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mating countries, which will take sew
eral weeks.
While all interested parties are
buying to the limit of their resources,
sales of other stamps are falling of.
Gloom has descended on Nassau
street, center of New Yorks stamp
trade, and there are predictions that
this Summer will be dullest on rec
ord because of the coronation issues
sweeping up most of the collector cash
in sight"
New policies Of cooperation were
suggested at joint meeting of the
Washington Collectors Club and the
Washington Philatelic Society at the
Thomson School Tuesday evening.
Speakers advocating closer fellowship
included F. A. Bickert and William
M. Stuart, representing the host So
ciety. and Albert F. Kunze and DR..
Ellis HaWorth, the guests. Exhibitors
displaying stamps and covers were
Mrs. Catherine L. Manning, Phillip
Simms Warren, Ralph Davis, Sven
Yort, John R. Ewell and Mr. Beck
man.
Mr.. Yort's showing was the new
Silver Jubilee commemorative Of
Denmark.
Louis ]. Heath, president of the
Washington Airmail Society. was the
guest of honor and principal speaker
at the Washington Philatelic Society
meeting, Hotel Carlton, Wednesday
evening. He exhibited and explained
part of his valuable collection OF
covers flown in the ill-fated Zeppelin
Hindenburg. Others sharing In the
program, either as speakers or ex-
hibitors, were David D. Caldwell, Her
man Bocorselski, Walter and Elsie
Louise Holtgreve, DR.. Emil Ferdinand
Hlrschberger. DR.. Albert c. Schwartz
ing, Robert Bilsborough, Mr. Warren,
Mr.. De Binder and Mr.. Stuart.
European dealers" says A. w.
Bloss in the Los Angeles Times, ARE
sending lots Of United States rev.
enues and envelopes to this country.
These lines are not popular in Eu-
rope, and the high prices Of our
postage issues are turning collectors
to these branches of American philate-
ly. which have been generally ne
elected, with many Of the items
greatly underpriced."
The second auction Of the Wash
ington Stamp Club OF the Air, held
at the Hotel Carlton Friday evening,
brought out large crowd of bidders
and also enlisted competition by mail
from collectors throughout the coun-
try After the sale Mr. Ewell said
that material would go to buyers as
distant as Orange. Mass; Crown
Point, Ind; Elk Hart Lake. Wis Mount
Dora, Fla, and San Francisco. United
States material brought above cata-
fogue prices. and some European coun-
tries, Germany especially, likewise
made an excellent showing.
Lists for the third auction. Friday,
June 25, may be had by application
to Mr.. Ewell, 40 Bond Building.
Mr.. Kunze, speaking from Station
VOL on the program Of the WASH
ington Stamp Club of the Air Mon
day evening, strongly indorsed the
projected Indian series of stamps.
Such SERIES" he said, would afford
an opportunity to keep alive an aspect
Of truly American history. The
United States unfortunately is almost
barren of those colorful stories of the
distant past which merge history with
mythology and legend. Washington
1rving's '1chabod Crane and Rip
Van Winkle, Longfellow's 'Hiawatha,'
Harriet Beecher Stoves Uncle Tom
seem to cover practically the entire
American field, with Fenimore Cooper's
Leather Stocking Tales a cross De-
tween fiction and some degree of
history. And yet there is such a
wealth of additional material we
should not lose-the truly American
mythology Of the Indians. The
postage stamp designs could do so
much to revive it and keep it alive.
European nations have not lost
sight of the possibilities. There is
Iceland with its legends of the Morse
gods; also Austria with the Nibelun-
gen series and the ethnographical
stamps Of Mexico and Russia. The
ancient Inca race has been depicted
on stamps, and Peru has added postal
compliment to the ancient tribes of
the Parakas ar the Piura as well
as the followers Of the supreme god
OF the Nazcas. The 1906 series of
Greek stamps show quite number
OF the Olympian deities of long ago.
The 20-lepta stamp Of that series is
recorded In the Standard Catalogue as
showing Hercules carrying the uni
verse and Atlas Offering the apples of
Hesperides
There is romantic fascination
about mythology, lore and legend of
the past as depicted on postage stamps.
do hope that Secretary Ickes and
President Roosevelt are able to prevail
upon Postmaster General Farley to
issue the Indian series, since through
them much could be accomplished to
perpetuate fast-fading truly Ameri.
can mythology, the romance Of Indian
legendry.
I'm such a series of stamps there
would be opportunity to revive the
romance Of the American past and
the moral teaching of a strong and
stalwart race of people. Their be-
liefs-religious in character-are as
interesting and alluring as the
Nibelungenlied Of the Teutonic race
depicted on the Austrian stamps Of
1926.
American postal issues depicting
the culture of the Indians would be
as popular, even among the collectors
in foreign lands, as the hlandic stamps