Evening star., 1938-09-04
Bv James Waldo Fawcen.

New stamps to be released during
next month include: lac. Franklin
Pierce, October 6: 15c, James
Buchanan. October l3: 16c, Abraham
Lincoln, October 20, and tic, Andrew
johnson, October 27.
Philatelic Agency sales for August
amounted to $ll9, ,48480.
The Washington Philatelic Society,
in effect, has become an international
fellowship of collectors of stamps. A
glance over the pages of the member
ship list published recently shows five
foreign countries represented as well
as q States of the Union.
Max G. Johl, author of the classic
history of Goth century United States
stamps, was visitor in Washington
on Wednesday and Thursday.
DR.. Albert c. Schwarting OF the
Library of Congress has arrived in
Hungary.
Harry L. Lindquist, editor of Stamps
Magazine, writes: There are still
many governments which value the
integrity of their postal issues and
which would hesitate to bring out any
stamps to which reasonable objection
could be taken by stamp collectors.
The stamps that are causing
the trouble are those issued in small
quantities, put on sale for a limited
time, so that they could be bought up
by spectators and then demonetized
so that the full amount realized was
clear profit to the government. Those
are the stamps to which serious OBJ
lection can reasonably be taken"
Walter Kleinfelter Hawthorn House,
Wlndham. Conn. has published a
booklet album for photographic stamps.
The title is: Maps in Miniature"
Robson Lowe announces a new edi-
ton of the Regent Catalogue of Brit
ish Empire stamps, to be published in
q few weeks.
The ancient name of Ireland, now
revived, is Fire" pronounced "air-a,'
with the accent on the first syllable.
D. D. Berolzheimer, jr,, has been
made manager of the stamped enve-
lope and postal card department OF the
Scott Stamp g. Coin Co., New York.
Mekeels Weekly Stamp News for
August 90 says editorially: "All phila-
telic roads will lead to Hartford, Conn,
in November, when on the 1lth and
18th the American Philatelic Congress
will meet in that city. The capital of
the State is strong enough and lively
enough to put the event over in good
shape, and its membership will capi-
talize to the fullest measure the edu-
cational value of the Congress ses-
sions The Southern New England
Federation of Stamp Clubs will hold
its convention in Hartford on the
same dates. 1t is difficult to evaluate
the influence of these two events on
the philatelic life of Hartford. The
city has much of interest in Trinity
College, the Roman Catholic Cathed-
raj, State Capitol, City Hall, the site
of the Charter Oak and Center
Church, built in 1907"
First-day sales are reported by the
Post Office Department as follows:
&c, Martin Van Buren, August IL,
$l6.226.56. with 94.857 stamps on
cover, and &c, William Henry Harrison.
August l8. sl5,695.l0, with 1929
stamps on cover
No less than five different countries
already have announced that they will
bring out special stamps to publicize
the New York Worlds Fair. Such is
sues, of course, are unnecessary and
speculative in character They are
manufactured in expectation of sale to
collectors in the United States If the
philatelic public accepts them without
protest their sponsors will be encour-
aged to continue-and to expand-the
racket.
The 1889 edition of SCOTS Standard
Postage Stamp Catalogue, scheduled
for release on September 10, will list
2089 new varieties, produced by 149
different governments. during the past
u months. Venezuela heads the pro-
cession, with 95 items. The Franco
regime in Spain was responsible for 54
and the United States for l8.
There are 81 post Offices in the
United States named for Benjamin
Franklin.
Mrs. Grace L. Macknight, editor
Of the Bulletin of the Collectors Club
of Washington, went to Des Moines
for the first-day sale of the Sc Iowa
stamp.
The number of ST. Woodrow Wilson
stamps sold last Monday was 1892
Cancellations were announced as "a
6lS, but some covers carried blocks
OF four.
DR.. Ellis HaWorth, former president
of the Washington Philatelic Society,
Is in Milwaukee for the annual meet
ing of the American Chemistry So
ciety.
Alrpost service has been established
between Great Britain and Sierra
Leone. The rate is 30c. per half ounce
In addition to regular postage.
In 1851 an unknown subject sent to
Emperor Franz Josef a package OF
printed matter franked with block of
IL Austrian Ok. yellow newspaper
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