Evening star., 1940-08-25

-Stdr StGt PhOtO.
Scala of Utica, N. Y, $4,000 for
the treasure, listed in Scott's Stand
ard Postage Stamp Catalogue at
$4,000.
Current airmail stamps Of the Re-
public of Panama are being over
printed with new values.
A booklet of articles on How 10
Collect Stamps" by Robert D.
Byrnes, philatelic editor of the
Courant, Hartford, Conn, Is avail
able to the general public gratis.
Send self-addressed, stamped en-
velope with request.
The original edition of Scott's
Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue
consisted Of "a pages of text and
sold for IS cents. 1t is announced
that the l94l volume, TO be pub
lished September l6, will contain
more than $500 pages. the price re-
manning the same as for other years
cost Of manufacture.
Robert L. Jones of Philadelphia
reports that scent winged globe
fiat-bed airmail stamps displayed
in the Philatelic Exhibition Room
Of the Post Office Department are
captioned rotary" A similar block
of rotary press printings are marked
fiat bed"
Colombia Republic will issue seven
regular postage stamps, one airmail
stamp and one miniature sheet for
the fifth national athletic games to
be held at Bucaramanga in De-
cember.
The Woman's Home Companion
says: ours is a Nation where
man born q slave may have his por-
trait engraved on a stamp that car
ries letters to every corner of the
globe. as the portraits Of kings and
queens are elsewhere"
Mexico has brought out one regu-
lar postage stamp and three airmail
stamps to commemorate the 400th
anniversary of the founding of the
University of Campeche The list
includes: 10c, yellow brown and
crimson, seal of the university (or
of the city?); zoe. brown-red and
yellow brown, pirate ship flying
skull and cross-bones flag; 40c,
black and dark green, watchtower
and walls of the Castle of San
Miguel, and lp, deep ultramarins
and gray-black. church of San
Francisco.
Willard Otis Wyne, editor of Me-
keels Weekly Stamp News, Beverly,
Mass. will retire on September /.
Recipient Of one Of the engraved
silver plates warded at the Fourth
American Philatelic Congress, Hart
ford, 1898, and an honorary men,
ber of the Washington Philatelic
Society, he has earned the gratitude
of the international stamp collect
ing public for the ideals of service
represented in his labors these many
years past.
Mrs. Eveleen w. Severn, 1t is un-
derstood, will assume editorial di-
rection of the magazine. Her ad-
dress is: Box 1860, Portland, Me.
The design for the 3-cent Coro-
nado stamp scheduled to 60 on sale
at Albuquerque, September 7, is an
adaptation of a painting. presuma-
bly, a mural, by Gerald Cassidy.
The 1-cent Gilbert Stuart stamp
will be released at Narragansett, R,
l.. September S. and the 2-cent
James Abbot MacNeill Whistler
stamp will 60 on sale at Lowell,
Mass, the same day.
From London comes word to the
effect that the Postage Stamp Cen
tenary commemorative rapidly are
being exhausted and will not be
sent to press again.
Plans for a series Of lectures on
philately, to be delivered by
prominent Washington stamp COL
lector under the auspices Of local
university, soon will be announced.
Philatelic visitors to Washington
last week included DR.. Ferdinand
Stibi Of Cleveland.
Stamp meetings for the week are
listed as follows:
Tomorrow evening at 8-Capital
Precancel Club, residence of Carl
Cook. 3O2 Arlington Village. Arling-
ton. Va, by way Of first light south
of Highway Bridge, right to South
Barton street.
Tomorrow evening at 8:15-Wash-
ington Stamp Club of the Air, Sta
ton VOL. Program to include a
dramatization of the romance of
Anita Garibaldi.
Tuesday evening at 8-Collectors'
Club of Washington, Thomson
School,. Twelfth street NV. Pro-
gram arranged by Alden H. Whit
ney, exhibition and bourse.
Wednesday evening at ,8-Wash-
ington Philatelic Society. Mayflower
Hotel, Connecticut avenue at De
Sales street NV. Oddly night
program. -
STAMPS.