Evening star., 1941-06-15

JaneirO.
There are 100000 collectors in
the United StateS-twice as many
as there were 20 years ago-yet
great reservoirs of stamp wealth
remain untapped in every city,
| town and county"
Readers, however, are warned that
stamps are not necessarily valuable
because they are old. 1t is easy to
| cultivate great expectations IN such
matters, only to encounter sad dis
appointments. A good rule is to
suspend Judgment about philatelic
values until at least one expert sp-
praiser has been consulted. Mr..
Bruechig. certainly. is an accredited
authority. His opinions are worthy
of serious acceptance.
The designs submitted to the
Post Office Department by the COM
mittee of artists organized by Paul
Berdanier were rather more radical
than otherwise. A moderniStic in
f1uence characterizes the drawings
thus far reproduced in the philatelic
press. The conservative philosophy
of the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing, it would seem, is vastly
to be preferred to the reforms
suggested.
Copies of the catalog for the sale
of stamps and covers to be held at
the Hay-Adams House, Sixteenth
and H streets NV, Thursday and
Friday evenings, June 26 and q,
may be had by applying to H. A.
Roblnette, 900 F street NV.
A writer in a philatelic magazine
refers to Walt Whitman, represented
on one of the scent Heroes OF Peace
stamps, as the sponsor" of AL our
new views on politics and sociology.
Reading Leaves of Grass" how
ever, will convince any logical mind
that "the Poet of Democracy" was
an individualist. He had no pa
tience with RECOMMENDATION and con-
sistently urged resistance to elected
persons"
Germany is alleged to have IN
preparation a series of stamps show
ing a portrait of Marshal Hermann
Goering, commander of the Nazi air
forces.
George B. Sloane, writing in
Stamps Magazine, says; 1T may De
matter of more than passing in
terest to note that all five of the
artists whose portraits adorn that
set of the Famous Americans
Heroes of Peace series have con-
tributed works which previously had
been used as subjects for United
States stamps. Best known is Gill
bert Stuart's Washington painting,
which was first used for the sc
New York postmaster's provisional,
the Millbury provisional, the l0c
1847, and for numerous subsequent
issues, and his Jefferson portrait
was used in the 1851 and 1851 issues,
the soc 1902 and &c Louisiana Pur-
chase. James Abbot McNeiD
Whistler's portrait of his mother
was adapted in 1884 for the
Mothers of America issue. Augustus
st. Gaudens is we'll known for his
Lincoln head, shown on the &c Lin
/ coin memorial issue of 1909. One
! of the finest works Of Daniel Ches-
/ ter French is his statue OF the
/ Minute Man, which is reproduced on
the SC Lexington Concord issue OF
1925. Two excellent examples Of
| F'rederic) Remingtons vivid por-
trayals of earlier Western life will
be found in the rans-MissisSlppi
issue of 1893, the &c stamp picturing
troops conveying an emigrant train
of covered wagons across the
prairies. and the SOC stamp with its
lonely scene depicting the mining
proSpector'"
Rumania has four new stamps
showing young King Michael in
field marshals uniform-20 L, deep
brown; 80 L, yellow-green; so L,
olive, and 100 l., claret.
Frederic Mistral, Provencal bard,
who received the Nobel Prize for
Literature in 1904. Is portrayed on
1-franc stamps of France, red brown
In color.
Russell c. Wood. Boston stamp
dealer, recently was robbed and
beaten by philatelic bandits who
raided his Office in the approved
motion picture manner.
The American Lutheran will spon-
sor a cachet to mark the centenary
of the pioneer missionary, F. K. D.
Wyneken, in the Midwest States,
June 18. Collectors wanting covers
should send two Scent stamps to
the Publicity Bureau, room 8l2, 1873
Broadway, New York City.
Richard Mop. Cabeen, philatelic
editor of the Chicago Tribune, OBJ
serves: Although At foreign coun-
tries and colonies . participated
in the New York Worlds Fair by
issuing stamps, only four countries
assisted San Francisco in this man.
ner in the celebration of the Golden
Gate International Exposition"
But, in the judgment of at least
a few not altogether unreasonable
persons, the California show was
the better, the less modern" but
more beautiful attraction.
The Associated Press reports:
Timed with army induction OF
Manchukuoan men June l was the
appearance Of new 2-fen rose and
4-fen ultramarine commemora-
tives. Yo-ai Ohta designed the
new stamps for the Kang Teh con-
scription system
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