Evening star., 1941-10-05

Europe"
stamp section differs from London's
Somerset House, in that it obtains
| its stock from the countries of
| issue and offers to sell to the COL
lectors themselves, and the sales
are not restricted either to dealers
or to the natives of any given coun-
try.
collectors have not been slow to
| recognize the current trend toward
closer cooperation between the
United States and the other repub-
lies of the Americas. They realize
it to be a new era in the philatelic
solidarity of the Americas, just as
current events are forging the same
solidarity of commercial, cultural,
economic, naval and military inter-
ests of the 81 Western Hemisphere
nations. These new ties are accom-
plishing a closer permanent union
| of the republics, which will likewise
establish permanent philatelic in
! terest.
Stamp collectors have long since
| realized that it is almost impossible,
now that stamps have been in use
| for an entire century, for them to
build collections with any degree Of
completeness. Their tendency has
been to select some group of coun-
! tries or selected field for specializa-
ton. At this time in the history of
| the world, when a new order is be-
| ing forged, it is but logical for them
| to turn to South and Central Amer
lea. Our Congress has already pro-
vided for the investment of some
$500, 900 900 in Latin America, busi-
ness firms have opened new vistas
| of trade, air traffic has become
Americanized and stimulated. There
are more interchanges of univer-
sity scholarships and cultural rela-
tions than ever before.
Supplies of stamps, which pre-
viously had come from Europe, have
long since stopped. The future of
Europe shows every indication of
philatelic confusion. There are many
issues now current that have no au-
| thority behind them. There will be
many temporary issues, many To-
Gals, many that will have no stand
ing in future stamp catalogues.
Years will no doubt pass before we
learn definitely just where the cur
rent issues of Europe will belong.
Meanwhile order and regularity pre-
vail among the issues of Latin
America. For some time 1t has been
felt-wholly erroneously-that the
Latin American governments have
overdone the matter of new postal
issues. The 1912 Scott Standard
Postage Stamp Catalogue, released
but week ago, tells an interesting
story in regard to the new issues of
Latin America. Hugh M. Clark, the
editor of the catalogue, has an
nounced that 2,100 new postal is
/ sues have been released since the
! last edition of the catalogue. A
breakdown of these new issues by
| countries shows that of the 2,1OO
| new stamps but 282 were released by
the 20 Latin American countries
combined. That amounts to but al
stamps per country.
ITO aid in fuller understanding
of these Western Hemisphere postal
issues the Pan-American Union is
publishing sectional Who's Who
on the Postage Stamps of Latin
America. No such compilation has
ever before appeared, due no doubt
to the fact that 80 per cent of the
material required to offer authentic
biographies of the illustrious men
and women whose portraits appear
on these postage stamps just is not
available in the English language.
Through the facilities of the Co.
lumbus Memorial Library of the
union and its official contacts with
the governments themselves, the
union is In position to compile
these booklets, which are being Of
fered at the nominal price of 10
cents each. The booklets on Argen-
tina, Bolivia, Brazil and Chile are
now available. Those on Colombia
and Costa Rica are almost ready for
release, and others in alphabetic
sequence will follow.
LAS further medium of offering
instructive information in regard
to our sister republics of the south
land the Pan-American Union has
prepared series of "a Know the
Americas poster stamps and a color
ful album in which they may be
mounted. These poster stamps depict
"a of the most important and inter-
esting scenes Of the Western Hemi-
sphere-and along with the spaces
for their mounting in the album
there is a brief story giving the
essential facts associated with each.
The front cover Of this album shows
the colorful spread Of the 81 massed
flags and on the back cover there is
a map of the continent. The unit
of the "a poster stamps and album,
which has proved highly popular in
schools, Is offered at Is cents each,
with discount when purchased In
quantities for schoolroom use"
Joseph F. Garland, assistant
chief inspector of the Post ONCE
Department, will be guest speaker
at a meeting of the Washington
Philatelic Society, Lee Sheraton
Hotel, Fifteenth and L streets, NV,
wednesday evening, October %.
The S. P. A. Journal for Septem-
ber contains biographical sketch
of Harry B. Mason, veteran WASH
ington stamp dealer, a native OF
oxford. Mass, but a resident of the
Nations Capital pretty much" since
1869.
The comprehensive philatelic IL
brary of George w. Linn, editor and
publisher of Linn's Weekly Stamp
News, Columbus, Ohio, is to be sold
at auction shortly.
Scott Publications, Inc, announce