Evening star., 1942-04-26
AMONG THE STAMP COLLECTORS
News of the Phaec World Its Interests and PeopleReview of
the Stamp Press-List of Local Meetings.
BIZ James Waido FacceH.

Final figures on total distribution
Of recent commemorative have beei
announced as follows. Oregon. ~
4o7 $50; Constitution 1897. % .sS2
800. Alaska. 77,Oo4 200: Puerto Rico
al I.2e2.45o: Virgin Islands. 7s474 $50
Ratification Of Constitution 1899
T3Ds3,650. Delaware. So .564 ,365
Iowa, 47y0643e0. Washington Inau.
gursl 193e). T2.764 $50; Panams
Canal, s7si3,3So. and Pony Express
45,497. 400.
Collectors are notified that ls diff
ferent varieties OF the Heroes oi
Peace stamps still are available al
the Phiiatelic Agency. but the sup
plies are not unlimited.
According to the Washington
correspondent OF the New York Sun
the ofaeial Description OF United
States Postage Stamps" viii not bs
revised nor reprinted during the
duration The most recent edition
brought hstings up TO June IL, 1888
Copies of the new Tononzintla OBJ
servatory stamps of Mexico have
been received. Three are airmaiis
three regular postage Designs have
been adapted from photographs OF
celestial phenomena.
Albert r. Kunze OF the Pan-Amer-
ican Union reports the receipt OF a
letter mailed within the boundaries
of the United States. but showing
unqueStionable evidence OF having
been examined by an official censor.
George c. Hahn of Cleveland has
resigned his position as editor OF
the War Cover Bulletin.
Covers mailed upon ships sunk or
seriously damaged since the begin
ming OF the Second World War are
being sought by collectors. The list
includes: Arizona, Bittern, Finch,
Greer. Houston, Pecos, Pillsbury,
Sacramento. Utah, Asheville, Cano-
pus. Gold Star, Guam, Pesry, Perch,
Pope, Truxtun and Buchanan.
Clarence w. Brazer OF New York,
architect and author, expert author
ity on United States essays and
proofs, received the fifth annual
Michael L. Eidsness. jr.. memorial
silver plate at a meeting Of the
Washington Philatelic Society, Lee
Sheraton Hotel, Fifteenth and l.
streets NV. Wednesday evening.
The presentation was made by Mr..
EidSneSs' son James, junior stamp
collector employed in the Depart
ment OF Agriculture.
Other speakers were: Miss Claire
Hallard Fawcett. who announced
the conditions under which the
commemorative plates will be given
In the future; Col. Spencer Cosby.
former District Commissioner, and
Julius Windner of Philadelphia.
who jointly exhibited and discussed
classic early Austrian stamps and
covers.
A luncheon for Mr.. Brazer and
Mr.. Windner was arranged by local
collectors at the Hotel Harrington
Thursday.
The April Is issue of Stamps
Magazine. New York, is devoted TO
Lowey writing a feature article on
the postal paper of the Soviet Union.
DR.. r. Swami Harding of Falls
Church, va, wishes II 10 be known
that he is not now actively collect
ing pfilatelic material. The COL
lection he developed during the First
World War has been sold TO local
stamp journalist,
T. Russell Hungerford represented
the Washington Philatelic Society at
memorial services for Newbold
Noyes, associate editor of The Star,
at st. Johns Church, Saturday,
April Is.
Elmer c. Pratt. writing in the
Camden Courier Post. says: United
States Circuit Judge Albert B. Maris
Of Philadelphia, well-known phila-
telist. has received high national
honor in his appointment by Chief
Justice Harlan Fiske Stone to a
position on the new 3-man Emer-
gency Court OF Appeals which is 10
handle cases arising under the oper-
alton of the Emergency Price Con-
troll Act"
Collectors OF the stamps OF pan
American countries have expressed
an interest in a series of Know
Your Neighbor" articles distributed
by the n-American Union. The
set includes: Mexico, Patron OF
Indian Culture" "El Salvador, In
dependent Coffee Cup" Dominican
Republic, the Indomitable, Pan
anna, Hemisphere Gateway" "Uru-
quay, Crucible of Democracy" and
Paraguay, Land of Rivers
James B Hatcher, stamp editor OF
the New York Journal American.
writes: When 27-year-old King
Gha1 Of Iraq crashed his high-pow-
cred phosphorescent roadster into
an electric light pole near the royal
palace at Baghdad and died of a
fractured skull on April 4, 1899, his
S-year-old son was proclaimed King.
AS namesake of his grandfather,
Felsal the Fearless. the little boy be-
came King Feisal II. On May this
descendant of the prophet Mo-
manned will be 7. He is the worlds
youngest monarch.
"1raQ recently issued a 10 fils
STAMPS AND COINS.