Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-22
AMONG THE STAMP COLLECTORS
News of the Phatec World Its Interests and PeopeRevew Of
The Stamp Press-List of Local Meetings
Bv James Waldo Faucet

Catalogue Of Air Post Stamps ap-
peared on Wednesday. Scott Pub
locations, Inc, are the publishers,
and the new volume conforms in
style with the other philatelic en-
cyclopedias of the same firm. It is
explained that "only such stamps as
were issued for legitimate postal
purposes and which were on sale
for reasonable length of time
through regular channels, without
any undue premium or restriction,
are admitted Minor varieties
and errors are listed only when the
publishers have been able to ascer-
tain that such variations actually
occurred during the regular process
Of manufacture and were not pro-
duced through favor, connivance or
other irregularity. Stamps that are
known to have been produced and
marketed for the sole purpose of
obtaining revenue from stamp COL
lectors or about which there may
be some question as to their regu-
larity are not listed as regular
issues but are mentioned in notes
explaining their staaus. For ex-
ample, recognition is not given to
the so-called amelia Earhart" air.
mail stamp of Mexico which ap-
peared in 1885 nor to the so-called
New York Exposition issue of the
various Portuguese colonies which
appeared in 1885,"
Hugh M. Clark is the editor, as
sisted by the Catalogue Listing
Committee of the American Air Mail
Society, including Paul F. Berdanier,
jr.; William r. G. Alley, George w.
Anglers, Alton j. Blank, Walter j.
Conrath, L. B. Gatchell, j. j. Kle-
mann, jr., and Charles p. Porter.
Others assisting in the preparation
Of the text were Emil Bruechig, L.
w. Charlat, r. w. Kessler, Harry
M. Konwiser, Robert Lyon and
Nicolas Sanabria.
Contents of the catalogue run to
228 pages, fully illustrated.
The Pitcairn series may take their
place among the famous error
stamps in which the mistakes of
governments, designers, engravers,
postal officials and sometimes even
skilled philatelists are preserved for
posterity to gaze upon with mingled
awe and respect. Each of the eight
new bicolored adhesives bears the
label Pitcairn Islands," signifying
at least two different dots upon the
surface of an illimitable ocean. But
in point of solemn fact there is
only a single tiny fragment of land
that properly can be designated
Pitcairn. The Id, claret and mauve,
shows a picture of it; the Sd, dark
blue and green, map representing
it's relation to other isles of the
Southern Seas, Samoa; Tahiti, Tonga
and Easter. According to the
Britannica, the area of the island
is 2 square mileS-the remains of
a volcanic mountain which rises
abruptly with steep and rugged
basaltic cliffs" Pitcairn was the
name of the midshipman who first
observed the highest point, 1000
feet above the water. He was a
member Of the Carteret expedition
and the date of the discovery was
1767. The mutineers from the
Bounty arrived in 1790, and their
descendants are the population Of
the place today.
Greece, 1t is understood, will
bring out commemorative to pub
licize the victory over the Italians
at Koritza.
Deputy Third Assistant Postmas-
ter General Roy M. North favors the
distribution of an official account
of the historical background of each
new stamp issued for postal use.
The eagle and swastika stamps
for the general government of.Po-
land have been reissued in smaller
formal.
Salvador has released five propa-
ganda stamps to advertise "the best
COllcc III Tile WOTlQ.
To mark the beginning of the ad-
miniStration of President Camacho,
the postal authorities of Mexico
brought out set of six modernistic
stamps of identic design-a SYM
bolc helmsman at the wheel Of the
ship of state. Values and colors are
&c. orange and black; Sc, light blue
and brown; 10c, dull green and
brown; zoe, slate and red orange;
40c, brown and dark green, and Up,
blue violet and red.
Mrs. M. johnson, 1926 Southwest
Twenty third street, South Omaha,
Nebr., is distributing poster labels
showing portraits of Eli Whitney
and Cyrus H. Mccormick. Dealers
who desire copies should send self
addressed, stamped envelopes with
their requests.
A series of charity stamps are in
dicated from the Vichy government