Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-08
pHILATELIc NEWS
Il Issues Required
BY increased Rotes
BY BELMONT FAIRIES
Star Stamp Editor

Eleven new issues - six
kinds of stamps. three postal
cards and two envelopes -
win be provided for increased
rates effective August /.
The 7-cent air mail stamp
win have a new design by
William H. Buckley, an art
list Of the Stamp Advisory
list member of the Stamp
Advisory Committee. Other
issues will be changed only
in denomination and color.
Mr.. Buckley's strikingly
simple design features a sill
houette of a composite Jet
airliner of the most advanced
type. which will soon be in
service on the Nations ma
Jor airlines.
The lettering. credited to
Sam Marsh, is unusually
large and the numeral z is
the full height Of the stamp,
which will be printed in blue
in the current air mail size.
The new stamp will be re-
leased in sheet form July 81
at the American Air Mail So
ciety convention in Philadel-
phia.
1t also will be available the
same day in coils of 500 and
5000 and in booklets. The
coils will go on sale at Mi
ami. Fla. an important in
ternational air mail center,
and the booklet panes at San
Antonio. Tex, home of the
huge Kelly and Lakeland Air
Force bases.
An adhesive air mail
stamp, scent denomination,
for use on post cards, will be
issued July 81 at Colorado
Springs, Colo. site Of the
United States Air Force
Academy. 1t will be like the
present Accent blue stamp in
the flying eagle design, but
will be printed in red.
No new stamp will be
needed for the Accent letter
rate. The lavender Abraham
Lincoln adhesive of the cur
rent regular series has been
printed in large quantities to
meet the demand. Coil and
booklet versions will be is
sued July 81, the coils at
Mandan, S. OAK, site of Fort
Abraham Lincoln. and the
booklets at Wheeling, w. Va.
Requests for first-day can
collation. of the regular
stamps. coils and booklet
panes may be sent to post
masters of the various cities
where firSt-day ceremonies
are being held. 1t is sug-
gested by the Post Office De-
partment, but not required.
that coil stamps be ordered
at least in pairs and booklet
stamps in the full pane Of
six.
Cards and Envelopes
The new Scent postal card,
printed in purple In the
Statue of Liberty design, Will
be placed on sale August l
at the convention of the
American First Day Cover
Society in the Philatelic
Museum in Philadelphia.
The Scent reply paid dou-
BILE card. in the same color
and design, will be issued
July 81, at Boise, Idaho.
A scent air mail postal
card, printed in red in a de-
sign like the present Accent
orange eagle card, will be
released the same day at
Wichita. Kans., an important
aircraft production center.
Two embossed envelopes
also will be issued July 81.
The Accent envelope, print
ed in lavender in a design
like the oval 1-cent Benjamin
Franklin, will have its first
day at Montpelier, vt.
The 7-cent air mail envel-
ope, in blue in a design like
the present Scent red envel-
ope, will be released at Day.
ton, Ohio, site of many
important aviation develop
ments and the place where
embossed United States en-
velopes are printed under
private contract by the In
ternational Envelope Co.
The Post Office Department
urges collectors not to send
requests for the new enve-
lopes and postal cards until
specific instruction sare an