Evening star., 1941-08-17
AMONG THE STAMP COLLECTORS
News of the Phlateic World Its Interests and PeopeRevew of
the Stamp Press-List of Local Meetings
BY James Waldo Faaccett.

Dp James ~ didO FdaoCefi.
The new 15-cent airmail staml
will go on sale in Baltimore Tuesda.
morning at 10 o'clock. Meanwhile
the design of the series has beer
challenged for accuracy. Walter
Fpangenberg says; The plan,
shown is a two-motor craft. 1
should have only one rudder, no
three"
One of the casualties of the sec
ond World War is the Universe
Postal Union, founded in 1874, nov
practically suspended. Eighty-si,
different countries, colonies anc
groups of colonies were members.
The first postage stamp catalogue
ever issued seems to have been
little pamphlet entitled Catalogue
des TimbreS-Poste crees dams les
divers EtatS du Globe" Paris was
the place of publication; December
21, 1861, the release date. The editor
was Albert Potiquet, an employe OF
the Public Waterworks and Bridges
Department in the French metrop-
oils. He listed 1,08G adhesive stamps
and 132 stamped envelopes.
Fred J. Melville, late international
"dean of philatelic writer's" said in
his final book: The modern stamp
collector will not get very far in eX-
tending his collection by stamps de-
rived from the wastebasket or by
gift. Rarely is a worthwhile collec-
ton obtained without expenditure.
Gifts may fill up gaps here and
there. but few would be satisfied
without some more systematic way
of developing a collection"
The "commonest stamp in the
.world" one-penny lilac Queen
Victoria issue of 1881-is available
lin two designs. In the angles of the
ffirst type there are IA dots, in those
:of the second 16. The market value
of the former is approximately 13
times that of the latter.
It is a tradition that the soWer
<type Apo familiar on the stamps
of France from 1908 was adapted
from a design originally prepared
for a coin by oscar Roby.
Mourning stamps have been is
sued in memory OF President War
ren G.. Harding, United States;
Chancellor DollfuSs, Austria; King
Albert I, Belgium; Queen Astrid,
Belgium; king Alexander, Yugo-
slavia; President Thomas g..
Masaryk. Czecho-S -Slovakia, and Pres
ident GEM Paul Won Hindenburg,
Germany.
The I'd gray-black King Edward
VII stamp of Great Britain (A-79)
went on sale May 4, 1910. Two days
later the sovereign died.
A secret of the Imperial State
Printing Works of Berlin was dis
covered by accident when the Ger
man liner Elder was wrecked off the
Isle of Wright, January 81, 1892.
The purser's stock of stamps, being
retrieved after immersion in salt
water, showed a concealed under
print in ink mixed with phenol-
phthelin. Neither the philatelic
public nor the generality OF users
previously had been aware Of
the protection against counterfeiting
thus provided for postal adheSives,
The engraver of the 1858 Arms"
stamps of Naples (A-1 to AT, in
clusive) concealed a different letter
in the border of each of the seven
designs comprising the set. When
arranged in order the symbols
p to so grana denominations-spell
&C. Masini," the name Of the artist
himself.
Eugene Mouchon, a distinguished
French engraVer, v2S responsible
for the famous Death Mask"
stamps of Serbia. 1904 AID. They
were intended to mark the corona
ton of King Peter I and the CEN
tenary of the Karagcorge BLACK
George dynasty, to which he be-
1onged. Because of the legend OF
their alleged commemoration of the
murdered King Alexander and Queen
Draga, aSSassinated by conspirators
in the royal palace at Belgrade, June
10 or II, 1903 the labels sold as
rapidly as they coud be printed.
Postal officials gathered prodlglous
harvest of unexpected profit-until
counterfeits appeared in the mar
ket.
The man who did not write even
one single word of William Shake
speares famous plays is represented
in the design of Newfoundland's
Scent claret colonization commem-
orative Of 1910 (A-59) His name is
given enormously as Lord Bacon.
1t might better have been Baron
Verulain or Viscount st. Adams. in
reference to fine old town about 25
miles from London. where, perhaps
he owned some real estate.
Visitors to the Field Museum in
Chicago may see the original of the
Viking ship shown on the scent
Morse American commemoratlon OF
1925. The little craft is copy OF
an ancient vessel unearthed at
Gokstad, Norway, in 1880. 1t was
sailed over the Atlantic and through
the Great Lakes to the Columbian
Worlds Fair of 1893, Capt. Magnus
Anderson and a crew of IL aboard.
Flying from the forward mast is the
Stars and Stripes.
From the Penny Black of 1910
until the last issue Of her reign,
more than 60 years later, Queen
Victoria never aged a day on the
stamps of Great Britain. Her profile
portrait as she was at 81 remained
standard for philatelic use so long
as she lived. Her death occurred
on January %, 1901.
The fist British stamps of the
STAMPS AND COINS.
Fidelity Stamp Co.
We have First Day envelopes for the i2c.