Evening star., 1940-03-17
AMONG THE STAMP COLLECTORS
News of the Phatec World Its Interests and Peope-Review
the Stamp Press-List of Local Meetings
By James Waldo Fa,Ucen

society engaged In the study Of the
stamps and postal history of the
first World War, 1914-1918. prob
ably will meet in convention in
Washington late IN April or early In
May. Plans now in process of de-
velopment indicate that the annual
assembly Of members of the organi-
zation will be held in conjunction
with the Postal Stamp Centenary
celebration. Thirty frames of rare
and valuable wartime material are
to be included In the centennial
show. Joseph F. Garland, assist
ant chief inspector, Post Once De-
partment, has been asked to be one
Of the speakers. His subject will be
the A. E. r. post ofnces in France
and their markings. Deli Norona.
Moundsville, w. Va, also will share
In the program, reporting on his re-
searches In military and naval as
poets Of postal history.
Arrangements have been made for
the showing of the Secret Service
sound film, Know Your Money" at
the Postage Stamp Centenary meet
ing at the Bureau Of Engraving ana
Printing Friday evening, May 3. It
is expected that Post Office De-
partment movie likewise will be ex-
htoited. Speakers participating in
the program will be Alvin w. Hall,
director of the bureau, and H. M.
Southgate, president of the Bureau
Issues Association.
The winner of the 1910 Michael L,
Eidsness, jr, memorial silver plate,
given annually in recognition of dis
tinguished service to stamp collec-
tors, will be announced on March 81.
Nominations meanwhile may be sent
to Mrs. Catherine L. Manning,
chairman of the Award Committee,
Smithsonian Institution.
Charles A. Kenny, editor and pub
Usher of the National Stamp News
Market, is urging the reproduction
of a portrait of Jacob Perkins,
American inventor of steel engrav-
ing. for the Postage Stamp Centen-
ary commemorative. Collectors
sharing his ideal are invited to write
to Deputy Third Assistant Postmas-
ter General Roy M. North.
Collectors desiring flrst-day cov-
ers Of the Postage Stamp Centenary
stamps of Great Britain are invited
to order from Robson Lowe, 90
Regent street, London. The price
IS 81 for each envelope franked with
the four commemorative, mailed
May 6. Profits, it has been an
nounced, are designated exclusively
to the Red Cross.
The Argentine Republic will bring
out stamp to mark the golden
jubilee Of the Pan-American Union.
Symbolic in design, the value will
be so centavos. the color blue.
Salvador has prepared three
stamps-one regular postage, two
airmails-for the Postage Stamp
Centenary. The design includes a
portrait of Sir Rowland Hill, spon-
sor Of cheap postage, with an in
scription reading: Primer Gen.
tenario de la 1nvencion del Sello
Postal, 1840-1940." The values ard
colors are: &c, blue and black; soc,
light brown and black; 80c, brown.
red and black.
Finland in the midst of war with
Russia brought out set of semi
postals described as follows: SO plus
5p, green and red, soldiers with long
bows; 1.25m plus lisp, violet brown
and red, horseman of the Thirty
Years War; Pm plus 20p, red brown
and red, soldier of the army OF
Charles XII of Sweden; and 350m
plus Esp, blue and red, officers Of the
war of 1808-1809.
The New York Sun will issue q
special edition for the Postage
Stamp Centenary Saturday, May 4.
1t will be edited by Franklin r.
Bruins, jr., philatelic editor well
known In national stamp collecting
circles.
Collectors are warned that print
ings of the Heroes of Peace" stamps
are limited; also, that available
stocks have been distributed
throughout the country and are be-
ing exhausted from day to day.
Recruiting slogans are being used
In the canceling dies Of New Zea-
land post offices. One reads: BE
Proud to Enlist for Overseas Serv-
ice"; another, Young Man, An
swer the Call for Overseas Service. +"
Harvey Cochran Bounds of New
ark. Del, is the author of detailed
study Of the postal history of Della
ware, recently published. The con-
tents include: Early Postal Systems,
Development of the American Post
Office, 1683-1789; Expansion of the
Post Office, 1789-1855; Railroads and
Delaware Post Offices, Other Della
ware Post Offices, Developments in
the National Postal System, and
photography.
According to the Associated Press
Feature Service, "a startling prece-
dent will be set if the French min
istry Of posts and telegraphs issues
the stamp it is reported to. be plan
ming for this fall. It would be an
Anglo French stamp to be used in
both nations to symbolic the unity
now existing between them. Since
the outbreak Of war Britain and
France have gone long way toward
economic and political unification
Tins stamp would represent another
forward STEP
Photographs Of .Ihe models for
the Scent Pony Express stamp, to
be issued at st. Joseph, Mo-, and
Ca No1Sfs Arx{1 and tI,a