Evening star., 1938-01-16
Bv James Waldo Fawceff.

Bv James Waldo Favceff.
OF more than ordinary interest are
the latest stamps of India. The set
consists of eight horizontal pictorials
showing different carriers Of the
imperial mail and four large por,
trait issues. A Oak runner with a
mail bag is the subject of the "a, red.
= The 2a6sp, purple, presents bullock
postal cart. while the 3a, color not
reported, offers tonga, two wheeled
horse-draWn vehicle. Other themes
are: 3a6p. Oak camel mailman; IA,
brown, mail train; Ga, greenish blue,
I mail train; 8a, black violet, mail lorry
or truck, and la, maroon. mail plane.
The rupee values are King George
vi portraits in the frame hitherto
used for those of King George "
1r, brown and gray black; Or, sepia
and purple; 5r, deep blue and myrtle
green, and 10r, claret and purple.
Stephen Macy and the members of
the National Capital Amateur Astrono-
mers' Society will be guests at a meet
. ing of the Washington Philatelic So
ciety Wednesday evening, January 26.
The program calls for an exhibition
and discussion of stamps and stars.
Kent B. Stiles, stamp editor of the
Rs New York Times, was a visitor in
: Washington Monday and Tuesday last.
He had interviews with Alvin w. Hall,
director of the Bureau of Engraving
and Printing; Edward Bruce, head
of the painting and sculpture branch
of the Procurement Division of the
Treasury Department; Acting Third
Assistant Postmaster General Roy NJ
North; Mr. Farley, and other Gov
ernment officials, and shared with
, Ohio Larkin Rogers, philatelic agent,
2 in broadcast from station VOL ar
ranged by Albert F. Kunze for the
Washington Stamp Club of the Air
The Office of the Philippine Resi-
dent Commissioner reports sales OF
mint stamps in amount Of $l04,00O
during the last l8 months.
Ford Frick, president Of the Ma
tional League, Is an ardent stamp
collector as we'll as a famous baseball
mogul.
New stamps of the Canal Zone Will
show portraits of John F. Stevens
be- one time chief engineer of the Cana
Commission, and Sydney B. William
son, builder, who was in charge OF
the construction of the Pedro Miguel
and Miraflores locks.
% Robert W. Richardson, editor Of
Iinn's Weekly Stamp News, forecasts
numerous issues" from the new ''in-
dependent" countries which the wal
lords Of Japan at present are carving
out of China.
Philip H. Ward, jr., OF Philadelphia
has rejoined the Washington Phil.
atelic Society after % years. He was
one of the charter members of the
organization when 1t was formed in
1905, but retired when he removed
from the city in 1909 Specializing in
United States, Siam, Panama anc
classic foreign stamps in general he
has pursued his hobby on both sides
Of the Atlantic with unremitting en-
thusiasm since boyhood.
Postmaster General James A.
Farley announced on Monday that
sales of stamps to collectors through
the Philatelic Agency for the month
of December, 1887, totaled $128.265 .83,
the highest December record in the
history of the agency.
This figure" Mr.. Farley said,
drought the agency's sales for the
first six months of the current fiscal
year up to S1174,11490, the highest
first six months of any fiscal year
since the agency was established in
1921. For the first six months Of the
last fiscal year agency sales amounted
to only ss58,o7e2s"
The first issue of the new Inter-
= national Stamp Review, edited by Don
Houseworth, president Of the Pony
Express Chapter of the American
Philatelic Society, st. Joseph Mo-,
has come from the press. Contribu
tors include Arnold Blankman, G. j.
Luhn, Will Herring and Frank P.
Walker, jr.
OF the 10 different stamps printed
by the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing during 1887, Alvin R. Meiss-
ner designed no less than eight
p Three were the work of Victor S
McC1oskey, jr., and w. K. Schrage
was responsible for four and the
Ngnette of one.
Collectors are advised not to neglect
the and cent Army and Navy
issues. Less than 10000 900 each OF
these were printed, many have been
used on foreign mail, few have been
"hoarded" speculatively. All, of course
are necessary for complete sets. In
years to come they may be wanted
A similar observation is suggested
for the insular stamps for Hawaii
Alaska, Puerto Rico and the Virgin