Evening star., 1936-07-26

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memorative of the Philippines Com
monwealth will be scare Only a few
were manufactured before the issue
was taken off the press. Difficulty in
matching ink is reported as the cause
of withdrawal.
Philatelists interested in numis-
matics may be pleased to know that a
29-page pamphlet, entitled Domestic
Coins Manufactured by the Mints
of the United States" 1793-1935, may
be purchased from the superintend-
ent of documents, Government Print
ing Office, 5 cents per copy.
Richard Mop. Cabeen, stamp edi-
tor, Chicago Tribune, writes: Col
lectors who are limited in the amount
of money which they may spend for
stamps, finding that their budget will
not go far toward making a present.
able collection of United States
stamps, are turning to foreign issues
which, for the time being, at least,
may be purchased at fraction Of the
catalogue values"
Negotiations for trans Pacific air.
mail to the Portuguese island of
Makao have fallen through. The
terminus. it now is indicated. will be
the British settlement at Hongkong.
Germany has new commemora-
tive sheet, issued for the 500th ami
versary of the breeding of fine horses
1t is 42pf. value, brown in color,
printed on specially watermarked
stock, and was particularly intended
to use on mail from Munich today
the date of the race for the Brown
Ribbon of 1886.
Gossip to the effect that Great
Britain will issue no new stamps for
the coronation of King Edward VIII
is 70 be taken with large grain Of
salt.
France will bring out dozen diff
ferent stamps to advertise the Inter-
national Exposition at Paris next year.
The Pacific Navigation Line, Inc,
San Francisco, has designated Phi
latelist as the name of an auxiliary
motor ship.
King George v left a philatelic
estate valued at S3,750,000.
The Washington Erasmus Commit
tee announces that cacheted covers
for the 40Oth anniversary of the
death of the famous Dutch philoso-
pher, July II. were distributed
throughout the United States, also to
Canada, Mexico. Cuba, Great Britain,
France, Germany, Belgium, Czecho-
slovakia. Switzerland. Austria, South
Africa, India, Australia and New Zea-
land. Copies went to Queen Wilhel-
nina of the Netherlands, King Ed
ward VIII. King Leopold III of Bel
GUM, President Roosevelt, Secretary
Ickes, the postmasters general of
many different countries, the postal
museums of The Hague, Brussels and
Berlin, the mayor and other munich
pal authorities of Rotterdam, the Uni
versity Of Utrecht and the philatelic
press of Europe. Total number mailed
about 1000.
According to the Camden Courier
Post, the famous engraving house of
Perkins, Bacon & Co., London, will
not be closed after all. but will be
operated under its old name by
Sprague g. Co., a firm well known in
the philatelic world.
The recent Mothers day stamps of
Austria we're sold out within 10 days.
Charles Curie, soldier, lawyer, bank
er, publisher and winner of the grand
trophy at the Rockefeller Center
stamp show of 1884. died July II. He
was "a years of age. trustee of the
Collectors Club of New York, fellow
of the Royal Philatelic Society of
London and the owner of one of the
largest and finest general collections
of stamps in the United States.
John Drinkwater, famous English
poet and dramatist, writing in Robson
loves Raconteur and Philatelist, says:
THE instinct of the collector is al
ways something Of an enigma to people
who are so unfortunate as not to pos
sess it, nor is it to be acquired, for COL
lectors are born, not made. It Is true
that like all other natural gifts it has
to be encouraged and directed, but
without the natural gift no one, will
make much of a collection no matter
what he collects. For those happily
gifted in this matter, however, collect
ing is much more than the possessive
whim that it is commonly supposed to
be by the uninstructed. The intelli-
gent collector is seeking to afford HIM
self one of the principal pleasures of
the human mind, namely, the assem-
bling of scattered elements into an
orderly and harmonious whole. If, as
more often than not is the case, he be
a person of some taste these elements
will be beautiful or curious in them.
selves, but his chief delight Is to COM
pose them into a group that gives
them fresh significance.
For the collectors purpose the
postage stamp has now for nearly a
hundred years been steadily estab-
fishing its claims. Its obvious ad-
vantages are many. A large collec-
tion can be kept in a very small
space, there is material in abundance
to suit every size of purse, the sub
ject is exhaustively documented for
the guidance of the novice and the
expert alike, the philatelic field is