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prepared for Maltese postal use. A
clear white enamel glaze covers the
face of the medallion, the edges
simulate perforation and the back is
plain gold.
Are there other stamps similarly
adapted to use as jewelry? If So
who are the artists. where do they
work, and how may other ex-
amples of their genius be secured?
Mr.. Lyon would like to know.
c. w. Inglee has been elected
president of the newly organized
Capital Cover Club. With him will
serve: D. H. Reichgut. vice presi-
dent: S. Leroy Mack. secretary, and
Robert TrauX, treasurer.
Engmann A. Anderson, 1922 Forty
fourth street NV, is a candidate
for membership in the Society of
Philatelic Americans.
The Red Cross stamps of Ethiopia
are not a new production. 1t has be-
come known that they were printed
in Switzerland before Halle Selassie
was driven from his capital by the
Italians and. now that he has re-
turned there, they have been put on
| the market by private spectators to
whom they were sold when it seemed
unlikely that they ever would be
needed in Abyssinia.
Germany has brought out a semi
postal for the Grand Prize horse
race. The design includes view OF
the Brandenburg gate in Berlin, Is
plus so pf., blue.
The literary deities Of the Ameri-
can Philatehc Society refer to the
inventor of the adhesive postage
stamp as Sir Rollin Hill"
Several different varieties OF w
for Victory" poster stamps have
been printed One group of six may
be ordered from the Poster Stamp
Publishing Co., 2445 South Damen
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other type, in sheets of so, may be
had from the British American Am
bulance Corps. 420 Lexington ave-
nue., New York City, at 81 per sheet.
The Philatelic Exhibition Truck
will be in Texas. New Mexico, Ari-
zona and California between Novem-
ber l and December 13.
Japan has imposed rigid censor
ship on mail to foreign countries.
The current 212d blue stamp OF
Great Britain now is available in
coils. with the watermark sideways
to the design.
John w. Longnecker of Hartford
has proposed that the problem rep
resented by the growing size OF
SCOTS Standard Postage Stamp
Catalogue be solved by increasing
the page size to by II.
The present address of Maj. Harry
Gantz is BOG Laurel street, San
! Francisco, Calf.
Judith Corbada, writing in the
Baltimore Sun, says: THE poster
stamp is poster in miniature, with
special attention paid to spots OF
color. 1t had its birth in Europe
and the first true poster stamp is
said to have been issued in Munich.
The idea spread slowly, but its
growth was accelerated by manufac-
turers, who found that children were
taking to the hobby of collecting
the tiny, attractive labels with en-
thusiasm. Steamship lines and rail-
road companies adopted the idea
and by 1918. one authority estimates,
there we're about 5000 designs"
j. E. Guest of Dallas, Tex, has
been reappointed sales manager of
the American Philatelic Society.
Don Houseworth, editor of the
Cover Collector, writes: mot small
part of the pleasure to be derived
from collecting the stamps of the
Orient will be found in the COM
memorative cancellations. Unfortu-
nately, few Americans are able to
do their own interpreting of these
mysterious symbols that often tell a
long and interesting story"
John N. Luff's classic study OF
"The Postage Stamps of the United
States" published originally in 1902,
is to be reprinted as a serial IN
Weekly Philatelic Gossip.
The New York Herald Tribune
reports: "A new set Of six stamps
honoring Juan Manuel Blanes,
South American artist, was issued
by Uruguay August 13 in conjunc-
ton with an exhibition of his paint
ings at the Teatro Soils, Monte
video. The design, engraved and
printed by Waterlow & Sons, Lon
don, consists of a large portrait of
Blanes with the inscription Re-
publica Oriental del Uruguay at the
top, the denomination designation
at the bottom and "A la Gloria de
Juan Manuel Blanes' at the lower
right. Because the order was
placed too late for shipment to
coincide with the exhibition small
part OF the supply was sent to
Montevideo by airmail and sold on
August 13, with only a single set