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Hollywood Philatelist HOLLYWOOD STAMP CLUB HSC GOALS: PROMOTING HOLLYWOOD STAMP COLLECTING IN THE XXI CENTURY IN PHILATELIST SOUTH FLORIDA. JUL-AUG 2019 VOL 55 ISSUE 4 INDEX GB Unusual Penny Reds ….… P. 1 HSC PAGE & MEMBERS’ CORNER, HUMOUR ON STAMPS ……..…. P.2/8 HSC Officers, Calendar and Activi- ties ………………………….……. P. 3 See article on page 4 covering the his- HSC SALES STATS ………….…. P.3 tory of the not issued Nbr. 266a 1910 2 p, Tyrian plun, listed in S-G not in GB 1910 2 p. Tyrian-Plum, then and now ……………………………….. P. 4 Scott, and the 2019 Issue 2013 US Inv. Jenny ……….….. P.5 GB Penny Red Color PMKs …. P.5/6 Exchange with ARGENTINA Stamp Club ………………………………. P. 6 GB Post Office Bank stamp … P. 6 D-DAY by Robert Capa …… P. 7 / 8 Enrique Setaro, US Citizen, Born in Argentina APS, HSC, FCPS , GBPS Member. HSC Editor HSC Weekly Meetings Information The Hollywood Stamp Club es, or any other data believed meets every Tuesday from 5 to notable to our membership. 9 PM at the Fred Lippman Mul- tipurpose Center, 2030 Polk Contact the Editor, Enrique Street, Hollywood, FL 33020, Setaro, by phone (305) 428- US, North America, Telephone: 0516, via Skype, ID: ensetaro (954) 921-3404. or via e-mail: All Club members are encour- [email protected] aged to submit articles, notic- 1 MEMBER’S COR- LOVE THOSE COVER NER BOXES !!, By editor By Membership Committee This 1935 cover was purchased from one of the Dealers’ Cover New Members: boxes. The cover sent from London Robert Karr 1968 to St. George Ram 1969 Louis, Missouri carries a 1 1/2 Mitch Kopkin 1970 d. KGV stamp with an Herb Keiles 1971 “AIR MAILS” label. This Thomas Lander 1972 is part of the Tele- phone Service/Air mails Pane. S-G lists it at £600 ($759). S-G tells me that the cover value is in the £10-15 range ($12-18). Very nice for a 10 cents cover !!!! PHILATELIC TALKS INITIATIVE. When you are Using a “vintage” TV that I donated to the club, we have started with some short talks about phil- offered a high atelic topics. The purpose was to provide a way of value stamp exchanging information of interest to our mem- bership. We started with “British Old Currency for a very low System” on Stamps. These talks will be delivered price, every other week for 10/15 minutes starting at 6 PM. The following talks were about “Topical Co- remember this: coa/chocolate on Stamps”, “the Flight of the Gel- ”If it too good ber Hund”, and “Great Britain Seahorses”. The latest talk discussed “Advertisement Labels, Panes & Booklets”. Other topics available are: “WW 2 Emergency Forces to be true, it Messages”, “Stylized Views of the Cities of France”, “Imperforate Steamships of probably is.” Buenos Aires”, and “Russia 1915-17 Currency stamps”. If any of our members would like to prepare and deliver a talk, I can help if you provide scans of the material to be used and I can set them up into an Adobe Acrobat Members: call for Paraphrasing President Kennedy: Have YOU list? Or share Do not ask what considered a nice cover the club can do for sharing your and a para- you. Far better, ask stamps graph about what YOU can do knowledge? for the club. The Lighthouse at the End of it. Contact the World in South Argentina. Why not write the Editor at France, who did a complete an article the meeting, overhaul of the lighthouse, for the Holly- has issued this stamp in 2000. or via E- See article in May HSC News- wood Philate- letter. Mail. 2 HSC’s Officers and Members of the Board for 2019 Chairman of the Board: Karl V. Shallenberger President: Parker A. Bailey, Jr. E-Mail: [email protected] E-Mail: [email protected] Vice-President: Jacqueline Cortes Directors: Arthur Morris Treasurer: Richard Knierim Hamlet Gayadeen Recording Secretary: Hilda Bailey Robert Lavoie, Jr. Membership Chairman: Robert Lavoie, Jr Alan Levak Asst. Chairman: Hamlet Gayadeen Michael Rogers Editor: Enrique Setaro Richard Sandler E-Mail: [email protected] Kim Castellano Asst. Editor: Thomas Walend HSC NEWS. PHOTO OF THE HSC HSC ACTIVITIES: PHILATELIC CALENDAR MEETING OF MAY 21, 2019. GENERAL VIEW FROM THE FRONT. JUL 2 $5 Auction, door prizes, TABLES WITH AUCTION LOTS. and refreshments JUL 9 Meeting, $5 Auction, door prizes, and refreshments JUL 16 $5 Auction, door prizes, and refreshments JUL 23 $5 Auction, door prizes, and refreshments JUL 30 >>>GOGO AUCTION <<< AUG 6 $5 Auction, door prizes, and refreshments AUG 13 Meeting, $5 Auction, door prizes, and re- freshments AUG 20 $5 Auction, door prizes, and refresh- ments AUG 27 $5 Auction, door prizes, and refresh- ments Hungarian Gold Coin honoring Robert Capa; see article pages 7 & 8. 3 GB Not issued 1910 2 p. Tyrian- of 480 stamp. What happened to the other half is Plum, then and now , by editor unknown. The 1910 2 p. stamp [With some excerpts from is listed by the British- Linn’s Jan 21, 2019] based Stanley Gib- In 1902 Great Britain issued bons catalog as 266a. a bi-color set of stamps with The Scott catalogs, the image of King Edward following their policy VII, from 1/2 d. to 1Sh., with on unissued stamp, 11 different designs, printed do not list it at all. by DE LA RUE. It is also on the cover of However by 1910 the Royal the S-G 4 Kings’ Special- Mail found that if a new set ized Catalog Vol. 2. of stamps were printed with In a first-ever philatelic just one color, the costs would be significantly lower. nod to this stamp, the Brit- This was done for a few of the lower and post popu- ish postal service, Royal lar face values, 1/2 to 7 p. Mail, included the Two- The printer sent these new stamps to the post offic- Penny Tyrian Plum as part es. However, instruction were given that the 2 p. Tiri- of the stamps-on-stamps an plum would not be sold while there was an inven- souvenir sheet issued Jan tory of the bi-color 2 p. 15, On May 5, 1910 an office boy from the Somerset House (where the Prince of Wales—later King George V– lived) was sent by the Prince’s Sec- 2019, featuring one stamp retary to the post office a from each of the last six few steps away. reigns. The office boy had a let- It is assumed that both S-G ter addressed to “His and Scott will have to list this Royal Highness, The stamp. For more information we suggest you refer to Prince of Wales KG, Somerset House”. the Linn’s January 21, 2019 and read the complete A clerk affixed a 2 p. stamp and tossed it in a bag. and extensive article “ The Many Mysteries of the One of his colleagues cancelled it May 5, 1910. Two-Penny Tyrian Plum”. © The next day. May 6, 1910 King Edward VII, who had been very ill, passed, and The Prince of Wales be- came king George V, who then received the cover in the mail. On May 5, some 412 stamp — almost two full sheets’ worth — were sent to the UPU offices in Bern, Swit- zerland for distribution to the world’s postal adminis- trators. They had not been overprinted “Specimen”. Three days later a telegram was sent asking that no distribution was to be done and all the stamps re- turned. On May 18, Inland Revenue informed De La Rue that no more 2 p. sheets should be printed and the exist- ing ones should be destroyed. Actually, it is not know how many sheets were really destroyed. As since then several stamps have ap- peared in the marketplace at 5 or 6 digits prices. There is a full imperforate registration sheet of 240 How about if we choose To you Herbert, your uncle leaves, as a stamps in the archives of the Postal Museum in Lon- teams based on who has hedge against inflation, a stash of US the coolest stamp collec- Forever stamps. don. This only represents one half of the press sheet tion. 4 US 2013 INVERTED JENNY VA- The complete sheet is shown here. RIETY, By Editor I broke down one of the sheets and sold When the USPS issued its 2013 $2 Invert- two of the stamps with the variety to club ed Jenny stamp sheet-of-6 I purchased members; the other stamp was sold on several (10) sheets looking for the upright eBay. I have the other complete sheet Jenny. I have not found this variety offered on I did not find it. However, two of the eBay or DelCampe. In the Linn’s Jun 24, 2014, the article “Flyspecking the $2 Jenny Invert stamp: inking oddities abound”, they noted that: “A variety that has been talked about by collectors is the so-called “broken wheel.” This variety, exists as a white notch, an un-inked section on the airplane wheel at right. A figure that I have seen shows not only a “broken wheel,” but one that’s on fire, as red ink has taken over some of the blue shading lines just above the wheel. “© sheets showed a “broken wheel variety” GB PENNY REDs Color Postmarks, By on one of the Jenny’s wheels. We referred editor to this printing error in the Sep/Oct 2013 After the Penny Blacks that were issued in Newsletter. I called it “flat tire” but PSE 1840, the British Post Office changed the changed it to “broken wheel” variety.
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