift. The value of the issue is
70c plus SC; the color, gray black.
Mexico has a single stamp to COM
memorate the entry Of the state OF
Chiapas into the national federation
The value is l0c, deep blue. and the
design shows coat of arms sur
mounted by crown.
The Mozambique Co. plans a series
of Is airmails for regular airpost use.
France is considering a stamp to
commemorate the genius of Jacques
Callot, celebrated seventeenth century
engraver.
The Netherlands has new &c plus
&c, dark brown, air stamp in aid Of
the national aviation fund. In the
design a map Of Holland Is shown.
"surcharged" with the shadows Of
three planes in fight.
c. A. Schecker, writing in the Amer
ican Philatelist for November, tells OF
an abortive scheme for the issuance
of series of Columbus commemora-
tives for the Republic of Panama
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