Evening star., 1943-07-18
News of Stamp
Collectors and
Their Interests
BY JAMES WALDO FAwCETr.

copies Snould pe SOLD to the Crown
Princess of Norway, now with her
children IN residence in Bethesda.
Md.
The Office OF War Information win
distribute philatehc propaganda >.
prepared by Ernest A. Kehr, stamn !
editor Of the New York Herald /;
Tribune.
Harry L. LindquiSt, editor and
publisher of Stamps Magazine. has
disclosed that Ill plates used in the
manufacture of the stamps OF Haiti
from 1898 onward were DESTROYED at
the plant of the American Bank Note
co. IN his presence on January 21.
Credit for the authorization Of a
stamp for Denmark, as one of this
conquered" nations, is claimed for
a Denver man whose plea was pub
hshed July 3, but The Star printed
an editorial urging such an issue on
June "a and the proposal had been
privately discussed in WASHINGTON
at least a week earlier than mat.
The current &c King George VI
stamp of Canada now is available in :
deep purple.
Collectors who sent covers tn
Lldlce, Ill, for first-day service on
July II received them back from the
Post Office Department. 1t was ey-
planned that, though there is such a
place, much publicized year ago as
propaganda stunt" it has no in
dependent postal facilities.
Prof. w. F. E. Gurley of Chicago,
once prominent collector of stamps,
art prints and geological specimens,
but handicapped by blindness in
recent years, died June 25, aged 80.
Total sales in the Philatelic Agency
1or the fiscal period ended June 80
are announced as 1894 ,599.76.
The SC stamp in honor of Luxem-
bourg will go on sale in Washing
ton exclusively Tuesday, August 10.
DR. Arthur Bevan, State geoloeist
OF Virginia. Charlottesville, is in
quest OF stamp-any stamp-bear-
ing the cancellation of August 8,
1888, on which date he was born.
The National Federation of Stamp
Clubs announces that all of it's con-
stltuent societies approve an inter-
national philatelic exhibition to be
held in New York in 1947. Mean
while, it is to be hoped that victory
over all branches of the Axis may be
achieved far enough in advance to
guarantee the success of such an
effort If the war still is in progress,
a stamp show of truly International
proportions would be infeasible,
This being true, it would seem to be
good idea to make haste slowly SO
far as detailed plans for the cele-
bration are concerned.
The Argentine Republic Is to have
series of stamps to commemorate
the revolt of June 4.
Charles Hahn, box l52, Winnetka,
ILL.,, is soliciting suggestions of
stamp designs to be reproduced in
the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
DR.. and Mrs. Ellis Haworth an
nounce the birth of son, Thomas
Erwin, to carry on the philatelic
traditions of his father. The baby
arrived June "a, midsummer day,
and shares the date with many dis
tlnguished forerunners, including:
Henry Ward Beecher, pulpit orator.
1913; Rebecca Harding Davis. now
elist, 1881; Ambrose Bierce, author
and editor, 1912: Brooks Adams,
lawyer and historian, 184s, and
George Won L. Meyer. Postmaster
General under Theodore Roosevelt
and Secretary of the Navy under
Taft.
Mrs. Iva A. Rogers, widow OF
Maj. Otho Larkin Rogers, U. S.
M. c., former philatelic agent,
killed in the Solomons, Is a sec
ond lieutenant in the Women's Re-
serve, Marine Corps.
j. Elmer Zinsmeister has sue
ceeded Don Houseworth as manag-
ing editor Of the Society of Phila-
telic Americans Journal.
Both Richard Mop. Cabeen of the
Chicago Tribune and David Lidman
of the Chicago Sun criticize the
design of the scent Poland stamp
as clumsy and characterized by
"mediocrity,' but at least the COM
position is not modernistic and that,
surely, is something to be happy
about.
Mekeels Weekly Stamp News,
Portland, Me. is publishing The
Story of Ships in Postage Stamps"
by o. j. Beyfuss.
Considerable numbers OF used
Newfoundland stamps are coming
into the market.
The owner OF the largest stamp
collection in Washington recently
added to his holdings an accumula-
ton of $4,000 covers OF 18th century
vintage, also seven large albums Of
foreign issues off cover for the same
period.
The American PhiIatelic Society
has Cancelled plans for this years
convention.
Stamp meetings for the week are
listed as follows:
tomorrow evening at 8-Wood-
ridge Stamp Club home Of Mrs
Henrietta Hickerson, 3l02 Twenty
fourth street NE.
Tuesday evening at 8-Collectors
Club of Washington, Thomson
School, Twelfth street NV,
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