Evening star., 1939-01-15
AMONG THE STAMP COLLECTORS
News the Phaec World Its Interests and PeopleRevew of
the Stamp Press-Lst of Local Meetings.
BvJanes Waldo Fazvceff.

Miss Dorothy r. Fisk having de-
clined to serve, John K. Hedler has
been appointed secretary of the
Washington Philatelic Society in
succession to J. Michael Brown, who
resigned several weeks ago.
Whether or not there will be a
Government philatelic building at
the New York Worlds Fair is a
question which must be decided
within the next month. Postal Off
cials are known to desire that suit
able structure should be provided,
but the plan has been halted by lack
of cooperation on the part of the
exposition sponsors.
Imperial AirWays will inaugurate
regular week airpost service from
Southampton, England to New York
City before June"
The Japanese government. need
ling scrap iron for the undeclared
war in China, is replacing metal
letter boxes with pillars made of
concrete.
Official specifications for the Canal
Zone commemorative to be released
August Is have been announced
as follows: Regular post, 1c, yell
low green, and &c. carmine rose,
'before" and after" views of Bal
boa; Sc, dark violet, and Sc dark
blue, Gaillard Cut; &c, red, and 7c,
black, Bas Obispo; &c, sage green,
Z and 10c, blue, Gatun Locks; lie,
deep green, and 12c, magenta, Canal
Channel; lac, deep violet, and 15c,
olive brown, Gamboa; 18c, lake, and
zoe, brown, Pedro Miguel Locks:
Csc, red orange, and soc, violet
brown, Gatun Spillway; airpost, Sc,
dark-gray black, Douglas plane over
Sosa Hill; 10c, deep violet, Douglas
and Clipper planes over relief model
of Central America; 15c, brown,
Fort Amador; Csc, ultramarine, Pan
American Airways Clipper, Manza-
milo Island; 30c, carmine rose, P.
"A. A. Clipper over Gaillard Cut and
naval vessels; 81, green, P. A. A.
Clipper and palm trees. Face values
for the two sets are $2O7 and S1.85,
respectively.
The sponsors OF the Winter Ma
tional Philatelic Exhibition. ST.
Petersburg, Fla, February q to
March 4, have brought out an in
teresting promotion label to adver-
A tise "the winter headquarters of
philately."
Sidney F. Barrett of New York
reports discovery of a top strip of
r twenty 3-cent Jefferson stamps,
double paper variety.
Charles J. Demuth and Lester L.
Hoffman of Brooklyn, N. Y, were
the finders of the Scent red bird
airmail stamps imperforated hori-
zontally now being sold in the met
ropolitan market. They obtained
DO panes from postal clerk on
May Is last. used three panes and
finally decided to dispose of the
remainder.
Scott Publications. Inc, announce
that 1889 supplementary pages for
the 1888 loose-leaf album now are
ready to be distributed.
Otto Korte reports that 50 diff
ferent Czecho-Slovakian stamps
were officially surcharged "Wir sind
frei' for "a post Offices at the time
the Sudeten territory was restored"
to Germany. These PROFESSIONALS,
he says, already are selling at prices
ranging from 80 cents to 5000 each
The Argentine Republic will bring
out a commemorative for the last
voyage of the training ship "Presi-
dente Sarmiento": also special
block of four stamps for the Elev-
enth Universal Postal Union Con-
gress at Buenos Aires in April.
A flood of World Fair stamps soon
will descend upon collectors from
the Dominican Republic, Ecuador,
etc. There is reason to suppose
that they were requested" of
course without consultation with the
p1ilatelic public.
Reports of revolution in a Cen
tral American republic have been
impossible to confirm. but the event
may be commemorated in stamps
to be issued later. Strict censorship
meanwhile isolates the unnamed
country from the world.
Beginning ON January l Mexico
made obligatory scent mosquito
stamp to be affixed on all domestic
mail to raise funds for a campaign
against malaria.
The names of designers and en-
gravers Of Canadian stamps never
are publicly announced. It is
policy on the part of the manufac-
turers to withhold such informa-
" ton.
William c. Michaels of Kansas
City, studying the 3-cent stamp of
1851, finds that the following colors
were used in printing copies in the
years indicated: Orange brown.
1851; brownish carmine, 1852; dull
red, 1858: rose red, 1854; dull orange
red. 1855; rose carmine, 1856, and
claret, 1857.
H. M. Brehm calls attention to the
fact that there are post Offices named
for Faith, Hope and Charity in
South Dakota, Indiana and Missouri,
respectively.
G. G. Alton Means, stamp editor,
New Haven Evening Register, writes:
IL Is unfortunate that the attitude
expressed by the Postmaster Gen
eral has not extended itself to all
} OF the postmasters and all of the
clerks in the service of the Post
ONCE Department. There are still
a few individuals who consider the
STAMPS.