The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-01-22
Stamp Displays Are Con-
tributed By Various In
dividuals And Organiza-
tons

By Commodore Matho FIR. Won
.Mietk-Liuba, H. ID. W., Presi-
dent, Philatelic and Numis-
matte Society of Key West.
Tomorrow night, at 8 o'clock,
the Key West International
Stamp and Coin Exposition will
open in the Navy Administration
Building Gold Post Office Build
ing), through the courtesy of
Lieutenant William Klaus, u. S.
NJ, officer in charge of the Key
West Navy Yard.
The exposition is international
in scope and is sponsored and
managed exclusively by the Philat-
ellie and Numismatic Society of
Key West, with headquarters at
the AIR Station Apartments.
The merchants of Key West,
professional people and organ
izations have contributed to the
cause which is considered a cul-
tural asset to the community.
From all over the world, stamp
displays have been received and
will be on exhibition in the navy
building tomorrow night from
500 to 1890, and Friday and
Saturday from 1000 a. m. to
900 p. m.
Sends Many Frames
Czechoslovakia sent a total of
thirteen frames containing beauti-
full arrangements of stamps in
blocks, cancellation prints, mag
nificent airmail stamps in blocks
of twelve and other material.
After the exposition these frames
will be turned over to the en-
bassy of Czechoslovakia which
will hold them for future dis
plays in the United States. Those
who will see these frames viii
have the unique privilege of see,
ing them first.
Among the other nations rep
resented are Brunei in NORTH
Borneo; the Bahamas with {
beautiful set of the Silver Jubilee
Stamps commemorating the late
King Georges silver jubilee a.
monarch of the empire on which
the sun never sets; Austria, will
stamps honOring her artists. poets
composers, architects. etc; Bar
bados; Grenada; Estonia on thu
shores of the Baltic Sea; Colon
bia. South America; Denmark
with whole sheets of the lates
stamps just off the press and frs
day cancellations; Bermuda. witt
her first issue of stamps and othe
items; Philippine Islands; Cyprus
in the Mediterranean Sea; Trans
jordan in Northern Arabia; Fin
land, with the complete issue o.
stamps, since her Declaration o
Independence, mounted in fifteel
frames; New Zealand; Niue ant
Western Samoa; Luxembourg
with an artistically mounted frame
to which is added the persona
touch of a photograph of He
Royal Highness, the Crane
Duchess Charlotte; Australia
with a heavy, carefully mounte,
frame; Rarotonga, Cook Islands
with an interesting arrangement
of photographic scenes of tn
country mounted with stamps
Syria, with a frame of orienta
hand inlay work more valuabl
than the stamps it adorns; an
Lebanon. with a frame made o
famous Lebanon Cedar and stamp
mounted on a hand-painted back
ground.
The United States Post Offic,
Department is also represente,
by an official entry loane'
through the local postmaster
Many Collections
Local stamp collectors and ais
coin collectors are participating
in the displays. Among the out
standing coin collections in tn
south is the collection of the Con
vent of Mary Immaculate, whicl
won grand prize last March in tn
First Key West Stamp and Col
Exhibition. These coins, with
larger variety. will again be OF
display by the Convent.
Margaret Zinaida Won Mietk
Liuba, who won the grand priz
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