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meeting. The place Is the Hotel Stat
Ter, Cleveland, and the dates, Monday
and Tuesday, December Z and 8.
More than fifty members Of the
Washington Collectors Club have
agreed to participate in an exhibition
at the National Museum, December /
to Is. Ralph E. Smith is chairman
of the Exhibition Committee.
Reynolds News, London, reports:
Immense sums are being invested in
the coming first series of British En-
pire stamps bearing portraits of King
Edward VIII.
Although none of these stamps will
appear before Coronation day, May IL
next year, one London firm Of stamp
dealers has already set aside f30. 900
to purchase new sets as they appear.
mot less than f250 900 worth Of the
new issues will be ordered by the
trade before any Of the stamps are on
sale.
I'm all, 43 sets Of new Colonial
stamps are being prepared. and the
total number OF new stamps will be
between lao and 1S0
Alden will become a stamp-issuing
colony for the first time. and new
issues will also be made by Canada.
Australia. New Zealand. South Africa.
India and Newfoundland.
"All of the Colonial coronation
stamps will be standard size.
The design includes a three-quar-
ter portrait of the King in a circle,
plus the imperial crown and the name
Of the particular colony.
Dealers who maintain new issue
service are offering complete sets. up
to the 10-shilling values, posted direct
to customers from each colony on the
day of issue for ESQ.
The trade anticipates that these
coronation stamps will cause more ex-
citement among collectors than the
silver jubilee issues of King George v,
which last year added tens of thou
sands to the growing host Of phila-
telists.
Meanwhile. the trade is preparing
for gigantic boom in 1910. which
will bring the centenary Of the orig
inal Penny Black. the first adhesive
stamp ever issued.
Good copies of that old stamp are
now selling freely at 10 shillings each.
while the price Of all the stamps Of
Queen Victoria are moving upward in
response to the present big demand"
Don Grieve, stamp editor Cleveland
Plain Dealer, writes: The Philatelic
Agency in Washington seems to be
planning changes in policy. They are
clearing their stocks of nearly all of
the commemorative, and from indi-
cations only the Susan B. Anthony
stamps will be available. The Con-
necticut stamp has been removed from
the list, and the other 3-cent COM
memoratives will be in short time.
1T Is hoped in many quarters that
the Philatelic Agency will close up
shop, as it has deviated from its orig
inal purpose during the last four years.
To put the matter bluntly, it has been
used as an instrument to milk COL
lectors by the many special issues
available only at the agency In many
ways it is Government stamp store
with strict control of the source OF
supply. During September, the agency
sold Sl76,384.56 worth of stamps to
collectors.
THE Cleveland philatelic window
can supply all the stamps that the
Washington agency has, condition is
far superior and the service better.
Despite the claims that the agency
has selected stock, collectors complain
Of the quality of stamps sent from
Washington"
AL Burns, editor, Weekly Philatelic
Gossip, says: AN ever-increasins
number of our readers are de-
serting plate numbers, principally be-
cause they cannot afford to buy whole
sheets to obtain them"
A flood of new European stamps may
follow the present currency adjust
ments in France. Many different coun-
tries are involved in the changes, and
postal rates are expected to rise.
Plate numbers for the 2-cent elec-
tric-eye stamps are: 21149 and 2115O,
21367 and 2l368, 21399. 21402, 21411,
21416 to PAPA, 21437 and 21438, 2144l
and 21442, 21447 and 21448.
The Statue of Liberty in New York
Harbor has been represented on stamps
issued by the United States, Spain,
Peru, Uruguay and France.
According to DR.. Albert c. Schwart-
ing, only 100000 copies of the 43-pfg
printed.
Jacob Riis, Danish American Jour-
nalist, called by Theodore Roosevelt
"the most useful citizen Of the United
States" should be remembered as the
father of the Christmas seal idea in
the New World. 1t was an article OF
his, printed in the Outlook. which
prompted Miss Emily P. Bissell of Will
mington to design the first issue, re-
leased in 1907.
The new Edwardian stamps of Can
ada will reproduce the same portrait
of the sovereign as that adopted for
the first four stamps Of the reign in
Great Britain.
Eritrea announces a new airmail set
OF nine values. There will be five
pictorial designs.
Siam is to have a pictorial series,
showing temples, monasteries and 9TH
er important buildings as well as in
dustrial scenes.
France will bring out a souvenir