Evening star., 1946-03-10
Stamps
Bv James Waldo FawceH

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Russia has issued four new
propaganda sets of stamps, includ-
ing one "commemorating" the serv-
ices of the home front in "the win
ming of the war"
First day sales ceremonies have
ceased to be news. The explana-
ton is that they repeat again and
again formula that was old in 1885.
What is wanted, it seems, is master
of ceremonies with imagination and
a genius for getting along with all
kinds of people.
Herman Herst, jr, writing in
Weekly Philatelic Gossip, says: "The
Roosevelt collection will never 60
down in history as great collec-
ton. Those who had the oppor-
tunity to inspect it were amazed
at the callous disregard for con-
dition that the late President had.
The personal popularity of the
man undoubtedly entered into the
spirit of the bidding"
The American Bank Note Co.
produced the Roosevelt stamps Of
Haiti-20 and 90 cent denomina-
tions showing the late Presidents
portrait and appropriate inscrip-
tions
Senator Taft of Ohio and Senator
Guffey of Pennsylvania, opponents
in everything else, cooperate in a
petition to President Truman to
authorize stamp for the bicenten-
nial Of the coal mining industry.
Keith Misegades, who formerly
resided in Washington but now
lives at 141 Lincoln avenue, Red
Bank. N. j., is interested in organ
izing a group-defnitely not So
ciety-of collectors of stamps with
perforated initials. He would like
to hear from fellow enthusiasts who
wish to work together.
Rumors to the effect that the
Federal Government is planning to
tax stamp collectors on their hold
ings are false. The Treasury of the
United States already is getting all
the cut" from the worlds most
popular hobby that 1t reasonably
could expect-and does not wish to
hurt its profits by pressing down
too hard.
Readers again are warned against
the danger of buying unauthenti-
Gated issues of the Philippines both
under Commonwealth and japanese
control.
The ancient hoax about collect
ing United States stamps to salvage
the "dye" used in printing them is
current again. A woman in a local
home for the aged is reported to
have solicited hundreds of thou
sands of copies of common issues
for that purpose. The fact is that
the dye" is worthless and all that
conceivably could be salvaged from
such cancelled stamps would be
muddy and sticky black ink.
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post Office at Content, Mont, has
been discontinued.
Thailand again is Siam in the
Postal Guide.
The Liberty ship in the Scent
Merchant Marine stamp auegedly
is being loaded with lease-lend
supplies, thus giving meaning to the
inscription Peace and War" which
it bears.
Portugal has brought out four
stamps to publicize its national ma
val school.
The Canal Zone issued a new
Scent brown airmail stamp show
ing the Gaillard Cut on February IS.
Al Burns is writing editorials for
Western Stamp Collector, Albany,
Oreg.
Miss Lynne Crider has notified
The Star that the second and final
sale of material from President
Roosevelt's philatelic estate will in
clude gifts from George Earle when
Minister to Bulgaria; GeneralisSimo
Chang Kai-shek of China; the di-
rector of the postal system of Den
mark; "a friend" of the Free French
movement in London; the Philateic
Society of Oslo in Norway; Maxim
Litvinoff for the Soviet Union; the
apostolic delegate to the United
States, and other distinguished per-
sons.
The auction of this portion OF
Mr. Roosevelt's collection is sched-
uled to take place in New York on
April l and 2.
Gen. George S. Patton, jr., it has
been announced by Hans Jensen,
director of the Valkyrien Interna-
tional Stamp Exchange Club, Copen-
hagen, Denmark, was a stamp
collector.
The Collectors Club of Washing
ton will meet at 1912 Ninth street
NV. Tuesday evening at 8.
A short quarterly business meet
ing of the Washington Philatenc
Society at the Sheraton Hotel, Fiji
teenth and L streets NV, will be-
followed by an auction of foreigp
and domestic stamps and covers.
U. S. STAMP cATALOG