Evening star., 1936-01-12
BY JAMES WALDO FAwCETT.

BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT.
An official publicity release from the
Post Office Department Friday said:
POSTMASTER General James A. Farley
announces that a new issue of the
l6-cent airmail special delivery post
age stamp, printed in bi-color, will be
released by the Post Office Depart
ment to replace the stamp now being
used, which is printed entirely in
blue ink.
The new bi-color 16-cent airmail
special delivery stamp will be placed
on first-day sale at the Washington.
D. c., Post Office on February 10, 1886,
and it will be placed on general sale
at post Offices throughout the country
on February II or as soon thereafter
as distribution will permit.
This new issue of the l6-cent
stamp will be 84/10O by 144/100
inches in size, arranged horizontally
and will be identical in design with the
present 16-cent airmail special de-
livery stamp, which was issued by the
! Post Office Department on August 81,
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two colors, the border in red and the
central design, which is a reproduction
of the Great Seal of the United States,
in blue
This change in color is being made
in order that the stamp will be more
distinctive than heretofore, also more
easily recognized by postal employees,
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and expeditions handling of all air.
mail special delivery mail matter.
Stamp collectors desiring first-day
cancellations on February 10 may
send limited number of addressed
covers, not to exceed a total of 10,
with cash or postal money order re-
mittance payable to the Postmaster,
Washington, D. C., covering the value
OF the stamps required for affixing.
Personal checks or other postage
stamps will not be accepted in pay
ment. In order to receive the Feb
ruary 10 poStmark, covers must reach
the postmaster, Washington, D. c.,
before the close of business on that
date.
For the benefit of collectors desir-
Ing selected stamps for philatelic use,
the new stamp will also be placed on
sale at the Philatelic Agency of the
Post Office. Department on February
10, but the agency will not prepare
covers for mailing on that date"
Cover collectors interested in the
pnSt Office rtr
extension Of trans-Pacific service to
China are advised to be on guard
against a sudden announcement of
the departure of the first plane. Third
Assistant Postmaster General Clinton
B. Eilenberger has requested 80 DAYS
notice, but Second Assistant Postmas-
ter General Harllee Branch has not
yet granted his appeal.
!, Designs for the Texas commemora-
tive, promised by Mr. Farley for re-
lease in March, are being made at the
Bureau of Engraving and Printing; but
no formal announcement will be given
out at present.
Potato tax stamps may be purchased
from the Bureau of Internal Revenue.
Apply at room 1902.
Copies of the 5o-cent Zeppelin
stamp are selling in the New York
market at 81.
A few of the Clipper overprints
were received at the Philippine trade
commissioners office, Barr Building,
last week. but the bulk of the ship-
ment expected from Manila has not
arrived
Senegal, French colony, has two new
series OF pictorials. The regular post
age list includes: 1c, dark ultrama-
rlne; &c, orange brown; &c, indigo; SC.
orange; loc, purple; 15c, black; zoe,
carmlne; 25c, brown olive; SOC, green:
4Oc, red violet; 45c, dark green; soc
red orange; Csc, dark violet; 75c, vel
low brown; 90c, rose carmine; 1fr. vio-
let: l,25fr, brown; l.50fr, blue: 1.75fr
deep green; 2fr, light blue; 3fr. light
green; SIR, olive brown; 1ofr, light red
violet, and 20fr, slate green. For air.
post there are: Csc, dark brown; soc,
bright red; lfr, bright purple; 1,25fr.
yellow green; 2fr, blue; 3fr, olive:
3.50fr. bright violet; 475fr, yellow
orange 6.50fr, dark blue; Sfr, black, |
and l5fr, red violet.
There also will be a postage due
set, as follows: SC, yellow green; 1Oc, |