Evening star., 1938-12-25
AMONG THE STAMP COLLECTORS
News the Phaec World Its Interests and Peope-Review of
the Stamp Press-Lis of Local Meetings.

of which show his portrait (5-ore
claret and 15-ore blue) and one
his statue of Jason Q0-ore violet.
The stamps produced by Peru for
the Eighth Pan-American Confer
ence at Lima are six in number
three for regular postage and three
for airmail.
DR.. Albert G. Schwarting of the
Library of Congress will attend
the annual meeting of the Ameri-
can Historical Society at Chicago.
Meanwhile he plans to visit his
mother in Milwaukee.
Esmond Bradley Martin, nephew
of the late Henry Phipps, capitalist
and philanthropist, has paid $25 900
for the only known used block of
the 24-cent purple and green stamp
of 1869 with center inverted. The
block was included in the William
Henry Crocker collection recently
sold in London. 1t passed to its
new owner through the hands of
Y. Souren of New York, who bid
$l1 $50 for it.
Reports indicate that Mr.. Martin
is developing his philatelic inter-
ests with an enthusiasm which sug-
gests that he soon may surpass the
late Arthur Kinds and the late Col.
E. H. R. Green as Americas ace
stamp collector. But he is keener
student of philately than either Mr..
Kinds or Col. Green ever was.
Panama has released five regular
postage and five airmail stamps in
homage to the Constitution of the
United States. The design shows,
among other things, the Statue of
Liberty and the Stars and Stripes,
the old cathedral tower of Panama
City and the flag of Panama.
The Winter Help semi-postals of
DanZig illustrate various types of
ships from the fifteenth century
onward.
President. Roosevelt approved a
Treasury Department ruling per-
mitting the illustration of Govern
ment stamped envelopes and post
cards in the philatelic press.
At the Christmas party of the
Washington Philatelic Society and
the Washington Federation of jun
ior Stamp Collectors, Hotel Carlton,
Wednesday evening the juniors
outpointed the seniors in phila-
telic quiz contest. Frank Herman,
George Drew, Sidney Sells, Louise
Winfield. Adele Cummings, Louise
Perine, Dorothy Ellis, John Horne,
James Leake. Barbara Manning,
John Graziani and Miss Mollie
Lewis took part in the program
Conchita La Guardia, niece of the
former President of Panama. was
guest of honor and gave an inter-
esting talk about her country.
Paris is in France, Berlin and
Brunswick in Germany, Cordova in
Spain, Monrovia in Liberia, Aber-
deem in Scotland, Cardiff in Wales,
Bristol, Cambridge, Chester, Man.
chester, Oxford and Salisbury in
England, Hollywood and Pasadena
in California. as everybody knows
Yet the United States Official Postal
Guide lists all these cities and towns
in the free State of Maryland. Col
lectors of postmarks also may be
interested to know that there really
are post Offices which bear the
names: California, Md, and Texas
Md. Other curiosities are: Accident
Nd, and Security, Md.
Stamp meetings for the week are
listed as follows:
Tuesday evening at 8-Collectors
Club Of Washington, Thomson
School, Twelfth street NV, pro-
gram, auction and bourse
Tuesday evening at 9:45-Wash-
ington Stamp Club of the Air, Sta
ton VOL. Mr.. Kunze will present
q stamp IOIIldllCe dIlu COIIlIHellt OIl
philatelic news
Wednesday evening at 8-Wash-
ington Philatelic Society, Hotel
Carlton, Sixteenth street NV. Open
night; no special program planned
The editor of this department of
The Star wishes the stamp collec-
tors of Washington a very merry
Christmas and prosperous and
peaceful New Year.