Evening star., 1943-01-03
Among the Stamp Collectors
Necs of the Phiaehc Word Its Interests and Peoble
By James Waldo Fawcen.

AAaS SSAhiiioieAl AJhpOSltlO1i oUdIIlUS
OF 1893 went on sale in Washington
SO years ago yesterday. Included in
the list were: 1c, blue; &c, violet; Sc,
green; &c, ultramarine; SC, choco-
late; &c, purple; &c, magenta ISSUED
March 81; 10c, black brown; 15c,
dark green; Soc, orange brown: Soc,
slate blue; 81, salmon; 50, brown
red; So, yellow green; 81, crimson
lake, and S., black. The subjects
were scenes from the life of the man
who rediscovered America, all metic-
ulously engraved. Nothing of the
kind ever produced since they ap-
peared has excelled them for beauty,
historical significance or philateic
value.
An act of unintended homage is
represented by the effort of the
movies to climb aboard the phila-
telic band wagon. The Post Office
Department Information Bureau
says the 2-cent United. Nations
stamp will go on sale in Washing
ton exclusively on January IA, 1.-The
same date on which the motion pic
ture industry of America begins its
United Nations week. During this
week collections for the relief of war
victims in the United Nations will
be taken up at motion picture thea
ters throughout the country"
The total number of complete sets
~F nf hY1nri i
cans) stamps is II 1886 $50, A Gov
ernment audit suggests that the
commonest denomination and de-
sign of the series was the 1-cent
Audubon of which 59,409,0O0 copies
allegedly were sold.
George B. Sloane, writing In
Stamps magazine for December 26,
discusses the new SCOTS Catalog of
United States Stamps Specialized
as volume indispensable to the
collector of United States stamps"
Nov in its twenty-first edition." he
says, ''the publication has long
since lost all resemblance to the
first pocket size catalog published
exactly 20 years ago. The 1923 edi-
ton timidly ventured forth as an
experiment in 81 pages, printed on
one side, but it proved so successful
that it rapidly expanded into a
larger two-column page. printed on
both sides, until now the 1943 edi-
ton is a robust volume of SOB pages.
Price revisions are extensive
throughout the new edition, and the
discerning collector, after he has
made his price comparisons, will OBJ
serve many refinements and further
improvements over past editions,
besides additional listings and new
issues which bring the volume up
to date.
Immediately following the post
masters stamps is a brand-new
section with specialized listings and
notes on War savings stamps.
General postage issues follow from
1947 to 1912, concluding with the
Chinese commemorative of last July.
Some of the APO postmarks of
the present global war are making
their way into the catalogue and in
the presidential (series) you will
find listings of Jamaica Bermuda
Newfoundland, etc. Numerous new
illustrations will be noticed among
the carriers stamps and the local
issues as well. The section Local
Handstamped Covers introduces
half a dozen new varieties. The
revenue issues are brought up to
date and two new groups added
Automobile USE and Firearms
Transfer Tax stamps. Under the
Confederate States there is a full
page of explanatory notes describing
various routes, rates and usages of
the general issues, detailed notes on
prisoners of war and flag of truce
letters, express mail, ETC."
Postal communication between
Switzerland and Great Britain,
Spain and Portugal has been sus-
pended.
A new European union of posts,
telegraph and telephone systems is
announced to 60 into practical effect
on April /. Thirteen governments
are supposed to be cooperating in
the enterprise, including Germany,
Finland, Denmark, Norway, the
Netherlands, Italy, Hungary, Ru-
mania, Slovakia and San Marino.
The name of DR.. H. L. Fahrney of
Frederick, Md, should be added to
the list of physicians who also are
philatelists.
The Post Office Clerk for Deem
ber contains an Illustrated bio
graphical sketch Of Joseph F. Cart
land, newly appointed director of
the budget and administrative plan
ming of the Post Office Department.
Leon Halguera, uncle of George
"Opens Helguera, designer of a num-
ber of recent stamps of Mexico, is
the artist responsible for the COM
position of the 2-cent United Ma
tions propaganda issue, reproduced
in The Star on Wednesday and
Thursday last. 1t shows a procession
of swords following a hand holding
high palm leaf.
Sir Rowland Hill originally put
most of his faith in the little bags
called envelopes in the stamped
letter sheets and wrappers that
were also made available for public
use on May 6, 1840" Mauritz Hall
gren, in "All About Stamps" says:
He thought the gummed labels
would be used rarely and then only
by people who could not write. In
this he misjudged public sentiment"
William Mulready. the artist who
designed the face of the first postal
envelope of Great Britain, had won
fame for his illustrations for Oliver
Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield"
His contribution to philately. how
ever, did not increase his celebrity.
Instead, he was roundly abused for
his effort to symbolic the blessings
OF cheap postage.
When F. M. Trifet of Boston in
1890 was commissioned to mount