Evening star., 1939-09-03
AMONG THE STAMP COLLECTORS
News of the Phatec World Its Interests and PeopeRevew
the Stamp Press-List of Local Meetings

Engine-Drivers, is shown "leaning
familiarly from an engine cab" in
the design of new stamp issued to
commemorate the 50th anniversary
! of the railroad systemlof Bulgaria.
Rumania has issued two stamps
for the New York Worlds Fair. They
show the Rumanian pavilion at the
"Expozitia Internationala," and the
values are: 6-lei, reddish brown, and
12-lei, light blue.
The children of Kaiser Wilhelm,
Emperor of Germany from 1888
until the end of the World War in
1918, were stamp collectors in the
COS.
There is a variety of the one-cent
Columbian Exposition stamp of 1893
in which the word Columbus is
spelled "Columrus.
The 3-cent Hawaii stamp of 1887
and the Scent Stuart portrait
stamp of George Washington, 1882,
have been removed from the Phil
ateLc Agency sales list.
Norway, as previously announced,
will have commemorative set of
three stamps for the International
Polar Exhibition. The values and
subjects are: 15-ore, explorer and
boat on ice field: 2O-ore, explorer
| with dogs and sled; 3O-ore, polar
bear and airplane.
Great Britain has released a s.
shilling new reign" stamp showing
profit portrait of King George vi
with the royal coat-of -arms, lion
and unicorn.
Mexico, it is reported by Elmer c..
Pratt, stamp editor of the Camden
Courier-Post, has sold an accumu-
latlon OF old stamps, face value $780,
600 pesos. at auction Only one bid
der responded. and he received the
lot for 10000 pesos cash.
Mrs. Ethyl Thompson, an active
member of the Washington Phila-
telic Society, is in Florida on vaca-
ton. She sends greetings from
Miami Beach to stamp collecting
friends at home.
Ray Long of Shreveport, La, is
Junior philatelic visitor in Wash
ington. He has been making stamp
collecting tour of the West with his
parents.
John w. Dye, United States consul
at Nassau, the Bahamas, is the au-
thor of a monograph on United
States Foreign Service Fee Stamps"
published in the Washington Phila-
telic Society Bulletin for Septem-
ber.
Answers to the heroes of peace"
questions printed last Sunday are:
Irving, Foster and Nevin. Mann,
Remington. Eliot, Yankee, "The
Rosary" Sousa. Lowell, Whitman,
Booker Washington, Howe, Whistler,
MacDowell, Jane Addams, Saint
Gaudens, Morse, Cooper's, Burbank,
Foster. cello, Reed, Whittier. Mark
Twain, Bell, Frances Willards,
Louisa May Alcott, Emerson.
Gerard Ten Eyck Beeckman is
vacationing in New Hampshire, using
The opportunity to improve his collec-
ton of the 10th century stamps and
covers.
Miss Alice B. Cilley, Miss Irene M.
Pistorio, William M. Stuart and
Maurice S. Petty, all active in
Washington philatelic circles. are
attending the 10th annual conven-
ton of the American Air Mail So
ciety, Netherland Plaza Hotel, Gin
cinnati, this week end.
Stamp meetings for the week are
listed as follows:
This afternoon at 5:15-Washing-
ton Stamp Club of the Air, Station
VOL. Albert F. Kunze will present
stamp romance and comment on
current philatelic news.
Tuesday evening at 8-Collectors
Club of Washington, Thomson
School. Twelfth street NV. Pro-
gram, bourse, etc.
Wednesday evening at 8-Wash-
ington Philatelic Society, Jefferson
Room, Mayfower Hotel. Mr.. and
Mrs. Edward B. Martin will tell of
their voyage to the Canal Zone and
return. Special auction under the
management of Morton o. Cooper