Evening star., 1939-01-08
AMONG THE STAMP COLLECTORS
News the Phatec World Its Interests and PeopeReview of
the Stamp Press-List of Local Meetings.
By James Waldo Fawceff.


adhesives: General Motors Corp,
Commercial Gable Corp, Wright
Aeronautical Corp, Aetna Life In
surance Co., Globe Indemnity Co.,
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.,
American Surety Co. of New York
Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey,
Percules Powder Co.. Inc; Louisville
& Nashville Railroad Co., Barrett Co.
of New York, Warner Bios Pictures,
Inc; Massachusetts, Mutual Life In
surance Co., Winchester Repeating
Arms Co., Royal Typewriter Co., Inc ;
Gevaert Co. of America, Inc: David
D. Doniger & Co., Texas Star Flour
Mills, Capital City Products Co.,
Master Lock Co., Darcy Advertising
Co., National Safety Bank g. Trust
Co. of New York, F. E. Myers &
Bro. Co., Penn Mutual Life Insur-
ance Co. of Philadelphia, R. C. A.
Communications, Inc; Remington
Arms Co., Inc; Pratt & Whitney
Aircraft Co., Mitsui e. Co., Ltd. !;
General Steamship Corp, Ltd;
Champion Paper & Fiber Co., Radio
Corp. of America, Globe Wernicke
Co., Bank of New York, First Ma
tional Bank of st. Louis, Golden
Gate International Exposition and
New York World Fair.
Also, incredible as it may seem,
the Board of Governors of the Fed
eral Reserve System, American Red
Cross National Headquarters, Acad-
emy of Natural Sciences of Phila-
delphia, University of California,
Polish National Alliance, Italian
Line. New York Times, New York
Sun, Philadelphia Gazette Democrat,
Houston Post, the Annalist, Church
Missions House, Good Housekeeping
Magazine, Pasadena Junior College,
University Of Pennsylvania, Ameri-
can City Magazine, Department of
. Welfare of the City of New York.
the States of Delaware, Maryland,
Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New
Hampshire, New York and Penn
sylvania.
The sidewise coil stamps of the
presidential series q. 1R, 2, 3, 4, AZ,
8, 6 and 10 cent values will 60 on
sale in Washington exclusively on
Friday, January 20.
. Excess postage represented in
f1rst-day covers of the presidential
series brought the Post Office De-
partment at least S315,00O clear
profit.
Postmaster General Farley has re-
Jected an appeal for a stamp to
publicize Charley Mccarthy.
The design for the New York
Worlds Fair stamp probably will
show a view of the Progress of Man
Building.
Postmaster Vincent c. Burke again
has warned cancellation clerks to
obey the regulation providing for
standard postmarks. Thumb smudges
are forbidden and collectors are re-
quested to report them at the City
Post Office, Massachusetts, avenue
and North Capitol street.
Miss Sadie w. Bellers who died on
December 20, was teacher at the
Stuart Junior High School and a
good friend to many youthful stamp
. collectors.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward B. Martin
will motor to the Pacific Coast and
are planning to be in San Francisco
for the first day sale of the Golden
Gate Exposition stamp, February 18.
The Collectors Club of Washing
ton will meet with the Frederick
Stamp and Coin Club at Frederick
on Monday evening, January 16.
Copies of "philately's financial
Journal" The Stamp Market, edited
by Cecil Betron and published by
Heinz Hoffman,, P O. Box BIT, De-
troit, have been received in Wash
ington. The new paper is eminently
worth reading, containing as it does
a wealth of material on the in
vestment aspect of collecting.
Ernst Wins, editor of the Svensk
Filatelistisk Tidskrift, died on Octo-
ber 8, last. He was 68 years of age,
a great philatelist, skilled linguist
and kindly and charming gentle
man.
France announces 2fr, brown
black stamp showing the Triumphal
Arch at Orange, battered but still
beautiful relic of Roman antiquity.
Japan is preparing a. new series
OF scenic stamps. reproducing views
in national parks Of the Nipponese
Empire.
Senator James M. Mead of New
York will continue his interest in
philately despite his elevation to
the upper branch of Congress.
Canada may issue a stamp to in
dicate her interest in the New York
Worlds Fair.
Collectors desiring copies of the
pamphlet, "A Brief History of the
United States Postal Service" may
address: Harold F. Ambrose, Infor-
nation Bureau, Post Office Depart
ment.
The Society of Philatelic Amer
leans will hold it's 1899 convention
at the Lord Baltimore Hotel, Bal
timore, August "a to q, inclusive.
Peter Williamson, originator of
the Edinburgh penny post, is the
subject OF an article in the Phila-
telic Journal of Great Britain for
November. He was printer and
publisher who, in 1776, undertook to
deliver letters throughout the Scot
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