Evening star., 1948-11-28

lanQ collectors living west OF R0ck
Greek will meet at Eldbrooke Meth
odist Church, Wisconsin avenue and
River road, next door to Sears
Tenleytown store, Wednesday eve
ming at 8, to organize a stamp club
All practitioners of the philatelic
hobby in the indicated neighborhood
are invited to attend and to take
part.
Designs for the new Scent air.
mail stamp, the new Scent airmail
stamped envelope and the Accent
airmail card stipulated by the
Eightieth Congress are now in
process of development. Other
l949 items under consideration in
clude: A stamp for the tercenten-
ary of Annapolis, stamp for the
centennial of Minnesota Territory
a stamp for the sesquicentenary OF
the District of Columbia as the seat
Of the Federal Government (prob-
ably to appear six months or more
before the celebration begins in
1850, commemorative for Gen
Pershing and Chief Justice Hughes
possible commemorative issues for
Father Flanagan and Babe Ruth, q
stamp in memory of Edgar Allen
Poe, who died October 7, 1849. Leg
islation calling for a scent airmail
stamp to mark the bicentenary OF
Alexandria will have to be amended
to read "6-cent." The Accent air.
mail card will be released in Wash
ington, January 10, elsewhere Janu-
ary II. First-day specimens may
be ordered from the city postmaster
The second part of the Scott
Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue
for 1949 was published last week. 1t
lists "every recognized adhesive
postage stamp ever issued by any
government of Europe, including
colonies, and by the independent
nations of Africa and ASIA" in
cludes approximately 1900 pages OF
text and illustrations and represents
prices determined between July and
September of this year. The first
volume, dealing with the stamps OF
the Americas and the British Com
monwealth, was released several
months ago. It contains about 900
pages. Both portions in q single
binding will be available shortly.
Muhlenberg College, Allentown,
Pa, is using an attractive slogan
postal meter marking die on its mail
to publicize its centennial. Send 10
cents with name and address for
each cover wanted, incloSing clipping
Of this notice.
"The French Book" a specialized
study of the postage stamps OF
France including check list OF
more than 5000 post offices where
they were sold and Cancelled, has
been published by A. August Tiger,
l54 Nassau street, New York 7, N. Y.
It was compiled by Brainerd Kremer
of Montclair, N. j., recognized
authority on the subject.
Stanley B. Ashbrook Of Fort
Thomas, KY, q collector and system
attic student of early United States
stamps from 1892 onward, also Is a
skilled photographer and cabinet
maker. He received the Crawford
Medal from the Royal Philatelic
Society of London in 1888 for a two
volume work on the 1-cent 1877.
ZW Prihar, first postmaster general
of independent Israel, was in New
York recently en- route to the Inter-
national High Frequency Radio Con-
ference in Mexico City.
| Any collector who possesses q
lid King George vi British stamp
with a Star of David ON the top OF
the crown actually owns O spy" is
sue. All such specimens were pro-
duced in Germany during World
War II. They wefe distributed
through German embassies. Check
for watermarked Bulgarian paper
Compare with SCOTS Great Britain
No. A102 for altered design.
On October II Hungary brought
out a 30-filler blue stamp showing
a globe surmounted by q carrier
pigeon bearing an envelope and q
coat of arms. The inscription BEL
yegnap' signifies Stamp Day"
Harry L. LindquiSt, editor and
publisher of Stamps Magazine and
president of the National Fedora
ton of Stamp Clubs, is deeply in
terested in the campaign to raise
funds for laboratory research into
the cause and cure Of rheumatic
fever. "This drive" he says, "re-
ceives much less notice than other
efforts of q similar sort. but any one
who looks well into 1t will find that
it is exceptionally worthy and i'm
portant."
All postage stamps Of Australia
now are printed on rotary press.
Mrs. John D. Dale, Henry NJ
Goodkind and Harrison D. S. Hav-
erbeck have been added to the Ex-
pert Committee OF the Philatelic
Foundation, az East Thirty-tifth
street, New York is. Serving with
them will be Theodo1e E. Stein
way, chairman; John K. Bash, AL
fred H. Caspary. Elliott G. Corin,
George r. M. Ewing, John H. Hall.
Max G. Johl and Rear Admiral
Frederic r. Harris.
Mrs. Juliette Gordon Low, re-
Gently honored in the Girl Scout
stamp, was past so years of age and
almost totally deaf when she organ
lied the first troop of Girl Guides
of America in her home at Savan-
nah, Ga, March o, 1912. She lived
to be 66 and to see the Guides, re-
named Scouts, reach a member
ship of 100000, representing every
State in the Union. Girl Scouts
who have not yet secured copies
of her stamp should act promptly.
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