Evening star., 1936-02-09

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Persia announces a new 1.50ri, dull
blue. value presenting portrait Of
Ria Khan.
Four poets are portrayed in an equal
of new stamps of Latvia-
IS, orange, Kronvalds; los, green,
Pumpurs; 20s, pink, Matters, and 35s,
blue, Auseklis.
Bermuda is to have q new pictorial
set of nine denominations, as follows:
12d, green; Id, black and red; 1hd,
black and brown; I'd, black and slate
gray; 212d, light blue and dark blue;
Sd, black and red; Cd, red and mauve;
1sh, green, ard 1sh Cd, brown.
The 75-cent red Jacques Callot stamp
CT France has been released.
A third value of the Farroupilha
commemorative series of Brazil has
been received. The design presents q
horseman galloping over an open road,
200r, gray-black.
His late majesty, King George v,
was represented in hundreds of diff
ferent stamps of the British Empire.
Queen Wilhelmina of The Neither
lands is shown on several issues of
her own reign, as well as, in girlhood,
some of those of her father, King VIII
liam III.
Meanwhile, King Victor Emanuel
III of Italy has appeared on numer-
Gus stamps, beginning in 1901 and
continuing up to and including the
current regular set.
The philatelic debut of King Gustav
v of Sweden occurred in 1910, and
there was a very fine series in his
honor no longer ago than 1928.
OF other contemporaries, it may be
noted that Emperor William II Of
Germany was portrayed only in SCOTS
Ais, 1901, where he is minutely de-
picted in the act of addressing a pub
lie meeting.
Portugal in 1910 had two types
(A-62 and A-63) for King Manoel,
while Denmark paid homage to King
Frederick VIII in set dated 1907
and to King Christian x in three
series brought out in 1918, 1924 and
1884, respectively.
Boris III, King of Bulgaria, is
known throughout the world in half
a dozen stamp designs produced since
1919; and Nicholas I, Prince and then
King of Montenegro, was portrayed
in philatelic manner from 1874 until
1918.
Austria paid tribute to Emperor
Franz Joseph in many stamp compo-
sitions, and Belgium did likewise for
King Albert again and again.
Finally, the whole story of the
unhappy reign of King Alphonso
XIII. born sovereign of Spain. is
reflected in gallery of portraits
starting in 1889 and ending in 1880.
Approximately year will elapse be-
fore stamps showing the portrait Of
King Edward will appear. Mean
while, those of the King George series
will be continued in use.
Mail now known to the Post Office
Department as international mail for
merly was called foreign mail.
Maud r. Gilman, counselor. Theo-
dore Roosevelt Junior High School,
San Jose, Calf, is an active and en-
thusiastic stamp collector.
Collectors are warned to beware of
alleged Ethiopian Red Cross stamps.
They are unauthorized and worthless.
The government of Uruguay an
nounces that plan to finance a ma
tional air force by the sale of special
issues of stamps has been abandoned
because of the opposition of phila-
telists."
Among European philatelists visit
ing the United States this year will be
DR.. Ivan Karl Turyn, publisher of the
Ukrainian Philatelist, Vienna.
Thomas F. whitbread deplores cur
rent speculative tendencies. "An un-
trend" he writes, "is be-
coming more and more evident in the
United States stamp market. Un-
because it bears all the
aspects of the stock market"
Readers wishing to contribute ma
terial to the philatelic almanac soon
to be issued are invited to communi-
cate with Harry L. Lindquist, editor,
Stamp Magazine, 100 Sixth avenue,
New York.
Charles Markle, jr., and James
Lane, Mount Lebanon, Pittsburgh, are
stamp-collecting cousins who have q
philatehc fellowship of their own.
]. NJ Bartels Co., New York, are
bringing out catalog of United
States post cards-the first publica-
ton of the kind ever issued.
Collectors again are warned against
the danger of benzine as an explosive.
A Rockford, Ill, philatelist was fatal
ly burned when he lit a cigarette in
a room filled with fumes from
tray.
Perkins Bacon, London, stamp
printers since 1840, known to- collec-
;ors as the manufacturers of all Brit
sh issues from that date until 1880,
has gone out of business. The firms
is advertised for public sale.
DELI Norona's prize-winning paper
IN "The Preparation of Technical
Philatelic Articles" read at the First
American Philatelic Congress, is re-
printed in Weekly Philatelic Gossip for |
January 18. Mrs. Manning's paper on |
Museum Philately" also appears in
The same issue.
"One Of the commonest mistakes
of non-collectors," says G. G. Alton
Means In the New Haven Register.
STAMPS.
Sensational offer! Six grotesoue MoneoIia
aps0Iutely Tree TO approval applicants IN. |
losing &c postage. Viking Stamp Co.