-Friday; August 18/ 1972
COLLECTING
with JULIUS SHORE
ITALY, AUGUST 23, 1958; Scott No. 749.
THE STAMP SHOWS the Victory BflNUTE DIFFERENCES which Arch of Titus in Rome, an airplane could not be seen without a good and a map of Brazil on the occasion deal of study, good light, a 10 or of the visit of the President of Italy to Brazil.
This arch, built some nineteen hundred years ago to honor the destroyer of the Jewish State, lived to become a monument to the longevity of the Jews.
Vespasian and his son Titus were sent to Judaea to quell a rebellion by the Jews. Their first act of importance was to burn over 4,000 Jews of Jaffa alive and send the rest of the Jewish population into hiding, ultimately to emerge as the Jewish pirates of Jaffa.
Then these two generals turned towards Jerusalem. Enroute Vespasian found that he had been declared Emperor of the Roman Empire so he returned to Rome leaving the rest of the operation to his son.
Jerusalem fell four years later in the year 70 and Massada in 73.
On his return to Rome, Titus and his father Vespasian were granted a victory parade. Two reigns later, Titus' brother, Titus
stronger magnifying glass and, 1 suspect, a good dash of imagination, told the collector from which plate they were printed, possibly the position in the sheet the. stamp came from and details of any repairs that had been made to the plate.
In a large degree one might say that these collectors are studying the short-comings of the printing processes used in the production of the stamps. This is called Classical Collecting and to a very limited degree I could find some of it interesting, but on the whole I must admit that
this could be a great waste of fine scholarship.
To nie stamps are: jui open window'^fo Mstory^ They^^ te^ iM what happened, how and when and where, and too how peOple lived and all the time as U **l am there".
While we are on this subject I should point out that Canada's
II, built this victory arch to honor definitive stamps, those that are his elder brother's memory. used on everyday mail are chahgirig
*    *    * so rapidly that we actually are
EACH PERSON sees a collect- faced with a new variety in our ibie item in a different way and ordinary stamps every second bus-the way in which a person sees iness day.
?„^„'X"J5?T„^'S.S?^ISv.^^^^ Collectors have been much maV '^^^y ^Sured
While attending the B.C. Phila- ^ 1^5'J'lh^n^cT
telic Society's stamp show, Vanpex S?Acf to^e^cS^^ adviSed 1972 at the Hotel Grosvenor, I ^ruTrJ^'Z^^rT^^^^
finding that they know more about what is going on than does the post office itself.
This called lor an investigation by the post office. And to every^ one's surprise, the reason turned out to be the change in our life style! The paper used in the production of stamps is very largely cloth based ■— made of: secondhand clothing and old rags — and whereas once our old rags were predominantly cotton, wool and Silk, they are now predominately synthetics as polyester and orlon.
I believe that there are many who agree with me in seeing a stamp as incidental to a study of history ~ how people lived and how their mode of living effected their mode of thought and how in turn their history effected Our history and our mode of thought.
In the final analysis mankind is a single unit and history is a single unit. One cannot gain any great degree of understanding of the history of America, Britain or Germany, say, without taking into account the history of the Vatican andthe Jews, quite aside from die impossibility of ignoring the Babylonians, Uie Greeks and the Romans.
Nor what these other people were doing and thinking..
Of course to grasp the enormity of it, but one must not lose sight of the fact that this is only a road towards understanding, and not understanding itself.
In the same way in which I gain a lot more knowledge from a complete envelope than I could possibly do from a stamp, I find that there are other adjuncts to collecting that cannot be ignored — for example: coins, photographs, paintings, labels and almost anything related to living.
That is why my collection of Zionist history includes a paper bag of the type given to children for. candy at A Zionist outing in Petach Tikvah in 1909.
I RECENTLY RE-READ Herzl's , Diai^es foi* the n'|Ch time; when I cairiiEirto ith^ pai't'itwhere he diis -ACussiiid hiis briliiarit iihpulsle tq solve two early embarrassiiigpro-blems.
The Zionist Committee had announced that they would raise a fund to help the Turks in their war of 1897 with Greece (Herzl's Diaries, May 30^ 1897) and had been able to raise only 800 Gulden, which, because the amount was so small, they were ashamed to send.
the two efforts and thereby saved his and the Zionist's prestige with the Turks.
Knowing that I have the very card that H^rzl had written on his own personal visiting card and had given to Shalit to introduce him and his party to the Turkish GGvernment filled me with a certain sense of awe towards this important bit of Jewish history.
IN aiY YOUTH, stamps such as the JNF label of 1916 pictured here, in booklets with six portraits, in five different colors were sold in synagogues in honor of
the High Holidays at twenty-five cents a booklet. -
Today's commonplace announcements, etc. may become tomorrow's rarities. Even if they never acquire any real monetary value they may bring you a great, deal of pleasure.
I have certainly enjoyed my 15 years of collecting. No doubt you can too. Think about it. .
Shalom.
J.N.F. LABEL OF 1916: Tloocers of the Moyenuent series" Omvfng BaJbbi Slunnel Mohilever.
THE ARCH OF TITUS ON 195S JJ^J*. LABELS.
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Stamps ore an open window to history . . . they tell what happened, how ond when ond where—os if 'I om thereV
At the same time young Dr^ Isador Shalit (later Herzl's secretary) had organized a group of volunteer doctors to help the Turkish wounded but they could not leave Vienna because they were unable to raise travelling expense money.
Herzl succeeded in combining
These are from the 1953 re- tical stamps have selvedge, tabs
prints of the 1943 "Diaspora" only at the top to allow space
series of Jewish National Fund for the staples. The horizontal
stamps. All in niy collection are designs have   selvedge on both
in marginal or corner blocks of sides as well as at the top and
four aside from, the occasional the stitching is at the top. Each
single. I at first assumed that they booklet has one design in it, which
were issued in book form, as were is listed in Hebrew on the coveir,
the 1954 stamps. The lack of staple holes in the selvedge suggests, however, that they appeared in sheet form. I would be ^lad to hear from any reader who has an information on this matter. The 1954 booklets (face value "50") have six stamps to the pane. The ver-
and six panes of six stanips. Three panes are printed in green and three in brown. My 1953 blocks are printed either in blue or green. No doubt they exist also in browii. I know of no way of distinguishing between singles of the 1943 and 1953 printings.
could not help over-hearing one of the senior members of our local community explaining to a novice that the blocks of four each of moderately rare United States stamps that I had just been admiring, were absolutely worthless and should be destroyed!
Each block had nice clean, clear, readable cancellations. It was these same cancellations that made these stamps desirable to me and worthless to him.
They told me briefly where and when the stamps were used and frequently a cancellation on closer examination could tell one a good deal about the political and social conditions in the area in which it was applied.
I realize that my choice of U.S. stamps as an example is comparably a poor one, yet it is easy to see how much more an mva-lope or even just a used stamp often can reveal than- one just fresh from the post office.
Some collectors like to make a detailed study of a single stamp at a time. 1 have recently seen five collections of this kind, running 60 to 90 pages each (500 to 1,000 stamps) which to me all looked alike. To the person studying them, each stamp was different.
PROnCT THE FREE ENTIRPMSE SYSTEM THAT MADE CANADA 6REAT1
BERT PRICE—Bom on Brao^woy—went to Mt. Pleasant ond King Edward High Schools and carries on the businen established by his father in 1904 at Broddway & Moin. Served SVz yean in RCAF as flying instructor. Elected to B.C. Legislature six times, 1952-53-56-60-63::>69. Goveminent whip 1953-66. A strong odvocate for aid to lower income people to build or buy homes; to clean up our water courses and beaches; to prevent throw-awoy glass; to enforce maiumum noise level; a phys-teal fitness programme for oil young people; more park area and camping sites within 100 miles of Vancouyeri chronic care facilities to take care of older persons unable to core for themseSves. One of the most knowledgeable ond hardest working members of the Legislo* ture. His door is always open.
GEORGE WAINBORN, king time honl working member of the Vancouver Porks Board, was asked: "What persuaded you to offer yourself OS 0 candidate in Vancouver Burrord? And why did you choose the Sociol Credit Party? His answer was os direct as the maiil "First of oil, I believe in Free Enterprise! Socialism has never worked. It stifles the spirit. I feel that with the experience I have gained in community and chric work, I would go to a level of government where the range of responsibility is larger and broader for me to carry out the ideas I hove yet to put in action. The Social Credit Party convinced me that they wera o govemment interosted in the welfare of the people^ll the people, and they aro not afraid to take bold steps when necessary to implement their programs. Tourism it our third biggest industry and ■ propose to follow in the footsteps of our previous member, Horeld ^i^rilleci, who did so much to put Voncouver on the Touriit mops of the world.
bert
PRia
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