Evening star., 1937-12-05

printers rotary perforators 1912 by
1917.
Plate numbers for the Scent Virgin
Islands stamp, to go on sale at Char
lotte Amalie, December IS, will be
21730, 21731, 21732 and 21733. The
designer is Victor S. McCloskey, jr.,
and the engravers Carl T. Arlt, Wig
nette and ornaments, and James T.
Vail, frame and lettering.
First-day sales at San Juan, where
the beautiful Scent Puerto Rico ter
ritorial stamp went on sale on Thanks
giving Day, are reported to have
reached $14,507.31, representing 483,-
SIT stamps. The Philatelc Agency
distribution, Friday, November 26,
totaled s17,394.78, or 579,826 stamps.
Charles A. Kenny, philatelic editor
of the Washington Times and Wash
ington correspondent for Linn's Week
ly Stamp News, has compiled an in
teresting list of heroes Of peace" for
the guidance Of Post Office Depart
ment officials in the selection of char
acters to be honored in the projected
Great Americans series. The roster
conforms in general to that proposed
by Michael L. Eidsness, jr., several
years ago. 1t includes: Fulton, Edi-
son, Morse, Bell, Westinghouse, Nc
Cormick, Whitney and Orville Wright
among inventors; Longfellow, Whit
tier, Poe, Mark Twain, Emerson, Low
ell. Hawthorne and Noah Webster,
writers; John Harvard, Elihu Yale,
Horace Mann and Mark Hopkins,
teachers; Gilbert Stuart, Whistler and
Sargent, painters; Foster, Nevin, Sousa
and Herbert, musicians; Morton, Rush
and Walter Reed, physicians and sur
geons.
The Irish Free State will cease to
exist on December 27, when the new
Irish constitution goes into effect.
New stamps, Of course, are indicated.
new stamp club for children is
being started at Langley Junior High
School with the active assistance of
P. D. Weeks q member of the Wash
lngton Philatelic Society and the
Washington Collectors Club.
Amerique, New York, says: "The
Rising Sun Tavern in the village of
North Bersted, Sussex, England, has
a unique distinction. The interior
Is mass Of postage stamps.
The walls are covered with stamps
from floor to ceiling. So is the fur.
niture. And overhead there Is a solid
canopy Of stamps.
THE late owner of the tavern, Rich
ard Sharpe, got his inspiration dur
ing Queen Victoria's jubilee Of 1887.
1t took him years to complete the
decorations. It Is estimated that there
are now over eight million stamps on
the walls and ceiling, a collection
that would have great value If the
stamps had not been vanished when
pasted"
Don Houseworth, st. Joseph, Mo-,
announces new philatelic journal to
be known as the International Stamp
Review and to appear January S
and each Wednesday thereafter.
w. H. Barnum, oldest active men,
ber of the Garfield-Perry Stamp Club
of Cleveland and formar secretary
and vice president of the American
Philatelic Society, died on November
IL. He began 10 collect in the COS
and in recent years had specialized
in the Netherlands and Sweden.
Philip Simms Warren will be chair
man OF the committee in charge of
arrangements for the Christmas party
of the Washington Philatelic Society,
December %.
Representative Elmer e. Wene of
New Jersey wants . stamp to pub
hcize the World Poultry Congress in
1899.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. H. McC1uer Of |
Kansas City celebrated their golden |
wedding anniversary on November 81.
An officer Of the American War Moth |
ers, Mrs. McCluer is well known in
Washington philatelic circles as one |
of the sponsors Of the Mothers Day |
stamp Of 1894 and as the author Of |
Women as Presented on United States |
Stamps"
Formation Of q national commit
tee to determine who and what should |
be honored on special stamps has been