Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-07-27

stamped and ready to go with l.
cent service fee for each postmark
wanted.
Many King Edward VIII stamps
recently have been observed on let
tiers arriving from Great Britain.
Justin L. Bacharach of New York
has issued warning concerning
"a man representing himself as the
road buyer of large New England
concern . last heard of in Balti-
more and heading for Washington"
AL Burns Stamp News is to be-
come a weekly with its next issue.
Ben Hamilton, jr., has compiled
a list of famous French explorers
represented on postage stamps. The
roster includes: Jacques Cartier, dis
coverer of Canada; Samuel de Cham
plain, Jean Nicolet, Pere Jacques
Marquette, Comte Louis-Antoine de
Bougainville, Comte Jean-Francois
de Gallup de la Perouse. Jean La
horde, Joseph-Simon Gallieni, Ma
rechal L. Hubert Gonzalve Lyautey
and Paul Doumer.
The Martha Washington Stamp
Club Springfield, Mass, has issued
/ a poster label in sheets of four, the
design including portrait OF
/ Martha Washington. Readers may
order from Mrs. j. A. Evan, $50
Dwight road, Springfield, inclosing
! 10c for each block wanted.
The Pan-American Union has
brought out a series of scenic poster
labels to publicize the slogan Know
the Americas" Complete sets with
folders for mounting may be had at
Is cents each, postpaid.
/ H o. George. Box A, Glendale,
Calf, is organizing a new national
society Of collectors of plate num-
Der blocks and strips.
Linn's Weekly Stamp News says:
The first matador to be depicted
on a stamp is an unknown gentle
man from Portugal who is shown
on the new It's escudos stamp Of
! that country.
Garner Curran. 1915 South Norton
avenue, Los Angeles, desires to cor
respond with collectors interested
in establishing stamp clubs in Army
training camps
Because of the German occupa-
ton OF Belgium, the postal authori-
ties of the Congo have arranged for
the manufacture of postage stamps
| in the Union of South Africa.
Values and colors are: 10c, gray;
15c, brown; Csc, pale blue; SOC, lilac;
75c, pale rose; 125 fir, brown: It's fr,
orange; ESQ fr blue; 275 fr, blue;
5 fr, olive. and 10 fr, brick red.
The yacht Hohenzollern. once
owned by Kaiser Wilhelm II and
pictured on the colonial stamps OF
Germany, now Is reported to be in
! Florida.
Secretary Of the Interior Harold
L. Ickes saves full sheets of stamps
issued by the Roosevelt administra-
ton. His investment since March
4. 1888, must run into several thous-
and dollars.
Cynics who preferred to believe
that the public cares nothing about
art may be interested to learn that
an average of about 5000 people a
day visit the National Mellon) Gal
lery. Let that be remembered the
next time somebody is tempted to
make light of the esthetic Judgment
of the populace concerning stamps.
The Airpost Journal tells of the
delivery of covers which had been in
the crash of a Panagea mail plane
lost in the Andes Mountains June
l9, 1888.
Jamaica and Turks and Caicos Is
lands stamps of the reigns of Queen
Victoria and King Edward VII some
what tardily are announced de-
; monetized.
The June IA issue OF the New
Yorker magazine contains an article
on the sale of the stamps Of the
late Edward S. Knapp.
New Zealand in 1898 sold for SOC
. pounds the right to print advertis-
ing on the backs of postage stamps
d Gibbons Stamp Monthly, London