Evening star., 1941-05-25

american PHlLUUtHTOpISt,
1795-1869
Judah-With the kind permission
of 194l edition of Tommy Atkins
| One of the finest. most complete
and most notably valuable coin COL
lectionS in existence is on display in
/ the Arts and Industries Building of
| the Smithsonian Institution and not
as many people know it as should.
Ernest Jarvis, president. an
| nounceS that the annual exhibition
and bourse of the Worldwide
Philatelic Society will be held at
the De Soto Hotel, st. Louis, Octo-
Der 20 to November 2, inclusive.
Arrangements are to be in the
hands of Henry o. Nouss, c. N. A.
De BaJligethy, Ben Nevison, Walter
j. Vredenburgh. John Mayne and
John D. Pope, Sd. Attractive poster
labels may be had by sending
stamped, self-addressed envelope
with request TO Kenmore Stamp
Co, Inc, Kenmore N. Y.
The post office at Rural, Ala, will
be discontinued May 81. Last-day
markings may be had on request to
the postmaster. Send self-addreSsed
and stamped envelopes, and re-
member to say: Thank you and
good luck"
Albert Jurgens has presented to
| the Capetown (South Africa Mu-
scum the stamp collection developed
during many years by his daughter,
| the late Miss Barbara Jurgens, and
himself. Included among the rari-
ties are the Cape triangles complete,
the Mafeking siege PROFESSIONALS, also
complete, and the Dutch and the
British occupation issues of Vry-
burg.
| Collectors who want the Will
Rogers commemorative authorized
without further delay are invited to
write to the Postmaster General
personally.
In 1904 a patron of the Italian
postal system was arrested, charged
with using counterfeit stamps. His
defense was that he had purchased
| the fakes at a post Office and had
! no reason, therefore, to doubt their
legitimate character. Investigation
proved the accuracy of his conten-
ton. A postal official was the viii
lain.
The Stamp Editor of The Star
will speak on The Meaning of
Democracy" at the annual Walt
Whitman birthday meeting of the
Walt Whitman Foundation. Ridgway
Library, Broad street, Philadelphia,
Saturday afternoon, May 81
In the near future airmail pick
up service will be inaugurated at
Slippery Rock, Pa, and Youngsville, .
Pa, on route A. NJ 49-D and at
Blairsville, Pa: Portage, Pa. and
Williamsburg. Pa. on route A. M.
49F. Special cachets will be fur
nished to the postmasters of the
towns indicated.
Miss Romona and Miss Janice,
daughters of Deputy Third Assistant
Postmaster General Roy M. North
and Mrs. North, are talented dam
GERS in the ballet company taught |
by Miss Alice Louise Hunter.
The closing date for orders for
first-day covers of the new United |
States Lines ship American Leader |
is June l. A cachet, printed in
red and blue. will show the Ameri-
can flag, the house flag and sketch |
of the new motor vessel assigned to !
the trans-Pacific trade. Each cover |
will be franked with 3-cent Ma
tional Defense stamp. A descriptive |
folder is to be enclosed. Covers
are Is cents each and orders may
be sent, with wrapped coins en-
closed, to the American Leader !
Cover Agency Is South street. New
York City. Proceeds from sales will
be given to the Seamens Church |
Institute, to be used for welfare
work among torpedoed and ship
wrecked crews of merchant ships.
Proof of the continued prosperity
of philately in America, despite the
war, the experimental reforms OF
the New Deal, union labor troubles
and other aggravations, may be dis
covered in the fact that the first
section of the Edward S. Knapp col
lection. sold at auction in New York,
brought S80,729 for 3.105 lots dis
persed among active bidders.
Philip H. Ward, jr., 1916 Walnut
street. Philadelphia, has issued an
interesting catalogue for 518 lots
of United States, Confederate States |
and foreign stamps, to be auctioned
at the Collectors Club of New York
June H. The text Is illustrated |
with half-tone plates. Copies on
request, but please inclose postage.
Canada has declared an embargo !
against the stamps of Greece, mint |
or used, for the duration of the war. |
A 20-centavos national defense |
stamp now is obligatory in addition |
to regular postage on every letter
mailed in Ecuador. The design |
includes three pursuit planes and
the color, appropriately, Is light blue.
Italy is to have three propaganda |
stamps to advertise Axis solidarity. |
Portraits of Hitler and Mussolini |
(Hit and Miss, the r. A. F. calls |
them are the features of the design. |
The values and colors are: 10c,
brown; zoe, orange; Csc, green.
The Associated Press Feature Serv-
ice reports: Covers continue to
come from Germany without any
stamps. Substituted is script which |
sets forth the cost of mailing the
letter in reichsmarks plus sigma
ture The handwriting is in blue
ink and is inclosed in red-penciled
rectangle. Cancellations, as usual,
are stamped with printed letters. i