Evening star., 1941-01-12
|AMONG THE STAMP COLLECTORS
News of the Phatec World Its Interests and Peope-Kevle OF
The Stamp Press-L t of Local Meetings

News. has received his commission
as a first lieutenant in the 26Oth
Coast Guard Artillery. He leaves
for Fort Bliss, Tex, tomorrow.
Completa sets of "facsimiles" n
a dozen different stamps Of the Con-
federate States of America have
appeared in the market.
Speakers at forthcoming meetings
of the Washington Philatelic So
ciety. Hotel 2400 Sixteenth Street
NV. include: Mrs. Grace L. Mac
Knight, January %; Dr. Lothrop
Stoddard. February S; Miss Irene
M. Pistorio, February II, and Col.
Spencer Cosby, February 26.
The death of "B-P" on Wedne@-
day last prompts recollection of
story told in The Pageant OF Civih-
zation" by F. B. Warren in these
words, "Once again warfare resulted
in an element of personality in a
postal issue. On Cape of Good Hope
stamps. issued from Mafeking in
Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden
Powell, noted military figure who
had served in India. Afghanistan,
Zululand. Matabeleland and Malta,
and who. with a force of 1900 men,
was besieged in Maefking for 2l5
days, being relieved on May l8,
1900. This distinguished figure Of
o,.yra &c
to millions throughout the world
for his activities in the upbuilding
of the Boy Scout movement. His
crude portrait in kahki hat and
field uniform looks strangely like
some of the cariCatures Of Theo-
dore Roosevelt in his Rough Rider
period The Baden-Powell image
was engraved by Capt. Greener OF
the British army and reproduced
by Photographic process. The
presence of this portrait in the
Cape of Good Hope postal series is
said to have incurred the dis
pleasure of the British royal family
and to have interferred with
the military career of the distin-
guished officer
"B.-P." stamps were manutac-
tured in two sizes, 1872 nm. and
q nm. wide. The value is 8 p, the
color. blue on blue Current prices
for used copies are SIS and s6.
Washington collectors Of historic
( covers include Miss Mabel Bvler,
1904 Twenty-hfth street NE: Ralph
Cole. 49O8 First street NV. Bruce
Fowler. SSH Eighth street NV;
Miss Sue Higgins. 422 Butternut
street NV: Henry Shepherd. 2l4
Seventeenth street NE. and Ber-
nard Silver. 1858 Walter place Sc.
Add to the list of radio stars who
collect stamps the name Of Lanny
Ross, C. B. S. tenor.
Mrs. Fenton Bradford. wife Of a
well-knoWn Washington stamp COL
lector, died at her home in the La
Sale Apartments, 1923 Connecticut
avenue NV. Monday evening.
| Charles Larenze has been ap-
pointed philatehc adviser 10 the
National tuberculosis Association,
! 1870 Broadway. New York City.
New members of the Washington
Philatelic Society are announced as
follows: Maury Swartz, John r.
Small. Vincent Lopez and Miss Mar
tha Smith Hunichen.
Collectors specializing In the
stamps of Austria or in those OF
Bavaria will find interesting his
torical background material IN
Golden Fleece: the Story of Franz
Joseph and Elizabeth" by Bertha
Harding. published by Blue Ribbon
Books. Inc, New York.
Stamp meetings for the week are
scheduled as follows:
This afternoon at 2-Monthly
meeting of the Associated Stamp
Clubs of the Chesapeake Area,
Hotel 24O0 Sixteenth street NV.
Tomorrow evening at 8-Capital
Precancel Society, Thomson School,
/ Twelfth and L streets NV. Pro-
/ gram in charge of Ralph E. Smith
! and George w Hawse.
Tomorrow evening at 8-Woodridge
/ Stamp Club. 2206 Rhode Island
avenue NE. Program including sd-
dress by LIE Roy Corbin on The
1-cent and Scent Stamps of 1870
1887; auction and business session.
Tomorrow evening at 8:15-WaSh-
ington Stamp Club of the Air,
Station VOL. Philatelic romance
and comment on current news.
Tuesday evening at 8-Collectors'
Club of Washington, Thomson
School. Program, exhibition and
bourse.
Wednesday evening at s-Wash-
ington Philatelic Society, Hotel 24O0
Sixteenth Street NV. Program
featuring a talk on United States
Odds and Ends" by Joseph A. Her
bert, jr.