Evening star., 1937-01-24

commemoratives have been prepared
for the occasion-10c, sage green; zoe,
plum; 30c, blue, and soc, orange.
Approximately 200 different special
cancellation dies were used in Ger
many for the Olympic games stamps
Of last Summer.
On June 80, 1886. there were 1,007
first-class post Offices in the United
States, 3,158 second class. 1856 third
class and 31,507 fourth class.
A club Of collectors of war time post
marks is being organized by M. Hertz
berg, 1856 Hillgirt circle, Oakland,
Calf.
Colombia has brought out a series
of stamps for the Fourth Central
American Olympic Games at Mo-
ningles: also a series for an industrial
exhibition at Barranquilla.
Belgium announces high value
stamps showing portraits of King
Leopold III, as follows: 1.50fr, red
purple; 2fr. violet; 2.45fr. black; SIR,
green; 10fr, slate purple, and 20fr,
orange red.
Scott's Specialized United States
Postage Stamp Catalogue for 1887
was published on Friday, as antici-
pated. It shows a considerable ad-
vance in prices, especially for the
rarities.
Photographs taken by Mathew B.
Brady, famous Washington camera
pioneer, viii 5e used in the designs
| of the 3-cent Army and the 3-cent
Navy stamps. His portraits of Gen.
erals Ulysses S. Grant and William r.
Sherman have been reproduced by
courtesy of the War Department and
his study Of Admiral David G. Farra-
gut by kindness of the Navy Depart
ment. The effigy of Gen. Philip H.
Sheridan is from an engraving by L.
j. Hatch. while that Of Admiral David
D. Porter is from painting by Carl
Becker.
| nual Stamp Exhibition, to be held by
the Associated South Jersey Stamp
Clubs in the Junior ball room of the
Walt Whitman Hotel. Camden, Friday
to Sunday, January 90 to 81, has pre-
pared a label for the show. Printed
in the center of sheet of gummed
paper and perforated. examples may
be had from E. C. Pratt, Box 149,
Camden, at 10 cents for the first copy,
S cents for each additional copy.
gary: If you come to Budapest, do
not forget to visit the Stamp Museum,
Krisztina -Korut IL, eighth floor,
where stamp collectors and all those
interested in stamps will find valuable
information. Open every Tuesday and
Friday, except holidays, from 10 am.
to pm, entrance 40 filters.
''The number of stamps exhibited
exceeds 10000. Besides an almost COM
plete collection of stamps of the whole
world. there are shown: The famous
special Hungarian collection Poppo-
Wits. specialties in the perforation of
Hungarian stamps, proof sheets and
watermarks of Hungarian stamps, per-
foration and printing faults. counter
feits, furthermore, the original de-
signs Of stamps, printing equipment,
ETC."
The 1887 edition of August DietZ's
specialized catalogue and handbook
of Confederate States stamps has ap-
peared. 1t is attractively printed and
bound and contains $50 pages of data
concerning the postal issues and his
tory of the Confederacy, 1861-1865.
Hugh c. Barr, Inc, New York, early
in February will sell at public auction
the celebrated BoscaWen postmaster's
provisional, which successfully be-
longed to Hiram E. Deats, M. lie Re-
notierre Won Ferrari and Arthur Hind.
France may bring out stamp to
mark the tenth anniversary Of Col.
Charles A. Lindbergh's solo flight
from New York to Paris in May. 1926:
but movement in behalf of similar
issue in the United States Is not likely
to succeed.
Lee E. Cooper writing in the New
York Times for January 3, says:
THE Post Office Departments pro-
gram for 1887 will make the coming
year one of the busiest on record SO
far as the issuance of new stamps is
concerned. Government printing
presses will be kept humming."
DELI Narona, postal historian and
winner of the silver plate awarded by
the First American philatelic Con.
gress, is expected to arrive in the
Capital shortly.
Robert Bilsborough, president of the