The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-21

SSPAVS eAAS AuSv WAdt 61Cht pESS" sure has been brought to bear on the post office department, there
 Is very little likelihood that a new series of presidential postage stamps win be given to the pub- lie during the year 1887.
 The department has announced that the stamp program for the balance of the year Is complete and that 1t does not include the presidential list. Sponsors of the presidential issue have pointed to the fact that but 17 former pres- identS have been pictured on United States stamps. This is be- cause there has not been @ set of regular postage stamps issued since the 1922 series, and 1t is estimated that not more than one stamp @ month can be turned out at the bureau unless the engrav- CTS and designers work over time.
 At the present time there are seven commemorative postage stamps yet to be Issued by the department during the coming year. They are the Virginia Dare stamp (issued August l8); souv- enir sheet or the convention of the SPA, August 26; the consti- tuition stamp to be placed on sale September IT; and the four com- memoratives honoring our terri- tories and insular possessions: Puerto Rico, Alaska, Hawaii and the Virgin Islands.
 Provision for the phllatelic sup port of the Cubna Motion Picture board has been placed before the Cuban house of representatives. This bill, passed by the senate, calls for the annual sale of S100,- 900 issue of postage stamps. The proceeds will be used for the en- c0uragement of local talent and the picture industry.
 The 1888 edition of the Standard Postage Star'p catalogue will be released on September 20. The new edition will be of the same form and style as its predecessor, but will contain Q great many new listings.
 Judging from the advance sheets there will be two or three hun- dred additional pages. Part of this increase ig due to the inno- vation of allowing blank space at the end of each country for new items. The regular book will be price at s3 with the thumb in- dexed copies at 50 cents extra.
 Probably the only philatelic souvenir of the extinct Buskadi (Basque) republic Is q special airmail envelope issued during the siege of Bilbao. It Is made of onion skin paper, bearing . pic- ture of an arplane in flight, a landscape and the Basque flag, with the legend "Euskadi'kO Jaur- iarltxa--Par Avion-G0viernO de Euskadl-Egazklnez." It was on sale at post offices until the en. try of General FrancO's troops.
 Algeria has issued our stamps commemorating the Paris interna- tional exposition. All four are of the same design, picturing @ ila- tive building, presumably that erected by Algeria at the expo- Sition. The values and colors are: 40c, bright green; BOG, carinine; 1Fr. 50, light blue and 1Fr. 76, drab brown.
 Philatellsts who thrOnged . Bond street, London, auction sale . short time ago bid in vain for Q stamp that had been suppressed because of the vanity of an un- prepossessing minister of state-- because the stamp was withdrawn from sale.
 It k an age.old custom for real stamp collectors to seek out sup- pressed issues, or those that have been recalled because of censure, )revOluti0n or inaccurate design.
 This particular issue came from New Brunswick For nine years prior to 1859 the colony had been using stamps of unique designe-- the Imperiad crown surrounded by the floral symbols of England, Ireland anc Scotland, the rose, shamrock and thistle.
 In 1859 the government decld- cd to change its stamp printers, and use c more conventional shape and . more usual design. Postmaster General Charles Con-