Evening star., 1939-12-31
The principality of Monaco an
nounces Red Cross set of IS values
with SurtaX.

jamin Constant, rouletted; 800r,
slate, equestrian monument of
Deodoro de Fonseca. perforted; and
1200r, brown, portraits Of de Fon-
SEGA and President Vargas.
Stamps of the Argentine Republic
manufactured for booklets have
failed to win public approval and
remainders in sheets of 80 are to be
sold in that form.
The annual semi-postals of Lux
embourg are authentic works of art
All are portraits, deicately etched.
The list includes: 10 plus Sc, red
brown, Prince Jean; IS plus Sc, blue
green, Prince Felix; 10 plus zoe, gray,
Grand Duchess Charlotte; 1fr plus
25c, carmine, Prince Jean; 125fr
plus 75c, dark violet. Prince Felix;
and 175fr plus 1.50fr, gray blue,
Grand Duchess Charlotte.
Yugoslavia has issued a series of
charity stamps for the unveiling of
a monument to an unknown
soldier" on Mount Avala near Bel
grade. The set includes: / plus Sod,
green: $50 plus Id, red: plus 150d.
cerise; and plus I'd, blue. Profits
are designated "for invalids."
Numeral cancellations were en-
ployed on the stamps of Denmark
from 1852 to 1884, numbers used
running from / to 286.
Robert D. Byrnes, philatelic
editor of the Hartford Courant, hints
that there may be a stamp author
lied for the Eighth American Scien-
tific Congress, meeting in Washing
ton, May 10 to 18.
Rollin E. Flower of Buffalo, presi-
dent of the American Philatelic
Society, was guest of honor at
fellowship dinner at the Hotel Har-
rington and principal speaker at a
meeting of the Washington Phila-
telic Society at the Hotel Mayhower
Wednesday evening. Among those
assembled to greet him we're: Mrs.
Catherine L. Manning, Mr. and Mrs.
David D. Caldwell, Mr.. and Mrs.
Philip Simms Warren, Mr.. and Mrs.
Alden H. Whitney, Mrs. Grace L.
MacKnight, Miss Irene M. Pistorio,
Miss Gladys Carr, DR.. Theodore T.
Belote, DR.. Emil F.. Ferdinand, H. M.
Southgate, Harry B. Cation, Joseph
A. Herbert, Ernest A. Grant, A. E.
Geldhof and Capt. w. r. Van Auken.
The text of Mr.. Flowers address
will be printed in the American
Philatelist for February as an official
message to members. At his request,
it is not reported here at this time.
Elmer C. Pratt, stamp editor of
the Camden Courier-Post, calls at
tention to the fact that the Sc, Walt
Whitman, stamp will go on sale at
Camden on February 20, the last
day Of the fifth annual stamp ex-
hibition of the Association of South
Jersey Stamp Clubs at the Walt
Whitman Hotel in that city.
DR.. w. L. Babcock has published
pamphlet on the supplementary
mail markings used at New York,
Chicago, San Francisco and other
offices from the early SOS up to the
present time. The booklet sells at
cost of manufacture, Csc a copy,
and the Author NAV be addressed at
245 East Willis avenue, Detroit.
A Brussels firm of stamp dealers
nonchalantly advertises: I'VE use
none of the habitual American
bluff"
Cuba recently released a 1c,
orange red, charity stamp of more
than average interest and beauty.
It represents a naked baby held in
the arms of a nurse wearing the
insignia of double-barred Red Cross.
Profits from the sale are to be given
to the national tuberculosis hos
pitals.
The stamp editor of The Star
gratefully acknowledges receipt Of
Christmas and New Year greetings
from: Mr.. and Mrs. Roy M. North
and family, Robert E. Fellers, Capt.
and Mrs. Otho Larkin Rogers, Mrs.
Myrtle C.. Shaughnessy, Mr.. and
Mrs. Harold r. Ambrose and family,
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