Evening star., 1936-11-15


and 1t has been suggested that they
may be replaced shortly by q second
and more notably attractive set,
Cuba on Wednesday will release q
special series of stamps to mark the
centenary of the birth of Gen. Maxinno
Gomez, patriot leader. For regular
postage there will be FIVE values--lc,
&c, 4c. Sc and &c; airnaail, Sc and 10c,
and special delivery, l0c.
Ecuador has a new tobacco tax
stamp to raise funds for national de-
fenSe.
In 1898, Australia will bring out a
commemorative series for the sequi-
centennial of the settlement Of New
South Wales.
Siam soon will have complete new
set for regular postage. Lower values
will show portraits OF the new king;
higher denominations are scheduled to
be scenic in design.
Switzerlands current pictorial series
Is being re-issued in engraved form.
British Silver Jubilee sets have
reached the predicted high Of 500 in
the philatelic market. Don Grieve,
philatelic editor, Cleveland Plain Deal
er. expects them to go even higher.
Collectors are warned that the new
Edward VIII stamps of Great Britain
may be withdrawn without notice at
any moment. The were issued ex-
perimentally, they have been roundly
criticized and the postal authorities
have declined to promise that further
printings will be ordered.
Rebel overprints Of current stamps
Of Spain are flooding the European
bourses. Many are speculative or
forged productions. So long as the
civil war continues, 1t will be impos-
sible to verify the legitimate issues.
Revolutionary covers received in the
United States should be preserved
entirely, pending restoration Of order.
John Chamberlin. writing in the st.
Louis Post Dispatch, says: In the
early days of stamp collecting. a stamp
was q stamp, In fact two-thirds of a
stamp was a stamp. Perfection meant
nothing, and If the genuine stamp
could not be obtained, a reasonably
good forgery made an excellent SUBJ
stitute. That is the reason so many
really old collections are practically
worthless to present day collectors, be-
cause today, in the United States at
least, collectors demand perfection"
A barber at Worthing in England
has decorated the ceiling of his shop
with 10000 stamps from all parts OF
the world.
Paper used in manufacturing
United States postage stamps Is made
from pine tree pulp.
Linn's Weekly Stamp News, Colum-
bus, Ohio, is celebrating the begin
ming OF the ninth year of publication.
The October issue of The Chemist,
published by the American Institute
Of Chemists, Inc, New York. contains
an article on Chemists in Philately.'
by J. N. Taylor, chief, Organic Chem
ical Section, Chemical Division, Bu-
reau of Foreign and Domestic Com
merce, Department of Commerce.
A current German slogan cancella-
ton reads: Without newspapers. one
lives upon the moon"
Ralph A. Barry, stamp editor. New
York Herald Tribune, yesterday pub
lished in that paper a fine tribute to
the first citizen Of the world" from
which the following is taken: DE
siderius Erasmus Roterdamus, the
40Oth anniversary Of whose death
will be marked next Wednesday in a
celebration of international import
by the Observation-Disclosures Founda-
ton, was the acknowledged leader
in spreading the new learning which
was the beginning of the renaissance
and which paved the way for the
Reformation. In the stamp world the
event was noted last Summer by q
commemorative issue in the Neither
lands which reproduced the famous
portrait of Erasmus by Hans Hol-
bein the Younger, by which the great
scholar is almost as well known to the
present generation as by the writings
which won him such wide renown In
his own time"
The actual date Of the death OF
Erasmus was July -. 1886, and the
anniversary was celebrated in WASH
ington on July IL, 1886, by the Wash
ington Erasmus Committee. Of which
DR.. Lester K. Born is president. A
cachet, it will be recalled, was pre-
pared and issued for the occasion.
The Collectors Club Of New York
will celebrate its fortieth birthday
with a banquet at the Hotel Astor on
Saturday evening, December IL.
The 1887 edition Of Nicolas Sana'