Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-29
Bv James Waldo Fa,ccen.

ny James ~ 0I0O FdOCeH.
Former Postmaster General Jane.
A. Farley in his final report citec
as one of many improvements
achieved during his administration
'the issuance of new and more at
tractive postage stamps, which has
increased the sale of stamps to
collectors from 100000 per year to
$4,0O0,000, which figure represents
a source of what might be termed
clear profit to the Government, as
most of these stamps purchased by
collectors are never used for postal
purposes
The plea of the philatelic public
for new presses for dry process
printing of stamps in the Bureau
of Engraving and Printing there
fore Is not unreasonable.
Let it be added that postal ad-
hesives produced by the dry tech
nique are every bit as safe" as those
manufactured by the outmoded wet
system.
Dr. Emil Ferdinand, member of
the Washington Philatelic Society
has been named philatelic curator
OF the Library of Congress and in
structed to conserve stamps re-
ceived on incoming mail toward the
end that an official collection COM
parable with that Of the Post Office
Department exhibition room may be
developed.
Covers bearing postmarks of the
several different postal stations of
London during the aerial lombard
ment of the past three weeks may
never be exceptionally valuable, but
they always will have an historical
significance beyond market price.
They should be saved entire and
written up in appropriate detail.
The 1920 airmail stamps of
Sweden have been forged. Copies
should be purchased only when
guaranteed genuine by responsible
dealers.
c. Maurice Heating is writing a
philatelic history of Guatemala for
Linn's Weekly Stamp News, Column
bus, Ohio.
Honduras is overprinting eight
ofiicial airmail stamps in aid of the
projected Columbus memorial light
house in the Dominican Republic
Kent B. Stiles, stamp editor of the
New York Times, writes: The COL
lecting world is in agreement that
covers bearing pre-release cancella-
ton postmarks are not entitled to
receive enhanced valuation but
rather are to be regarded as freaks
AS a convenience to collectors, the
Pan American Union has estab-
lished a Latin American stamp sec
ton for the sale of commemorative
issued for the Unions flftieth ami
versary. Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil,
Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Ecua-
dor, Salvador, Guatemala, Nicara-
qua. Panama, Paraguay and Vene-
zuela are Included in the list of ma
tons cooperating in philatelic
homage to the occasion. The total
number of stamps is q; the total
face value in United States money,
1888 Remittances should be made
payable to the Pan American Union
and should include return postage.
Representative William B. Barry
of New York, Democrat, has spon-
sored a bill calling for return to the
&c rate of postage on f1rst-class
mail
First-day sales figures have been
announced as follows: 1c Gilbert
Stuart, September 5, Narragansett
r. l., 131 1865 covers, 234,521 stamps
s43452l; &c James Abbot Mcneil
Whistler, September 5, Lowell
Mass. 130962 covers. 37o,673 stamps
S7,41346; Sc New Mexico Corona
do), September T. Albuquerque, N
Mex, 1,0l2 covers, Pitts stamps
S8,33325; SC Augustus Saint-Gau-
dens. September 16, New York City
10000 covers, 886,003 stamps. $685.
5000; SC Daniel Chester French
4 TENDER Is, Stockbridge, Mass
l246os covers, 1ae,s3o stamps
S9,346.50.
AS expected, it has been denied
that consideration is being given
to proposals for Heroes of Peace
stamps for Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas
A. Edison, Will Rogers and the Mayo
brothers, but the story is true just
the same.
New plate numbers have been as
signed as follows: 22619 and 22620
1c Eli Whitney; 22622 and 22623, &c
Samuel F. B. Morse; 22625 and 22626
Sc Cyrus Hall Mccormick; 2262s
and 22629, SC Elias Howe; 1884 tc
22637, Sc New Mexico (Coronado)
22638, Sc ordinary postage; 22639 to
22642, &c airmail frame.
William A. Roach is responsible
for all the designs of the inventors
series Of Heroes of Peace stamps
Charles A. Brooks and James T
Vail engraved the frames, Mr. Vail
alone the lettering, Mr. Brooks the
portrait of Morse, Gilroy Roberts the
portrait of Whitney, John Eisslel
the portrait of Mccormick, Leo C
Kaufman the portrait of Howe
and William O. Marks the portrait
OF Alexander Graham Bell.
The Post Office Department has
announced sources of material used
in the designing of the inventors
sequence, as follows: Whitney
photograph of an engraving by ar
unknown hand from a painting by
Alonzo Chapel, reproduced in Vol
!, National Portrait Gallery, pub
lished by johnson, Fry & Co.;
Morse, Photographic print from
original Brady negative in L. c
Handy collection; Mccormick
photograph of pastel by Lawtor
S. G.. Parker after painting by G. P
Hea1v eYecuted between 1890 anC