Evening star., 1946-03-24
World Of Stamps
By jones Woldo Fowcett

ment of the first day sale date is ex-
pected momentarily.
Great Britain is to bring out at
least one victory stamp in May.
Scott Publications, Inc, New York,
announces publication Of q 105-page
pamphlet entitled United States
Stamps Illustrated and Identified"
and another booklet entitled United
States Stamped Envelopes Illustrat-
ed and Identified" Both are priced
at cost and will be available at local
stamp dealers stores and Offices at
30 cents each.
E. Irving Fulton, 48, who died on
March Is, was one of the most not
able stamp and cover collectors of
his time, yet he took little part in
philatelic organization activity and
therefore was not widely known
among philatelists. His work as an
officer of the United States Chamber
OF Commerce brought him into touch
with other "hermits" in foreign coun-
tries and he thus frequently OBJ
tanned new issues of many different
governments before they became
available to the trade. Scores of the
hrst-day covers he received from
correspondents abroad were repro
duced in The Star over a period of
approximately Is years. But he
never Joined stamp clubs nor sought
the company OF contemporary COL
lectors. His custom was to work
over his albums In the study of his
home, 4611 Hawthorne lane NV,
alone save for the companionship of
his wife, the former Corine Brown.
who survives him. What disposition
will be made of his philatelc estate
has not been decided.
To commemorate the first ami
verSary of We day, May 8, the
KiWanis Club of Hampstead, Gar
den City and Mineola, N. Y, is
sponsoring a special cover which
Will carry a commemorative stamp
and an appropriate cachet and be
postmarked at Mitchell Field. 1st
Air Force base with proceeds stipu-
lated to 60 to fund for under
privileged children. Those inter-
ested may order at 10c each from
Richard P. Brown, Milford place
Hemstead, N. Y.
Regular airmail service between
Ottawa and Washington will be in
augurated on or about April l and
the Canadian government has an
nounced a cachet to be applied to
covers flown on the first flight from
Ottawa to Washington. Envelopes
TO be serviced must be standard
o.. size, addressed and sealed with
nller 1ncloSed. The words First
Flight must be inscribed in upper
left-hand corner and space not less
than two by three inches must
be reserved below this phrase for
the application of the cschet. Pa
irons not possessing Canadian
stamps for their covers should remit
by postal money order payable to
the Receiver General of Canada
OTTAWA, cents for the first
ounce, and 6 cents for each sue
ceeding ounce of weight. Covers
ready to go" should be sent under
outer wrapper marked First Fight
Covers" and fully prepaid to the
District Director of Postal Services.
Ottawa, Canada.
A stamp in honor of Miss Mabel
3oardman, national secretary of the
American Red Cross, who died last
Sunday at 85, conceivably NAV be
authorized. but the chances for it
are not too bright. One difficulty is
that some of the principal officers
OF the Red Cross organization are
not stamp minded" 1t largely was
their fault that no blood plasma
stamp was produced dur
ing the war.
The Communist influence in East
ern Europe has been manifested in
series of semiportals issued bv
Romanla showing portraits of Karl
Marx, Engels and Lenin.
A mural painting entitled west
ward" by Edwin H. Blashfield 1848-
1856, one of the greatest painters
America ever saw, will be reproduced
as the main feature of the design
OF the stamp to mark the Tooth an
niversary of the admission of Iowa
to the Unioun. The original picture
Is in the Capitol at Des Moines. Use
OF it for stamp purposes was sug-
gested to the Post ONCE Depart
ment by Charles M. Fouts, a student
at Abba uowa) High School.
Harry L. Lindquist. publisher OF
Stamps Magazine and chairman of
the National Federation of Stamp
Clubs, has been elected president of
the Association for Stamp Exhibi-
tions and will serve as director of
the international centennial exhibi-
ton to be held at Grand Central
Palace, New York, next year.
Fourteen stamps of great beauty
nave been released by the Vatican
City postal authorities to mark the
40Oth anniversary of the Council of
Trent, 1545-1563. The designs in
clude portraits of Pope Paul III.
Cardinal Del Monte, Cardinal Cor
vlnus, Cardinal Pole, st. Ignatius
Loyola, Emperor Charles v and
other eminent characters of the age
The Collectors Club of Washing
ton will meet at 1912 Ninth street
NV. Tuesday evening at 8.
The Washington Philatelic Society
will meet at the Sheraton oHtel.
Fifteenth and L streets NV, We'd
nesday evenin gat 8. DR.. John
Buchness of Baltimore will exhibit
and discuss his collection of the
stamps of Lithuania.
FREE MINT NEW ISSUE ARMATL
With hrst approval selection. Fast service
FAT prices Lee Blatt, 1915 Pine St.
Collection British Colonies-Cat. around
$3.50 - Retail approx. $1,000 -F First
$3.50 takes this beautiful collection