Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-12-03
Ctanps
By James Waldo Fawceff.

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By James Waldo Fawcen.
Mrs. Catherine L. Manning,
philatelic curator of the Smith
sonian Institution; Albert F. Kunze,
president; David D. Caldwell, vice
president; Mrs. Grace Lowering
mcknight, secretary, and Philip
Simms Warren, librarian, the WASH
ington Philatelic Society, are among
those present at the 10th American
Philatelic Congress, Philadelphia,
this week end.
Willard Otis Wylie, SO, for many
years editor of Mekeel's Weekly
Stamp News, died at Salem, Mass,
Thursday.
Rev Harry L. Bowlby, general sec
rotary of the Lords Day Alliance,
wants the Post Office Department to
mark "all pieces of mail" with the
words observe Sunday" for "a pc
Rod of two weeks previous to and
including Easter to remind
the people of the United States that
Sunday is the national weekly rest
day."
The stamp collection of the late
Roy H. Stephens of Detroit will be
sold at auction by Hugh C. Barr,
Inc, New York City, December 10
to 16, inclusive.
A Id Red Cross stamp, showing
the universal emblem of mercy not
once but twice, has been issued in
both English and Afrikaans by the
Union of South Africa.
When the Morris Plan Bankers
Association sponsored a slogan me-
ter cancellation with caricatures Of
Hitler, Mussolini and Hirohito in
1913, the Post Office Department OBJ
jected, but Althea Harvey. writing
in the International Stamp Review
for November, reports that objec-
tlonable postcards lampooning the
Axis powers have been accepted for
transmission through the mails.
According to the American Stamp
| Dealers Association Bulletin, Charles
Boyer and Irene Dunno were among
the movie stars who were expected
to attend the first-day sale of the
3-cent movie industry stamp in New
York on October 81, but did not ap-
pear
Post Office Department gossip in
dicates that the long-delayed Red
Cross stamp now finally is "up to the
President"
Add to the list of soldiers who are
stamp collectors the name of First
1t. James Ernest Ingram of 81
Rhode Island avenue NV, now with
the forces of liberation in Germany.
Quoting the Youths Companion,
The Star for December 9, 1894, dis
cussed the stamp mania" as fol-
lows: "a recent paper on the stamp
collecting mania in this country and
i IN Europe contains some curious
facts which will be interesting to
American boys who make philately
a hobby.
The most valuable collection of
stamps in the world is here stated
to be that of Herr Won Ferrary Of
Paris, which is valued at a half a
million dollars. The collection, now
in the British Museum, which is
worth 100000, comes next.
There are, it appears, a dozen
urNio
could find on some old letters. would
bring him $4,000 in the market. OF
these, the l and 2 pence stamps of
Mauritlus Of the first issue would
be worth $4,000 each, but as there
| are supposed to be only eight of
each of these stamps in the world no
boy is likely to find them.
An American stamp, the Scent
Brattleboro' provisional issue, is
worth $1,000; some of the stamns Of
inc Confederate States sell for large
sums.
1T is said that stamp market
Is held on certain morning of the
week in the Champs Elysees in
Paris. Tradeswomen with their
aprons full of stamps, BONES, bows
carrying little baskets gather in
crowds in the shade of the trees,
chattering, gesticulating and laugh
ing, to buy or exchange their flimsv
wares. 1t is one of the most char
acteristic sights of Paris.
/ Two of the governments of South
American states are known to be in
the pay of wealthy stamp dealers
OF Europe, and change their issues
frequently to give their patrons
profitable Corners
The stamp craze began only "a
years ago in Belgium, and Is now
vast business. extending over ali
the civilized world. Every boy, probe
ably, has made a small Investment
in 1t.
Whether it is safe to make Largo
ones IN stock so intrinsically worths
less Is matter for question:
Leon Helhuera of New York. who
designed the 2-cent United Nations
stamp, is at work on a drawing for
postal issue to mark the victory
OF those same Allies over the Avis
| dClllSVeO
Postmaster General Frank c.
Walker has announced that postal
notes amounts of so, 81, 81, So, 81.
So. $e, 81, So, 50 and 10 will go on
sale in 1,575 f1rst-class post Offices
on or about January l and that in
association with these notes money
order stamps of the values |. 2. 3.
4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 20, 80 40. So 60.
70, 80 and 80 cents will be available.
i William B. Angle of Chambers
burg, Pa, we'll known in Washington
stamp collecting circles, is in Jack
son. Miss, on a visit to his son.
Stamp club meetings for the week
are listed as follows:
tomorrow evening at S-Wood-
ridge Stamp Club, home of Yves, M,
Iryon, 1902 Twentieth street NE.
Tuesday evening at 8-Collectors