Evening star., 1959-11-29
PHILATELIc NEWS
Scout Stamp Design
By Norman Rockwell
By BELMONT FAIRIES
Star Stamp Editor

BY BELMONT FAIRIES
Star Stamp Editor
The Accent stamp COM
memorating the golden jubi-
lee Of the Boy Scouts Of
America will be issued here
February 8 in a bicolor de-
sign by Norman Rockwell,
noted artist and illustrator.
1t features a boy in Scout
uniform with right hand
raised in the Scout sign. The
Scout will be printed in
khaki, the wording and de-
nomination in blue.
Mr.. Rockwell, who is as
well known for his Boy Scout
calendars as his Saturday
Evening Post covers, was the
unanimous choice of the
Stamp Advisory Committee
to design the commemorative.
The Boy Scouts of America
were Incorporated in 1910
after Sir Robert Baden
Powell's idea of an outdoor
organization for boys was
brought to this country by
w. D. Boyce, a Chicago pub
Usher who had been i'm
pressed by an English Scouts
good turn"
The Scout stamps will be
printed on the Giori press
and issued in sheets of so.
The initial order is for the
usual 100 million.
Addressed covers for first
day cancellation may be sent
to the Postmaster, Washing
ton 13, D. c., with remittance
for the cost Of the stamps.
Mcdowell Stamp Thursday
The DR.. Ephriam Mcdowell
stamp in the Famous Amer
leans" series will be issued
Thursday at Danville, KY, at
a Centre College student con-
vocation. There is still time
to send covers for first day
cancellation to the post
master at Danville.
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Christmas Seal Printers
This years Christmas
Seals, designed by Katherine
LaBruce Rowe of Richmond,
Va, have been printed as
usual by six different litho-
graphers. Printers can be
identified by a letter above
the boys foot on the seth
stamp on the sheet. Seals
mailed out in the District,
Maryland and Virginia are
from the Eureka Specially
Printing Co. The District
tuberculosis Association will
be glad to provide informa-
ton on distributing the other
printings if you call Adams
4-7100.
Life Pictures Stamps
Beauty in Stamps" illus
trated with nearly 800 full
color stamp pictures, is the
theme Of the feature article
in Life magazines November
80 issue, now on the news
stands. Unlike the famous
Life feature Of May 3. 1854,
which showed many Of the
worlds most valuable stamps.
the current issue stresses
esthetic appeal.
The stamps pictured are
comparatively recent and in
expensive, selected along
topical lines-animals, birds,
fish, insects, flowers and cos
tunes. Most of these are
printed by photogravure, but
Life takes two pages to stress
that the aristocrats among
stamps artistically are the
line engPavings.
The article is non-technical
and in fact non-philatelic,
but is certain to be of in
terest to any collector.
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Plates Cancelled
In an extensive houseclean-
ing, the Bureau of Engraving
and Printing last month can
celed 359 stamp plates, some
with small printings. Com
memoratives of 1856, 1857
and the early part of 1858,
Presidentials from / cent to
Is cents, and a number of
the current regular series
with emphasis on the 8-cent
fiat plates, we're included.
One of the latter, center
plate 24920, received only 525
impressions, making a maxi
mum Of 2,1eo possible plate
numbers. Smallest number
of impressions for any of the
commemoratives was 66,868
for plate 25763 of the Air
Force stamp Of 1857.
4 = 4 =
Rocky Run Local Post
The Rocky Run Local Post
will operate from December
/ through Christmas Dav US
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