Evening star., 1941-09-14
AMONG THE STAMP COLLECTORS
News of the Patelc World Its Interests and PeopeRevew of
Stamp Press-L of Local Meetings
Bv James Waldo Fayccet.

By James Waldo FagOcen.
An official release from the Navy
Department reads: Good news for
stamp collectors! Permission for
tie issuance of special cachets to
commemorate the commissioning OF
new ships was granted today in
letter sent by the Bureau Of Navi-
cation to all Navy ships and sta
tionS. Such caChets were dlscon-
tinued several months ago when the
Navy laid down its policy against
publicity regarding the location and
movements of ships"
Plate numbers have been assigned
as follows: 22796 and 22797, Is, or
binary. electric eye convertible; 22798
and 22799. &c: 22800. &c; 22801 and
228O2 7c; 228O3 and 228O4, &c; 22805
and 226O6, &c, postage dues; 22807
and 228O8, 1c, postage dues; 228O9
and 22810 &c, postage dues.
Margaret Kernodle of the ASSo-
ciated Press writes: "Brazil'S sum-
mer stamps included a single COM
memoratiVe of the founding OF the
Society of JeSus-in mllreleS. Brazil
also has a new set of four stamps
for the Portugal centennial. An
oblong green of 5,400 relS shows an
oval portrait of Gen. Carmona OF
Portugal on the left and similar
oval of President Vargas on the
right. Inscription reads: "Cente-
narios de Portugal, ll40-l640.' A
red 200 reiS ShownS the head of D.
Alfonso Henrigues and carries the
same inscription, purple 800 rels
depicts Salvador Correa de Sac
Benevides and a fourth stamp in
blue shows Padre Antonio Vieida.
Nine stamps for the British colony
of Seychelles have been released.
Each design includes an oval medal
lion portrait of King George VI.
Values, colors and subjects are: Sc.
orange, giant tortoise; 15c, orange
red. same; 3Oc blue, same; 75c. pur-
pie, same; &c, blue green, coco-de-
mer. double coconut; 18c. magenta,
same; SC; gray, fishing piroque; 20r,
buff, same.
Union of South Africa stamps"
Robert D. Byrnes. philatelic editor
of the Hartford Courant, reports.
"have been overprinted with the
coinage expressed in cents for the
use of troops from South Africa
serving in the British colony of
Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika. I"
The currency system of the Union is
the same as that of Great Britain
pence, shillings and pounds, while
in Kenya the shilling is divided into
cents.
Stamps of several French colonies
overprinted France Libre" have
been challenged as made-to- order
counterfeits. Collectors are warned
to buy specimens so marked from
accredited dealers only.
Ernest A. Kehr, stamp editor of
the New York Herald Tribune. re-
marks: Despite restrictions neces-
STATED by Canada's participation in
The war have made it increasingly
difficult for residents of the Domin-
ion to import postage stamps, phi
lately there is not only thriving. but
actually becoming more popular from
Quebec to British Columbia"
The stamp collection of the late
King George V now is "in hiding" at
an undisclosed country residence in
England. 1t is reported that Prime
Minister w. L. Mackenzie King of
Canada recently inspected some OF
the albums.
India announces four new stamps
Of the regular series now current.
They are 2 arnaS. vermilion; 3l2
annas, blue S annas, turquoise, and
8 annas, slate blue
The general government of Po-
land has released a new 4-zloty, dull
green issue picturirg castle on the
Vistula River.
In the near future airmail service
will be inauguyated at Niagara Falls,
N. Y, on Route AMI, between Buff
falo, N. Y. and Detroit. Mich. A
special cachet will be provided for
Niagara Falls and the usual treat
ment Of philatelic mail will be au-
thorized.
Kent B. Stiles. philatelic writer for
the New YORK Times, says: "A re-
capltulation Of the stamps issued
during the CirstJ two years Of the
war shows that a minimum of 1,245
major and minor varieties appeared,
attributed directly to conditions
caused by the conflict. Releasing of
scores of other War-caused postage
items mas been reported, and it seems
probable that still more were issued
OF which collectors have not yet been
informed"
The Society of Philatelic Amer
leans at Philadelphia adopted reso-
luton condemning the possession, as
well as the sale, of repaired. re-
perforated and regummed stamps
and also counterfeits without mark
ings to indicate their true condition
Uruguay is paying philatelic hon.
age to Juan Manuel Blanes, famous
painter, born at Montevideo in 1890
died at Pisa, in Italy, in 1901.
Speaking from Station WINK on
Sunday evening, September 7, Alden
H. Whitney, member of the Board
OF Governors of the Washington
Phllatelic Society. discussed the
social values of philately, in part, as
follows:
Even non-collectors generally con-
cede that the king of hobbies is
educational in terms of increasing
knowledge of history, geography and
the social and political sciences. It
Is not denied that q stamp collector
whether young or old, can add to his
store of learning by the study of
the colored scraps of postal paper
STAMPS AND COINS.
NATIONAL STAMP MART