Volume XXVII NUMBER 11

AUGUST, 1956

Errors, Varieties, & Airmails For 30 years we have been specializing in all UNUSUAL Items, ERRORS, VARIETIES, etc.. regardless if they are or are not listed. Now we ::ave on hand a very large selection of Airmails. U. P. U., U. N .• F. D. R.. Rotary, Inverted Centers. Sports, Topicals, Miniature Sheets. De Luxe Sheets, Proofs. etc .• etc. We have oddities and unusual items from many different countries as . . . Abyssinia, Albania, Belgium, Brazil. Canary Islands, Colombia, Congo, Croatia, Czechoslovakia, D'lnzig, Ecuador, Elpirus, Far East, France & Colonies, Greece, Georgia, Honduras, Iceland, Ifni, Iran, Italy & Colonies, Jugoslavia, Latvia, Liberia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Monaco, l.J"icaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Poland, Romania Russia, Saar, Salvador, Scadta, Spain & Colonies, Tangier, Tanna Touva, Uruguay, Venezuela, etc., etc., etc. We will gladly make Special Selections for you on Approval and. of course, you have the right to return anything. Please check where you are especially interested. Central America South Amcri:::a Asia Africa Europe Belgium France & Cols. Liberia

Booklets Covers DeLuxe Sheets F. D. R. Inverted Centers Miniat•1re S:teets Proofs Rotary Sport Topicals

Lithua~ia

Poland Rnssia Spain Airmails Americana

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Ple:>se check if you are especially interested in: ) Items up to $5

) Urp to $15

) Up to $25

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Please check if value of our first selection should be: $50.00, $100.00, $200.00, $500.00, $1000. Additional Intormation

Reference (if unknown to us) City (Postal No. Please) Address Name

S. Serebrakian 15 PARK ROW

BA 7-3830

NEW YORlC 311. N. Y.

Midwest Collectors To Attend AAMS Regional Meeting A cordial invitation to visit St. Louis during the American Philatelic Society's Annual Convention is extended to all AA,MS members by Robert W. Murch, vice-president of the American Air Mail Society and General Chairman of the APS Conventton. Convention headquarters and the colorful 350 frame national stamp exhibition and 35 table dealer's bourse are housed in the air-conditioned Hotel Jefferson in downtown St. Louis from Wednesday, September 5th, through Sunday, September 9th. A large section of the show will eonsist of airmail stamps and covers and three trophies are provided for airm~il entries. The general theme of the convention is '":Dhe Pleasures of Stamp Collecting and Philatelic Fellowship". If you wish to look at stamps, buy stamps, and .talk about stamps, St. Louis is the place for you in September. A meeting of all AAMS members and airpost collectors is planned for 2 p. m. Saturday, September 8th at the Jefferson Hotel, followed by a special trip to the Lindbergh ·Memorial >Museum in Forest Park, which

world-famous collection of aviation mementos.

AA:MS President Rafael Oriol of Havana, Cuba, will be in St. Louis for the AAMS meeting. For those collectors in the middle west who missed out ·on the Havana CUPEX show of 195'5 and the !May FIPEX show in New York, the St. Louis APS Convention affords a fine opportunity to see first-ihand a national stamp show and bourse. AAMS members are urged to make hotel reservations at once with the M·anager, Hotel Jefferson, St. Louis, Mo., mer.tioning APS convention. AAMS members in particular, planning to be in St. &o -375-

Life Member: AAMS APS SPA

''The Wright Brothers ,, are in Europe .... • •

By Joseph L. Eisendrath, Jr .

(Author's note Over the past several years we have had access to original data furnished ·by biographees for inclusion· :ln t..lleir sketches dn "Who's Who in America". We have gone through five milHon of these sketohes, and have several hundred thousand yet to look at. These cover a span of fifty years - and we intend to present items of interest concerning well-known aviation figures. This is the first of a series.) 7 Hawthorne St. Dayton, Ohio October 26, 1
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