Show NO not A bellm eare bilam ky ws stamp enthusiasts do not understand der stand new venturo venture of post office department HARDIES HANDLES ONLY RECENT ISSUES victory stamps pilgrim tercentenary Ter centen ary issues and airplane stamps stamp amono among varieties that are ara for ale washington enthusiasts enthus lasts all over nor thu the country uru lire responding with alth promptness to flays announcement that tile the post ornet ornee I 1 liaa established u stallie und md hus hua certain stumps fur sale milr letters litters litt a lay uy art aro being i received from roin 11 CC t r who wish lah to buy stumps mamps but a hir number lumber indicate unit that lilt new ventura ul iture Is nut not altogether understood think that the la is selling obsolete and ruff rare sta nips they ask fur for such valuable old lh is SUCH US as chuse of the isgut AS tl a ter of fact the government agency Is belling lit present only tilt thu following three cent victory stamps till nil denominations lant ions of tile Ill pilgrim grim tercentenary issues airplane stumps sta nips it small quantity 0 of f special i delivery etli a pink lack back and the ordinary current issues tile only place from which tilt the gov eri stilluf call get its stock to sull sell to collectors la Is from froin tho the post offices of the country lit in the baht tiny anny one naho wrote roto to tile post office department to buy stamps for a collection was referred to ills post office and told that if ills his local postmaster did not have the particular pard cular kind desired perhaps sumo other postmaster would nav now the post office department Is getting stamps such as the pilgrim tercentenary issues from the post of flees nud and will sell bell them direct to stamp collectors another point of misunderstanding misunderstand ing Is that tile the post office department Is settle 1 up it ii commercial stamp agency ono one man wrote to know if lie he could represent lie depart department mentin in philadelphia to buy and sell stamps for it there does not buy stamps the fact Is the department Is not buying stamps ut at nil all and it Is sellin selling 9 them only at their face value it Is written into tilt the postal reputations regulations that no employee in the postal service nitty inny buy or sell stal stamps at more inure their orI gInnI sale price other people have thought that the government philatelic agency would be disposing of freak issues such as the airplane sheet that was printed with the design upside down or the famous issue of 2 cent stamps with several ivas on oil the he sheet these thesa are great rarities and bring prices which only d a stamp collector can understand the 24 cent airplanes have a border of rod red and the airplane in n the center of blue by a mistake which will probably always remain a mystery on one single sheet of stumps stamps the airplane design was put in upside d don n the bureau of engraving was itself turned upside down in vain attempts to find out how this catastrophe occurred philatelists however rejoiced one congressman who lins haa three oliree of f these stamps recently refused apiece for them it Is because such accidents are rare almost unheard urd of that the mis printed stamps tire are so highly lilg lily valued by collectors the post office department says emphatically y tant all it it has none of these rarities for sale I 1 one collector suggested that the department part ment might render a service if it ifould out get sortie some of the Shan shanghai overprinted stamps the conference on oil I 1 limitation of armaments plang plan to abolish tile the post dinces which tile lie united states ind id some home other countries lino have in chinn tho the stamps of our office tit it Shan shanghai will probably rise tn lit value lit in the lie collectors estimation through this mou since no more inure will bo be printed 1 when the post office is a closed the chinese stamps stamp these Shan tire an ordinary united sta nips except that over OUT ench one Is in printed prin tid mughal china and tile lie price in III local currency cn which in each lucli cuse Is double the face value the lost department tins has been collectors colle tlora who ho desired to buy these stamps to send it 11 donit domestic oriler order to the united states postal agent ile ho converts con urta the or dyr der into local currency and makes the purchase to sell bell these in tile the united states would need it a special or der of some sort and nono la Is content ont tin plated tit it present pie sent considering nil all the things it la Is not established to do people who have never collected collect ett stamps might not six se i liow how the government starlit agency Is doing the collectors a special service i by selling them ordinary current stamps and ami a very few recent issaca issac 4 tilt aliu important point la is that not nil all a 2 cent mumps look to tho the expert tilt atio startup with running into alio pink design may inny bo be nil all right 0 to o put on oil ft a letter but it a cal lectors electors lec tors ideal smaill stamp I 1 beauty lidi uty lie iio wants n that lint lins a neat of around it when it Is 13 torn oil tile ho sheet |