Evening star., 1941-12-14
last year, is back in Washington


nue., Arnold, Pa, will undertake to
obtain postmarks from the U. S. S.
Seminole, Osprey, Wilkes, Albemarle,
Edison, Grampus. Marlin, Monssen,
Rhind and North Carolina. Send
stamps and addressed envelopes with
/ cent each forwarding fees.
The stamps of the Sudan now
are being printed in India.
Since November, 1910, the Ken
more Kollector, Kenmore, N. Y, has
published % essays by an equal
number of writer's on British En-
pTe stamps. No more interesting
series of philatelic monographs has
been printed anywhere at any time,
and it is to be hoped that the
entire lot may be made available
in book form with illustrations.
Fritz Billig. 151-14 Eighty-fifth
avenue, Jamaica. N. Y, has issued
his 2Sth wholesale price list, an at
tractive booklet of 123 pages.
A complete set of the stamps of
the Saar recently was advertised at
s21O wholesale.
The 1881 Rotary convention series
of Austria are selling wholesale
at $40.
New plate numbers are announced
by the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing as follows: 22849 and 22850,
1c national defense; 2285l and
22852, &c national defense; 22853
and 22854. Sc national defense, and
22855, zoe regular (presidentiaD
series-all electric eye convertible.
Twenty-Five papers were presented
at the first Philatelic Congress at
Paris in 1873.
New crown colonies stamps manu-
factured in England and shipped
from the printers establishment
there include: Bahamas, 21ap, VIC.
let: 3p. blue: Barbados, Up, brown;
In. green; Bermuda, TIP, green
| DlQ6 dllO oliOloii
1r, Or, 3r, 5r; Cyprus, IL pi, violet;
2pi, red and black, 3pi, blue; FIJI
| %, green and magenta; Malta, Up
chestnut; 1p, green; 11ap, gray; Up
vermilion; 21ap, violet; 3p, blue.
The annual Christmas party Of
the Collectors Club of Washington
is scheduled for Tuesday evening
December 23 P. D. Weeks Is IN
charge of arrangements.
William H. Rusch. 532 Twentieth
street NV, is conducting another
philatelic poll for Don Houseworth' S
International Stamp Review, st
Joseph, Mo. Questions relate to re-
paired stamps, SCOTS catalogue
formal, new stamps which may be
issued and approval sheet problems
Patriotic poster labels of the Brit
ish Empire include some very color
full designs. One, issued by the
British War Organization Fund
Hong Kong, shows a soldier II
silhouette and. in the background
the outline of a warship. Another
sponsored by the British War Relic!
Association Of the Philippines, fea.
lures the imperial crown. the lettel
"V" for victory" and outstretchee
wings.
Leon ]. Bamberger, sales promo
tion manager of R-K-O Pictures, i
q stamp collector.
Hollywood philatelists include
Lionel Barrymore, Adolph MenJou
Bella Lugosi, Jean Hersholt ant
Douglas Dumbrelle.
Robert Richardson, former new
editor of Linns Weekly Stamp News
is in the Army for the duration.
Slogan cancellations in Manila in
clude one reading: Keep En-
Flying"
: Letters passing between German,
and Italy after January l will b
charged only the ordinary Germal
domestic rate.
Mauritz Hallgren, writing in "Al
About Stamps" says: I'm 1906 tn
removal of an old cupboard In Tn
Dublin Post Office Building REVEALED
a block of ITS copies of the Penn
Black, another of 168 OF the 2-penn
stamps of the same issue and tn
part sheet of 219 of the V. R. OH
cial stamp. = These were to hav
been broken up for display in va
$ rious public collections, but some
how they found their way into Lor
Crawford's albums"
: What has become of the philateli
estate of the late Col. E. H. F
; Green? 1t was appraised by expert
employed by the courts at 81 ,298, A.
: but no part of the accumulation, S
far as the public knows, has com
I into the market. Perhaps the ex
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