Evening star., 1942-05-03
AMONG THE STAMP COLLECTORS
News OF the Phaec World Its Interests and People-Revew of
the Stamp Press-List of Local Meetings.
By James Waldo Faacceff

ment dated April %, stamps and
coins, precious stones, antiques and
knotted oriental rugs, paintings,
etchingS, sculptures and other OBJ
jects of art" are excepted" from the
control of the Office of Price Ad-
ministration. This means that
there is no artificial ceiling" on
the market listings of philatelic
material.
The new Kentucky stamp probably
will 60 on sale at Danville, June /.
A poster label of appropriate
patriotic design has been prepared
by the Navy Relief Society, 730
Fifth avenue, New York City, and
sheets of 100 are available at ST.,
First day sales arrangements Tor
the new series of stamped envelopes
are believed to specify release at
Dayton, Ohio; Portland, Me; New
Orleans, La; Detroit, Mich; Los
Angeles. Calf; Seattle, Wash, and
Washington.
DR.. Christian of Rivers End is
stamp collector. but his script
writer gets his facts tangled For
instance, the 24-cent air mail inverts
were discovered not in Brooklyn but
in Washington.
SCOTS Standard Postage Stamp
Catalogue for l943 appearing in two
sections, will be priced at $3.50.
Only limited edition, it has been
indicated, will be manufactured.
Elmer c. Pratt, philatelic editor
of thesCamden Courier-Post, writes:
The boys in service are taking
full advantage of the free mailing
privilege that is due them and as a
result mother is getting more let
ters from her boy. A 3-cent stamp
isn't much for us here at home but
to the boys in service it is that
much out of scanty pay. It's a
fine thing, this free mail-fine for
the boys and fine for the mothers
at home"
Harvey String of New Jersey won
first prize in recent stamp eXhi-
bition at Fort Elemdorf, Anchorage,
Alaska.
Letters for New Zealand mailed
in the United States and Canada
between November 20 and 26 last
were lost at sea.
The Edward S. Knapp collection
brought almost S143,000 when sold
at auction in New York recently.
Ernest A. Kehr, stamp editor of
the New York Herald Tribune, will
be at the Hotel Harrington today,
tomorrow and Tuesday.
Lewis A. Herman, 1885 Gallatin
street NV, is an applicant for
membership in the Society of Phil
atelic Americans.
Reports to the effect that pos
sibly 5000 covers addressed to VIM
ston Churchill at the White House
were destroyed are erroneous.
Rev. Father Daniel j. Kaib of
St. Mary's Church, Erie, Pa, re-
Gently celebrated the golden jubilee
of his ordination. He has been
stamp collector for many years and
his collection of United States and
foreign material is notable and
distinctive.
The British Press Service reports:
British postage Stamps-at least
the most commonly used ones, those
up to the threepenny-are paying
their tribute to war economy: They
are being printed in lighter shades.
This will mean the saving of con-
siderable quantities of dye stuffs
which are used in various ways for
the war effort, especially in those
empire countries which rely on Brit
ish manufactures for their indus
trial dyes.
There has been no drop in the
sale of stamps. People are using the
mails as heavily as ever, although
the millions of circulars sent out
by mail order houses, money lenders,
football pool promoters and others
have disappeared. But this has left
no gap in the mails because a great
many more personal letters are
being written. There are 1000 900
men in the armed forces at home
and overseas who keep up a CORE
spondence with their families and
friends, and there are thousands
more who have been drafted into
factories miles away from their
homes
Dead letters no longer are burned
by the Post Office Department. In
the interest of wartime conservation
Of paper, letters undelivered here
after will be torn across" and sold
in quantity.
There is no law to prohibit the
use OF Defense stamps for postage
If collector wishes to make a
free gift to his country by applying
25-cent war loan adhesive to an
envelope addressed to himself, the
Government should, and doubtless
will, give him Scents worth of postal
service IN return without COM
planning about the corners-and the
red tape he has cut.
Margaret Kernodle. stamp editor
Of Wide World Features, Associated
Press, has been transferred tc
Washington. Her stamp column
hereafter will be written in the
philatelic capital of the world.
A Red Cross benefit auction will
be stellar event of the convention
of the Society of Philatelic Ameri-
cans, Detroit, August 10 to "a
Poster labels publicizing the gather.
ing may be had from Ward Alkema
1410 Lakepointe avenue, Crosse
Pointe Park, Mich, at 10c for two
postage included.
Soldiers letters should be pre-
STAMPS AND COINS.