Evening star., 1941-09-07
AMONG THE STAMP COLLECTORS
News of the Phlatec World Its Peope-Revew
the Stamp Press-List of Local Meetings
By James Waldo FaapceH.

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The next stamps to be issued
with electric-eye perforations are
the 6 cent and 10 cent denomina-
tions of the regular series OF 1888
1t has been announced that they
will be placed on tirst-day sale in
Washington exclusively September
Is
Further electric-eye editions-11,
II, 13, ID and Is cent values-will
be released October 90.
First-day sales figures for the
new 15-cent air mail stamps, Balti-
more. August 10, have been reported
as: $4,000 covers cancelled, $4,000
stamps sold, $4,000,
Sales at the PhilateNc Agency
during August attained a total Of
S43,8l334.
In the near future air mail pick
up service will be inaugurated at
Carlisle, Lewistown and Shippens-
burg, Pa, Route Am. 49-F. Special
cachets will be furnished to post
masters as usual.
Harold F. Ambrose, chief of the
Information Bureau. Post Office De-
partment, will speak before the
Collectors Club of Washington,
Tuesday evening. September 80.
Dies for the printing of new
series of stamped envelopes-l87 OF
them-are to be made at the mint
in Philadelphia.
Letters from Sweden and Portugal
are being censored by British War
Office examiners.
The Schillmg Press, Inc, 1877
East Twenty fifth street, New York
City, has brought out poster stamps
showing views of the Military
Academy at West Point and the
Naval Academy at Annapolis.
An article entitled Toward Better
Design in United States Postage
Stamps" appears in the September
number of American Artist Mag
a2ine
The Netherlands East Indies soon
will have a series Of four defense
stamps, also a set of seni-postals.
Willard Otis Willie, former editor
of Mekeals Weekly Stamp News,
has been made an honorary life
member of the Society Of Philatelic
Americans in recognition Of half
century of continuous Journalistic
service TO the stamp collecting
public.
The Postal Museum of Sweden,
located in Stockholm, has been en-
larged and reopened.
WaterloW g. Co., Ltd, London,
Is printing two new stamps Tor
Thailand tSiamD-15s, blue and gray
black; 25s, gray black and orange
The design shows a native ploWlng
In a rice field.
Australia, il is indicated is to
have a set of commemorative Tor
the centenary of the settlement OF
Queensland.
C. C. Lance, writing in MekeelB
Weekly Stamp News, tells in brief
summary the story of the buildings
represented in the design OF the
frst stamps of Czecho-Slovakla.
"The Hradcany," he says, lis the
extensive Prague Castle, former
residence OF the Bohemian Kings.
During the republic, the president
resided in one of these numerous
buildings and Parliament held its
meetings in another, while the other
government departments occupied
various buildings in the same group.
These buildings constitute a mas
sive ensemble towering high ABOVE
the city Of Prague, on the left bank
of the Vlbana River and Hradcany
is one OF the 10 boroughs of the
city. Included in the castle is the
18th century Gothic Vladislav Hall,
which was used in olden time Tor
tournaments and also for receptions.
The size of the hall, 81 feet in width,
222 feet in length, with the ceiling
46 feet in clear height, would have
permitted large number of knights
and their prancing steeds to joust
for guerdons from their fair ladies"
Fifteen different denominations of
the King Peter II stamps of Jugo-
slavia have been overprinted in
heavy black type with checker
board shield covering portrait. The
inscriptions are: "Hezavisna-
Drzasa" and "Hrvatska." Values
reported include: Esp black, sop or
ange, Id yellow green, 1.50d red, I'd
magenta, Sd red brown, 4d ultra
marine, sd dark blue, $50 violet. ed
slate blue, Sd sepia, 12d bright vio-
let, 20d blue and BOD pink.
Spain announces a new series of
pictorials for Offices in Morocco.
The subjects are: Market places,
caravan center, views of Tangier.
Postage stamps for the Sudan are
being printed in India. Denomina-
tions received in America are de-
scribed as: Ism, brown and ultra
marine; 3pi dark blue and brown,
view OF the Nile with said boat
and palm trees.
Names suggested for the "phila-
telic hall of fame" sponsored by
the American Philatelic Society,
have been reported as follows: Sir
Rowland Hill, father of the post
age stamp; John Nicholas Luff,
American cataloguer and author;
John Walter Scott, dealer and cata-
loguer; Thomas Keay Tapling, COL
lector; John Kerr Tiffany. author,
philatelic authority; James Lu-
dovic Lindsay Earl of Crawford,
authority on philatelic literature;
Philip M. Wolsieffer, dealer; Charles
z. Severn, publisher; Fred J. Mel
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