Evening star., 1945-06-03
stamps
By James Waldo Fa1vceh.


been rejected-despite the admitted
popularity of the project-allegedly
because it would be infeasible to
reproduce the flag on so small a
surface as that of a stamp. Yet in
1919 the Post Office Department
brought out victory stamp show
ing five f1ags-the Star Spangled
Banner and four other national
standards. just casual glance
over the pages of the official de-
scription of United States Postage
Stamps, lS47-1945" sufices to indi-
cate that the Scent NeWburgh
stamp of 1888, the 3-cent Arkansas
stamp of 1886, the Scent Iowa
stamp of 1888 and the Maritime In
dustry stamp of 1914 all show the
American flag full flown.
Now is not too soon to begin to
urge that stamp to commemorate
the first United States postage
stamp be authorized for the CEN
tenary in 1947 Perhaps there
should be two of them-a scent and
a 10-cent, reviving the original por-
trait designs of Franklin and Wash
ington.
George A. Scott, philatelic writer
for the Associated Press feature
service, says: Secretary of State
Stettinius turned to stamps to pro-
vide a souvenir for delegates to the
United Nations Conference at San
Francisco by presenting each dele
gate with a special booklet of United
States stamps The collection con-
sisted of blocks of four of the 1943
1-cent Four Freedoms and the scent
United Nations Conference issues,
single copies of the Scent Railroad,
/ Telegraph and Maritime commence
ratives. singles of the seven current
airmails and the complete President
set from 1a-cent to s. values"
/ Deli Norona of Moundsville, w.
Va, postal historian and for many
years an active collector and writer
about stamps and covers. has aban-
/ doned philately-at least for the
/ time being. The explanation ap-
pears to be that he is too busy be-
| ing president of the Moundsville
Rotary Club and vice president of
/ the West Virginia Historical So
/ ciety. He has sold all his holdings
except his library of postal history
/ literature and his collection of West
| Virginia covers. But it is possible
that he will start all over again
one day-When times are normal
/ again.
Underground stamps printed in
France during the German occupa-
ton have been sold to the public
with a profit of approximately
100000 to the wives. and children
Of Frenchmen killed resisting the
/ German armies. News dispatches
describe these surreptitious produc-
tions as "counterfeits," and collec-
tors therefore should be on the
watch for them in that guise.
Philatelic Agency sales for 1914
reached a total of Spas. 1898, a
gain Of Sl,l66177.37 over 1943.
According to Col. D. T. Gibbs OF
the postal telephone and telegraph
section of the British military gov
ernment of Northern Germany, as
quoted in Stamps magazine of June
2, German civilians will have to
wait long time before they can
write private letters to one another
No private communication services
are permitted. All mail is i'm
pounded"
The Postal Card Society of Amer
lea and the International Postal
Stationery Society have merged in
a single organization to be known
as the United Postal Stationery So
ciety, J. Garland Marks, $40 North
Monroe street. Butler, Pa, will be
secretary and treasurer.
Airmail service between Great
Britain and Soviet Russia was re-
sumed on May 4.
/ Military administration stamps
for Burma are reported to have
been issued as follows: /, 8, s and
9p; l, Ia, 2, 2-l2, g. 3-1a, and Ga;
l, 2, and l0R.
The postal stations of London
celebrated We day with a special
cancellation device applied to mail
in transit.
An ephemeral socialist republic in
Northern Italy lasted just long
enough to bring out five postage
stamps described as: SC, brown,
church at Ancona: 1Oc, brown,
Monte Casino abbey; zoe. red, Log
gia del Mercanti in Bologna: Csc.
green, ST. Lorenzo Church in
Rome; 1.25L. green, special delivery,
Palermo Cathedral
The stamps relating to religion
prepared for the recent spring
festival at Washington Cathedral
/ by Mrs. Catherine L. Manning are
to be exhibited at the Smithsonian
Institution. where Mrs. Manning is
philatelic curator.
! When the Scent Franklin D.
Roosevelt memorial stamp goes on
sale in Washington, June 27. the
first copies may be sold to one of
the late Presidents grandchildren.
China's equivalent of America q
free mailing privilege for service
personnel is a rose -colored stamp
with a design showing a military
postman delivering letters at the
fighting front.
The Collectors Club of Washing
ton will meet at the Pythian Temple,
1912 Ninth street NV, Tuesday
evening at o'clock
With sincere appreciation, the
stamp editor of The Star acknowl-
edges the courtesy of election to
honorary membership in the Junior
Stamp Club of College Park, Md.
i STAMPS AND COINS
WASHINGTON STAMP CO.
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