Evening star., 1951-08-19


the United Nations bring out a
new set Of stamps?" inevitably has
arisen, but nobody knows-or con-
vincingly guesseS - the answer
Perhaps the series to be released
this autumn will be followed by
another series next year. There
is nothing to prevent the U. N.
from making an annual affair OF
its postal adhesive business. All
the reasons brought forward for
one set Of U. N. stamps can be
advanced for two sets or three
sets or any number of sets. 1t
propaganda and Embarrassing pur-
poses both are to be served by
the 1851 series. they could be
served likewise by new emissions
In 1852. 1858, 1854. ad infinitum.
Meanwhile, the designs of the first
years lot of u. N. labels have met
with Indifferent reception. They
are considered moderniStic in
character and confused in SYM
holism
Italy has brought out a 20-lire
brown stamp bearing the portrait
of Perugino and a view of the
town of Perugio. the intention
being to mark the 500th anniver-
sary of the birth of the great
religious painter whose real name
was Pietro Vannucci.
j. H. Welmer. Box 1903. Wash
ington, D. c., has published the
catalog of his 29th auction Of
precancel stamps. It contains
2.051 entries and is aimed eSpe-
cially at the P. S. S. convention in
Pittsburgh, but mail bids will be
received up to moment OF closing,
August 80.
The professions and trades rep
resented in the list of recent ap-
plicants for membership in the
Society of Philatelic Americans
add up to a composite picture OF
American democracy. First on the
roster Is a farmer, last chemical
analyst. Between the two ex-
tremes are several students, sew
eral clerks, several soldiers, an
electronic technician, a shipping
agent, an insurance company en-
ploye, q retired Army officer, a
banker. an industrial engineer,
woodworker, a dentist and a gen.
eral helper in an electrical plant.
James H. Bower, well-known in
local and national philatelic cir
cles. has been chosen to serve
as chief of the Communications
Facilities Division, Office of Elec-
tronics Programs, Munitions S
Board.
John S. Sparks. jr., former
stamp editor Of the Fort Worth
Star Telegram, now is associated
with the Independent PETROL
cum Association, lilo Ring Build
ing. and will be making his home
nearby.
Philately is featured in the Goth
Century-Fox movie, Mr.. BelVe-
dere Rings the Bell"
Harry M. Konwiser, postal his
torian, is seeking information
about P. L. Watson and the P L.
Watson Express, listed in the
Washington city directory for
1858. Send any and all data to
Mr.. Konwiser in care Stamps
Magazine, 153 Waverley place.
New York City.
On September 13, Denmark
will release a new 25-ore red
stamp with a surtax of sore for
the benefit of the national Red
Cross organization. The central
motif Of the design will be a view
of the hospital ship Jutlandia.
Viggo Bang is the artist, Bent Jo-
cobSen engraver.
The General Services Admins
tration Stamp Club will meet in
Room 634O. GSA Building. Nine
teenth and E streets NV. tomor-
row afternoon at $50. Final plans
for exhibition to be staged in GSA
auditorium September II will be
discussed.
The Star for February 7. 1918.
reported the beginning Of the Phi
latelic Division Of the Smithsonian
Institution as follows: THE pos
tai museum, which formerly at
tracted thousands Of sightseers to
the Post Office Department. is a
thing of the past. Some time ago
the dead letters, curios and other
postal relics representing the &C
emulation Of century. together
with a comprehensive exhibit Of
mail equipment and tranSporta-
ton facilities, were assembled and
catalogued at the direction of the
Postmaster General Crank H.
Hitchcock of Massachusetts, and
transferred to the New National
Museum.
Now Mr.. Hitchcock has or
dered the removal of the postage
stamp collection Of the United
States Government, all that re-
mains of the large collection that
formerly occupied the third floor
corridors of the Post Office De-
partment building ton the south
side Of Pennsylvania avenue be-
tween Eleventh and Twelfth
streets.
The American stamp collec-
ton is more complete than any
owned by other governments, and
its value is conservatively esti-
mated at half a million dollars
Practically every issue of postage
by the nations included in the In
ternational Postal Union is rep.
resented by all or nearly all de-
nominations, as there is an ar
rangement between the poSta