Evening star., 1939-04-09
AMONG THE STAMP COLLECTORS
News Plateic World Interests and of the
Stamp Press-Ls of Local Meetings.
Bv James Wald0 Fazvcen.

By James Waldo FasCcen.
When the new pickup" airmail
service is inaugurated in Pennsyl-
vania and West Virginia separate
cachets will be available at each OF
the following towns: AM-1OO1, Phlla-
delphia, West Chester, Coatesvllle,
Lancaster, Columbia, York, Hanover,
Gettysburg, Chambersburg, Mount
Union Huntingdon, Altoona, Tyrone,
Clearfield, Natrona, Du Bois, Ridg-
way, Kane. Warren, Cory, Titus
vile. Oil City Franklin. Grove City,
Butler, New Kensington and Pitts
. burgh, Pa; AM-1002. Pittsburgh,
Irwin, Jeannette, Greensburg, La
trobe, Mount Pleasant, ConnellSvllle
and UniontoWn, Pa: MorgantoWn,
Fairmont, Clarksburg, West Union,
Grafton, St. Marys. Parkersburg,
Point Pleasant, Huntington, Bar
louisville, Milton. Philippi, Hurrl-
cane. Nitro, Dunbar. Charleston,
Spencer, Grantsville, Glenvllle and
Weston, w. Va.
Also: AM-1OO1, Wilmington, Del,
and AM-l0O2, Marietta, Pomeroy
and Gallipolis. Ohio.
Covers, addressed, stamped ana
ready to go, should be sent to the
postmasters of the towns listed, with
request for cachetS on the GATE u.
inauguration of service-"in the near
future
Postmaster General Farley did
not consult his lieltenants IN the
Post Office Department about the
baseball stamp. The first they knew
of the plan was what they reau
about it in the newspapers.
Plate numbers for the new electric
eye stamps are: &c, 2l999 ana -%oo@'
Sc, 223Ol and 22302.
First-d dav sales of the New York
Worlds Fair stamp, New YORK,
reached a record high of 1854 ,743
comics, face value S58e42.29 with
585. .565 covers Cancelled April l. Ihe
Philatelic Agency sale on the fol-
lowing day was: 394,9l6 stamps, SILL
647.49, with 1O599 covers.
Collectors who desire the PhllatellC
Agency to stock and sell stamped
envelopes of ell current varieties
are invited to write to Deputy Third
Assistant Postmaster General Roy
NJ. North expressing their wishes
He may be addressed in care OF the
Post Office Department, Pennsyl-
vania avenue between Twelfth and
Thirteenth streets NV.
Don Grieve. stamp editor of the
Cleveland Plain Dealer, announces
the discovery of a vertical pair i'm
perforate between, OF the 7-cent
black Mckinley rotary press stamps
of 1922.
Brazil. the Dominican Republic,
Ecuador, Fire Irlsh Free State,
France, Haiti, Iceland, Irak, Ru-
mania, Russia, Salvador, Sweden,
Turkey and Venezuela have agreed
to issue stamps to advertise the
New York Worlds Fair. If their
designs are no more distinguished
than that of the label produced for
the same purpose by the United
States. the standards OF art Will
not be affected constructlvely.
Meanwhile, there is continued dis
cussion of the need for the revival
OF the Society for the Suppression
of Speculative Stamps to protect
collectors from exploitation.
Philip H. Ward, jr, who Will be
the principal speaker at the third
of century banquet of the Wash
ington Philatehc Society, Hotel
Carlton. "Wednesday evening, re-
Gently was elected a member of the
Board of Managers of the Franklin
Institute, Philadelphia.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Klein have
sailed for British Guiana, They will
return to Philadelphia in time for
the annual banquet of the Women's
Stamp Club Nav Is.
A boy with a stamp album and
other philatelic equipment is por-
trayed on the cover of Scholastic:
The American High School Weekly
for March 4. Copies, suitable for
framing, may be obtained at 10
cents each from the editor. Chamber
of Commerce Building, Pittsburgh.
The Railway Express Agency. Inc.
has released an attractive poster
label to mark the centenary of its
service. Copies may be had at the
superintendent Office, Second and
1 streets NE; at the general man
ayers office, Transportation Build
ing, or at any local agency office.
1t is reported that the 1888 Haiti
Boyd-Lyon airmail stamps. sur
charged, have been counterfeited in
Paris. Collectors are warned to be
careful in buying.
For the centenary of the postage
stamp next year, Great Britain will
bring out four stamps. The denom-
nations stipulated are I'D, Id, 112d
and 212d.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward B. Martin
having travelled 10,650 miles in theil
philatelic motor tour, were at Al
buqueraue, N. Mex. on Monday last
Nationalist authorities have or,
dered the destruction of all Spanish
loyalist stamps, wherever found.
DennWood N. Kelly of Catonsville
Md, was the guest speaker at tht
Washington Philatelic Society. Hote
Carlton, Wednesday evening. Hi
subject was Local Posts and hi
illustrated his lecture from pages O.
dozen different albums of spe.
cialized steamship, overland, tow1
and carrier stamps. Among thu
novelties described were the posta