Evening star., 1939-12-03
AMONG THE STAMP COLLECTORS
News of the Platec World Its Interests and People
the Stamp Press-Lst of Local Meetings
Bv James Waldo Fa,vcetf.

inches, and &c, some three colors;
and No. 13 airmail, 334 by ga
inches, &c. The lot price 90 entires)
is 79c, but if ordered sent by mail,
12c extra for postage must be re-
mitted.
Specimens of the current duck
hunters license or migratory bird
hunting stamp, 81, also now are
available at agency windows.
The Heroes of Peace" stamps
will be manufactured in panes of
70. II follows that they will be
somewhat smaller than the Swedish
Finnish Tercentenary commemora-
tives of last year.
John w. Alexander's portrait of
Walt Whitman has been suggested
for reproduction on the stamp to
pay homage to the Good Gray Poet
of Democracy. The John Singer
Sargent portrait of James Whit
comb Riley, now in the John w.
Heron Galley in Indianapolis, also
has been brought to the attention
Of Post Office Department officials.
Postmaster Albert Goldman of
New York has been persuaded to
endorse the installation of automatic
mailing machines 'in centrally To-
Gated skyscrapers and remote gen.
eral stores" throughout the country.
Since these machines do not use
stamps, he may be risking the
good will of the philatelic public.
Catalogues issued bv Stanley
Gibbons, Ltd, London. during the
first World War banned mention
OF the postal issues of Germany,
Austria, Bulgaria and Turkey. The
firm now has announced that it will
take "a more liberal attitude" to-
ward 'enemy stamps" An official
says: This time both the atmos-
phere and our actions are going to
be different, and though for obvious
reasons we cannot sell the issues
OF Germany, we see no reason why
we should not give our readers in
formation about such issues. The
facts will then be on record, and
those who do not want the informa-
tion now will be glad to have it at
the end of the war"
The National Stamp News, edited
and published by Charles A. Ken
ny, has absorbed Marconi's Month
ly Stamp News, published in Brook
lyn, N. Y, during seven years past.
China has brought out two new
stamps of the familiar DR.. Sun Yat-
sen design. The values are &c and
$40.
D. r. Heath, 651 Darlington road,
Crosse Pointe Park. Mich, has pub
lished an interesting little book en-
titled Michigan in Philately" in
which he pays tribute to Brig. Gen.
Charles A. Coolidge, Howard c.
Beck, Charles Lathrop Pack, A. w.
Filstrup, Harry L. Lindquist, DR..
Warren L. Babcock, Karl Koslow-
ski. Charles L. Brisley and other
Michigan stamp collectors of the
past and present.
The 1910 Atex National Philatelic
Exhibition, sponsored by the Allan
tic City Stamp Club, Chapter los,
American Philatelic Society; the
National Federation of Stamp Clubs,
the New Jersey Philatelic Fedora
ton and the Association of South
Jersey Stamp Clubs, will be held
at the Cotton Manor Hotel, Atlantic
City, Friday to Sunday, April 10 to
81. Bella Scholtz, sr., will be chair
man, and Jack Brenner, secretary.
'Mr. x" whose stamps recently
were sold at auction by Philip H.
Ward, jr., now is disclosed as George
F. Tyler. a Philadelphia banker.
Muriel NiSSen, writing for the Bell
Syndicate, says: Special stamp is
sues for charity are regular postage
features in most stamp-issuing
countries. The United States is
one of the few nations that never
has released set of this type. APP
propriately enough, Christmastide
Is the season usually selected for
the launching of charity stamps,
and each year sees quite variety
appearing on foreign mail. Semi
postal issues, of course, are released
for number of purposes, from aid
ing victims of a major disaster to
erecting a monument. These Gus
tomarily are stamps produced as an
emergency arises and, of course, are
not premeditated. Ordinary charity
stamps differ in that they are an
hual affairs issued for the same spe-
ciflc purposes year after year. Their
objective is to raise money for child
welfare or to combat tuberculosis.
THE Netherlands, Belgium, Lux
embourg, Finland and France are
among the regular contributors to
the ranks of charity labels. Several
countries already have released their
1939-1940 offerings; others have an
nounced their intentions.
1llSCllDtu VOOI IltG hlIlu, sig
nifying for the children consists
this year of five values, ali of the
same design-the little naked child
with a horn of plenty The stamps
went on sale on Friday and will
be withdrawn January S, though
they will continue to be valid for
postage until December 81, 1914
Values and colors are: 11ac plus l l2c
gray; 212c plus 21ac, green; &c plus
Sc, brownish-red; SC plus &c, green
and 121ac plus &c, blue. Sierk
Schroeder is the artist.
'Luxembourg's charity stamps al
ways may be identified by the Latin
inscription, 'caritas,' meaning char
ity.' Several previous sets have por.
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