Evening star., 1941-10-05
AMONG THE STAMP COLLECTORS
News Phatelc World Its Peope-Revew
the Stamp Press-List of Local Meetings
Bv James Waldo Fawcett.

A British philatellSt of 1nterna-
tional reputation has warned Amer
tcan collectors to beware Of 'fasci-
mating war PROFESSIONALS which will
be sold at phenomenally high prices
to eager and enthusiastic buyers"
Since these PROFESSIONALS are al
most entirely surcharged stamps
whose enormously increased value
depends on the overprinted sur
charges" he explains, "forgeries will
be produced by obliging gentlemen
in Brussels and Paris just as long
as the unsurcharged stamps can be
obtained in sufficient quantities to
enable the forgers to produce the
limitations.
Later, the keenness of the de-
mand having been satisfied and the
novelty and historic association OF
the war having died away. prices
will fall and we shall find these
war stamps bringing perhaps one
fourth of the prices that were palo
during the boom.
1T has always been So
A catalogue of philatelic exhibition
seals and labels, compiled by Stanley
H. Mason, has been puollShed oy
Fred H Dietz. 140 West Forty sec
ond street, New York City.
The official designation. "On II.
M. S." may be found on every
stamp of Canada from 1922 TO oaIe'
Charles Sidney Thompson, writ
ing in Weekly Philatelic Gossip for
August 30. remarks: "PhllateNc
cnIhs that own their homes are
almost as scarce as British Guiana
No. 13s." He might have added:
The great-great-gr grandchildren OF
present members of the largest
stamp collectors organization In
the world eventually may have
national headquarters In Chlcago
or Cleveland.
Herman Herst, jr- reports MS
oninion that There is evidently
stanp collector or two in the New
York fire department. When
blaze occurred in the Nassau street
section recently, he says, "one entire
six-storv building was quilted and
an adjoining one partly burned
Firemen went through the adjoining
building. smashing in doors, knock
ing in walls and creating their usual
general havoc. They came 10 tne
door of a stamp firm, smashed II
and walked on to the next, but
not until they had inspected the
stamp display under the glass on
the counter. When the dealer came
In that morning some of his incest
stamps were gone. Oddly enough,
his fire insurance did not cover the
loss
The unfortunate victim OF the
philatelic vandals should have been
insured against fire fighters as well
as against fires.
Stamp Magazine, edited and pub
hshed by Harry L. Lindquist. 2 West
Forty-sixth street, New York City,
Is 8 years old.
Current stamps of Norway are
being overprinted with the letter
"V" signifying Victory" in the form
sViktoria."
Cuba Is preparing postage and
airmail stamps to propagandlze
"democracia."
Cover collectors of Washington
and vicinity will meet at the Lee
Sheraton Hotel Sunday evening
october 10, to organize local club
for those engaged in that form OF
pfilately.
Announcements of the meeting
are being mailed to more than 200
known cover collectors, but spon-
sors of the movement likewise cor
daily invite all other persons en-
gagged in cover collecting to attend.
Those sponsoring the meeting in
clude L. w. Murphy, retiring presi-
dent of the Woodbridge Stamp Club;
Louis D. c. Bean, naval cover spe-
cialist, former recording secretary OF
the Collectors Club of Washington,
and C. w. Inglee, conductor OF
'oThe Voice of Philately" programs
on Station WINK every Sunday eve
ming.
The origin and purposes of the
Latin American stamp section OF
the n-American Union were ex-
planned in a paper prepared by
Albert F. Kunze, assistant chief, and
read by Julian Zier, chief of the
;1,iei UNiPn n
Philately" program, Station WINK,
Sunday evening, September %, as
follows:
THE stamp collectors section OF
the Pan-American Union grew from
one of the media in which the q
governments participated last year
in celebrating its f1ftieth ami
versary. Fourteen of the Pan-Amer-
lean governments issued special post
age stamps to commemorate that
occasion. An allotment of practical
~ all of them was placed with the
unions stamp section as they were
released and that started new
era in the stamp world. Never be-
fore were stamp collectors afforded
an OpPOL lulllIy " pu1 CllooC CAiC
stamps of several nations from a
single Office, through single order
and a single remittance in United
States currency, at face.
"The only parallel organization of
this character is Somerset House in
London, where. prior to the pres
ent disturbed conditions. the stamps
of many of the crown agencies were
sold to dealers. None of these
stamps ever saw the countries where
they were to circulate for postal
uses. The Pan-American Union
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