Evening star., 1941-07-13
AMONG THE STAMP COLLECTORS
News of the Paec World Its Interests and Peope-Revew
the Stamp Press-Lst of Local Meetings
Rr James Waldo Faacceff.

the CtdI1I
Br James Waldo Fawcen.
The trustees of the Peabody Lii
brary Association of Georgetown
nave appealed to Postmaster General
Frank Walker to authorize the
George Peabody COMMEMORATIVE
proposed by William F. Carlin of
Silver Spring. Nd.
A letter indorsing the project bears
the signature OF Ernest F.. Mechlin,
writing in behalf of his associates:
Henry S. Mathews. Spencer Gordon,
Walker Peter, J. Bernard Wycoff,
Louis Mackall, jr., and Eva N. Gil
bert.
A young collector searching old
papers in the home of his grand
mother in New York State recently
found a block of II and a block of 8
of the scent and strip of 3 and a
block of of the 10-cent stamps of
1847. The treasures already have
been sold. Norman Serphos, presi-
dent of the Scott Stamp e. Coin
Co. Inc, New York, is the pur-
chaser.
Germany has announced a new
regular postage series of % different
values, l pfennig to marks. The
designs will feature-aS might be eX-
pected-a portrait of Adolf Hitler
First-dav distribution is scheduled
for August l.
Antonin Dvorak. famous Czecho-
SloVak composer, was born Septem-
ber g. 164l, and a centenary COM
memorative in his honor undoubt-
edly would be issued if the country
which paid philatelic tribute to him
in 1884 still existed as an independ-
ent nation.
From the March-April issue of
Swiss Industry and Trade, Lau-
same, the following paragraphs are
quoted:
Swiss postage stamps for soc, 6Oc,
7oc, SOC and 90c, fr., l20 fr., $50
fr. and fr., which have so far
been geographically produced. are
now replaced by new Vignettes OBJ
tanned by the modern process of
copper-plate engraving on a rotary
press. The designs on these stamps
and the original steel engravings
are inspired by Swiss artistic mas
terpieces. The subjects are all
taken from Swiss history.
SOC, The Oath of the Three
Swiss, according to the monument
OF James Vibert in the entrance
hall OF the Federal Palace in Berne.
Printed in grayish purple on green
paper.
soc, William Tell. from the we'll
known painting by Ferdinand Hod-
Ter. now privately owned in Solo,
thurn. actually exhibited in the Fine
Arts Museum in Berne. Printed in
brown on buff paper.
roc, The Fighting Warrior, part
OF the Retreat From Marignan'
fresco. by Ferdinand Holder. Printed
in dark purple on purple paper.
"00c, The Dying Warrior, part of
the above fresco in the Swiss Ma
tional Museum in Zurich. Printed
in gray-black on gray paper
'90c, The Banneret.' by the me-
dleval Bernese artist, Niklaus Man.
uel Deutsch, from a wash-d drawing
owned by the Prints and Engraving
Office in Berlin. Printed in red on
red paper.
Il fr., Col. Louis Pfyffer 1524-
1894. called King of the Swiss.
magistrate of Lucerne and a great
statesman, from a portrait by an
unknown artist, privately owned in
Lucerne. Printed on yelIowish-
green paper.
"1.20 fr., Jurg Jenatsch 1896
1639) hero of the struggle for inde-
pendence in the Grisons. from a
picture by an unknown artist in the
Grisons Museum in Coire. Printed
In purple on gray.
$50 fr, 1t. Gen. Francois de
Reynold 1642-1722l. army leader in
the service of foreign powers. from
a picture by H. Rigaud privately
owned in Fribourg. Printed in blue
on buff paper.
% fr, Col. Joachim Forrer of
Neu-St. Johann 1782-1833D, Swiss
Army commander. Picture by Felix
M. Diogg, owned by the Historical
Museum Of St. Gall Printed in red
dlsh-brown on red paper.
These nine stamps have been de-
signed and steel-engraved by the
artist Karl Bickel and printed in the
postage stamp printing shops of the
General Post Office on paper with
blue and red fibers. They are of me-
dium size "a by 90 NM. picture
measuring 81 by 26 nm. Each sheet
contains so stamps"
Arden Kiser, AZ. is the author of
an article on 'Philatelic Fantasies, "
printed in the May issue of the
Acorn. periodical of Jefferson Senior
High School, Roanoke, Va.
Van Dyk MacBride, writing in
Stamps Magazine, New York, speaks
of the first rule of Confederate
philately" as being: Always look
on the back, the inside and under
meath every Confederate item you
see"
The Post Office Department has
reported 10950 first-flight covers
Cancelled at Washington National
Airport, June l6.
Prescott H. Thorp. Netcong, N. J.
Is breaking up large collection oi
STAMPS AND COINS.
NATIONAL STAMP MART
1917 St NV. RIM. All. Dist. 321: