Evening star., 1937-09-26

In December, the Indian postal au-
thorities will release a series Of stamps
in his honor.
A series of historical stamps is fore
cast for Turkey In connection with
meeting Of the Turkish Historical
Society.
Japan soon will add to its military
and naval series. The patriotic ardor
of the nation is to be stimulated by
further hero stamps.
Registration at the American Phil
atelic Society convention at Detroit
is reported to have exceeded 200.
A letter from Fred j. Melville, Gin
ternational dean OF philatelic jour-
nalism," says: Souvenir envelopes,
commemorating a hundred years of
postal progress and showing the heads
of the English sovereigns during the
past century, will be issued in con-
nection with the London Stamp Ex-
hibition.
Printed in two colors, the envelopes
will show the silhouette heads of
Queen Victoria. Edward VII, George
v, Edward VIII and George vi.
collectors may obtain these en-
velopes by sending the cost of post
age g cents) to the Organizing Sec
retary, the Stamp Exhibition, SO
Knightrider street, London, E. c. 4,
England. The envelopes will receive
special exhibition cachet and pos
sibly special commemorative post
mark.
THE exhibition will be held at Dor
land Hall, Regent street, London, from
October 16 to 49,
Frederick A. Stokes Co, New York,
announces the publication of THE
Stamp Collectors Round Table" an
anthology of essays on philatelc
themes. edited by Foster w. Loso
Contributors include: Adolph D. Fen
mel. Arthur G. Hall, Harry L. Lind
quist. Hugh M. Clark. Ben K. Ford,
Charles r. Morris, Stephen G. Rich,
Max G. Johl, Jacques Kilcher. Milton
X. Kemeny, Sydney Lake, Robert j.
Read, F. Walter Pollock, A. S. Ar
mold, August Dietz, Edward S. Knapp,
Laurence B. Mason, Henry w. Hol-
combe. Nicholas Sanabris, DELI No.
roma. Harry M. Konwiser, Wolfgang
Fritzsche, Leo August, Charles W.
Gramm, Desmond d. Jagyi, Donald
w. Tucker. William C. Steiger Elliott
Perry, Stanley B. Ashbrook, Clarence
w. Brazer. William H. Beck and
Michael Miller.
In commemoration of the 150th an
niversary of the signing of the Con-
stitution of the United States, WASH
ington Group 848, Polish National
Alliance will sponsor a cachet on
Monday, October II, Pulaski day.
Self-addreSsed covers, unstuffed, may
be forwarded to Stanley j. KAPPA,
apartment 4, 1882 Reservoir road
northwest, who suggests the use of
three stamps-the Constitution. Pull
aski and Kosciusko commemorative.
Edward Campbell, box 13l, Fort
Belvoir, Va, is the owner of eight
large envelopes bearing multiple groups
of stamps of historic interest. The
covers are of an exceptional size, all
are generously covered with selected
commemorative postmarked on an
niversary occasions and several also
bear the autographs of Government
officials.
SCOTS Standard Postage Stamp
Catalogue for 1888 was published on
Monday and provides opportunity for
an expression of appreciation for its
editors, Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh n. Clark.
The mere size of the volume-about
1900 pages of printed text and illus
trations-serves to indicate the di-
mensions of their task.
Guatemala night at the Washing
ton Philatelic Society, Hotel Carlton,
Wednesday evening. brought out a
large audience. The guest OF honor
was DR.. Don Enrique Lopez Herrarte,
first secretary of the Guatemalan
Legation and stamp collector with
many years Of practical experience.
He told the story of his country's
cultural evolution as depicted in its
postal adhesives, explaining that it
is matter of national pride to fur
nish beautiful stamps for domestic
and foreign mail
"Our early stamps" DR.. Lopez said,
"show the coat of arms Then, in
1879, we began to represent the
quetzal. our national bird, which cam
not live without freedom In 1902
We brought out our first series to
represent monumental buildings in
our apital-structures which, with
the exception of the cathedral, were
destroyed by the earthquake of 1917
and have been replaced by finer ex-
amples of architecture depicted in the
designs of our current issues. We
also are attempting to show scenic
views OF interest to tourists and public
works of the type which has dis
tinguished our renaissance during the
past five years"
DR.. Lopez outlined the economic
changes which necessitated the sur