Evening star., 1937-02-28

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in a swamp to one Of the most i'm
portant centers in the world today
and it Is understood that the pro-
posed design will include visnette
| portraits of the first and present
Mayors of the city.
In order to maintain the quality
of the illustration 1t has been de-
rather than attempt to print the de-
sign upon various envelopes. Col
lectors and others who are interested
may obtain not exceeding five Of the
covers, II they will send names and ad-
dresses, typewriter or legibly hand
written or printed, together with the
actual stamps which they wish affixed
to the envelopes. The committee will
not take the responsibility Of buying
stamps for the covers and therefore
will not accept coin nor stamps which
are in denominations unsuitable for
use on the covers.
1T is the intention of the committee
to post the covers at City Hall Branch
Post Off1ce, and Ernest j. Kreutgen.
postmaster OF Chicago, has indicated
complete cooperation with the plan
and has applied for q slogan cancel
lation Gle.
Send name and address at once
with necessary stamps to Chicago
Charter Jubilee Committee, 80 North
La Sale street, Chicago"
For its annual March party the
Garfield Perry Stamp Club, Hotel
Statler, Cleveland, has produced an
engraved souvenir sheet showing
Bishops City Post local stamp of 1854.
Copies may be had at 10 cents each
by application to Ralph johnson, sec
retary. Inclose self-addressed stamped
envelope for return.
Reynolds Newspaper, London. says:
Half of an old twopenny English
stamp was sold for f72 10 sh. in a Lon
don auction room. This is the story
behind the stamp: Nearly 100 years
ago a solicitors clerk in the north Of
England had to post three letters.
Having no penny stamps in his office
he tore in half two Of the then-current
twopenny stamps bearing a portrait
| of Queen Victoria and stuck three of
the fours halves on his letters. The
letters passed through the post un-
challenged and today the bisected
stamps are almost the rarest in the
world. A roomful of intently inter-
ested philateliSts and stamp dealers
bid against each other for the prizes,
and the best stamp of the three, on
part of the original envelope, fetched
f72 10 Sh.''
W. Hayden Collins Of Washington
| recently exhibited stamps from his
collection at Tampa and st. Peters
burg winning four first. three second
and one third prize ribbons.
Announcement of changes in plans
for the scent Army and Navy stamps
Is expected momentarily.
The Post Office Departments illus
trated official list Of postage stamps
still is held up" Proofs from the
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| submitted, but have not been returned
Another martyr to the strife in
Abyssinia was Everett Andrew Col
son, former financial adviser to En-
peror Halle Selassie. ie died at
George Washington University Hos
pital Tuesday evening from the effects
of illness contracted at Adds Ababa
during his six years of service there
A member of the American Philatelic
Society and the Washington Phila-
telic Society, he was described by
Philip Simms Warren as "a stamp
| collector of notable distinction. phil
atelic scholar of the finest type"
The Loyalist Spanish Ambassador To
Chile has protested against the Chill
can postal authorities distributing let
tiers from Spain franked witt. stamps
issued by the government Of Gen
Francisco Franco at Burgos.
A copy of the 24-cent airmail invert
stamp of 1918 was sold at auction in
New York Friday for 5000. This
rarity is catalogued at $500 and q
i specimen sold last year brought 81 $50
When few stamps accidentally were
surcharged invert recently, the postal
administration of Greece ordered Q
collectors edition made-to-order to
correct the error as equitably as pos
sible
The date for the Third American
Philatelic Congress, to be held in Chi
cago, may be changed to avoid con-
flict with several other stamp enter
prises Of the late Autumn.
Alden H. Whitney, Washington
philatelist, has been in New York on
business during the past week.
The Washington Collectors Club
will meet at the Thomson School,
Twelfth street, Tuesday evening at c.
Visitors welcome.
The Washington Philatelic Society
will meet at the Hotel Carlton. Six
teenth street. Wednesday evening at
8. Public invited.
Invitations have been sent to all
the young peoples philatelic groups in
the District of Columbia in anticipa-
ton Of their cooperation for the sue
cess of the annual exhibition of the
Washington Federation of Junior
Stamp Collectors. Material to be
shown. Robert Bilsborough, president,
has said, should be sent to John Grazi-
ami, chairman of the Exhibition Com
mittee, 1903 L street northeast, not
later than March 13. The next meet
ing of the federation will be held at
the National Red Cross Building, Sew
enteenth street, Saturday afternoon,
at 2.
The Washington Stamp Club Of the
Air will meet from Station VOL to-
morrow evening at 8:45. Albert F.
Kunze, leader, will discuss current news
and the history behind selected
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