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National Stamp Week, so-called.
begins today. The idea, sponsored by
q Chicago philatelic group, may have
merit as q publicity stunt. But stamp
collecting really stands in need Of no
artificial promotion. Strange as 1t
may seem to some, every week Is
stamp week in the United States and,
perhaps even more notably, in several
other countries.
Final sales figures for the Century
OF Progress souvenir sheets are: l.
cent, 474,322 panes; Scent, 440,903
panes. This single philatelic enterprise,
therefore. passes into history as an in
cident which brought the Post ONCE
Department approximately $449, ,25775
profit from the collecting fraternity.
An appeal for q series OF stamps for
the New York Worlds Fair Of 1889
already has been filed with Postmaster
General Farley. The sponsors are the
members of the Philatelic Club OF
Jackson Heights.
Plate 21 500 for the Anthony stamp
shows major variety. On the Tooth
stamp the period after "B' Is missing.
Announcement of the Post Office
Department plans for the long delayed
Army and Navy heroes series is ex-
pected momentarily.
Internal Revenue authorities report
that potato tax-paid stamps to the
value of $43, ,900.64 were sold. About
half Of the total amount realized may
be traced to the purchases of the
philatelic public. Three individuals,
1t may be mentioned, attempted to
corner the Market" but, since they
were rivals and not partners, they
are supposed to have failed.
Weekly Philatelic Gossip says:
AFTER securing Hollywood for an
authentic portrait of Benjamin
Franklin, in order to make up an
actor to resemble him for the filming
Of 'Lloyd's Of London the makeup
(propertiesO department discovered
that 1-cent postage stamp would
supply the need"
Had the likeness Of Abraham Lin
coin been wanted, the problem would
have been more difficult to solve. The
Emancipator has been retired from
postal use under the New Deal.
Plate numbers for the 1887 duck
hunters license stamps will be 1887
and 134318.
No less than ATS, 500 copies Of the
16-cent, steel blue, airmail-special de-
livery stamp were destroyed because
in the judgment of the Philatelic
Agency staff, they were too poorly
centered to be offered to the public. "
Actual distribution has been an
nounced as s.215.75s.
Total sales for the Scent Connecti-
cut stamp were 70.726,s00 while
TIPEX sheets reached total edition
Of 2,821,77o.
From the London Observer the fol-
lowing dispatch is quoted: AN in
teresting exhibition of stamps is
being shown in Prague under the aus
pices Of the Post Ministry and the
Union of Philatelic Societies. Among
several important Central European
collections the most valuable speci-
mems shown are an l847 blue Mauri-
titus, several three e-cornered Cape Of
Good Hope Of 1863 and one blue
Cape Of Good Hope Of 1851. Several
fine penny blacks also are shown with
the 1840 postmark and later with
the violet maltese cross, and a photo
graph of the earliest known penny
black with the mark Bath My 2,
1840.' A letter to Ireland without a
stamp, but bearing the postmark 1887
is likewise in the exhibition. The
varied collection of Czechoslovak
stamps shows the use of the stamp
as an historical record They begin
with the imperial stamps of Austria
and Hungary, across which was
printed 'Posta Ceskoslovenska, 1919
and in the 18 years which follow
they commemorate not only national
heroes from Commenius to Smetana,
from Wenceslas to Masaryk, but
events such as the battle of Arras,
when Czech volunteers fought for the
Allies. The history of postwar Eu-
rope can be traced through the
stamps of the Russian Revolution, of
the national plebiscites, through the
imitation period when the price of a
stamp was reckoned in millions to
the more peaceful era of international
exhibitions. birthdays and Polar ex-
peditions."
Costa Rica contempIates three air
mails next month to advertise an
annual fair. The stamps will be
diamond-shaped and show view of
Poas Volcano. Values, 1c, &c and Sc.
The Dominican Republic has a new
airmail stamp of modernistic design,
showing three birds in flight. Bright
blue and dark blue, the denomination
| Is 10c.
China on October 10 brought out
| four stamps for the fortieth ami
versary Of the national postal sys.
tenn. The list includes: &c, brown
Progress of communications, Junk
steamer, railroad train and airplane;
SC, green, steamer at dock with air.
plane; Csc, blue, post Office, Shanghai;
81, red, ministry of communications
Marking. Printed in the government
bureau at Peiping, all inscriptions
are IN Chinese characters.
| Estonia plans q new airpost series
of four denominations-5s, los, SOS
| and 1kr.
The latest of souvenir sheets come.
from Leichtenstein. 1t was issued
for the second national philateli,
stamp exhibition and the opening Of
the national postal museum at Vaduz
October "a. In the center two copie.
Of corp, red, Vaduz rathaus, typ,
A-6l, and two of 30rp, dark blue
Valunathal Winter scene, type A-63
appear. The heraldic emblem anc
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