Evening star., 1939-02-19
AMONG THE STAMP COLLECTORS
News OF the Phaec World Its Interests the
Stamp Press-Lis of Local Meetings.
Bv James Waldo Fa,cceff.

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today from 8 am. until noon to &C.
commodate cover collectors and 9TH
ers desiring copies of the new Scent
Golden Gate International Expos
ition stamp, released at San Fran
cisco yesterday.
The New York Worlds Fair stamp
may be issued at q date well in ad-
vance Of that originally announced.
Forty-four members and friends
OF the Woodbridge Stamp Club met
at the Public Library. 2206 Rhode
Island avenue NE, Monday eve
ming, to hear Morton o. Cooper,
president of the Washington Phila-
telic Society and chairman of the
Committee of Judges. announce
awards for stamps and covers ex-
hibited in the clubs first annual
exhibition.
Winners were: Senior class, Miss
Annabel Crandall, Yves. M. Tryon
and Joseph H. Hopping, with honor
able mention for Joseph j. Werres;
Junior class, Raymond Rossiter
David Thompson. Billy Boyle; hon
orable mention to John Kezer.
The entire show, including 20
frames, was moved to the Taft
Junior High School for the re-
mainder of the week.
Muriel Nissen. writes: "The
stamps of North Borneo have al
ways been a delight to the small
boy collector. who usually has q
penchant for animal stamps. North
Borneo has given us such exciting
items as the leopard cat, tapir,
banteng and honey bear, not to
mention the fierce orangutan. A
new 12-value series from this Brit
ish protectorate will add consider
able to Borneos reputation for in
teresting postal labels. The details
of the set are as follows: One cent,
brown and green, buffalo cart; two
cent, greenish blue and red violet,
cockatoo; 3 cent. green and gray
lilac, Murut native; cent, lilac
and bronze green, proboscis mon
key; 6 cent, red violet and deep
blue, mounted sea gypsies; 8 cent
red, map of Borneo and surround
ing territory; 10 cent, olive green
and purple, orangutan; IL cent,
ultra marine and green, native with
blowgun; Is cent, brown and green,
Dyak tribesmen; 20 cent, slate black
and deep purple. river scene; 25
cent, dark brown and emerald green,
chocolate. Mount Kinabalu; ST car
mine, and 50, violet and olive, shield
of the British North Borneo Co.
There are also five postage dues,
all of the same design-a white
arm and black arm holding flag
showing the British ion-in the
denominations. 2 cent, brown: 4
cent, scarlet; 6 cent, violet; 8 cent,
green, and 10 cent, blue"
New members of the Collectors
Club of Washington are: Louis S.
Gross, Carl o. Gercke, Ralph E. De
Ment, Alexander Halperson, Jack G.
Mearns, James F. Medbury, Boyd S.
Brooks, Bessie L. Dudley, Albert C.
johnson, William o. Siebold, John L.
Steele, jr., Lee F. Reid, John A. Nc
Kay, Henry E. Beck, Samuel P.
Ford, John A. Gillespie, Angus AL
exander, Robert w. Staff, Harold A.
Kemp, Burton E. Davis, James L.
Brewrink and Col Charles S. Ham
ilton.
A private letter from Berlin con-
firms the impression that neither
used nor unused stamps may be ex-
ported from Germany without spe-
cial permission. The former are
regarded as objects of value; the
latter as foreign exchange"
Nicaragua uses a view of Diario
Park, a public recreation ground, as
the central motif of new series
of stamps, including: 11ac, olive
green; &c, rose-red; Sc, light blue;
&c. red brown; TIC, dark green; 1Oc,
black; 15c, orange; Csc, violet; soc.
bright green, and &c, yellow.
From Edward B. Martin, now in
San Francisco for the opening of the
international Exposition, comes
warning to beware of faxed Lincoln
stamps OF 1909 on blue" paper.
Counterfeits are in circulation, made
to order and usually offered for sale
in blocks of four.
The denominations of the win
ter relief series of Poland are an
nounced as: Five plus S gr., orange;
Is plus 10 gr., violet, and 55 plus
Is gr., blue.
The Collectors Club of New York
has unanimously gone on record as
opposed to the reissue of "any
errors of stamps which reach the
public through legitimate channels"
The French government may is
sue a commemorative for the CEN
tenary of photography. It also is
suggested that there may be phila-
telic notice of the 150th anniversary
OF the revolution.
A philatelic exhibition is reported
to have given the Philippine Com
monwealth an excuse for surcharg-
ing two airmail stamps. Values re-
ported are: &c on 26c and Up on 1OP
The Dominican Republic an
nounces an airpost stamp to adver-
tise the New York Worlds Fair, in
STAMPS,
"PLATYPUS"
See Australia Cd. stamp. New set from
fniand. France sends Student Blind, and
Harry B. Mason, 918 F NV.