Evening star., 1942-10-04


designs. Values are: 5p, red, and
Top brown, vision of Irala; Up, blue,
and 500p. green. coat Of arms; Up,
green, and 20p, violet, an Indian.
1t has been denied that American
dealers are buying United States
accumulations of stamps collected
for Queens Hospital in London and
sent to England since the beginning
of the war, but the denial does not
come from any recognized authority.
Prescott Holden Thorp. Netcong,
N. j., would like. :. to hear from
collectors interested in the pro-
duction of a catalog which will list
and price all sizes, knives and de-
sign varieties of United States
stamped envelopes.
The anti-Fifth Column stamps
projected by Cuba will be delayed.
A similar report is current con-
corning the proposed Christopher
Columbus commemorative of Cuba.
T. j. Drossos of Athens, we'll
known Greek philatelist, has been
heard from. A letter from him is
announced to have been received
through the Red Cross. 1t was
dated March q last.
The first issue of the Phi,atelic
7 or f,r Dnufou, aIitoI h1,n N io1
w. Vooys, Box 2l2. Burlington, VT,
has appeared Contributors include:
w. Lloyd Heath and D. J. Lapinski.
H. R. Harmer Inc, 80 East Fifty
seventh street, New York, is selling
at auction on October IA the gold
medal collection of the stamps of
Sweden accumulated by Col. Hans
Lagerloef. Catalogues on appli-
cation.
Ar extensive collection of United
States and foreign coins is offered
at auction by the New Netherlands
Coin Co., 95 Fifth avenue, October
l3. Catalogues available on request.
New stamps which may be valid
in all the countries dominated by
the Axis are forecast in relation to
a postal congress now in session at
Vienna.
Franklin r. Bruins, jr., of the New
York Sun for the second time has
been awarded the Ralph A. Barry
memorial trophy given by Col. Hans
Lagerloef in recognition of "the best
stamp department in any United
States newspaper"
Second honors went to Kent B.
Stiles, New York Times; third. James
B. Hatcher, New York Journal
American, and fourth, Ernest A,
Kehr, New York Herald Tribune.
Fifth in rank for the whole Nation
and first in the field outside the
metropolitan New York area was
James Waldo Fawcett, Washing ION
Evening and Sunday Star.
Special awards also have been
announced for w. P. Campbell, Van
couver Columbian, first in cities
under $4,000 population, and Elmer
C. Pratt, Camden Courier Post, first
in cities of $4,000 to 250,00O popula-
ton.
The judges were: Arthur T. Robb,
editor. Editor and Publisher: Hugh M
Clark. editor, Scott Standard Postage
Stamp Catalogues and Albums; Emil
Bruechig, president, American Stamp
Dealers Association; Theodore E.
Steinway, trustee, Collectors Club
Of New York, and Harry L. Lind
quist, chairman. National Federation
of Stamp Clubs.
Ray Peacock, writing for Wide
World Features. explains: THE
British Empire is running short OF
regular postage stamp paper and now
is issuing stamps for colonies or
war paper Variations in weight
being slight, the difference is diffl-
cult to detect. Colonies affected in
clude Dominica, the Virgin Islands,
Zanzibar, Bechuanaland, Basuto-
land, Nigeria, Bermuda, Trinidad
and Tobago. Antigua. Leeward
Islands, Fiji and the Gold Coast
All British colonial stamps are
printed In London by crown agents
with the exception Of Canada and
Australia, which print their own"
When John Kerr Tiffany. distin.
guished American phtlatenst, died
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