CLIZALDC

United States LifeI nsurance Co.

In this issue:The Birtl~ ofA PhilippmeStamp.

VOL. 2 FEBRUARY-MARCH, 1~1JANUARY- No. 2

CONTENTS

E:ditor ial

The Birth of A Philippine Stamp - by Capt. A. C. Townsend ., 4- 5

ew Philippine Documentary Stamps Released' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6- 9

List of Available Stamps at The Philatelic Agency, Bureau ofPosts 10-11

Senator James M. Mead of N. Y. Broadcast on Stamp Collecting 12-14

Oddities in The Stamp World :... J,.5

Nicolas Sanabria - by John W. Nicklin 16-17

Australasian Letter -- by Ray Porter'. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Two Men Seized in Fake Stamp Overprint Case 1!l

Collectors Hoaxed for More Than 25 Years So-Called Error ... 19-20

Who's Nut? - by D1·. H. B. Hinman 21

Contrast - by Pablo M. Esperidi6n 22

Philippine Air Lines Inc. (Ad) ,..................... 23

Just Between Us - by Baron de Pomqiesiii 24-28

Elizalde & Co. Inc. (Ads) 29-32

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ELIZALDE STAMP JOURNALOFFICIAL PUBLICATIOK

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Manila, Philippines

Vol. 2 Jan.-Feb.-March, 1941 No.2

Eduardo YrezabalManaging Editor

Pablo M. Esperidi6nEditor

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EDITORIAL

ELIZALDE STAMP JOURNAL

During the first quarter of the year, we have been deluded with

a barrage of letters requesNngcopies of the Elizalde Christmas seals

issued by Elizalde & Co. Inc., last December. Interest evinced by

many collectors in adding these seals to their collections has engaged

the attention of the Elizalde executives to order a second printing of

10,000 copies for further distribution.

In issuing the Elizalde Christmas seals, we wish to reiterate that

they are not "Jor sale as we are not concerned in making them as a

ccmmercial venture. Fact cf the matter is, we feel more inclined to

the propagation of the hobby in its recreational scope than to "dip

our finger" in the jack-pot of commercial philately. However, those

who are interested in these seals may simply write to the Company

and copies will be sent free as announced in the last issue of The ESJ.

Aqain. it is a pleasure to announce that at the suggestion of our

Club, Elizalde & Co, Inc., has decided to issue another Christmas seal

for this year. Its design will be different from that of last year, but

as we go to press the motif remains undecided. However, the Ad-

vertising Department of the, Company is preparing at present several

designs for submission to the Elizalde executives and as soon as a

design is selected, we will announce it in the columns of this magazine.

It pleases us also to announce that Elizalde & Co. Inc., has under

consideration of issuing Christmas seals with a different design for

every year. This is very encouraging, and to the Company, verily

we are grateful for taking coqnizant of our humble suggestions.

Believing, therefore, in 'the social significance and the collecting

interest attached to Christmas seals-the message of good will which

they convey to cheer mankind and the pleasures stamp collectors enjoy

in possessing them-with this last proposition of Elizalde & Co. Inc.,

we have no room for doubt that it would be welcomed by the stamp

collectors of the world.

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PABLO M. ESPERIDION

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JAN-FEB-MAR. 1941

• Do you know that stamp collect-ing is a course included in theadult education in the OaklandPublic Schools? See. page 28 inthis issue.

COMMONWEALTH OF THE PHILIPPINESDEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AND COMMUNICATIONS

BUREAU OF POSTSMANILA

SWORN STATEMENT(Required by Act 2580)

The undersigned. Pablo M. Esperidi6n, editor of THE ELIZALDE STAMPJOURNAL, published quartely in the City of Manila, P. I., after having been dulysworn in accordance with law, hereby submits the following statement of owner ...ship, management. circulation, etc. which is required by Act 2580 as am mended byCommonwealth Act No. 201:

Managing Editor: Eduardo Yrezabal, c/o Elizalde & Co. Inc .. Manila.Editor: Pablo M. Esperidi6n, c/o Elizalde & Co. Inc., Manila.Business Manager: Pedro Teodoro, c/o Elizalde & Co. Inc., Manila.Publisher: Elizalde Stamp Club, Elizalde Bldg., Manila.Printer: Imprenta Germania, 672 Legarda, Manila.Owner: Elizalde Stamp Club, Elizalde Bldg., Manila.Bondholders. mortgages or other security holders owing one per cent or more

of total amount of securities: (If there arc no outstanding securities, state so.lf there are, give nature of each) .-NONE.

(Sgd.) P. M. ESPERIDION, Editor.

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 1st day of April 1941, at the Cityof Manila.

(Sdz.) PACIFICO de OCAMPO,Notary Public.----------------.------------------------------

ELIZALDE STAMP JOURNAL

THE BIRTH OF A PHILIPPINE STAMP... by

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Capt. A. C. TownsendOklahoma City, Oklahoma

A true story as witnessed by Capt.Townsend, a Spanish-American Warveteran, who saw service in Cuba.Capt. Townsend is one of the trench-ant, ph ilat eltc , sbor c-srory writers ofAmerlca.-Ed.

(Written especially for theElizalde Stamp Journal)

History in the making, especiallyins.de information in regard to it, isalways interesting. So it has oc-cured to the writer that his fellowphilatelists in the Philippines may beinterested in a short account of howyour stamps of the series of 1906were born. Here it is.

The Spanish-American war waslong over. My chief, General Leo-pard Wood (later so beloved in thePhilippines) had finished his nobletask of politically teaching the Cu-bans to first creep, then toddle andthen walk upright on their own feet.On May 20, 1902, he had hauled downthe American flag over the palace,raised and saluted the Cuban flag,turned the government over and sail-ed for Washington. He left a smallcrew of us in charge of the recordsof his administration, freely avail-able to all Cuban officials.

General Wood was slated (at hisown request) by President TheodoreRoosevelt to go at once to the Phil-[ppines as Commanding General oftroops, but Congress wished to askhim a great many questions aboutCuban matters, so his departure

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• STAMPS of the Philippine series of 1906, portraying Dr. Riza l, McKinley, Ma~ellanLegaspf, Lawton, Lincoln, Sampson, Washtngron , Franklin, and the Coat ...of ..Arrns ofthe Islands.-Courtesy Manila Stamp Co;

was delayed and Governor Taft car-ried on.

After a few weeks I was trans-ferred to Washington myself andserved under Gen. Clarence R. Ed-wards. He was head of the Bureauof Insular Affairs, which was doingall the purchasing and shipping ofeverything required by Gov. Taft inthe building up and modernizing ofthe Islands, and in a short time webegan the selection of teachers to besent there to help in the education ofour foster children.

Mail was then too slow for theneeds of an eager to learn and rapid-ly expanding nation, so almost allmatters were conducted by cable.One day in 1905 the General called mein and said, "Townsend, GovernorTaft wants 'some distinctive stampsfor the Philippines." He handed methe cablegram to read. "Y ou are astamp collector. It is a good idea,but what is the proper thing to do?How will we go about it?"

He was told that all our stampswere designed and printed by theBureau of Engraving & Printing,that our then current stamps werebeing surcharged there for use in thePhilippines, and that the correct stepwas to ask the head of the Bureauto design some distinctive stamps andsubmit the designs to him for ap-proval.

"What about the name? We can'tsay just Philippines on them for theyare part of the United states at pre-sent." That was so, and with penciland paper we eventually got the name

PHILIPPINE ISLANDS-UNITEDSTATES OF AMERICA in the formin which it was eventually adopted.

That being 'satisfactory, his nextquestion was, "What about the centraldesigns? Scenes in the Islands orwhat?" My. suggestion was, "Someof the heroes." He seized upon thatat once. "Right! But we also wantsome of the army officers whofought for Philippine liberty, andLincoln, the father of liberty, and soon." Of course that was at onceagreed to, and then he thought ofthe Coat of Arms which appears onthe Peso values, which was strikingand seemed very fitting.

That brought up the question ofhow to mark the Peso values-whatsort of a symbol to adopt. I showedhim how the Pound was indicated onthe British stamps and after a bitof trial and error work the "P" withthe double down stroke was decidedupon.

And 'so over to the Bureau wentthe request for the new stamps, to-gether with our idea and photos ofsome of the various persons sugestedto be pictured, and after a time camethe designs from the Bureau, includ-ing their ideas of other faces to beshown in the series. And back andforth they went-additions, modifica-tions, eliminations, until finally Gen-eral Edwards put his "0. K." onthem, and the Philippine series of906 was born and shipped to Manila.The 'sad part of the tale is that it

never occurred to the writer to askthat he be furnished with a set of dieproofs of the stamps!

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NEW PHILIPPINE DOCUMENTARY STAMPSRELEASED

Printed in 1938, Received in 1939, Issued in 1940

Bear ew Design; Series Consist Ten Values

With the appearance of the new Philippine documentary stamps earlythis year in Manila, we requested the Bureau of Internal Revenue parti-culars anent these new revenue adhesives. The stamps bear a new design-a coconut tree between two tobacco plants-as illustrated on page 7.

'They are issued in 10 values, namely, 2, 4, 10, 20, 50-centavos, 1, 2, 10, 20,and 50-pesos. Their size is 3.1 x 6.2 centimeters, with perforation 11. Theycome in rows of 3 x 7, 'and are printed in sheets of 21 subjects and 5 'Stampswith perforations on all sides and 16 are with straightedges on one sideat least.

From the letter received by us from the Collector of Internal Revenuerelative to these stamps, we gather that they were printed by the Bureauof Engraving and Printing at Washington, D. C., in 1938, and the first ship-ment was received by the local Bureau of Internal Revenue on ;ranuary 3,1939. First issuance of the stamp's was made on December 17, 1940, atBacolod, Occidental Negros, but their first appearance in Manila was madenot until early in 1941.

For guidance of collectors of revenue stamps of the Islands, we arepubli·shing below, the letter we received from the Collector of Internal Re-venue relative to these new adhesives. Through the courtesy of the Collectorof Internal Revenue, we are also publishing below, General Circular No. 472,released to all internal revenue officers and others concerned in connectionwith the issuance of these stamps:

COMMONWEALTH OF THE PHILIPPI ESDepartment of Finance

BUREAU OF INTERNAL REVENUEManila

January 30, 1941Mr. Pablo M. Esperidi6nEditor, Elizalde Stamp JournalElizalde Building, Manila

Sir:

Acceding to the request contained in your letter of the 7th instant, Ihave the honor to give you the following information regarding the newPhilippine documentary stamps. .

The stamps in question were printed by the Bureau of Engraving andPrinting, Washington, D. C. for use as Philippine Internal Revenue stamps.As it became necessary to discard the old documentary stamps, this Officerequested the Bureau of Engraving 'and Printing to surcharge certain deno-minations of these for use as documentary stamps. It is regretted that thisOffice has no knowledge of the designer thereof.

The first stock of the stamps was received by this Bureau on differentdates as shown hereunder:

Denominationr 0.02

.04

.10

.20

.50

Qt~antity294,000294,000294,000294,000294,000

Date Recei1:ed

January 3, 1939

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• NEW 2-centavo documentaryof the Philippines.

• BECAUSE there is no 4-centavoP. I. Internal Revenue stamp,this I-centavo documentaryadhesive was surcharged with"FOUR CENTAVOS."

(Continuaiion page 6)

r 0.02 294,000 ).04 441,000 ) February 13, 1939.10 294,000 ).20 441,000 )

1" 0.02 441,000 ) March 7, 1939.04 1,764·,000 )

1" 0.02 735,000 ) April 1, 1939.20 1,470,000 )

P 0.02 690,900 ).04 16,800 ).10 165,900 )".20 27,300 ).50 125,000 ) April 17, 19391.00 231,000 )

2.00 54,600 )10.00 21,000 )20.00 6,300 )50.00 10,500 )

r 0.20 2,205,000 ) May 15, 1939

1" 0.20 2,205,000 ) May 22, 1939

1"0.04 1,348,201) ) June 19, 1939.20 205,800 )

(Continue L on next vage)

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ELIZALDE STAMP JOURNAL

TOTAL STAMPS RECEIVEDDenomination Quantity

I' 0.02 2,748,900.04 4,158,000.10 1,047,900.20 7,142,100.50 714,000

1.00 231,0002.00 54,600

10.00 21,00020.00 6,30050.00 10,500

The one-centavo Philippine internal revenue stamps were surcharged sothat they may serve as four-centavo Philippine documentary stamps, for thereason that there are no Philippine internal revenue stamps of four-centavodenomination.

The first issue of the stamps was made to the City Treasurer of Ba-colod, on December 1'7, 1940, consisting of 10,500 stamp's of four-centavodenomination.

For your further information, I am enclosing a copy of General CircularNo. 472 of this Bureau, dated October 14, 1940, regarding the said newdocumentary stamps.

Very respectfully,(Sgd.) BIBIANO L. MEERCollector of Iniernai Revenue

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COMMONWEALTH OF THE PHILIPPINESDepartment of Finance

BUREAU OF INTERNAL REVENUEManila

October 14, 1940

SUBJECT: New kind of Philippine documentary stamps.GENERAL CIRCULAR NO. 472

To all internal-renenue officers and others concerned:1. This Bureau has in stock new kind of Philippine documentary stamps.

They are the present Philippine internal revenue stamps which are unnum-bered, but with the surcharges specified in the next paragraph hereof sothat they may serve as documentary stamps.

2. The denominations of the new kind of Philippine documentarystamps are as follows: PO.02, 1"0.04, fO.10, PO.20, PO.50, ii>1.00, P2.00, P10.00,P20.00 and P50.00. All stamps of the aforesaid denominations, except thoseof PO.04 denomination, are the present Philippine internal revenue stampsof the same respective denominations, surcharged with the following words:

"DOCUMENT ARYCancel this stamp by stamping date of

use partly on 'stamp and partlyon document"

The new documentary stamps of the PO.04 denomination are the present Phil-ippine internal revenue stamps of 1"0.01 denomination, but with the follow-ing surcharge:

"DOCUMENT ARYFour centavos

Cancel this stamp by stamping date ofuse partly on sta p and partly

on document"3. The new kind of Philippine documentary stamps of any denomina-

tion will be issued by this Office to city and provincial treasurers as soon

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as its stock of the present Philippine documentary stamps (small size) ofthe same denomination, is exhausted. City and provincial treasurers, andtheir deputies should likewise see to it that no Philippine documentary stampsor the new kind, of any denommation, are issued ny them, until after theirstock of the present Philippine documentary stamps (small 'size) of the sameaenomination IS totally exhausted.

4. It is informd in this connection that notwithstanding the sur-charges on the stamps, quoted above, regardmg cancellation, the methodprovided for in section ~37 of the National Internal Revenue Code regardingthe cancellation of documentary stamps should be followed. Such cancella-tion should, therefore, be accomplished by writing, stamping, or perforatingthe date of the cancellation across the face of the stamp in such mannerthat part of the writing, impression, or perforation shall be on the stampitself and part on the paper to which it is attached: Provided, That, if thecancellation is accomplished by writing or stamping the date of the cancel-lation, a hole sufficiently large to be visible to the naked eye shall be punched,cut or perforated on both the stamp and the document either by the useof a hand punch, knife, perforating machine, scissors, or any other cuttinginstrument; but if the cancellation is accomplished by perforating the dateof the cancellation, no other hole need be made on the stamp.

BIBIANO L. MEERCollector of Internal Revenue

• They say that 80% of the re-venue of Monaco, that small coun-try in Europe, is derived fromthe sale of its postage stamps.

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ELIZALDE STAMP JOURNAL

LIST OF AVAILABLE STAMPS AND STAMPEDSUPPLIES AT THE PHILATELIC AGENCY,

BUREAU OF POSTSMANILA

REGULAR ISSUESOld Issue

(About the middle of 1906)20-centavo special delivery, ... PO.20

"0. B." Stamps, Old Issue(May 18, 1931)

20-centavo 'Special delivery ... PO.20

Special Delivery, Old IssueOverprinted "Commonwealth"

(April 27, 1939)20-centavo PO.20

Postage Due(August 11, 1928)

4-centavo .6-" .8-" .

10- "12- "16- "20- "

Postage Due3-centavo Surcharged on 4-centavo

(July 29, 1937)3-centavo PO.03

10- & 20-peso Stamps

New Issue(September 24, 1937)

IO-peso20- "

New Issue(February 15, 1935)

2-centavo PO.024-" 0.048-" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 0.08

20-" 0.2026-" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 0.264-peso 4.005-" . . .. 5.00

"O.B." Stamps, New Issue(March 14, 1935)

2-centavo .4-" .6-" .8-" .

10-" .12-" .16-" .20-" .26-" .30-" .

PO.04.06.08.10.12.16.20

PIO.OO20.00

PO.02.04.06.08.10.12.16.20.26.30

New Issue, Overprinted"Commonwealth"

(October 7, 1936) - (1)(December 28, 1936) - (2)(March 29, 1937) - (3)

2-centavo (2) PO.024-" . . . . . . . . . . . . .. (3) .046-" . . . . . . . . . . . . .. (1) .068-" (3). .08

10-" . . . . . . . . . . . . .. (2) .1012-" . . . . . . . . . . . . .. (3) .1216-" .. .. .. .. . .. ... (1) .1620-" . . . . . . . . . . . . .. (3) .2026-" . . . . . . . . . . . . .. (3) .2630-" . . . . . . . . . . . . .. (2) .. 30I-peso. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. (1) 1.002-" .. .. .. .. .. . .. (3) 2.004-" (3) 4.005-" . .. . .. .. .. . .. (3) 5.00

"O.B." Stamps, New Issue,Overprinted "Commonuiealth"(April 10, 1937) - (1)(April 26, 1938) - (2)(September 8, 1938) - (3)

2-centavo (1) PO.024-" . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. (3) .046-" . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. (3) .068-" (3) .08

10-" (3) .1012-" (3) .1216-" . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. (3) .1620"" . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. (2) .2026-" " (3) .2630- .,,' . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. (3) .30

Surcharged "Air Mail"(May 26, 1933)

4-centavo12- "20- "24- "32- "

1"0.04.12.20.24.32

•SPECIAL ISSUES

Commonwealth Inauguration(November 15, 1935)

6-centavo PO.06- (8)16-" .16 - (8)36-" . . . . . . . . . . . . .36

Commonwealth Anniversary(November 15, 1936)

6-centavo PO.0612-" .12

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Air Mail ExhibitionCommemorative

(February 17, 1939)8-centavo PO.08

Foreign Trade Week(July 5, 1939)

6-centavo PO.0650-" . . . . . . . . . . . . .50 - (P)

Malacaiian Palace Issue(November 15, 1939)

6-centavo .12-" .

PO.06.12

Triumphal krch Issue(November 15, 1939)

2-centavo PO.026-" . . .. .06

12-" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12Pres. Quezon Taking Oath of

Office Issue (Feb. 8, 1940)6-centavo PO.06

12-" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

Old Issue2-cvo. M. O. envelope No. 5 P.02-%

4- " plain " " " .04-~24- " printed " " .04_1h4- " plain " " 8 .04_1h2- " Newspaper wrapper

No. 12-A ......... .02_1hNew Issue

plain envelope No. 5 P.02_1hprinted " "" .02_1hM. O. .02_1hplain" 8 .04- %printed " .04-%plain .04-1/2plain .03postal card .02"O.B" postal card .02

Overprinied "Commonuienlth"(January 15, 1937)

2-centavo booklet of 24 stamps.2-" postal card .2-" "O.B." postal card ..

2-cvo.2- "2- "4- "4- "4- "2- "2- "2- "

PO.50.02.02

EXPLANATORY NOTE:-

The dates given refer to the first day ofsale.

(P) Poorly centered.(S) Straight edges.

• American collectors may obtainPhilippine stamps at the Philip-pine Philatelic Agency, 2362 Mass-achusetts Avenue, Washington, D.Coo at face value.

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SENATOR JAMES M. MEAD OF NEW YORKBROAl)CAST ON STAMP COLLECTING

(EDITOR'S NOTE: Considering of great interest the stamp broadcast of SenatorJames M. ~Mead of N ew York on the '''Calling All Stamp Collectors" radiocast overthe NBC red network on February 8, 1941, at Washington, D.C., we are reproducingbellow, Senator Mead's talk which was originally published in the magazine STAMPS,New York. To STAMPS we are also indebted for the illustration shown with thisarticle).

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"At a time when all the worldseems aglow with fires of war, andwhen the energies of men and nationsare devoted to destruction, it is plea-sant to contemplate that millions ofour citizens are enjoying the comfortsof their homes this afternoon. Thus,we devote fifteen minutes out of theday to discuss the pleasant subjectof 'Stamp Collecting.' Stamp collect-ing is fun. Anybody can collectstamps. It does not necessarily re-quire money; you can save the post-age which comes to you on your let-ters as an introduction to this fas-cinating hobby. And it is that word,'hobby,' which I am stressing today.Should man have a hobby? Let thedoctors answer that for us. 'Man,'they say, 'needs some absorbing in-terest outside of his regular work,to give him relaxation.' I think youwill agree with me, if you have evertried it, that 'stamp collecting is theperfect answer.

"This hobby of Stamp Collectingwill lift you out of yourself, give zestand interest to living; and when youhave reached the traditional threescore years and ten, philately willmake each day a busy one. You willthen find that your stamps have be-come a part of you, an heirloom whichyou may bequeath to those who 'areto carryon after you have gone.Your children and your children'schildren will enjoy your stamps, forthey never go out of style, they neverlose their value, they never fail tointerest young and old alike. Somemay like the pictures on the stamps;some may be interested only in thecountry of origin; some may careonly for the depiction of specialevents; others may peer closely fordiscrepancies, hoping always to comeacross a 'find.' But to all, regardlessof age, education, occupation, stamp-collecting offers an unfailing diver-sion, one that will attract you moreas you go into it.

"I am just a novice at this hobby;in fact when I term myself a 'col-lector,' I look around furtively, tomake sure that no real philatelist isgrinning at me. What do I like bestin stamps, and in what field do 1specialize? So far, I have no pro-nounced specialties, although some-times I suspect myself of gravitatingtoward air mail postage when I lookat the walls of my office and notethat my air mail frames outnumberthe others.

"I suspect, also, that I have a lean-ing toward first day covers, whichweakness is also apparent on my of-fice walls. Right in the middle ofone of those frames is an envelopewhich came all the way to Washing-ton from Georgia, and the only ad-dress on it is a small photo of my-self with this inscription: 'To myson.' I 'am still wondering how thatever reached us!

"Perhaps, also, I like unusual co-vers, for I notice that they have away of getting behind glass andframes and climbing right up thereon the wall along with the rest ofthe collection.

"Y ou can see that I am not 'a spe-cialist, that I just like stamps, in anyform, shape, or manner. So muchfor what I like. What do you like,and what is your specialty in thisnew game of stamp collecting?

"I say 'new' because, after all, theart is less than a century old. Yetin that short space of time it hasspread to all the civilized nations ofthe world, embracing millions of men,women, and children. In this com-mon interest, we collectors weld abond of friendship that 'survives theill feeling and hatreds generated bywarring nations. From the four cor-n rs of the earth, we communicatewith one another, inspired by thisfascinating pastime. But is 'collect-ing' a pastime? Philately has beendefined as 'an occupation, a hobby, a

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• SENATOR James M_ Mead displaying par t of his huge colIection of stamps.

business, an investment, a pleasure-yielding study.' In fact, it can beanything the collector wills it to be!

"I shall not attempt to outline in aechnical manner how we may availourselves of the many opportunitiesafforded to us by the postage stamp.A great many of you have long sincefound one particular phase of stampsand stamp collecting, or a combina-tion of phases, that appeal to you.

"Some of you became interested aschildren because of the kindly inter-est shown by an older person whomade a gift of a stamp catalog, orsent you a first-day cover. In yourchildish enthusiasm you eagerly long-ed for possession of stamps issued inmemory of American statesmen, fa-miliar to the classroom, or you wereintrigued by the mystery of the nameof a distant country,-China, Japan,Arabia, Egypt,-and you wished toacquire stamps from those far-offcountries. Others of you became in-terested because a friend or acquain-tance invited you to a local meetingof one of the numerous philatelic so-cieties.

"At the meeting you found pleasurein learning that the banker, the law-yer, the local merchant were stampenthusiasts, and their enthusiasmprompted you to inquire further intothe subject. Perhaps you sufferedthe loss of a loved one, underwentserious financial losses, or had yourhealth impaired.

"For anyone of these reasons youmay have been advised to turn to ahobby. No matter how you startedyou found that the subject was oneof absorbing interest.

"This hobby has been a source ofeducation and relaxation to men inall walks of life, from shop clerk tothe President of the United States.President Roosevelt is a very ardentstamp collector, and because of hisinterest in the subject, philately hasreceived a marked impetus in the lastei ht years. Weare told that aftert~ cares of a busy day in the WhiteHouse, he retires to his study andfinds diversion and relaxation in hiscollection. No person is too young ortoo old to pursue this hobby, nor too

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busy. You and your children willfind it stimulating and educational;the whole family can find a commonground for discussion.

"Why does everybody like to collectstamps? That is hard to explain,Why do some people collect matchbox covers, or antiques?

"In each one of these pursuits, it isthe interest which is built up withinus which leads us on, deeper anddeeper into the subject. Some seeart in stamps; some see history; somesee inventions, mankind's progressfrom age to age; some see noble per-sonages whose names have been fa-miliar to our ears since infancy;some see adventure, valor, new fieldsof conquest,

"And yet the stamp is but a littlething - something you can carryaround in your vest pocket - andyou will do exactly that after you ac-quire a valuable one and want to dis-play it to all your friends along withthe new baby's picture.

"It is little, it is true; but it re-presents much-it has purpose, beau-ty, history. More than that.-it is a

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symbol. a means whereby communi-cation is carried on among all thenations of the world, a unity and co-operation expressed in the Interna-tional Postal Union which if appliedto all dealings among nations, wouldmake this a better world in which to.Iive,

"Some day a mighty stamp win berun off the presses of the nations ofthe world-the mightiest stamp everissued, because of its breath-taking:significance. That stamp will be the'Stamp of Peace,'-a peace, for allnations; a peace denoting the end ofbattle; the end of tumult and blood-shed; the beginning of a return to>normal pursuits; the right to lead alife of happiness and simple pleas-ures; the resumption of neighborlyrelations, with hands stretched acrossthe seas once more in friendly ges-ture. That, to all of us, will be themost glorious stamp ever to comeforth; it wilI be the answer to ourdreams, to our prayers, tll)our hopes;it wilI be the messenger of glad tid-ings throughout the world l"

• Tile philfppine as tar- as I know is the onTy placeoutside of the United States that permits the systemof "Tree brosdeastfnz" suefr as, is found in Ameri-Ga. By this I mean that private entities are en-gaged in the broadcast field. plan their own pro-grams, accept commer etal anncuncemertts and ex-cept for the necessary technical requirements. arefree from gover-nrne nt interference or domination:.This situation speaks well for Philippine democracy,-HENRY LOLLlOT, RGA Manufacturing Co. lmc:

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ODDITIES IN THE STAMP WORLD

See the South in ;~,

"MAYON"Q ~"LANAO""BISA YA:" .. , 'M ;J,

"ANAKAN" ..fo~f'" \ ,.' 'I., ,~. "•.. '-BLUE SEAL ~' .. 1fV\;. 01. :1

t(.O'l'CM Wtl,,1ICY -.:::~ ~."

A'-'I) WHA,,[-'S THIS? Ah! a fan, eh, Wen, it's what 'We 'need in these roasting-davs while h'l"rcur'y 'is shooting up. Yes, siree, it's a fan, and a fan that drops yourtemperature. Oco-oh ! no ... It ain\t no fan from a hot mamma at a midnight show.Just a plain h..melY fa.••• drstrihiltro Ieee by 'tNe Man,~ Steamshi:p (J(). Bur starchyour socks ... it goes in the mail tool Neticethe Elizalde mete •. mail and Tanduayslogan i,.ankcd t>n it? Honest, that 'We didn't do, but pgs'tally speaking, 'we didwitness the boys at the Mailing Department, posting a bunch 'Of these breeze fans<is part of th"ir '<1aily routine", ,lust }ike thatJ st. SeneT"". it",. a fan." and 'conto do vlt'nte r1 .s'lt .,g'wsf;()..

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NICOLAS SANABRIA.. by John W. Nicklin

New York City

A man who rose into fame in com-mercial philately.

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(Written for the Elizalde Stamp Journal)

In the closing years of. the lastcentury, there was born in the cityof Caracas, Venezuela, a boy whomphilatelists the world over know to-day as NICOLAS SANABRIA.Reared in aristocratic circles in hisbeloved Caracas, temperate paradiseof the tropics, young Nicolas seemeddestined to follow his father's exam-ple and to serve his country in mili-tary and governmental channels. Hiseducation embraced, in addition tothe conventional subjects, an excep-tionally complete instruction in ope-ratic music.

Now a young man, Nicolas Sana-bria, became an officer in the Armyand rose to preference. But a formerDictator Gomez, ruled Venezuelathen. It is dangerous to differ withDictators, but Sanabria dared, andbrought down upon himself the wrathof this petty tyrant. Eventually hewas able to escape to America withhis life, but little else. His operaticaccomplishments now proved mostuseful to him, opening up a tempo-rary career that took him over mostof the U. S. and Canada. NicolasSanabria had always loved stampsand now renewed his interest, meet-ing, and coming to know, many ofAmerica's leading philatelists' in histravels throughout the country.

About 1928, Air Mail Stamps be-came very popular and Sanabria tookan active interest in this field. Heeventually devoted his entire atten-tion to dealing in Air Mail Issues,alas say his many friends, to thedetriment and eventual conclusion to

his vocal operatic career. In 1931 animportant early operator in Air Mailstamp's, P. C. Kullman suddenly died.leaving an immense "accumulation ofthese fine stamps that he had pur-chased with an eye to their invest-ment possibilities. A firm of bankersacting as Executors of the KullmanEstate, secured a top offer of $13,000on the stamps. Nicolas Sanabria

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• NICOLAS SANABRIA with his collec-tion of Venezuelan stamps.

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dared again. He said to the bankers,"Let me sell these stamps at Auctionand I will get you a much betterprice." Dubious, they neverthelessconsented. The sale was unusual inthat it involved not a collection, butactually in effect, a dealers stock.The thought of holding such a salebrought derisive comments fro mmany dealers in New York City. "Itwas unheard of. You cannot sellwholesale quantities of stamps 'suc-cessfully at Auction," etc., etc.

But the sale was held and nettedthe state not $13,000 but a full$15,000, a signal triumph indeed foran expatriated tenor in a strangeland. The Bankers were sure pleas-ed, the estate profited, and the phila-telic star of Nicolas Sanabria roseproudly in the commercial firma-ment.

Since then his career has been anopen book to all American collectors.No specialist of Air Mail Stamps from1931 on, could possibly have dis-pensed with the activities of thischarming gentleman from Venezuela.Beyond question, Nicolas Sanabri-ahas handled more the important AirMail rarities than any other dealer.Many great collections have beenformed under his personal supervi-sion and as many more modest phi-latelists have been courteouslv andeconomically served thru his efforts.

In 1934 Nicolas Sanabria's domin-ance of the Air Mail field was socomplete that the Scott Stamp &Coin Co., sold him the publishingrights to their "Standard Catalogueof Air post Stamps. Successive edi-tic-is of this book in 1935 to-dateunder the Nicolas Sanabria's impr i-miature have developed a once modestvolume into a veritable encyclope::liaof Aero-Philately.

The House of Sanabria is truly theleading firm of Air Mail Dealers notonly in the United States but in allthe world. To these offices on 42ndStreet come new issues from everycorner of the globe to be distributedto collectors, and dealers also. every-where. This retail and wholesalebusiness has now reached imposingproportions even during this presentperiod of economic depression.

The Auction Department of the Ni-colas S-anabria Inc., to apply the cor-porate title to the firm, is most ac-tive. In a period of nine years in noless than fifty-eight important saleshave been held. Many of these indi-vidual Auctio-is have brought totalsthat dwarf into insignificance theonce vaunted $15,000 P. C. Kullmannet total. True progress here, of a

substantial kind and of course theremust have been a reason for it.

Nicolas Sanabria came to stampcollecting quite naturally, his interestin stamps dating back to his boyhooddays when his father was postmasterof Venezuela. He knows his subjectso well that his chop or guaranteeon a stamp has the validity of a cer-tificate from the Royal Philatelic So-ciety of London. To this firm basisof technical thoroughness has beenadded the keen business accumenthat we first noted in the P. C. Kull-man transaction. So it has everbeen since then, if any transactioninvolved Air Mail'S, he was the firstto venture and likewise the first tosucceed. A diagnostician of stampvalues and possibilities a true studentof stamps but not a visionary, a hardand perservering worker, NicolasSanabria stands today at the headof his chosen profession.

Nicolas Sanabria became a citizenof the United States in 1935. Hisson now 16 years old is receiving hiseducation in one of our more famousMilitary schools. Young Nicolas'plays football well, is a baseball en-thusiast whose only weakness is alove for the Brooklyn NationalLeague Baseball Club, the probableWINNERS OF THE PENNANTTHIS YEAR. Here in one genera-tion is complete Americanization. Ifonly all who came here from abroadwere as amenable to assimilationwithin the structure of our society!Nicolas Sanabria was born a Vene-zuelan and served his country well.When destiny placed him in America,he became an American in fact, inthought and in deed. -His son, bornan American, bids fair to follow outa tradition for patriotic service thatdates back through many generationsof Sanabrias in the Castilian societyof Caracas.

• Nothing can take place thehistory .of aviation thanAirmail Collecting.

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AUSTRALASIAN LETTER~ frorn Ray Porter ~

Australian Correspondent of the ESJ.

Australia is so far the only Rri-tish country to have her war effortliterally stamped upon her postageissues. The A. I. F. set of 4 stamps,or "Defense stamps" as they areknown in U. S. A. were placed on'Sale on July 15th and remained inuse for approximately three months.It is impossible to give the exact dateon which the stamps became obsolete,as various postal centres in the coun-try exhausted their stocks of the va-rious denominations at differenttimes. The four stamps, Id, 2d, 3d.& 6d. are all in the same design,showing one member of the threefighting forces, standing at attention,with the faint outline of a nursingsister's head above.

The set is the first issue to be pro-duced by the new stamp printer-W. C. G. McCracken, whose Imprintappears at the centre of the bottomselvedge of each sheet. A number ofprominent and constant varieties havebeen discovered in the 1d., 2d. & 6d.values. The most marked variety isthe "broken rifle" in the 1d. value,which shows a large oval shaped bloton the butt of the soldier's rifle. Al-though not as scarce as the Philip-pines "Broken Wings", the Id. A. I.F. stamps have also produced such avariety which is constant, and showsonly half of the wing on the air-man's tunic. Two stamps next toeach other (Nos. 78 & 79) show thisvariety and the last three stamps ofthe sheet show the two varieties withthe third-a normal.

The 2d. value has provided aboutseven various reentries, in differentpositions of the sheet. These consistof additional lines in the horizontalshading and are plainly visible to thenaked eye. .

The 6d. stamp is known to exist inseveral very marked shades, rangingfrom a light brown red to an almostblack brown. Stamp No. 13 in thesheet of 80, shows a weak entry inthe form of missing horizontal linesin the upper portion of the ·stamp.

The stamps were printed on a chalksurfaced paper watermarked Cof'A,and this tends to make their separa-tion very difficult, with result thatmany used copies have their perfora-tions damaged. Although the issuehas now been obsolete for only a fewmonths, the 6d. value is already dif-ficult to obtain in quantities andprices asked for used specimens ap-proach face value.

Another constant reminder of thewar conditions is provided by the va-rious central post offices. Here aresome of them: Buy War SavingsCertificates; Ring and Save Petrol.A few more peaceful ones read:Please post early before lunch andbefore four o'clock; Use the postalexpress messenger service; Life isprecious, help prevent accidents andAlways ask for Australian Products.

Apart from postage 'stamps, thepost offices now sell to the publicWar Savings stamps of a face valueof 6d. and Red Cross seals. at Id.each. The 6d. War Savings stampsare printed on Cr. A. watermarkedpaper and show a fighter plane divingto the attack; 32 such stamps buyone War Savings Certificate with aface value of 20/- redeemable in sevenyears' time. The Red Cross seals areprinted in red and blue and show ared cross sister appealing for the sickand wounded with the map of Aus-tralia jn the background. They areplaced as a rule on the back of en-velopes.

The 1940 Health stamps wereplaced on sale in New 'Zealand onOct. lost. The issue consists of twostamps: 1d. + %d. and 2d. + 1d.,the additonal amount g-oing towardsthe maintenance of health camps forchildren. The design of the stampsis identical with that used for lasty ar's issue, except that the sur-charges are absent and the colorsslightly different. The 1d. + %d.being in a darker shade of green andthe 2d. + Id.-a light red brown.

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TWO MEN SEIZED IN FAKE STAM POVERPRINT CASE

Accused of Counterfeiting Collectors' Items; Cuts ani Press Taken in Raid

Madrid-Manila Overprints Among Items Forged

Accused of changing com m 0 nstamps into expensive collectors'items by applying fake overprints,two men were arraigned yesterdayafternoon before Garrett W. Cotter,United States Commissioner, and heldin $500 bail each on charges of"having in their possession cuts insimilitude to those used in makingUnited States obligations, as repre-sented by postage stamps."

The men, both of whome waivedexamination and were held for actionby the Federal Grand Jury, wereEmanuel Bondell, alias Manny Davis,alias Rothstein, of 403 Georgia Ave-nue, Brooklyn, and Albert Rabino-witz, who is in business at the StampBazaar, 165 Fulton Street. As a re-sult of the overprints the two arecharged with faking, the value ofsome stamps was raised as much as2,600 per cent, at least to stamp col-lectors, according to William H.Makepeace, Assistant United StatesAttorney, who presented them to thecommissioner in United States Dis-trict Courthouse.

Bondell and Rabinowitz were trail-ed for several weeks by Harry W.Strang and Sam J. Callahan, SecretService inspectors, who made the ar-rests last Tuesday. Inspector Strangposed a's a stamp collector to obtainhis information.

Bondell was arrested in TimesSquare and had on his person twonew copper cuts of the London-Orient

Flight overprint of the Philippine Is-lands and the Hawaii -overprints is-'sued by the government. A searchof his home disclosed additional cuts,a printing press, inks and a quantityof common stamps to which the over-prints were to have been applied.The cuts included overprints ofGuam Guard Mail, Kansas, Nebras-ka, Canal Zone, Philippines, PuertoRico, Panama and Madrid-Manilaair-mail varieties. Bondell is said tohave a police record.

Rabinowitz, who was said to haveworked independently of Bondell, hadin his office "thousands of falselyoverprinted stamps," according toMr. Makepeace. Two printing pres-ses, cuts and ink were also found atthe office, inspectors said. They saidthey confiscated a chase in which acut with a Kansas overprint wasfastened, ready for use. Among thefake cuts was one for Shanghai pro-visionals, issued by the United Statesin 1919.

An overprint is a 'surcharge ap-plied to a stamp which changes itsvalue, its place of use, or to com-memorate a special event. It appliesto a specific series only. Overprintsare usually used for purposes of eco-nomy because of high engraving costsor to save time when a certain typestamp is wanted immediately andthere is not time enough to have awhole new series engraved.

-New YOf/<; Herald-Tribune.

----0-----COLLECTORS HOAXED FOR MORE THAN 25

YEARS SO-CALLED ERRORFor more than 25 years collectors

and dealers have recognized the 2cIUnited States stamps of the 1910-12period as existing in a color termed"lake". These shades have been re-garded as valuable, being worth hun-dreds of times the normal colors, andin the case of the 2¢ Panama Pacificcommemorative, selling for as muchas $400 a stamp and $2,000 in ablock of four. Not much has beensaid about the regular 2¢ stamps,

Scott No. 375 and No. 405 in this co-lor, but claims have been made thatthe 2¢ Panama Pacific No. 398 is arare "error of color", and, a's such,has appeared frequently in auctionsales during the past few months.

Many stories have been builtaround the discovery of this "error"and since the facts were so plausible,the stamp has been "accepted". Thestories have it that one sheet of thelake shade was found in the post-of-

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fice in a large Western city and gotinto the hands of two collectors, whodivided the sheet between them. Thiswas a sheet of seventy stamps andeach of them had 35 examples whichwere broken up into blocks and sin-gles. These were 'Sold or exchangedduring the course of a few years butfor some reason or other, rumor hasit that from 16 to 40 specimensreached the stamp market. Thestories vary more or less but the ba-sic points and decidedly limited quan-tities were considered fact.

Not long ago, the PHILATELICRESEARCH LABORATORIES, Inc.in the course of their activities, hadoccasion to make a complete examin-ation of two large collections, each ofwhich contained a 2¢ Panama Paci-fic "lake". It was natural to com-pare these two 'specimens side by sideand the surprising fact was thatwhile both were of a basic "lake"tone, they were entirely differentshades. Recalling the story that notmore than a single sheet of 70 wasever turned up of this "error" gaverise to much speculation, with the re-sult that careful investigation wasundertaken.

It was first determined that morethan 80 examples of this "lake" areto be found in various collectionswithin a radius of 250 miles of NewYork, to say nothing of 'several spe-cimens being known in the west.This, of course, immediately dis-proved the "single sheet" story.

In the meantime a highly criticalinvestigation of the stamp itself wasundertaken with the result that itwas found that the lake color wasnot the result of any chemical changeand that the ink was identical in com-position and quality with the ordinary"carmine" colors. The only notice-able difference, outside of shade it-'Self was in the gum and this was soslight as to pass ordinary inspectionwithout suspicion.

Through the courtesy of postal of-ficials the PHI L ATE L I C RE-SEARCH LABORATORIES, Inc.were supplied with a copy of the ori-ginal formula for the ink used forthese stamps. From a study of thisformula it was learned that the inkwas not of a stable character andheat would produce basic changes inthe color.

Experiments were commenced witha number of normal colored 2¢ Pana-ma Pacific and it was found that ex-posure to high temperature wouldchange the basic color of the stampfrom carmine to lake. The actual

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color would vary according to the de-gree of temperature and the lengthof exposure. Changes varied from adark red brown at about charringtemperature to a vary ·slight changeat small elevation of temperature.The "lake" color would also vary ac-cording to the basic carmine shade ofthe stamp but it was found that heatwould change this carmine to a lakein all instances. It is possible tomatch the 'shades of the two speci-mens which started the investigation.Thus the following conclusion arereached:

1. The 2¢ stamps issued duringthis period were printed from aformula for ink which was notof a particularly stable charac-ter.

2. It was possible, by simple pro-cess to change the basic colorof any 2¢ stamp printed withthis ink from carmine to lake.

Therefore, it would appear that thePhilatelic world has been the victimof a hoax of no 'small proportions,which has persisted as "fact" formany years. It is not beyond thebounds of possibility that the originalsheet found was 'accidentally changedto lake some time after it left theBureau of Engraving & Printing, butthe existence of so many more spe-cimens than were supposed is ade-quate evidence of the fact that some-one found out how easily they couldbe made and capitalized on it. How-

. ever, for all we know, all of themmay be the deliberate result of anattempt to create a new "valuable"error for collectors and dealers.

It is obvious in the face of this in-formation that the 'so-called "lake"shades of these issues should be eli-minated from the catalogue and theyshould not longer receive the atten-tion of collectors. In view of theforegoing, one should consider themas "made to order" varieties for theycan be produced at will.

Thus another glamourous story is"de-bunked" and though some indivi-duals may feel injured in pocketbookthey can take satisfaction in theknowledge that Philately is warnedagainst another group of spurious va-rieties. As the work of the PHILA-TELIC RESEARCH LABORATO-RIES, Inc. continues, it is not beyondthe possibility that other varieties ofsi ilar nature may be exposed andthus in the course of time all thesequestionable things may be weededout from the vines of genuine, legiti-mate postage stamps.

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WHO'S A NUT?by Dr. H. B. Hinman

(From the Weekly Philatelic Gossip, Holton, Kansas)

My friends all thought me just a foolish "nut,"

For stamp collecting. Joshed me plenty, but

I keep tip my collecting just the same;No thoughts of profit-jl!-st I liked the game.

How much I spent I couldn't calculate;

It never at one time was very great.

The sums I spent were mostly rather small,

So that I missed the money scarce at all.

And yet I've had enjoyment day by day,

And made true friends to cheer life on its way.

Two years ago a paralytic stroke,

Found me though" badly bent," yet not quite broke.

I had a lot of stocks and bonds, the bank

Had recommended, but their value shrank,

Until I hate to hink the loss I'd take,

Where I to sell. Of real estate I could not make

A single sale, so in despair I turnedTo my collection, which my friends had spurned.

To date I've sold close to five thousand grand,

And have enough material on hand,

To keep me busy yet for months and months.

I ask you now if I have been a blooming dunce?

If I had played at golf, or shot some pool,

Or had I been a hunting, fishing fool,

All would be gone, and not a cent remain,

But with the stamps, although I may not gain,

I eat my cake, and still can save a bit,

And have a lot of fun in doing it.So of the kidders calling me a "mutt,"

I ask you now, who is it that is a "nut"?

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CONTRASTby

Pablo M'. Esperidi6n

(With apologies to the unknown author of "The Dollarand The Cent" in The Wall Street Journal)

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An expensive stamp and a cheap stampCame together on approval;

Mounted and hinged on an approval sheet

Beiore a collector who is rich.

The expensive stamp started showing off-

For an expensive stamp can talk:

You poor, common stamp, you cheap edhesioe,

I'm worth than you ten thousand bits;Don't .'lOll know I'm favorite of the rich,

And worshipped by the specialists?Don't you know I'm valued hundred bucks,

Or hundred dollars in your language?

So, scram! you cheap, little mite!

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Yes, I know, replied the cheap stamp,

I'm a small potato on approval;

Not a big shot nor expensive,

Just a common and cheap adhesive.

But, continued the cheap common stamp.With a stampic little sigh,

You haven't seen many boys and girls,

Who started on philately with smiles;

And, you haven't seen millionso{ collectors

With all their funs and joys-As often as I.

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Complimentsof .the

PHILIPPINE AIR LINES INC.

ELIZALDE & CO. INC.Agents

Manila Philippines

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JUST BETWEEN US••_I

by BARON DE POMPESlLl

JOTTINGS in JANUARY... Jargon

Sticking around at the PhilippineAir Mail Society last December, weheard this philatelic jargon: Strawdealer. .. a small time-dealer. Horsedealer. .. one who buys and sells butnever collects.

* * *... Thumbs-Down

With the present war in Europe,orders for Philippine 'Stamps fromeight European countries are beingturned down by the Manila Post Of-fice. Reason: Manila banks don't liketo honor, checks, drafts, and interna-tional money orders from continentalEurope.

* * *... Novelty

One of the philatelic novelties seenby us last December was a "postagestamp watch." It was a Swiss wristwatch and the dial consisted of a50-cent stamp of the French Interna-tional Exposition of 1937. The dial-stamp was "overprinted" with the fi-gures 1 to 12 and had a pair of handsto indicate the minutes and the hours.According to a jewelry store at theEscolta where this "postage stampwatch" is sold, it was a souvenir ofSwitzerland to the French Interna-tional Exposition of 1937. It was awrist watch all right, and in fact, ittick, tick tick, when you put in onyour ear.

* *... Another Novelty

Another philatelic novelty seen byus in this city last December was a"postage stamp cravat," which wasembroidered with Austrian stamps-and postmarks. We have seen thisnovelty from a member of the Aso-ciacion Filatelica de Filipinas.

* * *... Watchamacallurns

. And what do you think? Do theJapanese playas mere "sleepers" onthese philatelic novelties?

No, siree, for at a Jap store downin Rizal Avenue, we saw a cigarettecase engraved with designs of someAmerican stamps displayed at awindow show.

Well, with all these watchamacal-lums, we wonder if sooner or later,some of the orchestras in Manila'snight clubs would be heard playing a"philatelic rhumba"!

* * * ... VarietiesTwo varieties on Philippine stamps

we have seen recently: (1) A flatserif on the right leg of the "N" on"COMMON" of the 2c "O.B." withthe overprint "COMMONWEALTH,"large type. Position, sixth straight-edged stamp on the last row of thesheet. Plate numbers 131537 and131539. (2) Missing dot after "0"of the 20c "O.B." Special Delivery.Position, unknown, but the stamp hasa straightedge on the left.

* * *... Hot and Cold

Backing the proposed Clipper ser-vice from Manila to Singapore, arethe Commonwealth Government, thelocal American Chamber of Com-merce, the Philippine Chamber ofCommerce, and a string of businessinterests. Likewise, Director of PostsJuan Ruiz enthusiastically endorses itas revealed in his recent radiogramto the Postmaster General at Wash-

.ington, D.C., which reads: "ProposedClipper extension Manila-Singaporewould facilitate handling all airmailsthat area. The Philippine postal ad-ministration endorses pro p 0 sedroute."

In spite of all this enthusiasm, thelocal PAA officials remain adamantand wouldn't make any commitment.They allege that they have no fur-ther information from their head of-fice regarding the proposed Manila-

ingapore service. However, the Ma-nila Daily Bulletin in its issue ofDecember 27, published that "recentarrivals from Singapore report thatit is generally expected by residents

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there that the Clippers would be call-ing at that port in January 1941."So far at this writing (Jan. 7), noindications of any developments.

* * *... Manila-DEI AM Service

While the proposed Manila-Singa-pore Clipper service is still beingcooked, an air mail 'service betweenManila and the Netherlands EastIndies become virtually establishedwith the announcement made by Di-rector of Posts Juan Ruiz in a cir-cular issued early this year whichstates in part: "Effective at once,.air mail shall be accepted in the Phil-ippines for the following points:Netherlands East Indies, Australia,Malaya, Thailand, Burma, India,Iraq, Iran, Palestine, Syria, FrenchIndo-China, Egypt, Sudan BelgianCongo, Kenya, Uganda, Taganyika,Rhodesia, and South Africa. Airmail for these countries will be car-ried by the KNILM planes from Ma-nila to Batavia and by airplane fromBatavia to Singapore and thence toits final destination.

* :;! *... First PI Aviatrix

Do you know that Miss Hermene-gilda Argonez, 37, is the first Filipi-no aviatrix and now a colonel in theNatiorral Volunteers?

Believe it or not, once she told anofficer in the Philippine Army thatif she had only a private plane, sheWILL make a goodwill flight fromManila to America!

* *DOINGS in FEBRUARY

... NEw PI Air MailsNew airmail stamps of the Islands

will be issued soon. In a letter datedJan. 6 received by us from Directorof Posts Juan Ruiz, it says in part:" ... please be informed that this of-fice has already placed an order withthe Bureau of Engraving and Print-ing in Washington, D.C., for theprinting of regular airmail stamps of1-peso, 60, 20, and 8-centavo deno-minations."

Total face value of these stamps isP1.88. According to informed quarters,initial printing of these air mailsare: 2,000,000-1 peso; 1,000,000-60c; 2,000,000-20c; and 1,000,000-8c.

Design of the stamps bear a Morovinta with a Clipper plane soaringabove. It was prepared by Oscar Es-

piritu, of Manila. While the stampswill be printed in a similar design,they will be issued in different colors.

Date of issuance couldn't be deter-mined yet but as soon as word is re-ceived from the Bureau of Engravingand Printing at Washington whenthe first shipment of these airmailadhesives could be made, it will beannounced in the local papers, Feli-pe Cuaderno, Assistant Director ofPosts said. Meanwhile as this willbe the first regular air mail issue ofthe Philippines with no petticoat sur-charge of mugwumpish overprint,airmail chicadees might as well sendsome orchids to the local postal au-thorities.

* * *... Shopping List

A new wholesale price list has justbeen issued by the Manila StampCompany, 441 San Vicente Street,Manila. It's free to young and adultgoing in the trade in the big way.

* * *=

... CalaboosetFacing a criminal charge for suc-

ceeding in having printed documen-tary stamps to the value of 1"3,500without the corresponding requisition,is a clerk at the local Bureau ofPrinting, according to the ManilaTribune in its issue of Jan. 18.

* * *_.. Nothing Doing

Philippine p 0 s t a I officials an-nounced on Jan. 6 that no air mailfrom the United States would betranshipped to KNILM planes for theDutch East Indies or to Singapore.Director of Posts Juan Ruiz said thatin the absence of authority from thefederal postal authorities, air mailcoming from the United States des-tined to the DEI would not be touch-ed on arrival here but will be allowedto go on to Hong Kong from wherethey can be transhipped to their finaldestination. However, air mail ori-ginating from the Philippines willbe carried by the KNILM planes toSingapore or the Dutch East Indies,the Director of Posts 'said.

* '* *... Giving the Jitters

All is quite on the Manila-Singa-pore Clipper extension at this writ-ing but its silence is giving a Maniladealer the jitters, who had preparedmany covers and "counted alreadythe chickens."

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... Postage FreeBoxes of food for 'specific war pri-

soners in Europe shipped thru theRed Cross are accepted postage freeby the local Bureau of Posts, it wasannounced by the Philippine RedCross on Jan. 20.

* * *... Same Old Faces

At the installation of new officersof the Philippine Air Mail Society,Chapter 13, American Air Mail So-ciety, held on Jan. 19, the followinggents were elected: Felipe R. Hidal-go, president (reelected); CharlesBlum, vice-president; Pablo M. Espe-ridi6n, secretary (reelected); Luis G.Miranda, treasurer (reelected); andM. Goldenberg, purchase and ex-change (reelected). Same old facesexcept the vice-prexy.

:;: * *... Conna Fishing, Mister?

Collectors finishing for merchantmarine covers might drop their sink-er, hook, and line, for the "Milwau-kee Clipper," the streamlined, fire-proof ship, which, according to theDecember issue of The Marine News,a monthly from New York and re-ceived in Manila early this year, willbe ready for service on June 15, andwill operate between Muskegon andMilwaukee, Wisconsin.

* * *... Mi Gawd!

This hobby of stamp collecting isreally full of fun. Imagine an ex-professor in journalism at a localuniversity started on this hobby onlya few months ago! and says he col-lects stamps, because of their "recrea-tional and educational value"!

Go s h! Wonder what Professor"George van del' Berg" in Stam7JSand the "Professor" in Mekeel'swould say about their colleague.

* * *ECHOES in MARCH

... Sold OutStamps of the 2-centavos of the

Malacafian Palace, Pres. Quezon tak-ing oath of office, and the First Fo-reign Trade Week, have already beensold out, and the 2-centavo values ofthe Triumphal Arch are runninglow, according- to the Philatelic Agen-cy, Bureau of Posts.

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... New 2c PI StampFirst day sale of the new 2-centavo

stamps Dr. Rizal (light green) ofthe new regular postage series has

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been set tentatively on April 14 anda special cachet will be applied onfirst day covers, according to thepress bulletin issued by the Directorof Posts on March 19.

Orders for first day covers must bereceived on or before April 14, ad-dressed to the Superintendent, MoneyOrder Division, Bureau of Posts, Ma-nila, and must be accompanied witha money order or certified check (in-cluding return postage and registryfees) made payable to the Directorof Posts. Requests for other kind ofstamps must not be included in theorders for these new adhesives, thepress bulletin further states. Firstprinting of this new stamp is60,000,000 (40,000,000 regular and20,000,000 with "O.B."), it waslearned from local postal officials.

Prior to the press release issuedby the Director of Posts, issuance ofa prov.sional 2-centavo stamp wassounded by the Philippine postal au-thorities as they entertained the fearof not receiving the new 2-centavoson time. It was originally proposedto surcharge the 4-centavos (Woman'and Carabao) with 2 centavos if thenew stamps were not received by themiddle of April a's by that time theBureau of Posts would run out of the2-centavo values. However, with thecoming of the new stamps per theSS PRES. CLEVELAND which isexpected to arrive here on March 27,hence the announcement of April 14as the tentative date for the FirstDay sale of the first stamp of thenew regular postage series of thePhilippines, thus saving the Islandsfrom another boooomph surcharge!

::: * *... Tailor Made

Nothing definite as to when thenew air mail stamps of the Islandswill be issued. Meanwhile, Philip-pine postal officials flatly deniedhaving committed or made any an-

. nouncement to the effect that thenew air mails "will be definitelyplaced on sale in Manila Post Officeon Febuary 27, 1941," as played upin a two-column ad in some Ameri-can magazines which were receivedin Manila early in March. Localpo. tal authorities expressed much'Surprise . on the tailor-made an-nouncement in said ad, as contraryto its drumming, the stamps in ques-tions are NOT yet even printed! As

matter of fact, at this writing(March 19), proofs of the airmaildesigns were just received by thePhilippine postal authorities fromthe Bureau of Engraving and Print-

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ing at Washington for approval ofthe Director of Posts before theWashington postal officials start"shooting" these new air mails, itwas learned from informed quarter>

* * *... Animals or Airmails?

And then there's the provincial col-lector from Central Luzon, who or-dered from a Manila dealer recently,the following Philippine air mails:"Scott No. A44 to A49 Animals"(italics ours).

* * *... Don't Get Excited

If you don't hear from the Manila'Stamp Company, don't get excited,the manager is on a honeymoon.

* * *... Steals the Show

Stealing the show at the Handi-craft and Hobby Exhibits sponsoredby the Boy Scouts of America heldat the American School on February28 in Manila, were stamp collectionsdisplayed by some local Boy Scouts.

* * *... Dots and Dashes

Among the newspapers in the Is-lands that publish stamp columns oc-casionally is The Sunday Informer, aJapanese weekly published in Mani-la by the Nichi Nichi Shimbun,giving exclusive publicity to J apa-nese stamps. Incidentally, Ginzabu-ro, Tamada, 62-year old editor of theNichi Nichi Shimbun in this city gotinto hot water with the governmentagents on March 15 for possessing anunlicensed radio set and for receiving183 sheets of "News dispatches indots and dashes" from the DomeiNews Agency of Tokyo, Japan, ac-cording to the Manila Sunday Tri-bune of March 16.

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Sun, Director of Posts Juan Ruiz re-cently circularised to all postmastersin the Philippines instructing them torefuse parcel post packages for deli-very in Japan, provided senders havemade previous arrangement with ad-dressees to comply with Japanese im-port regulations, according to thePhilippines Herald in its issue ofMarch 15.

* * *... Lingo

Philatelic lingo heard at the auc-tion of the Asociacion Filatelica deFilipinas on March 1: Specimen

deal. .. an auction sale paid with an-1. O. U. Straw-man ... the second-fiddle of a bidder.

* * *... Planes

A viation, a monthly published inNev: York and received in Manilaearly in March, in its February is-sue has 31 pages illustrating 116 dif-ferent American planes, the size ofthe pix, 4 x 7 centimeters, whichairmail chicadees might tie-up withtheir red-and-blue collections. Themagazine contains 288 pages andsells 50 cents a copy (free advt.) .

* * *... Do you smoke, pardneri

Now come the manufacturers of"Wings" cigarettes with an announce-ment that 50 different colored posterstamps (?) are "issued" by them,with a different American planeshown on each, according to an ad-vertising poster nailed at a Manilacigar stand. And that's of course, ifyou smoke Wings, altho personallywe prefer the Lucky Strike, whichwe have been blowing for ten years.

* * *... Aviation Addition

Philippine Air Lines Inc., soar asanother addition to local commercialaviation when it was inaugurated onMarch 15, with one of its planes,carrying passengers, air express, andnewspapers, from Manila to Baguio,Mountain Province. Curiously enoughno air mail letters were carried inspite of the efforts made by thePhilippine Air Mail Society to com-memorate its inaugural flight. Atany rate it's interesting to note thatin the inaugural flight of the PALlplane, it carried the "first aerialnewspaper" of the Islands and thepaper flown was the Manila DailyBulletin, oldest American newspaperin the Philippines .

* *' *... Coat-of-Arms

Remember the new coat-of-arms ofthe Philippines approved by Pres.Quezon last year and reported in thismagazine before and which had achance of being squeezed as one ofthe designs in the new regular post-age series?

Well, whether it's pride or preju-dice, three smart Assemblymen inthe National Assembly changed theirmind, filed a bill, and in a jiffy itbecame a law on February 24, restor-ing the original seal of the Common-wealth Government. Reason: The

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The Oakland Public School announce that a~ourBe In stamp cotlecting has been included inIts adult education program and that classeswill be held each Monday beginning March 24at Technical Evening School. 42nd and Broad-way.

The classes will conducted by Harry E Grayprominent Oakland stamp dealer aud c~llecto;of many years experience. The course willcontinue each Monday for the remaining eightweeks of the school semester. The enrollmentfee for the course is one dollar.

-The Oakland Tribune

new coat-of-arms shows boldly a bigsun with spreading rays and manywho 'Saw it believed it was liable tobe mistaken for the Japanese risingsun which is the Jap national em-blem. Hence, back to the old seal asshown on the 10 and 20-peso currentissues of the Philippines.

... Divorce"Comrade X," latest vehicle of

Clark Gable and Hedy Lamarr, exhi-bited at one of the Manila movies 'afew days ago, tells in part that toget a divorce in Soviet Russia, eithera hubby or a wifey may simply mail,his or her "postal card" representingtheir marriage license 'and that's suf-ficient to kiss good-bye to matrimony.

* * *... Postal Slogans

Postal slogans used by New Zea-land and Spain on two letters re-ceived by us recently, read: "AREYOU A-NATIONAL SAVINGS-INVESTOR?, and "FRANCO!-

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FRAN CO! - FRAN CO! - ARRIBAESPANA!, respectively.

* * *... FI Map, Free

Philippines, the slick monthly pub-lished by the Office of Hon. JoaquinM. Elizalde, Philippine Resident Com-missioner to the United States, has adouble-spread in its February issue,showing a map of the Philippines in-dicating the important products, etc.,of the Islands. The map is free uponrequest 'and may be obtained fromthe Office of the Philippine ResidentCommissioner, 2362 MassachusettsAvenue, N. W., 'Washington, D.C.,same address as the Philippine Phila-telic Agency in the U. S. A.

Incidentally the front cover of itsFebruary issue shows Secretary ofInterior Harold L. Ickes, who iswidely known in stampdom, while theback cover portrays the Baguio Zig-Zag depicted on the 32-centavo picto-rial stamp of the Islands.

Okay, Boys ... that's all.

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(This we didn't say, but an executive ofone of the largest sugar centrals in thePhilippines says there are now approximate-ly 1'500.000.000 invested in the sugar indus-try in this country.

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