Evening star., 1940-01-14
AMONG THE STAMP COLLECTORS
News of the Phlateic World Its Interests and PeopRevew
the Stamp Press-List of Local Meetings
Bv James Waldo Fa,pcen.

ldIlS lOE d comprehensive Cele .
bration of the centenary of the
postage stamp will be announced
next week The Washington Phi
latelic Society, assembled at the
Hotel Mayf1oWer on Wednesday eve
ming, unanimously approved pro-
posals for program which will in
clude exhibitions, stamp collec-
tors fair, an essay contest with
prizes, several radio broadcasts, a
banquet and other features. De-
tails are to be decided by the Postage
Stamp Centenary Committee, meet
ing at the Mayf1ower tomorrow eve
ming at o'clock.
The Post Office Department an
nounceS plate numbers for the
Heroes of Peace" series for stamps as
follows: One cent, Washington Irv-
ing, 22489; 2 cent, James Fenimore
Cooper, 22490. cent, Ralph Waldo
Emerson, 22491; cent, Louisa May
Alcott, 22492; 10 cent, Samuel L.
Clemens mark Twain), 224e3; l
cent, Henry Wadsworth, Longfellow,
22502- -22504: 2 cent, John Greenleaf
Whittier, 225O5- -22507; 8 cent, James
Russell Lowell, 22508 -225l0; S cent,
Walt Whitman, 22511-22513; 10 cent,
James Whitcomb Riley, 22514-22516
Also for Electric Eye, convertible,
sheets-1 cent, Irving, 22474 and
22475; 2 cent, Cooper, 22477 and
22478; cent, Emerson, 22480 and
22481; 5 cent Alcott, 22483 and 22484:
and 3 cent, ordinary, Thomas Jeffer-
son 22422 and 22423.
Published by Harry L. Lindquist,
2West Forty-siXth street, New York
City, Minimum Essentials in Stamp
Collecting is a textbook which
should prove of interest and value
to philatelists of all grades 1t is
the work of Mrs. Gerald H. Burgess
guinetti, philatelic adviser to the
Massachusetts Department of Edu-
cation, and is based on the personal
notes of Mrs. Burgess husband, an
instructor in philately at the Uni
versity of Minnesota until his death
in 1888. The volume includes 1913
pages of text, we'll illustrated. Chap
ter headings are STAMP Collecting
as Vocation and as an Avocation," :"
History of Stamps and Stamp Col
lecting," Starting a Collection" :"
Development" General Collect
ing" What to Collect" Topical
and Subject Collecting" Subject
Headings by Designs" Varieties: A
Study in Observation" "Specializa-
tion: The United States" Mount
ing and Writing Up a Collection"
"Paper Separations and Water
marks" Methods of Printing:
Stamp Colors and Paper" How and
What to Buy value and What
Makes It." Side Line Collections y
"Other Important Glasses of
Stamps" Directing Collecting to a
Goal" "Philately in Education" :"
"Question Box" and glossary.
Early editions of The Star on
Monday, January 8, contained an
Associated Press story on the &c
DR.. Crawford w. Long stamp of the
"Heroes of Peace" series. An edi-
torial on Cheap Postage" paying
homage to Sir Rowland Hill, ap-
peared in all editions on Wednes-
day, January 10.
Copies of the junior edition of the
official Description of United States
Postage Stamps" still are available
at the Philatelic Agency. The price
:, is 10 cents per copy.
According to the annual report of
Postmaster General James A. Farley,
there were in operation on June 80,
1885, no less than 1,217 first-class
post offices; 1892 second class; 10,077
third class, and 29,425 fourth class;
also, 1913 classified stations and
branches and 4,871 contract stations.
Three stamps for Cape Verde have
been issued to commemorate visit
of the President of Portugal. They
show map of Africa with the
official route indicated in dotted
lines. Values are: SITS, blue on
pale blue paper; $40, brown on buff
paper, and $50, purple on light violet
paper.
Kent B. Stiles, writing in the New
York Times, says: Uncle Sam sells
his stamps for approximately 800
times what it costs him to make
them
The editors of SCOTS Postage
Stamp Catalogue describe the color
of the recent States commem-
Dakota. Montana and Washington
as rose violet" while the Post Office
Department reports purple" with
out any qualifying adjective.
Cover collectors are advised to
watch for slogan cancellations from
Great Britain. Various patriotic
markings have been reported since
the beginning of the Second World
War last September.
Sir Harry Brown, director general
of posts and telegraphs of the Com
monwealth of Australia since 1923
has resigned his position for per
sonal reasons" which have not YET
been disclosed.
The New York State Historical AS
sociation, which maintains museums
at Ticonderoga and Cooperstown, N
Y, will sponsor special first-day
cover with the James Fenimore
Cooper stamp applied when it goes
on initial sale at CooperstoWn, Jan.
uary 49,
1t is explained by Edward P. Alex.
ander, director, that "the first great
American novelist came to Coopers.
town in 1890 as year-old baby, ane
the Historical Association is holding
q national observance of his sesqui
centennial at Cooperstown next Au
STAMPS.