Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-07-07
AMONG THE STAMP COLLECTORS
News of the Phatelc World Its Interests and PeopeRev of
The Stamp Press-List of Local Meetings
By James Waldo Fatyceff.

&ASSoAS4liG w Sapps oGllO Ad1 h1A
Rogers, philatelic agent, postag.
stamp ssys: II represent my country
and am always ready for service.
go wherever I am sent and de
whatever I am asked to do. I de
not give up when I am licked MOI
strike back when I am struck, but
stick to my task until 1t is done
I am small but I carry great mes
sages of history, geography, cur
rent events and related subjects
I am necessary to the happiness
and education of the world. I us
ually wind up by being crowned with
the cross mark of service, spending
the rest of my days being admired
by the many stamp collectors
throughout the world"
Stanley B. Ashbrook, 434 South
Grand avenue, Fort Thomas, KY, is
trying to discover the earliest dates
of authenticated use for the /, 2
3, 8, 10, II, Is (both Type I and
Type ID, "a, 80 and 80 cent stamps
of 1869.
Stamps Magazine for July says:
I'VE live in stirring times. You
can tell the story of your day in
your stamp album Here's how:
Take your daily newspaper
From day to day you will find there
many items which can be fully H.
Illustrated with stamps that you al
ready have or which can be readily
obtained from your usual sources
Of supply.
Mount the newspaper clipping
In the center of your album page
Surround it in neat arrangement
with the stamps that tell the story
by the pictures on their faces.
An astonishingly clear chronicle
OF the step-by-s step events which
have made history during the past
two years has been accomplished
in such a current events collection
ut Is an interesting, exciting
game, this hobby, if we only know
how to make the most of it."
Bulgaria has brought out six ad-
ditional denominations in the So
called national products series,
as follows: lost, grain; 15st, farm
ing; 3ost, agriculture; 5Ost, fruit;
81, sheep raising; and 81, fruit
market.
The 2a6p, rose lake, stamp of
Burma, SCOTS No. IS, has been
overprinted in black for the centen-
airy of the first adhesive postal is
sue "Commemoration - Postage
Stamp-6th May, 1840."
China has reissued the soc, red,
airmail, SCOTS No. C-13, on water
marked paper.
1t is reported that Ecuador will
release souvenir sheets for the CEN
tennial of the postage stamp and
the golden jubilee of the first Ecua-
dorean adhesive simultaneously. The
designs will reproduce the Penny
Black of Great Britain and the a
real, blue, or Ecuador, SCOTS No. l.
DR.. Max Kronstein writes to
Stamps Magazine: only four days
before the first air bombs were
dropped over Rotterdam, the Meth
erlands, the Postage Stamp Gen.
tenary was celebrated in that city
Special cards had been issued with
the Illustration of an old mail coach
and the Penny Black. The cards
were inscribed: De Postzegel cen
eeuw oud! Mel, 1906 Mel, 1910.
observation-disclosures van de Rot
terdamsche Philatelisten-Vereenig-
ing The stamps were Cancelled
with round blue special postal con-
collation.: 'Rotterdamsche Philatelis-
ten Vereeniging-De Postzegel-
Zen eeuW oud. 1840- 1940.'
"As for Scandinavia, the cente-
nary could be celebrated only in
Sweden. On May the Postmuseum
in Stockholm exhibited for the first
time the stamp collections of Hans
Lagerloef of New York and a spe-
cial cancellation was used there:
'Postmuseum Stockholm - Frimar-
kets 100. Arsday-6 Maj 1940.'
I'm Switzerland the Mobile Post
Office at Luzerne had special
cachet: Iuzern-100 Jahre Brief
marken-6.V.1 840-6.V. 1940.' But in
that country the Union of Swiss
Philatelic Societies celebrated its
jubilee at the same time and a
special postal cancellation had been
announced in Bern for the day
Of that jubilee"
An international philatelic exhi-
bition will be held at Geneva, Swift
zerland, in September, 1943, to mark
the centenary of the first Swiss
postage stamp and the 50th ami
versary of the establishment of the
Union Philatelique de Geneve.
Miss Miriam Janet Forbes of Pei
ping, China, has been a philatelic
visitor in Washington during the
past week.
Eight centuries Of independence
are being celebrated in Portugal, and
TWO lldNC DCCIl al SOll
nection with the festivities. The
design of these adhesives shows ar
armored warrior standing before q
turreted fortress. Denominations
and colors are: 40c, olive brown;
and 1.75E, ultra-marine.
A great stock of mint Russian
stamps, it is indicated, soon will be
dumped" on the philatelic market
In New York.
Greece, Yugoslavia, Rumania anc
Turkey have brought out Balkan
Entente stamps adorned with the
arms of the four different countries
concerned.
Thinner paper and lighter gum
characterize the recent printings o.
the current stanDS of ManchlkuO