Evening star., 1940-05-05

done according to the method
devised by Jacob Perkins of
Massachusetts. See page ca
In The Star today for the
story. 3,
Library of Congress Photo.
Ernest r. Kehr. stamp editor, Her
aid Tribune. New York
Among local philatelists who
signed the registration book were
T. Russell Hungerford, Henry w.
Samson, r. G. Clinite. H. P. Jones,
Herbert Berl, Louis S. Gross, Ed
ward Henderer, Mr.. and Mrs. F. L.
Lewton, Mrs. j. F.. Stowell, Mrs.
William P. Wilson. Miss Mary G.
Keyes, Alexander Halperson, o. H.
Basseches, Col. c. S. Hamilton,
Harold D. Kraft, Jerome F. Hor-
witz, w. A. Burdick, Miss Myrtle c.
Vance. Waldemar Weiergang, w.
Hayden Collins, Miss Carrie Neu-
man, DR.. Kenneth L. Laughlin, Miss
Betty Duff Clark, Mr.. and Mrs.
Hamilton Hooper, Col. Spencer
Cosby, Nathan N. Wallack. z. M.
Lebensohn, Albert A. Henderson,
Miss Florence H. Penland, E. L.
Browne, Theodore E. Forbes, E. j.
Wechter, Joseph H. Walker, William
A. Foote, Alvin R. Meissner. David
Kohn, Mr.. and Mrs. A. E. Geldhof,
Miss Elsa Lohmann, John S. Gil
christ, DR.. John T. Hill, Joseph A.
Herbert, jr.; Mrs. william F. Meg
gers, James E. Crux, DR.. H. o.
Hetzer, John Storm, Miss Anne
Perry, Miss Alice NJ Addison, Miss
Lucy Blandford, Miss Rose NJ.
Deliberto, L. w. Lee, Miss Ida E.
Maluekoff, Mrs. Julia E. Smith, S.
D. Ashford, E. j. Elitier, Henry
Bauman, Miss Maggie G. Pence,
Miss Dorothy r. Wilson. Miss Lulie
Williamson, Capt. Kenneth H. Cor
nell, Harold Merrill, DR.. Walter p
Stokes, Mrs. Gardner Poole. Mr..
and Mrs. Glenn K. Day, Henry
Gabriel, Louis Shook, David Bier
Victor w. Rotnem, Miss Arleen
Loonnis, Miss Lucy K. Lea, Fred s
Gichner, Miss Edith Stowell, Mrs
p. A.. Hilbert, Miss Agnes johnson,
Gerard Ten Eyck Beeckman, Dr.
Ellis Haworth and Philip Simms
Warren.
In a news bulletin dated May 8,
the National Geographic Society
says: The black penny stamp Of
Great Britain in 1910 makes May
memorable as the birthday of the
first adhesive postal paper. The
subsequent century has been sue
cess story of advance from rag-paper
to riches for the modest little
gummed rectangles, which started
out merely to carry the mail and ar
rived as minor industry and a
major indoor sport.
The famous first adhesive was a
penny portrait, in austere black and
white, of young Queen Victoria S
profile Modern stamps bear var
iety of devices, from kangaroos to
rainbows. Some are postal peep
holes into their countries resources.
Colombia, for example, has stamped
the nations letters with pictures OF
oil wells, gold mines, emerald mines
and coffee plantations. Others are
one-glimpse sightseeing tours
through the lands of their origin,
such as the 1884 National Parks Is
sue of the United States or Japan's
1885 series of Mount Fuji views.
THE stamp is born to travel, and
modern governments make 1t carry
q public message in addition to the
private one it is paid to escort
Even the most noncommittal Of
these inch-high ambassadors hint
of the language. the government
and currency prevailing in their
homelands.
Postal paper from the Union of
South Africa travels in pairs, each
inscribed In a different language,
because Afrikaans and English are
both accepted as of1icial. Some
stamps become miniature Marco
Polos of the mails, carrying accounts
of wonders wherever they go-the
kookaburra of Australia or the
Iguassu Falls of Brazil.
collectors who cruise through
stamp catalogues learn geography
from a highly colored philatelic
landscape. Monaco and Vatican
City, whose small areas could almost
be blanketed with the stamps sold
can compete for attention on an
equal basis with vast Brazil.
Many of these migratory posta
patches, like the well-seasonet
travellers that they are, carry maps
The United States has mapped itsel1
on stamps several times. A relic.
map Of the entire Nation not :
inches wide, showing mountain
ranges and river systems, appearet
on the 1926 airmail 10-cent darl
blue stamp, with higher priced vari
ations In olive brown or yellow
green. The 1887 Scent purple Oh
served the l50th anniversary Of tn,
Northwest Territory with . NINA
ture map Of that region flanked b!
portraits Of the notable pioneers
Manasseh Cutler and Rufus Putnam
Washington, Montana, North Da
kota, South Dakota and their cap
itals are mapped on the 1899 Seen
rose violet stamp, to commemorate
their admission to statehood.
Sometimes the postage stam
rushes In where map-makers fea
to tread, and boundary conversation
are raised or settled on postal papel
In 1887 one peso stamp Of Argen
tina presented an outline map Q
South America in light blue, wit
the Argentine area colored In brow
black. The Falkland Islands, o1
Argentina's coast In. the Atlantit
were also colored the Argentin
brown black. Meanwhile, any col
lector would know that the FAX
land Islands were issuing their on
stamps adorned with the 8ritiG