Evening star., 1948-11-14

Another National Stamp Confer
ence, along the lines of the meeting
held in Washington in 1887, has been
proposed and may be held between
January and the assembling of the
Eighty-f1rst Congress on January 20.
Copies of the scent New York
Boroughs airmail stamp still are
available in post Offices throughout
the country. A Washington collector
bought two panes of so each at
Charlotte, N. c., last week.
Hungary has beaten Great Britain
to the draw with stamp in homage
to William Shakespeare, greatest OF
poets and most famous of dramatists.
Other literary giants honored by the
postal authorities in Budapest are:
Goethe, Voltaire, Byron, Victor Hugo,
Edgar Allen Poe, Tolstoy, Sander
Petofi, Mark Twain and Maxim
Cork. Each label carries portrait
and a scene from major work.
The balcony scene from Romeo and
Juliet adorns the stamp for the
Bard of Avon.
Recent additions to the roster OF
the Honor Club of MekeelS Weekly
Stamp News include the names OF
these Washingtonians: DR.. Melville
G. Skinner. John B. Wells, Robert
A. Peck and E. E. Brown.
The Scent Moina Michael stamp
was released as scheduled on Novem-
ber 9. but there still is some question
about who actually originated the
Flanders Field memorial poppy.
New members of the Washington
Philatelic Society: Mrs. Anna ".
Elkins of Brooklyn, N. Y, and j. E..
Mccain of Baltimore.
The 3-cent Lincoln Gettysburg
Address stamp will go on sale at
Gettysburg, Pa, November 10; the
3-cent American Turner's Society
stamp at Cincinnati, November 20.
j. A. Kilfoyle of Sydney, New
South Wales, has purchased from
H. r. Harmer, London, the T. E.
Field collection of stamps OF Aus
tralia. The transaction was con-
cluded by telephone on November s.,
ten days in advance of an auction
advertised for November Is, and the
price was $4,000 in United States
money.
The government of Fire Qrlsh
Free State) announces two COM
memoratives for the sesqulcente-
nary of the insurrection of 1898.
Theobald Wolfe Tone is pictured in
the center of the design. Values
and colors are: 212d, red, and Sd,
blue violet.
Gaetano Donizetti, 1893 -1848, COM
poser of "Lacia di Lammermoor, is
honored by his native Italy in a
new 15-lire stamp showing his por-
trait.
The 3Oth anniversary of the re-
public of Austria was marked by
release of a 1-schilling stamp fea-
turing DR.. Karl Renner, president
since April q, 1945.
Stamp collectors are invited to
inspect photographs Of historic
American buildings by Miss Frances
BENJAMIN Johnston now on display
at the Library of Congress.
Ecuador has brought out a set of
stamps in tribute to President
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Japan issued four 5-yen stamps in
green and one in blue for the Third
National Athletic Meet at Fukuoka,
October &c. The designs represent
baseball players, a racer, swimmer,
pole vaulter and two bicycle riders.
That curious triangle in the 3-cent
Fort Bliss stamp is supposed to de-
pict the science of war from primi-
tive times up to the present, but it
is so crowded that even with a
magnifying glass it is not easy to
follow.
Herman Hesse of Clifton, N. j.,
has revived the idea of series Of
48 stamps for the 48 States of the
Union, each to portray a State
flower.
A tow headed boy in red pajamas,
sitting before fireplace in anticipa-
ton of the coming of Santa Claus,
features the 1948 Christmas Seal of
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