Evening star., 1940-09-15
AMONG THE STAMP COLLECTORS
News of the Paec World Its Interests and PeopRevew of
] The Stamp Press-List of Local Meetings
By James Waldo Fa,Ucetf.

By James Waldo Faycetf.
As indicated by The Star several
weeks ago. three stamps to publicize
the national defense campaign will
be released in Washington on Co.
lumbus Day, Wednesday, october IL.
day, includes: 1c, green, Statue Of
Liberty, inscribed "Industry-Agri-
culture; &c, carmine, new 90-milli-
meter anti-aircraft gun, labeled
Army and Navy" and Sc, purple,
Torch of Enlightenment, captioned
Security Conservation" and "Edu-
cation Health"
1t probably will be denied, but
there Is talk in White House and
Post once Department circles to the
effect that stamps in homage to Ed
gar Allen Poe, Thomas A. Edison,
Will Rogers and several other IA
nous Americans may be added to
the Heroes Of Peace series.
The sixth American Philatelic
SoiiSiCoo WILL iuCCt III NCW 1Olk
City late in November. Eugene
Klein of Philadelphia, president,
has announced that G. Gilbert,
formerly a well-known auctioneer
in Paris, has been invited to con-
tribute a paper on "The PreparatiN:7
and Sale Of the Ferrari Collection
Other participants will be: Hugh
M. Clark, editor of the Scott Pub
lications, who will discuss The
Annual Catalogue and It's Prob
lerns," and J. j. Klemann, jr., VINO
will consider: THE History and De-
velopment Of United States Pioneer
Airmails"
Jere Hess Barr, 533 Penn street,
Reading, Pa, has been appointed
secretary y-treasurer of the congress.
Members of the council are: Frank
lin r. Burns, jr., stamp editor of
the New York Sun; A. M. Davis,
Williamsburg. Pa, and Frederick w.
Green and Donald w. Martin, re-
spectively, attorney and vice presi-
dent of the American Philatelic So
ciety, both resident in Cleveland.
The first congress assembled at
Philadelphia during the Christmas
holidays of 1885. Subsequent meet
ings were held at Cleveland, 1896:
Chicago 1897; Hartford, 1888, and
Atlantic City, 1899.
Richard Wilmer Rowan, in his
"Story Of Secret Service" tells of a
woman spy who during the first
World War served Great Britain and
France under the nom de guerre'
of Alice Dubois. In the course Of
her activities, he explains: "She en-
listed chemist. M. de Geyter, and
his wife. From the private labora-
tory Of this ingenious man came the
invisible inks and the altered. forged
or counterfeit passports which could
only have been brought over from
London at grave risk. She found a
mapmaker who said modestly that
he believed he might be of some
help. His name was Paul Bernard.
And 1t was ultimately one Of his
more impressive feats to write in a
coded shorthand, with a fine pointed
calligraphic pen and the aid of a
magnifying glass, a 1,600-word spy
report on picture post card under
meath the postage stamp"
Private advices from London in
dicate that stamp shop there have
suffered great losses in the bonn
bardment of the past month. Some
dealers, anticipating the devastation
inevitable in modern warfare, sent
valuable philatelic properties to
America before the beginning of the
attack. Yet the material thus SAL
vaged is relatively inconsequential
as compared with that exposed to
destruction in the Battle of Britain.
The valuable collection of the late
King George V probably has been
removed from Buckingham Palace,
but its present location is a subject
of speculation. Safe storage. how
ever, is known to have been pro-
vided for the philatelic library of
Fred j. Melville. destined to come
to the Library of Congress when the
war at last is over.
DR.. Armando Vidal, commissioner
general of the Brazilian Pavilion at
the New York Worlds Fair. an
nounces the publication of "a histor-
ical poster stamps and a philatelic
brochure tracing the history of Brazil
from $500 to the present time. Col.
lectors may obtain copies of the
booklet and sheets of the labels
by addressing Walter Kanner. Sta
ton WWRL, Woodside. Long Island,
N. Y.
The Hartford Courant observes:
'Thirty-one per cent of the 1899
revenue of Liechtenstein came from
the sale of postage stamps to collec-
tors"
According to the Associated Press