Evening star., 1938-07-24

dealers for unused stamps. Millions
OF dollars worth are purchased at post
ofices each year. and. OF course, can
not be tabulated in the agency's rec
ords."
The Scent Martin Van Buren, stamp
will be olive, the Scent William
Henry Harrison, pink
First-day sales figures for the second
Northwest Territory stamp are an
nounced as sl0,2l5.48 at Marietta, July
Is, and $9.299.4 As at Washington, July
is. There were 180, ITO first-day covers
Cancelled on the initial release date.
Clifton Earl Olmstead, l2-year-old
collector, was the principal speaker
at meeting of the Washington Fed
Grafton of Junior Stamp Collectors at
the Hotel Carlton Wednesday evening.
His subject was: The Stamps OF the
United States
It. Charles Benter. leader Of the
Navy Band. and DR.. Harold F, Mach
Ian are Washington applicants for
membership in the American PHI
latelic Society
The souvenir stamp issued by the
Loyalist regime in Spain for the
sesquicentennial of the Constitution
of the United States was printed in
Belgium and allegedly never did postal
duty of any kind.
Pre-canceled coil stamps Of the
presidential series are reported to
have been shipped from the Bureau
Of Engraving and Printing, but the
Post once Department has promised
to advise collectors when the ordi-
nary coils are released.
Mekeers Weekly Stamp News says:
THE government OF the Cayman
Islands will spend $4,000, raised
through the sale of coronation stamps,
in building village halls, equipped
with radios, for the natives" A
monument to the charity of the phila-
telic fraternity also might be provided.
The philatelic agency of the Royal
Hungarian Post Once Department
ceased to sell stamps to collectors in
foreign countries on June 30. From
this date" says an official announce
mont. "orders for Hungarian stamps
must be sent to one Of the Hungarian
stamp dealers"
In the designs for the King George
vi stamps of Hong Kong the two ira
ditional swastikas in the upper half
Of the composition have been re-
placed with crowns. The two lower
symbols, however, are unchanged.
The first annual conclave of the
Pioneer Philatelic Phalanx will be held
at the Hotel La Sale, Chicago, during
the convention of the Society of Phila-
telic Americans, August "a to 2S.
Rev. DR.. E. A. Meyer, Charlevoix.
Mich, is the author Of an article on
Christ on Stamps" published In the
Evangelical Crusader for June 4.
Other clergymen interested in phila-
tely include: Rev. Mr.. Howard A. L.
Grindon, Cleveland; Rev. Mr.. Max
neld Dowell, Massillon, Ohio, and Rev.
Mr.. Frederick ]. Drew, Defiance, Ohio.
Scott's Monthly Journal for June
refers to the 61-cent red bird" airmail
stamp as "the eagle in the bathtub"
and Linn's Weekly Stamp News for
July agrees that raspberry" Is the
proper name for the color of the new
2-cent John Adams stamp.
Harry B. Cation, veteran collector
long we'll known in local stamp cir
cles, is on tour Of the national parks
OF the West with his family.
Bulgaria, issuing stamp showing
chicken, sets q precedent much ap-
preciated by the promoters of the Sew
enth World Poultry Congress, who are
begging Postmaster General Farley to
authorize four adhesives to publicise
their enterprise and the industry it IL
intended to stimulate.
Tonga, South Sea islands protected
by Great Britain, will bring out
commemorative series Of stamps for
the Goth anniversary of the beginning
Of the reign Of the native queen salote
Tubou. The royal lady will be por-
trayed In her coronation robes.
r. c. Alcock, Ltd, Cheltenham
Spa. England, has published = hand
book on the postmark slogans of
Great Britain.
Mekeels Weekly Stamp News for
June Is carries . story by Louis @.
Barrett describing changes made In
the design for the lN-eent Martha
Washington stamp between the hnne