Evening star., 1938-07-03
AMONG THE STAMP COLLECTORS
News the Phlateic World Its Interests
Stamp Press-List of Local Meetings.
By James Waldo Fawceff

By James Waldo Faycet.
Plans for the pre-convention round-
up Of precancel specialists. scheduled
for the Hamilton Hotel. Fourteenth
street, Sunday, July II, are practically
complete. Arrangements are In the
hands of members of the Capital Pre-
cancel Club, but Baltimore friends are
cooperating and everybody interested
is invited to participate.
Carl Shapiro, 2l0 Pearl street.
Springfield. Mass. will sponsor a
cachet for the 30th anniversary Of
basket ball. July 30. Send self-ad-
dressed, stamped envelopes.
The elephant represented in the
King George vi stamps of Gambia
has hind legs which do not bend and
tusks which are misplaced" says the
New York Times. But the animal
was copied from the official badge"
Of the colony, and the artist merely
followed instructions to conform to
heraldic, not geological, requirements
From The Hague comes word that
the Netherlands will bring out a spe-
cial airpost stamp for an Amsterdam
to Cape Town flight. December is. The
occasion Is q celebration of the cente-
nary Of Dingaan's Day and the victory
OF the Beers under Andres Pretorius
at the Blood River
Surinam has set of four new
stamps to commemorate the 18th an
niversary of the emancipation of the
colony's slaves. Values and colors are
listed as: 2l2c, deep green: Sc, gray
black; SC, deep brown, and TIC, dark
blue.
1t is reported that only 10000 copies
Of the recent football stamp OF France
were printed. Dark blue in color and
l.75fr in denomination, it was issued
for the international soccer champion
ship meet in Paris. The design shows
. goalie blocking the ball.
Among the most beautiful of recent
productions is the St. Willibrord series
Of Luxembourg.
Kent B. Stiles, writing in the New
York Times, says: "A checklist Of
the King George vi new reign" postal
paper released the world around since
the British sovereign ascended the
throne in May of last year shows that
approximately $50 major and minor
varieties, large majority of them
bearing the rulers portrait even when
the designs are pictorial in character,
have been issued by nearly so different
governments functioning under the
flag on which the sun never sets
About 200 Of these are specials dis
tributed in 1887 to commemorate the
coronation, and the others are regu-
lar George VI stamps, including fewer
than hundred placed in circulation
in 1887 and 358 of 1888 vintage as
recorded to date.
The deluge during the current year
has emanated from 81 dominions and
colonies and more than 160 individual
designs. The extent of this 'new-reign
paper may be appreciated when it is
learned that slightly more than two
thirds of all stamps thus far printed
In 1888 fall within this classification.
The end is not yet. On the basis
OF advance announcements and nor
NAL expectations, it is certain that
numerous other British possessions
will issue many scores of 'new-reign
stamps before January next In
cluded among the governments not
yet heard from with George vi reg
ulars' are Alden. Antigua, Burma,
British Solomon Islands, Do
minica, Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Ja-
maica, Kuwait. Leeward Islands,
Montserrat. Nauru, New Guinea,
Papua. st. Kitts-Nevis, st. Lucia, South
West Africa, Turks and Calicos Islands,
Union of South Africa and Virgin
Islands. together with some of India's
Convention and Native Feudatory
States from which overprinted varie-
ties may be anticipated.
George VI, should his reign be an
extended one, bids fair to outdo both
his father and his grandfather In
number OF varieties released in royal
honor. and he may even surpass the
record OF his great-grandmother
Queen Victoria, the most abundantly
postalized parsonage in history"
New applicants for membership in
the Washington Philatelic Society in
clude Howard F. Morris, Chester, Pa,
prlze-wlnnlng specialist in the stamps
OF the Philippine Islands; and Edwin
e. Elkins. BROOKLYN. N. Y. also an ace
collector who has received recognition
Tor his philatelic studies.
Valdemar Weiergang, active member
Of the Collectors Club of Washington.
was awarded two cups for his ex-
hibition of Danish West Indies and
Iceland at the Sepad show, Phila-
delphia.
The date for the release of the
projected Scent Iowa commemorative
has been tentatively set for Wednes-
day, August "a.
NO announcement has been made
concerning a successor for the late
Sir Edward Denny Bacon as curator
OF the royal stamp collection at Buck
lngham Palace and Windsor Castle
nut 1t Is known that his daughter
nad been assisting him in recent
years. and there is a possibility that
she will be asked to continue in
charge.
First-day sales figures for the Della
ware Tercentenary stamp at Whining
ton, June ~. are reported as sl6,-
1850, with 225,6l7 flrst-day covers.
DIR. Albert c. Schwarting OF the
Library of Congress staff sails for
Europe on Wednesday and will make
the most Of his opportunity to i'm
prove his stamp collection while trav-
Philip II. Ward, jr.. one of the
founders of the Washington Phila-