Evening star., 1939-01-29

uOhC Oy q Vtecy D"So' NJ WV
is THE One Penny and Two Pence
Stamps and Mulready Covers of
1840."
The committee for the Spead exhi-
bition at the Hotel Philadelphian,
Philadelphia, September q to
October /, includes: Jacob Bressler,
chairman; Gustave A. Won Gross,
director; Moriz Bernstein, treasurer:
Thomas F. Harrison, Ralph Casner,
S. w. Haney, Irving D. Wolf,
Charles H. Heine and Raymond r.
Geiger.
An attractive poster label has
been issued for the fourth annual
stamp exhibition of the Association
of South Jersey Stamp Clubs, to
be held at the Walt Whitman Hotel,
Camden, N. j., February "a to 26,
inclusive. Copies may be had at 10
cents each from Elmer c. Pratt,
Publicity Committee, box 149, Cam
den. Inclose addressed stamped
envelope.
Part / of the Henry w. Roth
British Empire collection are to be
sold by Eugene Klein, 200 South
Thirteenth street, Philadelphia,
February 20 and 81. Catalogues,
beautifully illustrated, may be had
on application to the sellers off1ce.
Leo August, Newark, N. j., has
published a new edition OF his
United States specialized catalogue
of flrst-day covers.
The National Wildlife Federation
poster labels will be ready for dis
tribution on February 10. Eighty
designs, showing animals, fish, birds,
trees and flowers in full color are
included in the series. The price
is 81, proceeds designated for con-
servation work. Local headquarters
are in the Investment Building.
1t is again reported that the COM
memorative stamps issued by Soviet
Russia cannot be purchased by resi-
dents of that country. Instead, they
are sold only against foreign ex-
change.
Monaco has brought out the prom
ised Pierre and Marie Curie stamps
for the 30th anniversary OF the dis
covery of radium and to raise funds
for the campaign against cancer.
The values are Csc plus 25c, green,
and l.75fr plus SOC, blue.
If the British West Indies are
"confederated," as proposed to the
West Indies Royal Commission, it
is possible that dominion stamps
will replace colonial issues.
Ogden D. Wilkinson, banker and
real estate broker, who died in Phil
adelphia recently, was hermit
stamp collector. His albums and
their contents have been appraised
at s15,25o.
The State Medical Society Of Wis
consin advises. Every one should
have some hobby"
Australia may have new airmall
series to mark the 25th anniversary
of the first mail flown from Mel
bourne to Sydney.
A postal museum has been opened
at New Delhi, India.
DR.. Walter Dill Scott, president
of Northwestern University, believes
that "a mans hobby should be so
absorbing that when he Is engaged
with 1t business is banished from
his mind"
An album for religious stamps re-
Gently has been published in France.
It provides spaces for 1900 different
issues.
Philip Gosse, in a recently pub
lished book, tells how the budget OF
the island Of st. Helena, Napoleon's
prison, has been balanced through
the sale of stamps to collectors.
DR.. S. j. Macrymichalos of Ath-
ems, chairman of the Hellenic Philo-
telic Society and stamp adviser to
the Greek government, wants the
spelling of "philatelic" corrected to
"philotelic," the change, OF course,
to include distinction in pronun-
citation.
Venezuela has released nine air
post stamps to commemorate the
Battle of Carabobo, June "a, 1921.
Nicaragua, with fine disregard for
the pocketbooks of collectors, an
nounces five new sets of stamps for
release in the immediate future.
"The little oblong postage stamp
is a symbol of transitory power