Evening star., 1938-04-24
AMONG THE STAMP COLLECTORS
News the Phatelc World
Stamp Press-List of Local Meetings.
ByJnmes Waldo Fawcetf.

By James Waldo FawceN
The new 1-cent George Washing
ton stamp will go on first-day sale In
Washington exclusively tomorrow
morning at o'clock. John Eissler
engraved the portrait and j. w. Vail
was responsible for the lettering.
Linns Weekly Stamp News refers
to the forthcoming Scent airmail
issue when 1t says editorially: THE
choice OF the hackneyed eagle design
is to be deplored, and we must admit
We had really expected something far
better than the mediocre design Of
which photo is at hand"
The University of Oxford has de-
clined to accept the great philatelic
library willed to it by the late F.. A.
Beliarhy. Lack of space for storing
100000 items included in the collec-
ton was the excuse offered.
Sepad, the national stamp exhibi-
"a,
Philadelphia, June 81 to %. has been
Endorsed by officers of the American
Philatelic Society. the Society OF Phila-
telic Americans, the Precancel Stamp
Society and the National Federation
Of Stamp Clubs.
The Philippine resident commits
Building, has brought out new list
of stamps available in mint condition
at face value.
Many Washington philatelists at
tended the opening Of the Baltimore
Philatelic Society exhibition. Munich
pal Museum, Baltimore, yesterday.
The show will continue all this week.
On September l Albania will bring
out a Red Cross series to mark the
tenth anniversary of the monarchy.
Only 10000 sets will be printed.
The Ssh and Josh kangaroo stamps
OF Australia have been withdrawn.
Madagascar announces a commence
tatlve set of seven values in homage
to the memory of Jean Laborde (l806-
1870, an early settler. The denomi-
nations are: 35c, 55c, Csc, 80c, 1fr,
l.75fr and 2.l5fr.
The summer charity stamps OF the
Netherlands are announced as fol-
lows: lbs plus l12c, Marnix van ST.
Adlegone; &c plus &c, DR.. o. G. Held
ring, &C plus &c. Maria Tesschel-
schade; SC pulls &c. Rembrandt; and
1212c plus Size, Boerhave.
Egypt brought out three photogra-
vure commemorative for the Leprosy
Congress at Cairo, March 81. The
design shows sprig of the Hidno
Carpacea plant. Denominations and
colors are: SIN, red brown: Ism, brown
lilac: and 20m, blue
Rotary stamps of Canada are more
attractive than those of the United
States, largely perhaps because they
are not printed in such feverish haste.
Stamp collecting played part in
the story Of Mad About Music" pre-
sented by the Columbia radio network
recently.
Are there more candid camera fiends
than stamp enthusiasts? The answer
may be matter of opinion, but the
advantage appears to be with the
philatelic fraternity. Stamps, as it
happens. are less costly than films,
generally speaking. It follows that
larger public may be interested In
them.
Oklahoma soon will want a COM
memorative to advertise the 5oth an
niversary of statehood
Iran on March 10 released 10
stamps to commemorate the 6Oth
birthday anniversary of Shah Rizah
Pahlavi
Harry L. Lindquist, editor of Stamps
Magazine, New York, has announced
that he will publish Stanley B Ash
brooks classic monograph on the
United States 1-cent stamps of 1851
to 1857. The book will be followed
shortly by a second volume devoted
to the postal markings Of the same
period.
DR.. Jerome T. Gardner says: "A
careful check OF the 1882 pages of
the 1888 Scott's catalogue lists 81
countries that have issued stamps
having maps on them, either as
central design or somewhere on the
stamp"
Guatemala is preparing to issue new
interior and exterior airmail stamps.
1c to 81 denominations.
Judges for the Najex exhibition are
announced as j. Murray Bartels,
Sidney Barrett, Harry M. Konwiser,
Prescott H. Thorp Edwin E. Elkins,
Frank j. Zeltmann and Walter Wy
cherley. The show will be held at 2
STAMPS.
100 United States Revenues. Mixed on
otlslnal socuments. including S5-SlU
ssmps: iOc to Q. s. Approval Applicants.