Evening star., 1946-06-02
News About STAMPS

education exhibit, Roy G. Epperley;
paintings, communion silver, laces,
jeweled crosses, Cathedral art treas
ures, John H. Bayless.
Admission is free.
The 18th annual American Phila-
telic Congress, it has been an
nounced, will be staged at the Hotel
Statler, Boston, November Is to II
An exhibition Of so frames of stamps
and covers, two banquets and the
reading and discussion of l6 schol-
arly papers on philatelic themes are
planned. The printed program now
being prepared will include a roster
OF all active stamp clubs in New
England. DR.. H. K. Thompson
chairman; Dean H. E. Lobdell, treas
urer; Edith r. Doane, secretary
Prof. Arthur r. Davis, Augustus n
Kiusalas, v. Nazar, Henry Schu-
macher, Maurice G. Blake, Samuel
c. Paige, Irving I. Green and Franc
Ladner constitute the committee in
charge of arrangements.
A new and up-to-date edition OF
the of1cial United States list OF
postage stamps will be available to-
morrow at the Office of the super
intendent Of documents, Govern
ment Printing Once. The price will
be 30c a copy.
An anonymous postcard writer
wants to know why stamp design
er is not allowed poetic license. y
The answer is: There is no such
thing as poetic license" where his
tory Is concerned. No planes of any
kind flew over the American troops
marching through Paris on their
way to the front in August, 1914
The Army itself put the BIOS into
the Army stamp-over the objec-
tions of the Post Office Department
and the Bureau of Engraving ano
Printing as well as the protests oi
members of the Keystone Division
shown in the Associated Press pho
tograph upon which the accurate
portions of the composition are
based. Nothing can alter the fact
that the stamp as it stands today Is
wrong. It should be corrected, anc
there still Is a chance that it vii,
be-"poetic license" or no poetic
license"
Costa Rica has produced a three.
value set for the Caribbean ane
Central American football cham.
pionship games. The design Is tht
same as that of 1941-Scott's APIS
Denominations and colors: Csc, vel.
low green; 30c. orange; 55c, deer
blue.
During the war, the postal author
tiles Of Sweden manufactured large
stocks Of emergency stamps to be
ready in case of need. These sur
plus issues were stored in bomb
proof hiding. They now are being
brought out and soon will be placed
In use. It is understood that they
were not made In coil style, but are
perforated on all four sides.
What imitation is doing to China
Is illustrated in a recent series OF
atrmail overprints giving new values
as follows: $23 on SOC red; $50 on
15c gray green; $73 on Csc orange;
500 on So brown and 5000 on S.
brown carmine. The design Is the
well-known Wall composition, un.
watermarked.
Switzerland has released four
semipostals of great beauty for ma.
tional fete day. The subjects and
values are: Typical chalet near Neu-
chatel Lake. dark brown and red, IL
plus 10c; farmhouse in Appenzell
canton, copper and red on straw
20 plus 10c; Engadin house near St
Moritz with wall paintings, 80 plus
10c-all rotogravure;; also, interior
view of Swiss cheese factory, dark
green and red, plus 5-engraved.
The report Of the proceedings
Of the 54th annual convention o1
the International Plate Printers
Die Stampers and Engravers Union
scheduled for publication today, viii
appear next Sunday.
A meeting Of the Collectors Clut
Of Washington will be held at 101:
Ninth street NV, Tuesday eve
ming at 8.