Evening star., 1937-10-31
By JAMES WALDO FAWCETT.

BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT.
Soon after the first of the year the
Post Office Department may announce
q new series of stamped envelopes, in
c1uding one or more stipulated for
airmail
Other forthcoming issues, it is in
dicated, may be commemorative for
Delaware and the lower denomina-
tions of the participated presi-
dental set.
Stamps for the projected trans-At-
lantic airpost service are not ex-
pected before May or June.
H. H. Sims Attache of the British
Embassy, who is to be host to the
Duke and Duchess of Windsor during
their stay in Washington, is stamp
collector.
Harry F. Dunkhorst, veteran Wash
ington philatelist has been elected an
honorary life member of the Collec-
tors Club of New York in recognition
Ol LIS SClflCSS w pubAI
Great Britain and all Of the crown
colonies will have new regular postage
issues on January 1.
Edwin N. Lewis, editor of the
Cathedral Age and executive secretary
of the Washington Cathedral offices,
will be guest of honor and principal
speaker at a meeting of the Wash
ington Philatelic Society, Hotel Carl
ton, Sixteenth street, wednesday eve
ming, November 10.
J. Murray Bartels, well known in
Capital philatelic circles, has become
a regular contributor to Stamps Maga-
zine, New York.
The first section of the collection of
the late Judge Robert S. Emerson was
sold at the Collectors Club of New
York october 19 and realized S27, ,261.
Only 33 lots brought bids less than
catalogue price.
Stanley Gibbons, Inc, New York,
has purchased the precancel stock of
the Fidelity Stamp Co. The latter
firm now will specialize in foreign
countries and United States regular
service. new issues, agency and first
day business.
Philip H Ward, jr., of Philadelphia,
formerly resident of Washington, will
be guest speaker at the fourth annual
banquet of the Montgomery Stamp
Club. Reams' Hotel, Norristown, Pa,
Tuesday evening, November 9.
Harmer, Rookie & Co., Ltd, London,
will sell at auction, beginning Thurs
day, November IL, the J. Insley Blair
collection of British empire issues and
18th and goth century foreign.
Brazil announces four new pictorial
stamps, printed by Waterlow 81 Sons,
Ltd, as follows: 200r, chocolate and
steel blue, Munroe Palace; 300r,
orange and deep green, botanical gar
dens; 2,000r, green and carmine, Mum
roe Palace, and 10.000r, botanical
gardens.
The annual winter relief stamps of
Austria were released on October 18
and are described in the official an
nouncement as: plus 2gr, dark green,
nurse with infant child; IL plus 3gr,
sepia, woman with sick baby: "a plus
6gr, dark blue, woman caring for an
aged person, and l plus 1sch, carmine,
nurse attending patient. The designs
are by Prof. Ferdinand Kilt.
Manchukuo brought out on Septem-
ber 16 q new series to commemorate
the completion of the new capital city
of Hsinking. There are four de-
nominations-2f and 10f, pigeon. laurel
branch and clouds; 4f and 2of, ma
tional flag, state building and floral
decorations.
James B. Hatcher referring to the
stamp issued by France in commemo-
ration of the sesquicentennial of the
adoption of the Constitution of the
United States, says the figure of Co
lumbia is "dumpy looking"
A Post Office Department circular
says: "As early as 1877, upon the
petition of several merchants of Bos-
ton, John Hayward Scrivener was ap-
pointed by the court to take in and
convey letters according to their di-
rection.'
This was probably the first post
office and mail service authorized in
America. Local and imperfect ar
rangements for the conveyance Of
mails were afterward made, at diff
ferent periods, in several of the COL
pnies, until ITO, when the British
Parliament passed an act authorizing
the British postmaster general to
keep one chief letter Office in New
York and other chief letter Offices in