Evening star., 1962-11-25
BY BELMONT FAIRIES
star Stamp Editor

the print order TO 10 million
stamps.
The initial stock of 2 mil
lion was just about exhausted
yesterday at the Philatelic
Sales Agency, but more sup
plies were promised for to-
morrow morning.
The inverts also will be
placed on sale this week at
Senate and House post Of
fices here and at post offices
in New York, Chicago and
Los Angeles. They will be
sent to offices in other large
cities if poStmasters request
them.
The Giori presses at the
Bureau of Engraving and
Printing were kept running
through the week end. One
was printing Hammarskjold
inverts, with the new order
of 8 million expected to be
completed late Tuesday. The
other was tied up with the
Winslow Homer stamp which
is to be released in Glouces-
ter, Mass. on December IS.
The second installment Of
the Hammarskjold rush be-
gan late last Tuesday after
noon, after Leonard Sherman
of Irvington, N. j., had
dropped his suit to prevent
release of the inverts. Since
375,000 had been sold before
his lawyers could get a re-
straining order the preceding
Friday, a permanent injunc-
ton could no longer protect
the value of his sheet of so
original" inverts, part of
the 400 which slipped by the
Bureaus inspectors.
An indication Of what
might have been the value of
the original Hammarskjold
inverts, of which something
less than $50 we're known to
be in the hands of collectors.
was provided last week by a
sale of Canadian st. Lawrence
Seaway inverts. A block of
eight of these stamps was
bought by the New York firm
of j. & H. Stolow for $4,000,
or $2,500 a stamp. The Cana
dian Post Office Department
estimated that 200 of these
were sold in June, 1859, be-
fore the error was discovered.
News that the inverts were
back on sale quickly brought
a crowd to the Philatelic
Sales Agency last Tuesday
afternoon. There were long
lines all day Wednesday and
again all day Friday after the
Thanksgiving Day holiday. By
the close of business yester-
day the first order, which had
started at 100000 and been
boosted to l million and then
2 million, was nearly sold out.
Production of the Ham
marskjold inverts has twice
interrupted printing of the
Christmas stamp, which is
also in heavy demand, with
many post offices sold out
despite an automatic supply
five times that for commem-
oratives. The order for 500
million has now been in
: creased to 800 million, and
when printing starts again
next Wednesday the press will
run until the demand is filled
or until December IS, the last
date at which distribution
will be practical.
Homer Design Released
The design of the second
stamp in the great American
paintings series, reproducing
Winslow Homer's Gloucester
marine scene "Breezing Up"
was released last week by the
Post office Department.
The commemorative will
be issued December Is at
Gloucester. Mass, where
Homer sketched the scene
later recorded in oils in the
painting which hangs in the
National Gallery here.
The stamp is being printed
on the Giori presses in
blue, red-brown and ochre in
an order of 120 million. It
Will be the last of the Accent
commemorative, since the
letter rate goes to 5 cents on
January 7.
Addressed covers for the
first day cancellation may be
sent to the Postmaster,
Gloucester. Mass, with re-
mittance for the cost of the
stamps. The outer envelope
to the postmaster should be
marked First Day Covers A.
Cent Homer Stamp"
+ &
! L. n. New Guinea Stamps
The United Nations, which
took over administration of
Dutch New Guinea (West
Irian) on October / to
handle the transfer of the
territory to Indonesia, over
printed supplies of stamps
then in use with the initials
"UNTEA" for United Ma