Evening star., 1940-05-19

sor brought out City Dispatch Post
stamp for New York; in 1843, the
Swiss cantons Of Zurich and Geneva
and the Empire of Brazil placed
stamps in service in their respec-
tive territories, and in l845, sew
eral postmasters in the United
States-New York and St. Louis
notably-issued PROFESSIONALS in an
ticipation of the first Federal
stamps, July /, 1847.
The precious Mauritius postoffice
adhesives of the last-named year
were engraved by a Colonial watch
maker in two denominations-1d,
orange red, and I'd, blue, and Ber-
muda fell in line with a postmas-
ter's label equally unpretentious in
1848. A few months later the list
of stamp-issuing countries includ-
ed: Bavaria, Belgium, France, Aus
tria, British Guiana, Hanover, New
South Wales, Prussia, Sexony
Schleswig- Holstein, Spain, Switzer-
land and Victoria. The age was ripe
for expansion, and the 'gummed
sticker was a humble instrument of
progress.
But everywhere it happened that
there was an active minority of
people who did not view stamps
as being at all inconsequential
Rather, they instantly appreciated
the fact that they were objects of
permanent interest and therefore of
durable cultural and economic sig
nificance. Incredible as it may
seem. q few individuals actually
formed the habit of laying away
whole sheets of different denomi-
nationes.
Fred ]. Melville writes: Postage
stamps were already attracting col
lectors in the sos: bly, 1860-1862 a
great wave of popular interest spread
in Europe and America, and the
extensive literature of stamp-col-
lecting began. Mount Browns cata.
talogues. published in 1862 1854, Ist
1900 varieties known to him in May
1862, and 2,400 in his last edition
in March, 1864. The Standard
Catalogue in 1928, listing only main
varieties of Government stamps, pre-.
sents total of 46969. The more de.
tailed catalogues, inclusive of minor
varieties Gibbons. Scott, Kohl, etc.
may be estimated as recording
10000 to 10000. Even these high
figures refer only to adhesive postage
stamps issued by governments; il
the stamps of municipal, local and
private posts were added, the num-
ber would be much larger
Oscar ar-Berger-Levrault, a printer
at Strasbourg. invented the first
catalogues manuscript later Q86D
printed as a thin quarto 12-page
pamphlet; and a young English
artist, Booty by name, brought out
the first catalogue to be illustrated
The premier philatelic periodicals
were the Monthly Intelligencer
1852; the Stamp Collectors Maya
zine, Bath, England, 1853: Timbre
Post in Belgium and Magazin fur
Briefmarken-Sammler in Germany
Justin Lallier deserves credit for the
pioneer album, first sold in Paris
and in London, 1862. The word
'philately' was created by M. Herpin
in 1864, and a scientific method was
outlined by M. Berger-Levrault in
1867.
Collectors quickly realized the
advisability of organization. The
Royal Philatelic Society, London
was founded in 1869, and the Amer
lean Philatelic Society began Its
career in 1885,"
A press release given out by the
Post Office Department information
service yesterday morning said:
Postmaster General James A
Farley announced last night that
during the period May ~ to 20, 1910
inclusive, there will be a number o1
pickup flight demonstrations from
Boiling Field, the Army airport, tt
the Washington Airport, Washing.
ton, D. G. On Tuesday, May %
there will be several autogiro flight,
between Boiling Field and the
Washington Airport. A postal sta.
ton will be established at Boiling
Field and Official cachets will be ap.
piled to covers transported on these
flights. A cachet of different desigr
will be applied to covers transported
on the autogiro plane and those
transported on the pickup plane.
"Cacheted mail will be transported
one way only on the flights indicated
above from Boiling Field, Anacostia
D. c., to the Washington Airport
Washington, d. G. Airmail covers
to receive these special cachet'
should be forwarded under cover Il
the Postmaster at Washington, d
G. Appropriate notations should b,
lightly penciled on the face Of eacf
cover submitted to indicate the dat
and type Of flight desired; that is
May 27-Pickup' or May 28-Auto
giro
call covers should be received by
the Postmaster at Washington, D
c., not later than Saturday, May Is
1910, in order to assure proper treat
ment and dispatch"
Idaho is to have a 50th ami
versary stamp on July 3. It will b.
a Scent value and will puhlicize tn
State capital at Boise.
The first ruling philatelist O
Egypt was not the late King Fuad
Khedive Abbas Hilmi, who was de-
posed in 1914, had valuable col
lection of stamps and covers.
What color is the Scent pom,
express stamp The original an
nouncement called 1t purple.
After its appearance philateli'
writer's referred to Il a 'srOddisl