Evening star., 1936-11-08


Espana": 1c, blue green; &c, yellow
brown; Sc, sepia; loc, yellow green;
l5c, gray black; zoe. deep violet; Csc.
carmine; soc, rose; 40c, blue: SOC, blue
60c, yellow green; Up, gray black
2P, slate blue: 4P, lilac rose: 10P, red
brown, and zoe. red. special delivery.
The ink employed in some cases is red !:
on others. black.
Fascist Nationalists in Spanish Mo-
rocco are said to have issued a
patriotic stamp in aid of the revolu-
ton.
Weekly Philatelic Gossip says
After the death of Col. Spotwood in
1883 Benjamin Franklin and William
Hunter were appointed jointly to con-
duct the American postal service on
behalf of the Crown. They were not
on fixed salary, but were authorized
to divide $500 year between them if
the postal service produced that much
profit. After four years Franklin con-
flded to friend that the service owed
them $3.50, but short time later the
service became a profit making enter
prise
From Canberra the following news
has been received: Australia has in
creased its revenues to such an extent
that the government has decided to
revert to the Scent postage rate in
stead of the Accent rate adopted in
1880 as an emergency measure.
! Since 1882 the commonwealth has
E, made profits aggregating s31 .681 ,270.
all of which has been paid into con-
solidated revenue.
1T Is planned that mails will be
carried to England next year at the
3-cent rate"
Delegates of Rumania. Czechoslo-
vakia. Yugoslavia. Turkey and Greece
recently met at Bucharest to discuss
plans for more effective postal alli-
ance. Among the suggestions offered
for consideration was proposal for
issuing stamps which would be valid
for use in any or all Of the countries
subscribing to the agreement.
Thomas F. Armstrong, jr, will give
series of lectures on stamp collecting
under the auspices of the extension
division of Temple University, Phila-
delphia.
The American Philatelic Society
convention of 1887 will be held in
Detroit Tuesday to Friday, August 81
to September 8.
Col August Dietz, editor of Stamp
and Cover Collecting, Richmond,
writes to Dr. Robert Paganini as fol-
lows: I'VE do things differently in
America. You should know that
philatelic dilettantism is the vogue,
and (philatelie literary works of a
more serious nature go over our
heads In your glorious Switzerland
you are taught to look upward to
the snow-capped Alps. We retarded
souls over here are taught to look
down-for the nickel that some ether
poor devil has lost. It's the Ameri-
can philatelic psyche
Ralph E. Smith is in Omaha for
the meeting and exhibition of the
Trans Mississippi Stamp Club.
w. B. Angle, president of the
Chambersburg, Pa, Stamp Club, has
been visiting in Washington. He re-
ports that not even the excitement
of national campaign has retarded
the progress of philately in the Key
stone State.
The Capital Precancel Club will
meet at the Thomson School. Twelfth
street, tomorrow evening at 8.
The Washington Stamp Club of the
Air will meet over Station VOL to-
morrow evening at 9:15. Albert F.
Kunze, leader, will discuss History
and philately."
The Washington Collectors Club.
Branch S, Society of Philatelic Amer
leans, will meet at the Thomson
School Tuesday evening at 8. D. M.