Evening star., 1948-02-29
New, About Stamp,
By jones Woldo Fawcett

dispatch on the first flight, should
be sent as follows:
Place Of Mailing MaffTo-
New York Post ONCE Postmaster, New
Boston Post once Fsssm..t:1. Fssa !; :; Boston
New York Airm.n Field & s.sisasi Msssii supt.. Al,
Ns1 t York ]. n. 7.
Boston Airmail Field Clerk @ 4 IN r;s1s chsrEs:
| ton, Mas.
Covers for the hrst flight should
be received at these of1ices not later
than March Is.
The Gold Star Parents stamp
may be issued late in May or late
In September.
A stamp in homage to Wilbur and
Orville Wright, showing their por-
traits and q representation Of the
heavier -than-air plane which they
few successfully ut Kitty Hawk,
N. c., December II, 1908, may be
issued in conjunction with the cere-
monies attendant upon the return
Of the plane from England and its
installation in the Smithsonian
Institution.
Dorothy Tanty, 2S23 Twenty
fourth street Sc, proposes . new
III cent stamp Of red or green
for the mailing OF Christmas cards
She finds the current IN cent
Martha washington "drab and un-
interesting" and believes that her
suggestion would be an improve
ment which the general public
would appreciate.
More than 100 readers wrote or
telephoned the stamp editor Of The
Star during the past week for in
formation about which postmasters
still have leftover commemorative.
OF course. the only possible answer
to such inquiries was the advice
to shop around" in as many diff
ferent post offices as possible. The
Roosevelt memorial stamps, 1t
seems likely, might be available at
Hyde Park, N. Y, and Warm
Springs, Ga. Similarly it appears
to be logical that the Kentucky is
sue might be found at Louisville,
Lexington or Paducah. The first
place to ask for the scent U. N.
and Scent China stamps would be
San Francisco.
In every exigency Of this kind,
collectors should capitalize on their
own instinct as to where to look
for what they want. All that any
friend can do for them is to en-
courage them to make the effort
Czechoslovakia's disappearance be-
hind the iron curtain probably will
be marked by the production of a
series Of Communist propaganda
stamps glorifying the dysgenic
dogmas Of Marx, Lenin and Stain.
The South Jersey Stamp Clubs
SOJEx 1948 show will be going on
at the Walt Whitman Hotel, Cam
den. N. j., Friday, Saturday and
Sunday. Copies Of the official
poster label showing Camden in 1903
are available at two for Is cents
and cacheted envelopes at is cents
each. Order from Elmer G. Pratt, 2l3
Rhoads avenue, Haddonfield, N. j.
Kent B. Stiles, philatelic writer
for the New York Times, reports
the death Of A. Stanley Deaville,
superintendent of the Philatelic Di-
vision of the Post Once Depart
ment of Canada and author Of sew
eral standard books on the postal
issues Of the Dominion, February 1e.
. isaac Gregg, 400 Commonwealth
avenue. Alexandria, announces that,
having retired after % years in the
Press ONCE Of the Post Once De-
partment, he now will engage in
philatelic service to collectors desir-
ing an agent in Washington.
How do 'albino' stamped en-
velopes occurf" asks p. v. Tilden,
2200 Monroe street NE, who has
found one. The explanation is the
same as that for any other error
in printing. One envelope in per-
haps 10000 slips through the ma
chine with the impression of the
die but without the purple ink to
color 1t. Such novelties are in
teresting but not especially valu-
able.
Airmail service will be inaugu-
rated March Is on an extension OF
route AM-55 from Bristol, Tenn
Va, to Atlanta, Ga, via Asheville,
N. c., and from Birmingham, Ala,
to New Orleans, La, via Mobile,
Ala. No special cachets have been
prepared, but postmasters will give
philatelic service on covers sub
mitted.
Cachets have been announced for
covers mailed at Leesburg and
Perry, Fla, when route ANTS goes
into service, Thursday next.
A story to the effect that l
penny British Guiana, black on
NldSC tAlC lAAO0b VhAhaUkS 8tdAlp
in the world" had been stolen from
its owner in Los Angeles has been
shown to be untrue. The only
specimen of this great rarity is
safe in a vault in New York.
Basel, Switzerland, is preparing
for IMABA, an international phila-
telic exposition to run from August
81 to 20, inclusive.
The Collectors Club of Washing
ton will meet at 1912 Ninth street
NV. Tuesday evening at 8.
The Woodbridge Stamp Club will
meet at 1918 Rhode Island avenue
NE. Thursday evening at 8.
STAMPS AND COINS
WASHINGTON STAMP co.
MOVED TO I2I EAST FAYETTE ST.
BALTIMORE, MD.