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BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT.

be available at room 1902, Internal
Revenue Building. Twelfth street and
Constitution avenue, tomorrow morn
ing at 8 o'clock.
In the set there are the following
denominations: 34c, 112c. 2l4c, 3.
3 4-4c, 7l2c, 1l4c, 1890, 37l2c, 75c,
e3ac, S1l22, $3.50, making total
OF s5.l8.
Purchasers who order by mail are
requested to inclose mint postage
stamps to cover return registration
mail fee. Address Deputy Collector,
Bureau of Internal Revenue, Wash
ington, D. C.
As announced exclusively in The
Star Friday, the Post Office Depart
ment, by request of President RooSe-
welt. will bring out special series OF
stamps in homage to the memory OF
famous soldiers and sailors. The set
will be known as the Army and Navy
commemorative and will be released
this Summer.
No details have been decided as yet,
but it Is indicated that there will be
at least 10 values-perhaps as many
as "a. One suggestion is that certain
denominations shall be portraits, 9TH
ers views of buildings, like those of
West Point and Annapolis, and ships.
Collectors long have desired an is
sue to celebrate the U. S. S. Constitu
ton t"Old Ironsides'D, and this wish
may be gratified.
In stamps produced between 1847
and 1885 the Post Office Department
has commemorated Gen. Winfield
Scott, Commodore Oliver H. Perry,
Gen. William T. Sherman, Admiral
David D. Farragut, Capt. Nathan
Hale, Count de Rochambeau Count de
Grasse, Gen. Frederick William Won
Steuben, Gen. John Sullivan, Gen.
Casimir Pulaski, Gen. Thaddeus Kos
ciusko, Molly Pitcher, John Ericsson
Gen. George Rogers Clark, Gen. An
thony Wayne. Gen. U. S. Grant and
OF course-George Washington.
A battleship was shown in the rev.
enue stamps of 1898.
Third Assistant Postmaster General
Clinton B. Ellenberger, testifying be-
fore House committee, has said that
philatelic agency sales this year should
be approximately double those of last
year. Receipts for 1888 were s802,-
6l9; for 1884, $81l,72S; for 1885,
e2,340,4s4.
A proposal to impose service
charge upon dealers and collectors
patronizing the philatelic agency is
under consideration by Congress, but
there Is little danger of action. The
agency. as some Congressman surely
understand, already is financial as
set to the Government.
1t is reported that a speculator re-
Gently purchased current stamps to
the value of $4,000 from the Phila-
telic Agency. He is said to have ex-
pressed confidence in 100 per cent
profit on his investment.
An all-day downpour of rain ruined
the first sale of the new Texas COM
memorative at Gonzales Monday last,
but the Press Bureau of the Post
Office Department reports that 102 900
copies were sold In Washington Tues
day there also was considerable de-
Inand.
The designer of the issue is Alvin
r.. Meissner and plates numbers are
21537 and 1883.
The Long Island Tercentenary Com
mission has appealed to Postmaster
General Farley for stamp to be is
sued in June.
The Alaska Weekly is advocating a
special set of stamps for Alaska.
The Arkansas commemorative prob
ably will go on sale at Little Rock
June IS.
Richard E. Bishop. Mount Airy. Pa,
Is reported to have designed the third
duck hunters license stamp to be is
sued next season.
Under a new arrangement, infor-
nation on plate numbers and other
details of stamp manufacture no
longer may be obtained from the Bu-
reau of Engraving and Printing.
Those interested must apply to the
Division Of Stamps, Post Office De-
partment.
From Dallas. Tex word is received
that rare stamps which never before
have been removed from the Philatelic
Bureau (sicD of the Post Office De-
partment are to be included in the
departments stamp exhibit at the
Texas Centennial Exposition, June
to November 30"
The Associated Press says: 1.-The
stamp trade rule of thumb is: Add 20
per cent to the purchase price This
percentage is designed to cover over
head and handling charges and leave
q profit for the dealer.
Operation of the rule is exempli-
fled by current prices for used cop
Ies OF the 1884 National Parks set.
Depending upon condition. whole
salers pay 20 to % cents a set to ac-
cumulators; dealers pay % to 80 cents
to wholesalers and collectors pay IS to
~ cents TO dealers
The Parks series, which has
face value unused of SIS cents, is con-
sidered to have excellent investment
possibilities, because of its attrac-
tiveness and limited issue. The ex-
pected rise in price, however, will not
begin until the supply of unused
stamps on hand at the Philatelic Agen-
cy Is exhausted.
Used copies never can sell higher
than unused, because in that event
it would be simple matter to send
unused copies through the mail and
enhance their value Dealers now
charge, roughly. 20 per cent over face
for unused copies, but after they def
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