Evening star., 1945-01-21
Stamps
By James Waldo Fawcetf.

By James Waldo Favcetf.
Readers of The Star, whether
stamp collectors or not. are invited
to attend meeting of the Wash
ington Phiiatehc Society at the Ma
tional Museum Auditorium, Consti-
tuition avenue at Ninth street NV,
Wednesday evening, January "a, at
8 o'clock
The program will feature an ad-
dress by Charles Lorenz of the Ma
tional tuberculosis Society, New
York City, and the exhibition Of
Whist is believed to be the most COM
prehensive and valuable collection
of Christmas seals of the United
States and many foreign countries
ever brought together.
Albert F. Kunze, director of the
Stamp Division of the Pan-American
Union and president of the sponsor
ing club, will be chairman. Other
speakers listed are: Edward K.
Funkhouser, Byron McCandless and
Mrs. Sally Mum, representing the
District Of Columbia tuberculosis
Society, and Miss Lois M. Jund of
Arlington County, Va.
Christmas seals for every year
from 1880 to 1914 will be on sale at
2 cents and / cent each after the
meeting. The opportunity thus to
start or to improve collection Of
Christmas seals never has been Of
fered before and may not be ever
again.
The Post Office Department has
been asked to reissue the SC Korean
flag stamp as miniature or SOU
venir sheet carrying a block of four
perforated all round and priced to
sell at zoe.
Whether or not the new postal
money orders, notes and stamps will
be available to collectors through
the Philatelic Agency remains un-
determined, but the prospects are
not good. However, there is nothing
to prevent a person from buying a
postal note and having stamps to a
specified amount applied to it and
canceled-with no intention of ever
having it cashed. The notes and
the stamps will be available on
February /, and the consensus
among Washington people interested
IN the matter is that they are COL
lectible.
Brazil has brought out 40c. light
brown stamp showing Friar Bartol-
omeu Gusmao exhibiting a model
OF a flying machine at the court of
the king of Portugal. August 8,
1909
James B. Hatcher. philatelic editor
OF the New York Journal American,
refers to Andora as that tiny, SIX
century-old state tucked away high
IN the Eastern Pyrenees between
France and Spain" He then ex-
plains: 1T has population of less
than $500 and is just three times
as big as the District of Columbia ."
John Y. Pennypacker of Phila-
delphia has been elected president
iof the International Postal Slogan
Society. pledged to the study of
postal meters and all other can
collation. devices carrying messages,
whether American or foreign in
origin.
Kenneth L. Kelly, chairman of
the Colorists of Baltimore and
Washington, has announced that
William H. Beck, well-known Mary
land authority of the colors of
postage stamps, will be the prin-
fcipa1 speaker at a dinner to be
held at the YWCA cafeteria, 614
E street NV, Monday evening.
February S, at $50 o'clock. Res
ervations will be accepted until
Friday, February 2, at pm. Phone
RE. 406l.
According to George W. Linn.
editor and publisher of Linnis
Weekly Stamp News, Sidney, Ohio,
additional Philippine stamps are
being reprinted for sale to collec-
tors. The matter Is to be investi-
gated, and a full report will be pub
lished.
A stamp for the centenary of
Florida's statehood almost SURELY
will be announced for release March
3. 1t will be followed by a similar
commemorative for Texas on De-
Icember 20.
Five charity stamps in aid of
child welfare are announced in
the Netherlands, and one of the set
shows Rembrandt's celebrated por-
trait of Titus, his son.
Collectors who are interested In
chance to see modern-not mod
ernistic-American art at its best
are advised to visit the exhibition of
Army and Navy triptychs at the
Corcoran Gallery. Refer to edi-
torial in yesterdays Sta>.
According to the monthly sup
plement of Who's Who in Amer
ica," Mrs. Catherine L. Manning,
philatelic curator of the Smith
sonian Institution, will have a
birthday anniversary on Wednes-
day.
Finland has brought a mourning
stamp in homage to the, late Pehr
Evind Svinhufvud, statesman and
patriot, who died February %, 1914.
The Postal Guide discloses that
there are four Tokyos and IA Ber-
Inns in the United States; also, Il
communities named Paris, IL Mos
cows, Londons and S Manilas.
The Woodbridge Stamp Club will
meet at the home of 1t. Col. James
L. Brewrink, 1929 Randolph street
NE. Monday evening, January "a.
at 8.
Mrs. Edness K. wilkins, admins
trative assistant in the Treasury
Department. will address a coins
and medals meeting of the Collec-
tors Club of Washington, Thomson
School, Twelfth and K streets NV.
Tuesday evening at 8.