Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-12

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teenth streets NV. His ex-
tension on the department
telephone switchboard est.
$4,000 has been changed
from 46S to 4Ss. Frank Salb.
philatelic agent, and Harry
Cowger, assistant philatelic
agent. are his principal aides,
and Mrs. Virginia Brizendine
is his secretary.
Among the philatelic lead
ers coming to Washington for
the first-day ceremony of the
scent Commodore Matthew
D. Perry commemorative
Tuesday will be: Harry L.
Lndquist, president of the
National Federal Of Stamp
Clubs, New York: Rear Adj
miral Jesse johnson. u. 8. N.
(retired). president Of the
American Air Mail Society,
Norfolk, Va; George w. Linn.
editor and publisher of Linn's
Weekly Stamp News. Sidney,
Ohio; l.. B. Gatchell, editor
OF the AirpoSt Journal, Bronx
vile, N. Y; George w. King
don. past president. AAMs.
Conneaut. Ohio; Sol Glass.
president Of the Bureau Is.
sues Association, Baltimore.
and Bernard Davis, director of
the National Philatelic MI.
scum. Philadelphia.
The Smithsonian Institution
has a specialized exhibition of
United Nations stamps and
covers on display in the Arts
and Industries Building, south
side Of the Mall at Ninth street
S.W., and the inter-service
Photographic exhibition of
the National Defense Estab-
l1shment on show in the Ma
tional Museum Building, Con-
stitution avenue at Tenth
street NV. Hours: 8 to 4:30
daily. including Saturday and
Sunday.
New slogan cancellation dies
have been announced as fol.
lows: Western College Cen.
tennial. oxford, Ohio, Sep
TENDER /, 1853. to February
%. 1854; Mountain State
Forest Festival, Elkins, w. Va.
date of receipt through Octo-
Der 3; Gadsden Purchase Cen
tennial, Douglas, Ariz., date
of receipt through Deem
Der 3. Send self-addreSsed,
stamped envelopes to post
masters indicated with request
for special commemorative
markings.
Great Britain has put in
service three new portrait
stamps of the current Queen
Elizabeth II regular postage
series. The denominations
and colors are: Sd, sepia
brown; Sd, cerise, and 1sh,
lumber. Each design features
a photograph of her majesty
by Dorothy Wilding and the
floral emblems of the rose for
England, the thistle for Scot
land, the daffodil for Wales
and the shamrock for North
ern Ireland. G. Knipe was
the artist responsible for the
sd, Mary Adshead the Sd and
the late Edmund Dulac the
1sh.
The Fish and Wild Life
Service, Department of the
Interior. announces that 49,
902,428 hunting licenses were
issued by the 48 States during
the fiscal year ended June 80,
1852. If each of these hunters
were to buy a 81 conservation
stamp similar to the annual
Federal Duck Hunters stick
ers, the preservation of all
types Of game could be pro-
NOTED acknowledgment a
new department of philately
opened to thousands of collec.
tors.
H. e. Harris q Co., Boston,
report: Interest In plate
blocks and first-day covers
seems to have reached a new
high. Nineteenth century is-
sues also have been getting in
creased attention and reissues
and special printings in par
ticular have been in strong de-
mand. The stamps of Canada
provide another growing field
OF activity. parallelling that
nations tremendous postwar
expansion in all directions. In
many cases. the demand for
stamps is running way ahead
OF supply; and stamp dealers
are experiencing considerable
dimculty In keeping the more
popular issues in stock"
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