Evening star., 1941-07-06

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| Cancellations, particularly slogan
cancellations, and censor marks are
turning up quite frequently.
Just the other day a letter came
back from Paris bearing a Portu-
gueSe stamp, but minus the United
States airmail stamp with which it
started. Some kind-hearted censor
apparently wanted to be sure to get
the letter back to the sender, but
officials of the New York Post Office
say it would have come back any,
way, if it were not delivered At
any rate, the letter travelled from
October, 1910. until June, 1941, be-
fore landing back in New York.
This Paris-bound letter bears
English censor marks showing it
was opened, also the international
French explanation saying postal
relations were interrupted. 1t like
wise contained a New York post
mark and an illegible cancellation
over the Portuguese stamp.
"Other envelopes were returned
to New York, June 25. l94l, after
being on the 60 since June 9, 1910,
according to New York postmalks
on the front and back of the covers.
One bears numerous supplementary
marks, including zone occupee' to
show that the envelope was intended
| for delivery in occupied territory.
! On the front cover is stamped re-
| tour a renvoyeur 726' creturn to
senderO as we'll as three repeats Of
relations postales interrompues.
Among the United States markings
is an official seal, inscribed Post
Office Department, United States OF
America Cancelled by N. Y. P. O.; a
notice received unsealed and a G..
P. o. hand stamped mark as well
as a British crown censor's hand
stamp"
Some fibs seem to be immortal.
For instance: The canard about the
State Department having objected
to the issuance of a commemorative
for the Postage Stamp Centenary
still is current. Even so careful a
writer as Richard Mop. Cabeen,
philatelic editor of the Chicago
Tribune, repeats it despite Official
denial.
Kent B. stiles, philatelic writer
| for the New York Times, says:
Every development since the Nazls
began their invasions and conquests
has brought new stamps"
Following publication of his
article "A Fortune in Stamps" in
a popular monthly magazine, Emil
Bruechig of New York received
stamps and covers from more than
thousand different persons who
fondly hoped they had treasures to
sell. The bulk of the material
offered is Junk" but few foreign
rarities have come to light.
Letters from the president OF
Switzerland to American friends art
censored by the British government
Bernard D. keenan, OF Chicago L
exhibiting a cover with a pastet
label reading: Opened by Examiner
885"
The collection of C. A. Brown o.
Honolulu sold at auction IN Nev
York for $19,560.
If Hitler defeats Stain, the
philatelic world may have reason
to rejoice because of the discon'
tinuance of the hideous stamp de-
signs with which the Bolshevil
regime in Russia has afflicted col
: lectors. But American imitator
probably will 60 on copying tn
Marxist patterns because, as the!
say, they are modern"
r The annual semi-postals of Th'
Netherlands have appeared. Values
colors and subjects are: 11a-cen
f plus Ia cent, sepia, portrait of Dl
A. Mathusen, physician; 2la-cen
!. plus 2la cent, gray green, Jan 1ngen
housz, physicist; Accent plus 3-cen'
vermillion, Aagje Deken, poet
= scent plus 3cent, green, Johanne
Bosboom, painter, and 71a cent plu
31z cent, Antoni Christian Winan
Staring, poet.
On June 16 Sweden brought ou
, two commemorative for the 5Ot
anniversary of the founding o
Skansen, miniature Sweden" b
DR.. Arthur Hazelius. The value
: are: 10 ore and go ore.
The American Airmail Soclet.
= Albion, Pa, announces the publiea
J. ton of the 1941 supplement to tn
American Airmail Catalogue. an L
= lustrated booklet of 1913 pages,
= give the collector an up-to-the
!. minute listing of all issues an
events" of interest since 1899. En-
tries in the table of contents In
clude: Airmail stamps, pionet
flights, Government flights, contrat
airmail, foreign contract airmal
ID crash covers, souvenir histories
flights, airport dedication cover
Canada, Cuba, Mexico, Newfoune
r land, Philippines. trans-oceanic RET
ord flights, foreign pioneer flight
etc. Price of the pamphlet has bee
figured in relation to actual cost 4
printing, 81 copy.
- DR.. Philip Gillett Cole, retire
physician, manufacturer and ou
"A standing philatelist. died at his hon
r at Tarrytown, N. Y, June 80. II
!. airmail collection, sold just after II
. outbreak of World War No. 2
1899, brought $4,000.
- A collector attending all Il
~ philatelic conventions scheduled 4