Evening star., 1940-09-08
AMONG THE STAMP COLLECTORS
News of the Phatelc World Its Interests and PeopRevew of
The Stamp Press-List of Local Meetings
By James Waldo Fa,pcen.

By James Waldo Fayceh.
The Inventors series of the
Heroes OF Peace stamps are being
printed with heavier grades of ink
DR.. Leo Stanton Rowe, director
general OF the Pan-American Union
since 1920, is portrayed on new
25-cordoba airmail stamp recently
issued by Nicaragua to mark the
50th anniversary of the establish
ment of the Union.
Linns Weekly Stamp News says:
"Belgium's second semi-postal series
of 1914, depicting the Merode monu-
ment, was in use only seven days at
Antwerp, when the dies and plates
were destroyed incidental for the
German capture of the city. The
small quantity of stamps escaping
were issued at other points remain
ing in Belgian hands as we'll as at
least two French post Offices"
Pictures printed in Life Magazine
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Rotterdam was demolished in the
aerial bombardment of that helpless
city May H. What happened to its
stocks of stamps probably is some
thing of a mystery, but the in
evitable question one day should
be answered by those philatelists
who have the facts.
Collectors of meter slogans are
invited to communicate with Ed
| mund S. Ward. secretary treasurer,
| the Meter Slogan Association, 5
Church street, Bronxville, N. Y.
The Scent Augustus Saint
Gaudens stamp will be released in
New York and the scent Daniel
Chester French stamp at Stock
bridge, Mass, September 16.
Paul Hedrick, stamp editor of the
| Tulsa World still hopes for phil
atelic honors for Will Rogers. the
cowboy philosopher who was killed
with Wylie Post in the crash of
their plane in Alaska in 1885. An
unacknowledged reason for the
denial of the beloved Oklahoman' s
claims allegedly is that he presumed
to criticise the pump printing"
policies of the New Deal in a radio
broadcast. Administration spokes-
men are supposed to have told one
petitioner that President Roose-
velt would not authorize the pro-
posed commemorative because it
would look like politics either way"
The post Office at Disco, Wis,
will be discontinued on September
IA.
An appeal for a bi-colored stamp
| showing the Star Spangled Banner
| is certain to be ejected-because
with its present out-of-date equip
ment the Bureau Of Engraving and
Printing cannot guarantee perfect
registration. The national emblem
| poorly printed would be sacrilege
| of a sort that could not be explained
| to the satisfaction of critics who
do not know the difficulties of the
wet process still employed in the
production of United States postal
| adhesives. Perhaps when at long
last dry process presses and methods
are adopted the American Flag may
be pictured on a stamp of which the
whole country may be proud.
Ramsey S. Black. third assistant
| postmaster general, again has
warned postal clerks to obey re-
| gulations forbidding blurred can
cellations "Daubers or other de-
vices that obliterate the design of
the postage stamp" he says. should
never be used on philatelic mail" "
To stamp collectors all mail is phila-
telic and the personnel of the Post
Office Department should be in
structed accordingly
! The California Collectors Club will
| sponsor a cachet for the closing day
of the Golden Gate International
Exposition. Send covers (self-ad-
dressed fully stamped ready-to-go
with one cent forwarding fee for
each marking wanted) to Hal H.
| Chrisman. r. C. D. No. 81, 1017 103d
street Oakland, Calf
According to the Hartford Cou-
rant, "a Baltimore collector has a
specialized collection of United
States stamps showing the airplane
part of the Air Mail Saves Time
slogan squarely on the stamp and so
far has 300 copies on about 80 diff
| ferent stamps"
The postal authorities of India
established philatehc museum at
! Delhi in November. 1888. with
stamps valued at s15o,Oo0 on dis
play.
The former Empress Zita of Aus
ria-Hungary, represented in Hun
garian stamps of 1918 (Scott's type
AID, now resides at Royalston,
Mass, where the countryside. she
says, reminds her of the Vienna
woods for beauty.
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