Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-08-07
Bv James Waldo Fawceff.

The Fourth American Philatelic
Congress, 1t was announced yesterday,
will be held at Hartford. Conn.,, Fri
day, Saturday and Sunday, November
II to 10, inclusive.
Henry E. Gerrish, president Of the
Hartford Stamp Collectors Club. is
chairman of a committee in charge Of
local arrangements and Eugene Klein.
president of the congress, will head
the Cooperating National Committee.
A dozen philatelic writers are to be
invited to prepare an equal number
of authoritative papers to be read at
the several congress meetings. Other
program features will be an exhibit
ton, banquet, bourse and stamp jour-
nalists' breakfast.
The first congress met in Philadel-
phia in 1885, the second in Cleveland
In 1886 and the third in Chicago In
1887.
First-dSy sales data for the presi-
dental series is compiled by Stamps
Magazine as follows: l2c, Franklin,
Philadelphia, May 10, 1,483,756 stamps
sold. 224. 90l covers Cancelled, $7,4l8.78
total sales; lc, George Washington,
Washington. April Is, 1,O54, 4SS
stamps, 124.O37 covers, $l0,554,76;
nc. Martha Washington, Washing
ton, May S, 727,l40 stamps, l2S,S3s
covers, slO,s37l0; &c. John Adams
Washington, June g. 676,056 stamps,
127so6 covers, sl3,521.l3; SC, Jef1er-
son Washington, June is, 582, 1876
stamps, 118.oe7 covers, sl7,483.88; 4c,
Madison, Washington, July l. 1877
stamps, 1875 covers, s6,S99.0s; SC.
Monroe, Washington, July 81, 13s,7Ol
stamps, 98,282 covers, $l2,70l.2o.
The Bureau of Engraving and Print
tng is overprinting current Philippine
Commonwealth stamps with the letters
20. B." for official business. Denoml-
nations specified are: &c, &C, &c, &c,
1oc. 12c. 16c, zoe, 26c and soc.
A philatelic exhibition truck soon
will be added to Post Office Depart
ment equipment. 1t is understood that
the vehicle will be sent on tour to visit
smaller cities and towns throughout
the country in the interest OF increased
business for the Philatelic Agency as
well as for cultural purposes.
It is reported that all the govern
ments of the world will be invited to
establish temporary philatelic sales
agencies at the New York World Fair.
The 14th edition of the Encyclopedia
Britannica contains an informative
article on Philately by Fred j. Mel
vile, international dean of philatelic
WRITER'S and the 1888 Britannica Book
of the Year includes in its contents
news survey of recent philatelic de-
velopments by Prescott H. Thorp,
former editor of SCOTS Monthly.
The number of stamps distributed to
postmasters throughout the United
States during 1887 was 15,l08,6 ,4O9.
The Washington Philatelic Society,
meeting at the Hotel Carlton, Six
tenth street, Wednesday evening, in
dorsed the movement recently started
by the Swedish Philatelc Society,
Stockholm, against exploitation OF
stamp collectors. A resolution con-
demning speculative issues, not pri-
marily intended for legitimate postal
use, was unanimously adopted.
Morton O. Cooper was elected presi-
dent of the society and Harry B. Ca
ton was named to the Board of Gov
ernors.
Paul Mellon, son of the late An
drew w. Mellon, Secretary of the
Treasury in the Harding, Coolidge and
Hoover administrations, is stamp COL
lector.
DR.. Albert c. Schwarting of the
Library of Congress, member OF the
Washington Philatelic Society and the
Collectors Club of Washington, Is in
Spain to visit the battlef1elds OF the
civil war.
Variety enthusiasts are notified
that the eagle on the Decent airmail-
special delivery stamp has been found
with a defective wing.
Elsie Louise Holtgreve, active men,
Der of the Washington Federation
Of Junior Stamp Collectors, cele-
brated her 18th birthday anniversary
on Monday. Among those sharing in
the ice cream and cake was her sister
Ruth's pet Scotty, Penny Black,
named after the first stamp issued by
Great Britain, May 6, 1910.
The Croker collection of United
States stamps will be exhibited at the
American Philatelic Society Conven-
ton at New Orleans october 10 to IA.
It will be sold by Harmer, Rookie &
Co., Ltd, London, November % to Is.
Acting Third Assistant Postmaster
General Roy M North has announced
that registered f1rst-day covers here
after will be postmarked on front as
well as back, if requested by the mailer.
With reference to the 9-cent William
Henry Harrison stamp it is remarked
that the subject, serving only one
month, was the oldest man ever in
augurated President. He also was the
tallest man. and his grandson, Ben
jamin Harrison, was the shortest.
During the absence of Secretary of
the Interior Harold L. Ickes in Alaska,
his collection of flrst-day covers is
being arranged and mounted in set
of albums.
The engravers of the Bureau of
Engraving and Printing are not to
blame for the 'puddinglike" heads of
the human figures in the design of
STAMPS.
1900 goth CENTURY in new album. Sac
ri1ce, &25. MR.. TOMLINSON, North