Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-07-07


at auction in New York, June 10
to 81, inclusive, brought $38,35o.
According to the Associated Press,
"a post card came to the post Of
flee at Appomattox, Va, from New
York, addressed to General Robert
E. Lee and General U. S. Grant"
Postmaster Leroy Smith returned
the card to the metropolis with the
notation: They were here in 1865,
but haven't been seen since"
William K. Schrage designed the
Scent Idaho stamp. The engrav-
ers were James r. Lowe, vignette,
and John S. Edmondson, lettering.
Rare among covers rejecting the
second World War will be those of
the British Expeditionary Force in
France, 1910 They bear the can
collation. Field Post Office" with
number in violet ink.
The number of 11ad coronation
stamps of Great Britain sold has
been reported as 388,731 ,480.
SCOTS Specialized United States
Catalogue, it is said, will list the
Scent Pony Express stamp as be-
ing "henna brown" in color. The cor
rect designation is burnt sienna"
Some day." declares the Idaho
Statesman, there may be a place
in Boise where the hundreds Of
stamp collectors can 60 to find OUT
what to look for and what to avoid
in carrying out their hobby. Boise
High Schools Stamp Club. under
auspices of Prof Arthur H. Hays,
is leading the way.
Nearly every one collects some
thing. 1t may be dolls, Matchbox
covers, miniature carved elephants
or books. With small boys, it may
be marbles, frogs or birds eggs.
But, for the big majority of per-
sons, stamp collecting wins by q
wide margin. In fact, the hobby
has reached international impor-
lance, with philateic societies in
nearly all large cities.
Most Boiseans do not advertise
their stamp collecting habits, but
there are few persons who will not
tear out and save a foreign or in
teresting looking stamp.
Time and again youngsters and
grown-ups have visited The States
man office and rummaged through
the wastebaSket for discarded en-
velopes-and stamps.
THE hobby receives new encour-
agement in Boise and Idaho this
year with special stamp being
issued to commemorate Idahos so
years of statehood"
A comprehensive illustrated hand
book, Japanese Postage Stamps, .
has been published in the Tourist
Library Series. Orders at cost price,
35c per copy, may be placed with
P. D. Perkins, 1920 Mission street,
South Pasadena, Calf.
"One effect of the war on Ameri-
can philately," writes Kent B. Stiles
in the New York Times, has been
to direct the attention of collectors
in the United States toward the
stamps of the Americas, particularly
toward the postal paper of the Con-
federate States. A review of prices
paid for Confederate States stamps
at recent public auctions discloses
that the values of these historic
postal pieces, including covers, war
prisoners envelopes, patriotic en-
velopes and individual off-cover
stamps, are gradually rising.
Leading specialists in Confeders
ate States paper say that keen COM
petition during the past few months
has sent these stamps and covers
to new height in popularity. One
collector of Confederate States items
asserts that he has been forced to
pay, for desirable stamps and covers,
at least twice as much as he had
to pay five years ago. The war
abroad, he holds, has given Ameri-
cans new consciousness of their
history; and no class of American
stamps is more replete with history
than those of the Confederate
States. Hence the added demand
for them"
The philatelic exhibition truck
will be in Buffalo for the American
Philatelic Society Convention and
in Cleveland for the Society of Phil
atelic American annual meeting.
Current stamps Of France over
printed "F. M" are for soldiers
mail.
Hugh M. Clark, editor of SCOTS
Standard Catalogue, explains: "On
the question of pricing, there is
always a tremendous diversion OF
opinion. When you realize that
there are 100000 separate prices in
the catalogue, considering both used
and unused items, an editor car
hardly be expected to be over 81
per cent correct. If you further
realize that this would mean 10000
errors, you can see what a tremen-
dous task we have. We are conf
dent, however, that the number Of
errors can be materially cut down
and we welcome suggestions towarc
this end You must bear in mine
that when we revise the catalogue
there are just three things we car
do. We can raise prices, we car
lower prices, we can let them alone
When we raise prices, we invariably
get a howl from collectors, and i
we lower them, on the other hand
the dealers tell us we are trying Il
ruin the business. If we straddl'
the fence and let the prices entirel.
alone, we are accused by both side
of neglecting our job and not givinl
the stamps the consideration the.
deserve. Then when you realiz
that governments are turning Oh