Evening star., 1940-02-18

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States.
Terre Haute, Ind, and Des Moines
between January 80 and February 6.
Postmaster General James A. Far
ley has received an appeal from the
Cleveland Air Mail Society for a
10-cent airpost stamp to mark the
50th anniversary of the founding of
the Pan-American Union.
William H. Buerger, 81, oldest
member of the Garfield Perry
Stamp Club, Cleveland, died on
January %. He was railroad man
by profession and painter as well
as philatelist by avocation.
Eugene Klein. 212 South Thir-
teenth street, Philadelphia, has
brought out an illustrated catalogue
for an auction sale of early United
States stamps and covers March g..
Philatelic Research Laboratories,
Inc, 394 Park avenue. New York
City, is sponsoring philatelic essay
contest through Mekeel's Weekly
Stamp News, Beverly, Mass, and
Linn's Weekly Stamp News, Colum-
bus, Ohio. Prizes are $3.50, $100 and
$50, respectively. Articles submitted
must deal with United States stamps
issued prior to 1880 and must be
limited in length to 2,500 words.
G. w. johnson. editor of Cover
News 778 Madison Building, Coun-
Gil Bluffs, Iowa, has been named to
edit the second annual year book of
the American Stamp Association.
The visit of Count Ciano, Italian
foreign minister, to Malaga, July II,
was marked by the overprinting of
three Franco stamps Of Spain with
appropriate inscriptions. Values in
dicated are: 2ec, violet, surcharged
In silver and black; Csc, bright vio-
let, surcharged in black, and 40c,
gray-green, surcharged in gold, sill
yer and black.
A 1iew post office at Reading, Pa,
will be dedicated on Tuesday, and q
special cachet has been prepared by
Woodrow Maloney, 608 Washington
street, that city, for the occasion.
The airpost collection of Vicomte
de Dampierre, now in Indo-China.
will be sold by Gordon Harmer of
London at the Collectors Club New
York City, April 3 and 4.
Long delayed, the stamps of Mic
aragua authorized to commemorate
the visit of President Anastasio
Somoza to Washington have ap-
peared. They are large-size pic
torials and are stipulated for air
mail use. The 4, 16. Is, 80, 65 and 90
centavo values show the President
addressing the United States senate;
the 8, 20 and so centavo, the Capitol
of the United States. and the 80
and 60 centavo, the Tower of The
Sun at the Golden Gate Exposition,
San Francisco, and the Trylon sud
Perisphere at the Worlds Fair, New
York.
Switzerland has brought out
series of stamps in different coiors,
but of no face value, for the use Of
soldiers on active service.
Five-cent Walt Whitman stamps
will be flown from Camden, N. j..
to the poets birthplace, Huntington,
Long Island, N Y, Tuesday.
Ernest A. Kehr, stamp editor of
the New York Herald Tribune,
writes: $50 long as tie Post Once
Department continues to issue new
stamps, designating . place and
date for the first day of sale, COL
lectors Of flrst-day covers will con-
tinue to be interested in them, but
If subsequent issues are permitted
to be sold and Cancelled al any other
Office Tor the same office) on any
day prior to the official one set by
of1cials in Washington, the popu-,
larity of first-day covers will die as
abruptly and as completely as did
the fad OF preparing ana collecting
airport dedication cachets a few
years ago.
George B. Sloane, writing in
Stamps Magazine for February II,
says: "The Famous Americans, He
roes Of Peace, series, now making
its appearance throughout the
United States, no doubt will be
popular series with collectors, re-
gardless Of the comparatively high
cost of the set to the rank and file
Of philately. The stamps 30 far seen
are finely engraved, the portraits
remarkable for their unusual excel
lence. The new shape and size viii
help some, too, following the mo-
notono us, almost endless run of long
shaped designs always in . Scent
denomination. Since they are print
ed in odd sheets Of 10 stamps, they
won't Inger long in post onaces,
and more than the usual number
will be used for postage II I know
the clerks on the stamp windows as
well as I think I do. Just as soon
as clerk discovers they're sheets
Of 10 and not the customary hun
dreds, his immediate reaction win
be to shake them quick. The gen.
eral public will be getting some un-
familiar stamps through the wickets,
and let the ordinary patron just
try to buy the regular issues when
clerk has . supply Of stamps In
odd-numbered sheets"