Evening star., 1945-12-09
Stamps
By James Waldo FavceH.

philatelic service will be provided
for covers carried on first airman
flights from six cities in the United
States to ireland, France, Switzer-
land, italy, Greece and Egypt under
the terms of contract for FAM,
route 27, operated by Transconti-
mental g. Western Air, Inc.
Formal announcement OF dis
patches Is expected momentarlly.
York on or about December 20, from
Washington, Philadelphia and New
York on or about December 20; from
Boston December % and from Chi
cago and Detroit December %. Air
mail from Washington, New York
and Boston will go to all six of the
foreign countries mentioned, but
airmail from Philadelphia, Chicago
and Detroit will go only to Ireland
and France.
The prevailing airmail postage
rates will apply to the new service
80 cents a half ounce to Ireland,
France, Switzerland, Italy and
Greece, 10 cents a half ounce TO
Egypt.
| A special cachet is being designed
to be applied to all covers submitted
to be transported on the initial
flights. Postal administrations of
the countries of destination have
been asked to arrange for back
stamping philatelic mail carried in
the TWA planes.
The Post Office Department an
nouncement will say: Due to lack
of sufficient time to make the neces-
sary arrangements with the foreign
postal administrations for their re-
turn, it is not possible to accept
covers addressed for delivery in the
| United States or elsewhere than in
the country of destination of each
dispatch. 1t will be necessary that
every cover be addressed for deliv-
cry in the foreign country to which
frst-flight dispatch is desired"
This means that: Collectors de-
string that their covers be returned
to them must employ the services of
agents in the countries of destina-
ton to whom or in whose care they
may address their covers and who
will undertake to return the covers
to them" But: LAS an aid to COL
lectors who do not have their own
foreign agents, Transcontinental &
Western Air, Inc, has agreed that
it's overseas Offices will act gratuit-
ously as agents for persons who
may desire to address covers in their
care. Such covers need bear only
the postage necessary for the first
fight and will be returned to the
senders named thereon at the COM
pany's expense. Each cover should
bear in the upper lefthand corner
(as return card) the name and ad-
!. dress of the person to whom it is to
be returned. Covers for handling
. by the company should be addressed
to the same person named on the
return card, in care of Station Man.
, ager, Transcontinental & Western
Air, Inc, as follows: Shannon Ri-
neanna) Airport, Foynes, Ireland;
Eo11y = lClds dllO, L SO1illl
Airport, Geneva, Switzerland; Clam
; pino Airport, Rome, Italy; Hassani
Airport. Athens, Greece; John
Payne Field, Cairo, Egypt"
Not more than so covers will be
, handled by TWA for any one
sender -addressee. The company
also stipulates that, while every
effort will be made to return all
covers in good condition" it cannot
be responsible for loss or damage to
covers from causes beyond control
, Processing OF covers will be fa-
cilitated if members will conmuni-
cate to E. o. Cooke, vice president,
TWA, 101 West Eleventh street,
Kansas City, Mo-, the number Of
covers sent and a specification of
the company's overseas Offices to
which they were addressed.
Closing date for covers for trans
portation abroad on the first flights
will be two days in advance of de-
parture-December 18 for Washing
ton, Philadelphia and New York;
December 20 for Boston and De-
cember 81 for Chicago and Detroit
The Rev. Peter Marshall, D. D.
minister of the New York Avenue
Presbyterian Church, has been a
stamp collector for more than sc
years. His specialties are mint
United States and British colonies
According to the New York Jour-
nal American, the British forces
reoccupying Hong Kong found nc
stamps available and were obliged
to use a provisional handstamr
reading Hong Kong -945 Postage
Paid" in hexagonal frame.
Mrs. Edward B. Martin, assistan,
to the philatelic consultant OF the
Library of Congress, has added tc
the files in study room 201 of the
Annex Building great quantity oI
official geographical, historical anc
r. biographical material issued by the
9 different States of the Union anc
many foreign countries. The data
thus assembled is intended for tht
use of students of stamps who de.
sire information on the back.
ground" of important postal issues
The stamp editor of The Star viii
speak before the Washington Shake
speare Society and guest member
of the Washington Philatelic So
ciety and the Baltimore and Wash.
ington Colorists Society at thu
National Museum, Constitution ave
nue. at Ninth street NV, tomorrow
r. evening at o'clock. His subjec
will be, "Shakespeare'S Use of Word
Relating to Color" Public invited
Henry Beecken of the Pennsyl
vania Central Airlines Corp. is an
nounced as the speaker at join
, meeting of the Collectors Club o
= Washington and the Washington
- Airmail Society at 1912 Ninth stree
NV, Tuesday evening at 8 O'Clock
All persons interested in aero
, philately are welcome to attend.
l. The Washington Philatelic Societ
will have an open meeting at tn
lTao Cborotop uotal Eiftaaptb on,