Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-07
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JAMES h"SL
Popular interest in stamp collecting
has been greatly stimulated in Bel
GUM by the Siteb Exhibition held at
the Palais des BeauxArts, Brussels,
May Is to June 3. Properly described
as a salon international du timbre,"
it brought together portions of some
Of the most valuable private collec-
lions in the world, and the Belgian
public took full advantage to the OPP
portunity to see the assembled teas
ures. Official Endorsement was sig
nified by the willingness of the Count
of Flanders, brother of King Leopold
III, to serve as patron, and by the
presence of the minister of transports,
posts, kilograms and telephones; Maui
rice LippenS. president of the Belgian
Senate; Adolphe Max, mayor of 9rus-
sells, Baron Houtart governor OF the
Province of Brabant. and Oscar
Schockaert, director general of posts,
on the Committee of Honor
Eminent philatelists sharing in the
preliminary labor and in resultant
qualification included: P j. Maingay.
president Federation Internationale
de Philatelie; Armand Ruhl, president
Federation Royale des Cercles Philate-
liques de Belgique; Richard Byl, sec
rotary general of the same national
organization of collectors; Baron de
Vinck de WinneZeele, Andre de Cock,
curator MuSee Postal; Marquis I'M
periali. Baron Caroly and Joseph
Schobbens, members Commission
Philatelique du Commencement; Paul
de Smeth. Academic de Philatelie.
Brussels; DR.. Jean Dubois, Pierre
Rotsaert, Rene Poncelet and DR.. Louis
Goldberg, president Federation Inter-
rationale de la Presse Philatelique
and secretary general Federation In
ternationale de Philatelie.
The following presidents of the diff
ferent national organizations affiliated
with the 1nternationale were men,
bers of the Philatelic Committee of
Honor; Otto Falck, Germany; Lieut..
Col Ludwig Hesshaimer. Austria;
Martin Jorgensen. Denmark: Bertel
Taucher. Finland; Ernest Dole.
France; P Savides, Greece: Gen.
Thomas Bobrovnicky Won Bobrobnik
und Szentanna Hungary; DR.. Emilio
Diena. Italy; Eugene Lemmer, Lux
embourg; w. P. Costerus Pm, Neither
lands; KsaWery Stefanski, Poland; H.
Roth. Switzerland: Jan Illavacek,
CZechoSlovakia, and Eugene Derocco,
Yugoslavia.
Also serving with these executives
we're: Sir John Wilson, president
Royal Philatelic Society, London;
Guilio Tedeschi. organizer general.
Liphinprex, Turin; DR.. Mario de
Sanctis, Sac Paulo, Brazil; Henri
Kastler. president Academic de
Philatelie, Paris; Charles Burrus,
Ste. Croix aux Mines; Theodore
Champion. Paris; Frank Golden,
London; Maurice Langlois, honorary
president Federation DIES Cercles
Philateliques de France; Roscoe B.
Martin, president American Philatelic
Society; Laurence B. Mason, president
Collectors Club, New York, and Eu-
gene Klein, Philadelphia.
Such an ensemble of talent and ex-
perience, naturally. insured the sue
cess of the occasion. Through the
efforts of the co-operators, an UMPIRE
cedented quantity of truly notable
stamps was made available for dis
play. No unlimited material was ad-
mitted, and the superior quality of
the exposition thus was the fruit of
purposeful and deliberate policy on
the part of the sponsors.
The judges of the exposition were
Messrs. Costerus, Rotsaert, de Smeth,
Delapierre, Louis Francois, Jacques L.
Pileur and Fred j. Melville.
Competing for prizes, however, were
only those collectors who participated
in the Belgian and Belgian Congo
department. The winners included:
M. de Cock, who received the grand
prix and two gold medals; DR.. Alfred
Magnetic, Belgian Federation prize
and two gold medals; Louis zurstras-
sen, vermeil prix du roi and a gold
medal; Joseph Wright. silver prix du
roi and a gold medal; Jean Dubois,
gold medal and cup; Etienne Corbisier
de Meaultsart, two gold medals, one
silver medal and cup; j. P. O'Connor,
gold medal and cup. and Cyrille
Laliere, one vermeil, two silver and
two bronze medals.
In the international department all
entries we're homeopathic and each
received a medal of recognition.
Americans participating were: Alfred