Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-11-12

Deutschland Hall; 1 plus 3 pig,
Post and Telegraph Demonstration
Week, Vienna; plus 3 pig, Reich
industrial rally; 6 plus 4 pig, youth
camp; 8 plus 4 pig, Joy in Work
campaign; 10 plus S pig, design
not reported; II plus 6 pig, plough
man; Is plus 10 pig, postal sta
ton; is Plus 10 pig. post chute; 20
plus 10 pig, glider post "a plus 10
pig, mail coach, and "a plus Is pig,
Sanatorium.
Weekly Philatelic Gossip reports:
Portugal has just issued a set of
eight stamps in honor of the New
York Worlds Fair, and the queer
thing is that. although the stamps
have a face value Of about 81. the
asking price is said to be $40 per
Set"
Hans Zaugg is the artist respon-
sible for the 1889 Pro Juventute
stamps of Switzerland. The list
has been announced as follows: S
plus rp.. portrait of Gen. Hans
Herzog, engraved by Karl Bickel:
10 plus S rp., girl from Freiburg; 20
plus rp., girl from Obwald, and
80 plus 10 rp, girl from Basic.
The Poster Stamp Exchange has
issued an attractive poster label in
blue and gold, copies Of which viii!
be sent to all applicants forwarding
self addressed, stamped envelopes.
Address p. S. E. x, Publicity Man.
ager, Box 1876, Council Bluffs, Iowa.
A 24-cent United States airmail
stamp with inverted center. sold at
the auction of the Stephen Brown
collection, Collectors Club. New
York City, November 8, brought
$4,1OO-"a record high price"
Richard Cleveland Hoyt, "a, a
nonresident member of the Wash
ington Philatelic Society. died in
Omaha on October Is. He was a
nephew of President Grover Cleve-
land and served for AZ years as a
clerk of the Federal Court in Ne
braska. Beginning to collect stamps
at II. he maintained his enthusiasm
for the hobby throughout the re-
main6er of his life and died pos
sessed of one of the most complete
collections of United States issues in
existence.
Frederic Remington, famous
painter and critic. for whom q
stamp is to be issued in the Heroes
of Peace" series, was not proud OF
his birthplace. He once declared:
II positively refuse to be born in
Lowell, Mass" But Postmaster
General Farley has stipulated that
his stamp will be placed on first-day
sale there Just the same.
]. w. Stowell, philatelic printer
and publisher, is distributing photo
graphs of the new building at
Fredericksburg, Md, in which his
press now is housed. The structure
a modern plant In every sense OF
the word, is a monument of a kind
to. the development of stamp liter
ature in recent years.
The Bureau of Engraving and
Printing has developed a new sepis
ink which is to be used in the man.
ufacture of 10-cent stamps in thu
Heroes of Peace" series.
At a meeting held at the Enocf
Pratt Library, Baltimore, Friday
evening, representatives of approx.
mately all the philateGc societies
in Maryland voted to form a Statt
federation affiliated with the Ma.
tional Federation OF Stamp Clubs
Harry l.. Lindquist was the prin.
cipal speaker, with Michael Miller
acting as chairman.
DR.. Prichard Won David, long al
active member of the American
Philatelic Society, is physician ant
an archaelogist as well as an au
thority on stamps, autographs, oil
books, rare prints and antiquities o
every other Justification. Recently
he read the inscriptions OF the so
called Newspaper Rocks" At Hol
brook, Ariz., which commonly ar
supposed to be indecipherable.
Plans for the nth American Phil
atelic Congress, to be held at tn
Hotel Traymore, Atlantic City, Fri
day to Sunday. November "a to 2t
are nearing completion. Eugen
Klein, president, has announced tina
the following papers are ready
"Philatelic Exhibition Reform" b
Franklin r. Bruins, IT,, stamp edito
of the New York Sun; MY HON
Town." Wendover Neefus, Hudsor
y; railroad Cancellations on tn
Civil War Revenue Stamps" D.
Hugh p. Shellabear, Reading, Pa
some Early Engravers," Louis .
Heizmann: IAN illustrated Histor
of Brazil as Told in Postage Stamps,
, Arthur ]. Cubbage, and Barry Pat
ent Cancellations" Herbert Greene
valid.
There will be at least two new fea
lures added to this years meetinl
A philatelic round table discussion
to be broadcast from Station WPC
is scheduled for 3:45 pm. Frida!
November a., and Horace w. b,
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