Evening star., 1944-02-13
OtanPs
By James Waldo Fawceft


The Star that series of stamps fol-
the conquered" countries of the
Asiastic theater of the war soon
may be announced by Postmaster
General Frank C. Walker. What
people really want, however, is 6
series of stamps in homage to the
men and women in the armed serv-
foes of the United States-the Army
the Navy and the Marine Corps.
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Covers salvaged from the wreck
of Yankee Clipper in the Tajo River
Lisbon, Portugal, February %, 1874;
1.-The crash in which Jane Fro
man, the radio singing star, was hur
.7are being delivered to persons to
whom they were addressed.
Napoleon I forbade the trans.
mission of letters written in English
through the mails of France.
collectors of stamps relating to
tile life of Abraham Lincoln are
invited to attend a meeting of the
Lincoln Group of the District OF
Columbia at the Ford Theater
Tenth street near E NV. this after
noon at o'clock. DR.. Louis A.
Warren of Fort Wayne, Ind. is to
be the principal speaker. Others
sharing in the program are: Stanley
W. Mcclure. historian of the Ma
tienal Capital Parks, and Lit. Bert
Sheldon, Metropolitan Police De-
partment. Admission is free to the
public.
aOne of the earliest letters men,
toned in history is that which was
sent to Joab by David through the
bands of Uriah, about 1895 BIC. q
Sam. Xi,l4.
SCOTS Standard Postage cata-
Iogue refers to Sir Rowland Hill, in
ventor of the adhesive postage
stamp, as Sir Rowland C. Hill" The
error should be corrected in the next
edition.
Two soldiers on board a railroad
train between Washington and New
York got into a discussion as to the
relative popularity of bridge and
stamp collecting. In an endeavor
to settle the argument they took a
poll of other SerVicemen in the car.
The result was Bridge, IT; stamps,
2I-but five of the stamp fans also
played bridge and one of the bridge
fans had been interested in stamps!
Who were James N. Tyner and
Joseph H. Blackfan? Their names
appear to be forgotten undeServedly.
Perhaps some stamp collector will
be able to tell why they should be
remembered-by stamp collectors,
if not by the general public.
Clarence w. Brazer is editor and
Stephen G. Rich business manager
Of the Essay Proof Journal, quar-
terly magazine devoted to the science
and art of stamp production. Their
first effort, inscribed Vol l, No L."
contains contributions by Karl Bur-
roughs, John N Myer, Ernest A
Kehr, Thomas F. Morris and others
Plates of distinctive beauty have
been introduced as illustrations of
the text.
Guatemala has brought out
l0-centavo airmail stamp of rose
violet color to publicize what poet
ically is described as the palace of
the national police"
Allied military postage stamps
now being used in liberated parts of
Italy are of the following denomi-
nations: 15c. Csc, soc, SOC, 60c, IL,
81, 81 and l0L.
Portugal has released two propa-
ganda stamps of unattractive mod
ernistic design for a so-called con
gfess of agricultural sciences"
Add to the list of Washington
Junior stamp collectors the name
Of Claudia Paxton Old, daughter
Of Capt. Francis P. Old, U. S. N,
now somewhere in European wa
ters."
Ben L. Morris, Box 179, BellaTe,
Ohio, has published his tenth an
nual catalogue of the Christmas
Seals Of the world Copies are avail
able at cost, Is cents each.
Charles I in 1885 commanded his
postmaster of England for foreign
parts ito settle running post or
two, to run night and day between
Edinburgh and London to go thither
and come back again in six days.
Sss
@s.A portrait of Col. Charles S. Ham
Lion, well-known Washington stamp
ru4ector, appears in the S. P. A.
'Jssasnal for February.
issss
he late Brother John M. Smith
ofsthe Society of Mary, st. Louis, left
collection to the religious
fellowship to which he belonged.
=. Data concerning the careers ana
services of many military leaders of
the. past pictured on stamps are in
cluded in the text of Makers of
Modern Strategy edited by Dr.
Edward Mead Earle and published
by the Princeton University Press.
Mounted postal couriers are re-
ferred to in Esther viii.10.
Fritz Billig, 151-14 Eighty-fifth
avenue, Jamaica, N. Y, has released
new illustrated price list of rare
stamps of the whole world and
miniature sheets of many different
countries.
S9Polpex for 1914, sponsored by the
Polonus Philatelic Society of Chi
cago, is scheduled for Friday to Sun
day, February Is to 27, inclusive.
The Collectors Club of Washing
ton, the Washington Airnail So
ciety and the Capital Precancel Club
viii have a joint meeting at the
Thomson School, Twelfth and L
streets NV, Tuesday evening at 8.
Program, exhibition and bourse.
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