Evening star., 1941-09-21
AMONG THE STAMP COLLECTORS
News the Phaec World Its Interests People-Review
the Stamp Press-List OF Local Meetings
Bv James Waldo Fa,vceff.

claim set forth In its behalf as 9TH,
encyclopaedia of philately." Mex
year the annual publication may bs
divided into two parts-one for thu
Old World and one for the New. The
editors, Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh M. Clark
have asked for suggestions for 6
more practical formal for their now
ponderous work.
Postmaster General Frank c
Walker has announced that ut /.
expected that calls will be made a,
Suva, Fiji Islands, by the trans.
Pacific airmail Clippers beginning
about the middle of October"
Collectors interested to obtain
f1rst-fight covers are advised to in.
quire at first-class post offices TO,
detailed information.
The Washington Philatelic So
ciety will have an anniversary din
ner on Wednesday evening, Decem-
Der 3.
1t has been estimated that the
British government lost at least
100000 through the notorious stock
exchange" forgery of the 1-shilling
stamp of 1867 CA 2I. The fraud
was discovered by philatelist,
Charles Nissen, Is years after its
preparation.
The London (now the Royal)
Philatelic Society was established in
1869 with Sir Daniel Cooper as pres
ident.
Germany in 1888 brought out a
@winter relief series the highest
value of which-40 plus 35 pf.. plum
shows the birthplace of Adolf Hit
Ter at Branman, in Upper Austria
(SPl13).
The triangular stamps of the Cape
Of Good Hope (Scott's Al and A2)
have magnetic attraction for COL
lectors of every class. Distributed
between 1853 and 1864, they were
manufactured by two London firms
Perkins, Bacon & Co. and De La
Rue & Co.-and one local print
ing establishment-Saul Solomon &
Co.
E. Stanley Gibbons was the first
dealer TO stock any considerable
quantity of the three-sided ad-
heslves. He purchased a sack full
of them from two sailors who said
they had won them in a rattle.
The next important find" was a
sheet of 238 copies of one of the
shilling values. 1t was bought from
a friend by Maj. E. B. Evans.
A third lot came to light in 1904
when mariner offered a number of
full sheets to a dealer, asking s35
for them. The buyer, however, was
unfortunate. He went to Austria
on business and was shot and killed
there.
So long as the Sokol movement
survives, Czecho- -Slovakia will not
be forgotten. The founders of the
Sokol Union were DR.. Miroslar Tyrs
Q832-18S4J and Jindrich Ftigner
G822-1855). A series of stamps for
the former appeared in 1882 and
1888 (A43-A45), set for the latter
in 1888 [A84).
The Emanuei Swedenborg stamps
OF Sweden, issued in 1888, repro
duced in miniature a portrait by
Per Kraft the Elder. Scientist,
philosopher and mystic, Swedenborg
himself was born in Stockholm
January %, 1888, and died in Lon
don March 90, 1772. The artist
to whom the modern world owes
its philatelic impression of him
lived from 1924 to 1893. Two values
of the commemorative are available
-10-ore, violet perforated 1872 all
around and in coils; 100-ore, green
(coils only,
r. A. Bellamy of oxford in Eng
land accumulated one of the most
notably complete philatelic libraries
ever assembled. 1t was his in
tention to donate the entire COL
lection to oxford University. But
the university authorities declined
the gift because of lack of space
for its accommodation.
Barnett Freedman, designer of
the King George V silver jubilee
stamps of Great Britain (A98), was
a native of Stepney who taught
himself to draw during long stay
In London hospital where he was
confined by a heart ailment. Sub
sequently, employed in the Office
of an interior decorator, he won
scholarship given by the Royal
College of Art and became a teacher
there. His pictures are in the Vic
toria and Albert Museum, the Tate
Gallery and the museums of Leeds
and Sheffield.
Linns Weekly Stamp News fore
casts health" semi-postals for New
Zealand in October-1p plus 12p;
2p plus 1p.
3. w. H. Poole is the author of an
essay on the first stamps of Sal
vador, published in Mekeel's weekly,
Stamp News for September 8.
Germany's commemorative for
Otto Won Guericke (A-90), 6pf, dark
green, 1886, was issued to mark the
250th anniversary of the death of
the famous experimental philoso-
pher, May II, 1886. He heard the
first sound and saw the first light in
artificially excited electricity"
Frank L. Wilson, writing for
Stamps Magazine. says: "On Sep
tenber 10, 1910, Manchukuo issued
two stamps for the first census of
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