Evening star., 1940-12-08
AMONG THE STAMP COLLECTORS
News of the Phac World Its Interests and PeopeReview of
The Stamp Press-List of Local Meetings
By James Waldo Favcen

btIeeC NJ, Is organizing WdSIl-
ington chapter of the American
Naval Cancellation Society. Col
lectors interested in this attractive
branch Of philatelic enterprise are
invited to communicate with him.
Deputy Third Assistant POST
master General Roy M. North rep
resented the Post Office Department
at the sixth American Philateljc
Congress, Hotel Pennsylvania, New
York City, Friday to Sunday, No.
vember 20 to December /.
Other celebrities from Washing
ton attending the annual gathering
were David D. Caldwell, chairman
of the Postage Stamp Centenary
Committee; Philip Simms Warren,
treasurer Of the Washington Phila-
telic Society, and Mrs. Catherine l..
Manning, philatelic curator of the
Smithsonian Institution.
The congress group of stamp
journalists announced the choice OF
Willard Otis Wylie of Beverly, Mass
editor emeritus of Mekeels Weekly,
as dean Of American philatelic
writer's.
. The can-Scandinavian Re-
view reports: THE Kings picture
will no longer appear on Norway's
postage stamps, silver coins, paper
currency, or even on the labels Of
sardine boxes"
Quoting the Hartford Courant,
1.-TWO men have been arrested by
Federal authorities in New York
on charges of having in their pos
session cuts in similitude to those
used in making United States OBJ
legations as represented by postage
stamps The men are Emanuel
Bondell, alias Nanny Davis, alias
Rothstein, of 403 Georgia avenue,
Brooklyn, and Albert Rabinowitz,
who Is in business as the Stamp
Bazaar, 165 Fulton street. Accord
ing to the authorities, cuts were
found for applying faxed overprints
to create the Kansas. Nebraska and
Hawaii sets from common United
States stamps. and also to counter
felt some of the overprinted airmail
issues of the Philippines and the
Guam Guard Mail stamps, and the
1919 United States Offices in China
stamps. Both men have been
held for the grand jury
Unofficial reports suggest that a
new airline is being planned be-
tween Miami. Fla, and Cape Town,
South Africa. via Brazil and the
South Atlantic. Pan American
Grace Airways is supposed to be ne
gotiating with the Government for
the necessary license. If the route
is authorized. a series of firSt-flight
covers would be indicated.
The Numismatic and Antiquarian
Society is TO have meeting at the
Franklin Institute Thursday after
noon at O'Clock, to consider the
possibility Of a permanent exhibl-
tion of coins. stamps and autographs
in Philadelphia.
An official publicity release from
the Pan-American Union says: In
the nine months of its existence, the
philatelic activities of the Latin
American Stamp Section have in
creased from the sale of the stamps
of two countries to list Of l3 coun-
tries and 40 different stamps. Pur-
suant to the requests of many COL
lectors and dealers throughout the
United States, Investigations were
made as to the feasibility of broad
ening its activities to include all flu
ture Latin American postal issues.
Representatives of several countries
were approached and it is now re-
ported that the Dominican Republic
is the first to have indicated its in
tention to furnish an allotment of
all such issues for sale to collectors
through the unions stamp section.
officials of other Latin governments
are giving consideration to taking
like action and it is not unlikely that
this is the first step toward the es-
tablishment in Washington of the
broadest philatelic institution ever
conceived"
Mrs Edward B. Martin. 1401 Gil
rard street NV. editor of the Bulle-
tin of the Collectors Club of Wash
ington, says: Stamp collectors will
have plenty of work, revising al
buns. when the war is over. Of the
35 pre-Hitler countries of Europe,
nine have ceased stamp issues, the
status of a tenth is doubtful and
there may be more changes in the
future.
First to disappear was the Saar,
which issued stamps under the
League of Nations from 1920 to 1885.
Austria, Czecho-S -Slovakia, Danzig,
Poland followed rapidly. Soviet
Russia took over Estonia, Latvia
and Lithuania. Italy moved into
Albania. Whether Luxembourg will
regain independence is doubtful.
Now, with the grand duchess in