Evening star., 1951-04-15

in the receiving line, greeting
1isitors to the display. His stamps.
covers and other material illus
trating a century of Jewish his
tory fills "a frames. Some of the
items are unique, others very rare,
a few common enough to be avail
able to average collectors. Mr..
Weitz has given the entire prop.
erty to the National Jewish We'll
fare Board. It is being sponsored
locally by the Temple Arts Group.
hours are: Saturdays,
$50 to IL noon; Sundays. / to
$50 pm; weekdays, Monday to
Friday, $50 to 4:30. The public
is invited to see the exhibition
gratis.
The airmail collection of the
late Mrs. w. E. Heathcote of St.
Petersburg was sold at auction by
Harmer, Rookie & Co., New York.
April and 4: and bids totaled
more than $4,000.
Franklin r. Bruins, philatelic
curator of the Smithsonian Insti-
tuition, will be guest speaker at q
of the Washington Phila.
telic Society, 2017 7 street NV,
Wednesday evening, April Is.
Capt. Theodore Wright Rich
ards. u. S. NJ, Retired, a stamp
collector for many years, died at
Savannah, Ga, March 20.
Stamps Magazine for April Il
is devoted to the stamps and COW
ers of Japan and is an invaluable
aid to collectors specializing in
japanese material.
Mrs. Edith Fisher has been ap.
pointed editor Of Covers Magazine.
published by the Van Dahl organ
ization at Albany, Ore.
The holdings of the estate of
H. A. Robinette. long a Washing
ton dealer, are being sold by Va
han Mozian, Inc, New York, and
good prices are being realized.
May 19 will be Armed Forces
Day, and the Pentagon Philatelic
Society again will sponsor a spe-
cial cachet for the occasion. Send
self addressed stamped envelopes.
ready to go, to cachet director:
1t. Col. r. w. Page, jr., 206 West
Rosemary Lane. Falls Church, Va.
Cyril E. Balmforth, 80 BelgraVe
street, Wallasey, Cheshire, Eng
land, would like to correspond with
American collectors of Red Cross
stamps.
Mrs. v. H. Davis, 200 West
George Mason road, Falls Church.
Va, would appreciate information
on the value Of stamps issued in
Siberia during the Kolchak regime
there. ,,,.-
The centennial of the FIRST post
age stamp of the Netherlands will
be celebrated at the Itep show at
Utrecht, June % to July 8, 1862.
A preliminary prospectus has been
published and copies may be OBJ
tanned from Ernest Kehr. 230 West
A1st street. New York City. Send
10 cents for postage and handling.
The Woodbridge Stamp Club will
meet at 2206 Rhode Island avenue
NE, tomorrow evening at 9.
The condition of AZ cent coil
stamps is reported to be deplor-
able. A recent count Of a roll Of
500 showed 205 damaged one way
or another.
Stamp collectors especially are
invited to attend q meeting of the
Washington Lincoln Group at the
Lincoln Museum (Ford's Thea
ter). 5l1 Tenth street. NV, this
afternoon at 2:30. Representative
George A. Dondero. of Michigan,
will preside. and the principle
speaker will be Dr.. j. Walter Cole
man, superintendent of Gettys.
burg National Military Park.
whose subject has been announced
as: "The Lincoln Legend Then
and Now" Rev. A. Lincoln Smith
is to give the invocation and hsn-
ediction. The National Press ~''lb
Male Chorus will sing. Phil -1ic
visitors are asked to inquire 'or
Capt. Bert Sheldon at the door.