Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-11-12
AMONG THE STAMP COLLECTORS
News of the Phaec World Its Interests and Peope-Revew of
the Stamp Press-Lst of Local Meetings
By James Waldo Fa,vceft.

By James Waldo Faucet.
Washington philatelic circles have
been saddened by the death of Mrs.
Julia Muriel Landlord, %, wife of
Chester L. Landlord, night super
visor of the Home Owners Loan
Corp. and president of the Franklin
D. Roosevelt Stamp Club of Doug
las, Ga. III since the birth of a
daughter, Barbara Corrine, October
II, she Succumbed at Carried Hos
pital on Sunday last.
Mrs. Landlord had been employed
In the Postage Stamp Division of
the Bureau of Engraving and Print
ing and, in company with her hus-
band, was frequent visitor at To-
cal philatelic meetings. She came
to Washington from Mulberry, Fla,
where her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Clifford Dunford, reside. Other
surviving relatives are four sisters,
Miss Margaret Dunford, Washing
ton; Mrs. Park johnson and Mrs.
Albert McPhee. Bradley junction,
Fla, and Mrs. E. F. Caldwell Nor
folk, Va.
Funeral services were held at
Chambers Funeral Home, 400
Chaplin street NV, Tuesday and
at Canoochee Church, Summit, Ca,
Thursday.
A committee ofq members of the
Washington Philatelic Society head
ed by Mrs Grace L. MacKnight has
been appointed to arrange for an
appropriate memodial for Mrs.
Landlord, and an announcement
concerning 1t will be made shortly.
Philatelic Agency sales for o.
tober totaled $47,51127.
First-day cover and stamp figures
for the new four-States commence
rative issued at Bismarck, N. OAK,
and Pierre, S. Oak, on November 2,
have been reported as follows: Bis
marck, 142 LOG covers, 266, $50 stamps;
Pierre, 139,905 covers, 273,87l stamps.
Collectors are beginning to protest
against the decision to isseu the
Heroes Of Peace" stamps in de-
nominations of l, 2, 3, 5 and 10
cents. 1t is argued that better
arrangement would be that for
which a precedent was set in the
recent Army and Navy series-1, 2, 3,
4, and cents. The 10-cent value
is not only expensive, but postal
ways and means of using it are rela-
lively few. If it is the Governments
intention really to honor Mark
Twain. Ethelbert Nevin, Booker T.
washington, Alexander Graham
Bell. James Whitcomb Riley and
Jane Adams, it ought not to place
their portraits beyond the economic
reach of the rank and file of post
office patrons.
Philatelists in Pittsburgh are
complaining that the Stephen COL
Inns Foster stamp has been assigned
elsewhere for flrst-day sale. The
great composer of folk songs was
born in Pittsburgh and. though it is
true that he wrote my Old Ken
lucky Home" it also is fact that he
had little actual acquaintance with
the Blue Grass State.
Postmaster General James A.
Farley on Thursday announced that
q temporary postal station will be
set up at convention headquarters
OF the Fifth American Philatelic
Congress, Hotel Traymore, Atlantic
City, N. j., November "a to Is. A
special cancellation die will be pro-
vided for use in postmarking phila-
telic mail dispatched through that
station on the dates indicated.
Stamp collectors desiring this can
collation. may send self-addressed,
stamped envelopes under cover adj
dressed: POSTMASTER, Fifth Amer
lean Philatelic Congress, Atlantic
City, N. j." The envelopes will be
postmarked with the opening date
of the station if received in time,
but requests should not be made
for later dates.
A new edition of the Post Office
Departments Description of United
States Postage Stamps will be
placed on sale at the Government
Printing Office and the Philatelic
Agency beginning tomorrow morn
Ing. Every stamp issued by the
United States from July /, 1847, to
June 80. 1899, is described and il
lustrated. The book sells for Is
cents a copy, paper bound, and IS
cents, cloth bound.
Postmaster William A. Strohm of
Annapolis, Nd, is sponsoring a spe-
cial cachet for letters mailed in his
city on November TO- Collectors may
send as many stamped covers as
they desire. The design of the
marking to be applied reproduces
the Colonial architecture of the re-
Gently remodeled and enlarged post
office building in the Free State
capital.
Elmer C. Pratt, stamp editor of the
Camden Courier Post, says: Keep
your eyes open If you are offered
lots of stamps smuggled out of Ger
many, Austria or Poland. Many of
these lots are forgeries, fakes or re-
paired stamps"
Charles w. Inglee is editing a
stamp column for the Leatherneck,
monthly magazine of the Marine
Corps.
A semi-postal series Of Ger
many has been announced as
designed to reflect the activity Of
the postal system of the Reich.
Values and subjects are: 3 plus 2
pig, Strength Through Joy rally in
For Children to ~
Give Stamps for Christn,as
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COS 18th St. NV. MA. 1886