Evening star., 1935-08-11
BY JAMES WALDO FAwCETT.


The Golden Jubilee Convention Of
the American Philatelic Society will
be remembered for its remarkable
exhibition of stamp treasures, if for
nothing else
Opened last Sunday as scheduled
Museum. Constitution avenue and
Tenth street. it is certainly the most
important show of its kind ever pre-
sented on the American continent
No other exhibition ever has had
President of the United States
participating, nor has any other so
dramatically demonstrated the all
inclusive democracy of philately-it
is show in which rich and poor,
young and old, all classes and condi-
tions of men, women and children
are sharing on equal terms.
Non-competitive. non-commercial,
scientifically and yet artistically ar
ranged. staged in Government build
ing and free to the public, the display
is everything that an ideal philatelic
exposition should be and properly may
serve as a model for future enter
prises of the same general type.
Credit is due to Philip Simms
Warren. chairman of the General
Committee, and Albert F. Kunze,
chairman of the Exhibition Commit
tee. for their achievement, and the
gratitude of the collecting public also
should be expressed to their principal
assistants, Dr.. Ellis Haworth, secre-
tary-treasurer of the General Com
mittee; Mrs. Catherine L. Manning,
philatelic curator, Smithsonian Insti-
tuition: Miss Irene NJ. Pistorio, Clyde
De Binder, R. NJ. Wood, j. o. Peavy,
Frederick J. Roy, Edwin w. Bietzell,
William M. Stuart, philatelic editor,
Washington Post: H. D. Shorts,
Francis B. Leech, president, American
Air Mail Society; Eugene Klein, in
ternational secretary, American Phila-
telic Society; Michael L. Eidsness. jr.,
associate editor, Stamps Magazine; A..
Yonteff, Gerard Ten Eyck Beeckman,
Robert Bilsborough, president, Wash
ington Federation of Junior Stamp
Clubs, and Joseph F. Dodd
AS announced by Mr.. Kunze, the
principal exhibitors are: President
Roosevelt, sheet of 100 Confederate
20-cent stamps, said to have been the
last ever offered for sale at a Con-
federate post Office; collection of
stamps of Costa Rica presented by
President Ricardo Jimenez, recent
stamps of the Netherlands presented
by the school children of Holland,
German stamps of the imitation period
in full sheets, current stamps of China
given by the Chinese delegation in
presented by Commisar Maxim Lit
vinoff, six sheets of Roman states, six
sheets of Haiti and four sheets of
Hong Kong personally selected by Mr..
Roosevelt from his own collection;
Secretary of the Interior Harold L.
1ckes. United States departmentals
practically complete. Armenia. French
Offices in China and British offices in
Morocco; the Republic of Austria,
semi-postal stamps, including musi-
clans, poets, artists, castles and other
series; Herman Bo2orselski, full sheets
of recent Canada commemorative
Harry A. Fox, encased stamp cur
rency, British colonials, Afghanistan,
Ethiopia, Indian native states, Mon
golia and Albania; Edwin w. Bethel,
literature from the library of the
Washington Philatelic Society; w.
Hayden Collins. United States proofs
Frederick r. Rice, blocks of four Ma
tional Parks and other recent United
States stamps tied by postal cancella-
tions to album sheets and auto
graphed; L. B. Gatchell, covers show
ing evolution of airpost; Francis B.
Ieech, display illustrating rocket post
experiments and covers representing
pioneer airmail flights; Howard c.
Beck, exhibition of documents relat-
ing to and bearing revenue stamps
1924 to date, including issues respon-
sible for the American Revolution
Maurice S. Petty, airport dedications
and airmail literature; Michael l.
Eidsness, jr., post Office and philatelic
literature; James Waldo Fawcett
a European and American philatelic lit
erature and stamps of Belgium,
France, Germany, Italy, Egypt ano
French colonies (canceled); Mrs
Mary Garretson Cook, Philadelphia
Egypt, including essays; Thomas F
Armstrong. jr., New York, pioneer
airmail covers; Justin L. Bacharach,
Bhopal, Indian native state; Jere
Hess Barr, Reading, Pa, United
States revenues, 1862 and 1871; Sid
ney F. Barrett, New York, Civil Wal
charity covers; Clarence w. BraZer
Lansdown, Pa, United States proofs
and essays, Columbian series, 1898;
Gerard Ten Eyck Beeckman, can
eeled copies of Farley gift stamps
1884: Hugh M. Clark, New York
United States patriotics; Vincent
Domanski, jr., Philadelphia, Poland
1860, Polish Legion and wartime
issues; William H. Emmert, Philadel-