Evening star., 1948-10-17
News About Stamps
By jones Waldo Fawcett

The first annual exhibition Of
postage stamps and covers by the
Government Printing Office Stamp
Club in Harding Hall, GPO Building,
North Capitol street NV opened
Friday and will continue Until Oc-
tober 20. Members displaying Sc
lected material are: Paul Clayton,
Helen Dove, Melvin Eney, Edward
Hopkinson, Philip Kozak, Gertrude
Lehman, Herman Lichty, Arthur
Marshall, Mary Newman, Leslie Pen
nington, Edward Rigol. James Sim,
John Sheehan, Jake Solomon, Milton
Tooter, Joseph Toussaint, Philip
Traiinsky, Wes Tryon. Joseph Werres
and Alfred Whit. The judges are:
William M. Stuart. stamp editor,
Washington Post; James L. Brew
rink, president, Woodbridge Stamp
Club. and Bert c. Gardner, presi-
dent, PBA Stamp Club. The club
meets in conference room c, eighth
floor, GPO Building, first and third
Thursdays at 4:40 pm. Visitors
welcome.
William Henry Beck, ST., engineer,
color authority and lifelong student
of stamps. died at his home in
Baltimore last Sunday. He was 81
years Of age, had been in the en-
ploy of the Crown Cork & Seal
Co. and the Koppers Co.. and was
a member of the American Institute
OF Electrical Engineers, American
Society Of Mechanical Engineers,
Society of Automotive Engineers,
the American Institute of Physics,
Optical Society of America, the Col
lectors Club of New York and the
Baltimore and Washington Phila-
telic Societies. He had won prizes
at the Tipex and Cipex shows in
New York and generally was recog-
nized as the leading expert on color
as related. to stamps in his time.
Funeral services were held on
Thursday.
Well-centered specimens of the
De New York Boroughs airmail are
o good investment. Many of the
run were spoiled by irregular mar
gins. The same observation applies
to the Sc Gold Star Mothers and
the Sc Mount Palomar stamps
Haste In production, forced on the
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
by the Eightieth Congress, is the
explanation Il and the spectators
stand to profit handsomely in the
circumstances.
Neat. hand-cancels are available
from the postmasters at Hillsboro
and Washington, Va, and Derwood,
Md. Harpers Ferry, w. Va, has a
new machine cancel well worth add
ing to ones collection. A slogan die,
reading Navy Day October 27'' is
In use at Annapolis, Md. Cocoa,
Fla, has an interesting machine
postmark.
AS forecast in The Star a month
ago, the Cipex souvenir sheet has
been removed from the Philatelic
Agency sales list.
Designs for a new &c post card
and a new &c airmal stamp are in
preparation.
When airmail service on Route
AM-86 is extended to Uvalde, Tex,
o special cachet will be provided for
covers.
First day sales figures for the Sc
Volunteer Firemen stamp at Dover,
Del. October 4, we're: 854 300 copies
sold, 399 $50 covers postmarked.
Readers with ideas about what
the commemorative stamp or stamps
for the sesaui-centenary of the Dis
trict of Columbia should show are
invited to communicate them to
Supt. of Stamps Robert E. Fellers,
Post Office Department, Pennsyl-
vania avenue at Twelfth street NV.
Washington philatelists will have
an opportunity to inspect the
stamps collected by former Secre-
tary of the Interior Harold L. lIckes
before they are sold. Edison Fiheld
has arranged to display them at the
office of H. A. Robinette, Washing
ton Loan & Trust Building, Ninth
and F streets NV, on or about
November 5.
Australia has brought out q
21ad red brown stamp in remem-
brance of Baron Sir Ferdinand Won
Mueller, eminent botanist.
The Soviet Union is getting out
q stamp in tribute to Andrei A.
Zhdanov, secretary general of the
Communist Party Central Commit
tee, who recently died under mys-
terious circumstances.
A. Earl Weatherly of Greensboro,
N. c., has been elected president Of
the Confederate Stamp Alliance.
The Canadian Post ONCE Depart
ment has reconsidered its policy
regarding the sale Of postage stamps
STAMPS AND COINS.
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