Evening star., 1942-02-22
AMONG THE STAMP COLLECTORS
News of the Phaec World Its Interests and PeopeReview of
the Stamp Press-List of Local Meetings.
By James Waldo Fa,ccen.

n SCIlco O1 pdtiloelS POoeo6S
stamps will be issued-if there is
sufficient demand for them.
Such is the latest report from
Post Office Department circles,
where officials close to Postmaster
General Frank c. Walker admit
that hundreds of letters requesting
authorization of postal adhesives in
honor of the fighting forces have
beeen received.
Collectors interested in the mat
ter are invited to write Third As
sistant Postmaster General Ramsey
S. Black or Deputy Third Assistant
Postmaster General Roy M. North.
It will do no harm if carbon
copies of letters appealing for ac-
ton are sent to Senator Joseph c.
OMahoney of wyoming, the most
active congressional proponent OF
the proposed set.
Linn's Weekly Stamp News for
February IA says: Newspaper items
backed up by statement from Treas
ury Department. sources claim
that approximately $4,000. 900 have
been spent by American collectors
for Axis stamps in the past few
months. Such an estimate Is ridlc-
ulous."
The Poster Stamp Publishing Co.,
2445 South Damen avenue, Chicago,
has brought out a set of six attrac-
tive V for Victory poster labels.
Send Is cents in wrapped coin and
stamped, self addressed envelope.
Stamp boosters" recently listed
In Stamps Magazine include H. D.
Shorts, Louis G. Nix, Paul Schar-
renberg, William Marsh, S. H. Poll,
Frederic Boyer and Col. Spencer
Cosby, all of Washington.
The Vichy government of France
has issued a dozen semi-postals
subject to restricted sale Designs
include the coats of arms of Nancy,
Lille, Rouen, Bordeaux, Toulouse,
Clermont-Ferrand, Marseilles, Lyon,
Rennes, Reims, Montpelier and
Paris.
Stamps of Johore, Kedah, Kelan-
tan, Pahang and Trengganu, all
formerly semi-independent Malay
states, now are in the control of
the japanese armies of occupation.
Covers bearing the recent post
marks of Manila, Hong Kong, Sing
apore and Batavia should be pre-
served entire. Their value already
Is considerable, and it will rise when
at last the tide of war turns against
the Axis powers.
Stamps Magazine for February IA
says: The New York Times has
run several letters from readers to
the effect that stamps are being
sent to England in order to have
the coloring matter removed, and
that the proceeds from this re-
claimed dye are now sustaining beds
in the Queens Hospital for Chill
dren in London.
This hardly sounds like an eco
nomical or a practical proposition,
for the loose stamps themselves,
even the commonest, would have a
value that we believe would be far
more than that of the coloring
that could be salvaged.
I'VE submitted the matter to a
practical chemist, who advised us
that practically 100 per cent of the
colors used on postage stamps are
lakes, which are insoluble. They
would have to be stripped, brought
into solution again and reprecipi-
tated, which requires time, effort
and expense that would greatly ex-
ceed any possible value.
While, of course. it is possible
that this may be done, we feel that
the stamps ceald be used to much
better purpose, and we know that
many of the hospitals in London,
as well as in this country, are being
supplied with stamps for use in the
institutions. A substantial amount
of money has been raised from the
sale of stamps, but we believe far
more important value has been the
Introduction of stamp collecting into
the institutions, where it is prov
ing one of the most beneficial ac-
tivities to interest the inmates"
The Baltimore Sun for Sunday,
February 8, contains an interesting
illustrated article on The Troubles
of the Fort George g. Meade
Mailman by Frank Henry.
Nebraska is reported to desire a
commemorative stamp for the 18th
anniversary of admission to the
Union, March 1.
Turkey announces a series of
stamps in commemoration of Ad-
miral Barbaros Hayrettin. De-
nominations are 20p, violet; 3k,
light blue; 6k, red; 10k, blue: 12k,
yellow brown; 1712k, indigo, green,
blue and brown.
The stamps of Nicaragua for the
years 1890, 1891, 1893 and 1894 were
put on the philatelie market by a
Paris dealer, Schaupmeier by name.
When sales of mint copies declined
he returned his stock to the gov
eminent of its origin to receive
poStmarks.
The Binghamton Philatelic Soci-
ETY. Beacon asks: did you know that
Trinidad, British island in the
West Indies, where the United
States has one of its new naval
bases. printed a postage stamp
tScott's Type No. A-10, 1899 with
a design taken from the stained
glass window of her Council Build
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