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early tests serves to illustrate the
strides which have been made in
the operation and navigation of civil
aircraft-as instanced by recent flights
across the North Atlantic accomplished
to schedule and under commercial
conditions by the Imperial Always
long-range flying boats. the Cambria
and the Caledonia.
There is an ever-growing demand
among collectors for exhibits and
souvenirs connected with the history
OF the airmail. These exhibits not
only include covers carried by such
pioneer pilots as Hamel and Grahame-
White, but also even earlier memen-
toes of those days when balloonists
were taking up letters with them and
dropping them from the clouds.
las one can trace it in such an ex-
hibition as this, the story of the
aerial transport of letters has four
distinct stages. The first was the
aerial carriage OF letters by balloon.
Then came mail-carrying tests with
early-type dirigibles, notably those
carried out In Germany with pre-war
Zeppelins. Then the power-driven
aeroplane now having appeared on
the the worlds stage-eXperiments of
various kinds were made, just prior to
the Great War, with mail-transport
by heavier than-air machines; and
then towards the end Of the war, and
III postwar years, came the establish
ment of airmail routes which have, by
degrees, extended their high-speed
services to all parts of the world
Visitors were greatly interested in
the exhibit staged by Imperial Air.
ways, and which demonstrated, by
means OF maps. diagrams. and q
model flying-boat. the growth of En-
pire air transport; while souvenir
stamp. issued to commemorate the ex-
hibition, bore striking picture of one
of the new Empire aircraft"
Mac H. Sanborn. resident in Puerto
Rico for nearly 80 years and an ac-
knowledged expert on the stamps OF
that island, was the speaker at a
meeting of the Washington Philatelic
Society. Hotel Carlton, Wednesday
evening.
He discussed the postal evolution of
Puerto Rico under both Spanish and
American control. illustrating his lee
ture with pages selected from two OF
his albums
The range Of the material displayed
included stampless covers, plated va
rleties, postage dues, counterfeits man.
ufactured to defraud the government
and used on official mail, steamer
covers. provisional stamps and mark
ings of the American War Pc
riod, registration seals. Spanish CO.
lonial dies used by United States mil
itary postal clerks, Trans Mississippi
and Alaska Yukon commemorative
Farley reprints postmarked in Puerto
Rico, air service covers, r. P. o. and r.
M. S. markings used on seapost, United
States stamps Cancelled in the Do
mlnican Republic. naval cancellations
postcards, surcharged stamped en-
velopes, cover franked by Mrs. Flea
nor Roosevelt at the Governors Palace
in San Juan, World War covers. Brit
ls1 stamps Cancelled in Puerto Rico
revenue stamps from 1884 onward
slave certificates, cattle stamp tax
stamps, United States postage dues
and parcel posts used in Puerto Rico
pre-cancels for Puerto Rico, telegraph
stamps, coin rubbings, photographs
and drawings-altogether an encyclo-
pedic ensemble of philatelic history.
The military post offices in Puerto
Rico during the Spanish War;" Mr.
SANFORD told his audience, were
branches of the City Post Office of
Washington, D. c."
Program arrangements for the
Washington aspect of National Stamr
Week have been announced by the
Collectors Club, as follows: Monday
evening. November Is, Thomson
School, Twelfth street, joint meeting
with Washington Airmail Society and
airmail exhibit; Tuesday evening
November Is, regular Collectors Club
meeting, with speakers, auction,
bourse and exhibition; Wednesday
evening, November II, Capital Pre-
cancel Club as guests, program and
exhibit; Thursday evening. November
18. Junior stamp clubs, with teachers
supervisors and leaders as speakers.
Friday evening, November 10, visit to
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Saturday evening, November 20. an
nual banquet, Hay-Adams House.
James B. Hatcher, writing for the
Associated Press Feature Service, says:
THE Istanbul Post Office put no sale
four new stamps of simplified design
the same day (September 20) that the
Second Congress of Turkish History
opened there in the ancient palace oi
Donna Bagtsche. The stamps COM
memorate the congress.
President Kemal Ataturk has
backed the Association of Turkish His
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