Evening star., 1942-05-10

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with letter in split stick in his
left hand.
According to the Philatelic Maya
zine. London, William Mulready
lived to a ripe old age, dying in
London on July 7, 1868, but he
never outlived the satire brought
about by the famous prepaid covers
and envelopes of 1910, though many
of his earlier pictures enjoyed a
popular sale"
Between 1871 and 1885 several
colleges in the Universities of oxford
and Cambridge issued stamps for
the prepayment of porterage-fees
for the carriage Of messages and
letters.
Col Hans .Lagerloef of New York
presented valuable collections OF the
stamps of Venezuela and Egypt to
the postal museum at Stockholm in
1888.
Collectors again are warned
against paying extravagant prices
for Free French" overprints. Such
material is of doubtful origin and
probably will be denied admission to
standard catalogues.
Liberia surcharged 10 ordinary
air-post stamps for the Inauguration
of air-mail service to the United
States February IA.
Mrs. Newbold Noyes intends to
carry on the stamp collection OF
her late husband. associate editor
of The Star until his death on
April 16.
Postal censors at Bombay have
prohibited the expectation of stamps
of India.
The Union of South Africa has a
stamp in recognition of the services
rendered to humanity by trained
nurses, but the United States. de-
spite repeated appeals for such
philatelic homage, still remains
stalled
Walter j. Rozmin 1922, South
Union street, Chicago, announces
/ the publication of a periodical to
! be known as the Newspaper Stamp
! Column Review The new maga-
/ zine will appear twice month.
Franklin r. Bruins, jr. has been
appointed editor of the Collectors
Club Philatelist. official magazine Of
the Collectors Club of New York.
! The German aerial attacks on
/ Britain have resulted in a tremen-
/ dous expansion of the postal services
of the latter country. Mass evacu-
alton to rural villages. it is said,
has trebled the number of letters
handled in small post Offices.
Representatives of the Pitney-
Bowes Postage Meter Co., Stamford
| Conn, have announced that the first
mailomat machine to be purchased
( by the Post Office Department has
! been set up in the new general post
Office in West Van Buren, street,
! Chicago.
! New Canadian meter slogans are:
"Therell Always Be An England,
Buy Bonds for Victory" Win the
/ War With War Savings Stamps"
/ Hold High the Torch of Freedom
and DO Your Part-Buy Victory
Bonds"
Ernest A. Kehr, philatelic editor
( of the New York Herald Tribune, a
visitor in Washington last week, ex-
presses his frank disapproval of de-
+ flecting the interest of collectors
from stamps to poster labels He
favors. instead. an increase of in
terest in the postal emissions al
ready available to collectors.
Donald Tolson, recently named
assistant superintendent OF the post
age stamp division of the Bureau OF
dNIllE hliI iiitlilSs llo" ID
ported about to enter the Air Force
Finland has issued a series OF
stamps bearing the portrait of Field
Marshal Baron Carl Gustaf Emil
Won Mannerheim.
Nature Magazine for April con-
tains an illustrated article on the
"Guano Birds" of Peru by Edith M
Laing.
Dan Wells is editing a stamp col
umn for the Detroit Free Press.
The 1909 2-cent Abraham Lincoln
commemorative. prepared for the
centenary of the birth OF the mar
tyred President. reproduces photo
graph of portrait bust of him by
Augustus st. Gaudens then on dis.
play at the Corcoran Gallery OF Art
Included in Philander Johnson's
Poems, recently published, the phila.
telic reader will find these lines:
George Washington, whose fac'
serene
Upon the postage stamp is seen,
Might sometimes lose his look o.
pride
II he knew what was mailed in
side"
DR.. and Mrs. Prichard Won DAVE