FOR STAMP COLLECTORS

Evening Star, Issue 21565, 10 November 1933, Page 2

FOR STAMP COLLECTORS

[By R.W.W.] Any new« and notes of philatelic interest will always be appreciated. Address care Editor. NEW ISSUES. Poland.—The Economist Stamp Company submits the new commemorative marking the 250th anniversary of the deliverance of Vienna from the Turks bv whom it was besieged. It shows a reproduction of Matejko’s famous painting, now in the Vatican, ‘ Sobieski at Vienna.’ And.another commemorative, marking the 400th anniversary of the great sculptor YitStvosz, has appeared. It depicts his most notable work, a portion of the high altar in the church of St. Marie at Cracow. Aceustonud as we have grown to excellent work on the later Polish stamps, these two commemoratives are superior pieces of engraving and printing. United States.—-The PostmasterGeneral announced that a special 50 Cent commemorative stamp would be issued on the occasion of the special flight.of the Graf Zeppelin from_ Germany to the exhibition at Chicago. The stamp appeared in the latter part of October. Liechtenstein. —The _ stamps commemorating the eightieth birthday of Prince Francis have now appeared; portrait stamps of a hi eh order. • France.—A new 90c. pictorial stamp, recess printed, has been issued with a view of Le Ruien Velay. and perforated 13. The stamp is the same type design as the past pictorials. Reunion.—The new pictorial postage stamps are now to hand in the following designs, values, and colours, engraved and recess printed by L’lnstitnt de Gravure, Paris:— (a) The Cascade, le., 2c., 4c., 5c., 10c.. 15c., 25c., 30c.; (hi Lake of water-fowl and piton d’Anchain 40c.. 45c., 50c., 65c., 75c., 90c.. Ifr.; (cl Leon Dieux Museum ofr., JOfr., 20fr.; (dl postage due stamps—arms of the colony. NOTES. The stamp of Holland, the Queen’s head tvpe. is to he withdrawn, as the new “Peace Propaganda’’ stamp will be retained permanently. “ Panama hats are made in Ecuador.” This is the amusing and'instructive content of an Ecuadorean slogan postmark which is in use just now. Philippine Islands.—We read in ‘ Mekeets ’ that there is a strong possibility of the ordinary portrait type postage stamps being replaced shortly by a set with pictorial designs. As they have been in use since 1906 we cannot cavil at theic almost well-earned retirement. At the Hungarian Postal Museum, which is housed at Kristina-Korut 12, Budapest, there is a general collection of over 50,000 stamps, with a special Hungarian section in which many original drawings, dies, etc., are shown. Adolf Sruoga, Lithuanian postal director, together with a subordinate, was arrested on a charge of committing stamp forgeries, amounting to •C 600.000, by means of the circulation of false stainns A third suspect committed suicide. The ‘ New Southern Philatelist,’ of T'.S.A., states that a Byrd South Pole commemorative stamp is probable. Collectors arc advised to keep their philatelic eye open for this. The last issue of the 6New Southern Philatelist ’ has now appeared, and will be succeeded by ‘ Stamp and Cover Collecting.’ The ‘ New Southern ’ has thus completed nine years of active service on the philatelic front, and its place is to he taken by a broader, better stamp magazine, which is going to serve all classes of collectors. According to Champion’s 1 Bulletin Mensuel,’ new stamps of 30 centimes, with portrait of M. Briand : 75c. with portrait of President Doumer; and Ifr. 25c. with portrait of Victor Hugo are in course of preparation at the establishment on the Boulevard Bruno. AIR MAIL NEWS. There would appeal 1 to be a very special ♦Amand for Atlantic covers with the Newfoundland Balbo provisional. The mint stamp has been on offer at cheap rates, but the same cannot be said of the Down cover. A recent wholesale offer from Newfoundland ((notes down covers at over £SO per ten! 'This sounds well above “ the odds,” hut the fayt remains that these covers arc already changing hands at very substantial premiums, and that American buyers seem particularly interested in this cover. How ninny specialists have heard of. or seen, a recent provincial overprint on the new Chinese air stamps? It appears that a special “ Air Mail ” (two Chinese characters) overprint was applied in red for Sinkiang for use on the first flight mails, although, in practice, the normal air stamps were more generally applied. Five thousand copies were specially overprinted and surcharged for the Boyd-Lyons flight from Haiti to U.S.A. .but it is apparent that this issue has been “ cornered.” Reliable correspondents advise that mail itself, bearing this provisional franking, was carried by the ordinary Pan-American airway liners I During the jamboree at Godollo (Hungary) a special aeroplane .service connected the camp mails with the regular European air lines. Two types of “ jamboree ” air post cachets were in use, each with varying inscriptions according to the route, and aerogrammes are therefore most attractive souvenirs of the event, especially if they bear, in addition, the jamboree post mark, commemorative stamps, and coloured propaganda “ sticker.”

RUMANIA’S JUBILEE STAMPS. ’The Royal Castle of Peiesch, as depicted upon the 6 lei stamp of the special series issued to mark the jubilee of its foundation, is the scene of the reunion of the Royal Family of Rumania which is expected to have an important hearing upon the political situation in Eastern Europe. Here are gathered in addition to the members of the Royal house all the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Little Entente who are ostensibly attending the celebrations in connection with the fiftieth anniversary of the building. The chateau standing high up in the Transylvanian Alps, near Sinaia, was erected in 1883 by King Carol 1., who appears in company with the late Queen Elizabeth, known to lame as “ Carmen Silva,” upon the I leu stamp of the commemorative set, and has been successively the country seat of the three Rumanian monarchs whose profiles figure in the 31. design. JUBILEE LINES. If you look at a marginal block or pair of stamps of any of our British issues, printed by typography since 1887, you will find that there is. on the marginal paper, a line of colour. If you had a sheet of stamps you would find that this line runs right round the edge of the sheet. On the printing plate this line appears as a ridge of metal, and it is there to take the first shock of the rollers during the printing, and to lift them to the level ol the metal representations of the stamp designs, if the lino is not thero the rollers hit the edges of the parts ,of the plate which print the actual stamps, with the result that the edges wear more quickly than 1 lie rest of the plate, so that tile printing becomes poor, or else the (date has to be renewed. 'Die lines were first added to the plate in the case of the 1887 issue of Great Britain. which was popularly called the “ jubilee ” issue, because it came in the year of Queen Victoria's jubilee. Hence the name, which is also applied to similar lines on the sheets of British colonial stamps. In the case of stamps printed in two colours—i.e., from two plates—there arc usually two lines, one from each plate, and, of course, printed in the colours of flic respective plates —‘Gibbon's Stamp Monthly.’