Evening star., 1937-10-17

the three Americas and, probably. the
Pan-American Union Building in
Washington. Colors specified are light
and dark blue and dark brown. The
edition will be 100000 and face value
38 cents, yielding profit of approxi-
mately $35, 900 to the Guatemalan gov
ernment.
Portugal announces another stamp
for the Geographical Society Of Lis
ban-le, lilac and red, type F-5.
The late Maj. Frank r. Sweet Of
Attleboro, Mass, left a philatelic
estate appraised at $250,000.
Alice Woodruff finds that great men
are commemorated in precancels from
the following towns: Columbus, De
Soto. Hudson. La Sale. Joliet, Mar
quette. Raleigh. Fremont, Boone,
Hamilton, Greeley, Garrison, Thoreau,
Burbank, Fulton, Bell, Carnegie,
Gladstone. Newton. La Grange, Dumas,
Barnum, Gilbert and Stanley.
BY combining two stamps in each
case, Miss Woodruff gets: Alice Brady,
Jeannette Mcdonald, Gary Cooper,
Shirley Temple, Wayne King and
Morton Downey.
Herman Bocorselski. well known In
Washington philatelic circles, has re-
turned from his holiday In New
foundland. He made ample use Of his
opportunity to enlarge his already
| comprehensive collection Of British
North America.
A new, revised and greatly en-
larged edition of Portrait Stamps"
by Fredrik Arsenius. is announced by
OlofSson Bros Printing House, Stock
holm. Sweden. The text is in English
and there are 800 illustrations.
The first issue of Avocations, pub
lished by Harry L. Lindquist, has been
received. 1t contains a considerable
quantity of philatelic news, also arti-
cles on Things That Interest Me-" by
H. Bedford-Jones, and Miniature
Sheets of Stamps" by Frank L. Will
son.
Extension Of the clipper ship air
mail service to New Zealand is ru-
mored, but no official announcement
is as yet at hand.
The 1887 tuberculosis Christmas
Seals will show Jolly old English
night watchman with his lantern and
bell"
Funds to finance the first centennial
of national independence will be
sought by the Dominican Republic
government through a so-called Cen
tenary Issue" of stamps obligatory
on all f1rst-class mail. The celebra-
ton is scheduled for 1914.
Elmer c. Pratt, philatelic editor OF
the Camden Courier Post, writes
The new Constitution stamp is q
fine example of just what our Wash
ington engravers can do with a stamp
issue if given the time and the ma
terial to work with"
In the first number of the bulletin
OF the Souvenir Issue Association, DR.
Charles H. Evans, president, says
Honest criticism tends to temper our
progress into new fields of stamp COL
lecting. as well as to keep various
governments conscious of their duty
to the real stamp collector"
The Woodbridge Stamp Club, meet
ing at 20l0 Rhode Island avenue
northeast, Monday evening, elected
officers as follows: Edward Miller
president; Thomas E. Stackhouse, vice
president; Yves. M. Tryon, secretary.
treasurer. David Thompson, a junior
member, exhibited and described re.
cent commemorative of France, and
Miss Jean Tryon recited a phila-
telic poem. It was voted to take ar
active part in the program for Ma.
tional Stamp week. Speakers at the
next meeting, Monday evening, Octo.
Der 25, will be Frederick j. Roy
Howard A. Peterson and Lewis Scott
A. E. Geldhof, stamp editor of thu
Chicago Herald-Examiner. calls at.
tention to the fact that the figure tt
be represented on the Hawaiian ter.
ritorial issue is not really that of King
Kamehameha. Instead, the model wa.
"a handsome young Hawaiian named
Kaopuiki." An authentic portrait o.
the famous South Seas Napoleon IVA,
once used on Hawaiian revenue
stamp and could easily have been re.
Ale A.