The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-01-23
International Stamp And Coin
Exposition Will Open Tonight
Stamp Division Of Spanish
Main Museum Will Also
Be Formally Opened At
Same Time

BY Commodore Matho Fridericus
Won Mietk-Liuba, H. D. W.,
President, Philatelic and Numis-
matte Society of Key West.
Tonight, promptly at 8 o'clock,
the Key West International Stamp
and Coin Exposition will open in
the Navy Administration Build
ing which is the old post office
building. Governor Dave Sholtz,
official patron of the exposition,
is expected at a later date.
Commodore Won Mietk-Liuba
will conduct the opening exercises
by delivering a brief address after
which the displays will be opened
to the public.
AT the same time the Com
modore will formally open the
Stamp Division of the Spanish
Main Museum of Key West. The
museum will gradually be built in
to an institution that will be a
credit to this community, the next
division to be added being the
oceanographic division.
The Commodore will be as
sisted by the officers of the
Philatelic and Numismatic So
. ciety of Key West, sponsor of this
international event. Those in at
tendance will be: Vice-President
Margaret Zinaida Won Mietk-
Liuba; Mrs. HiTdah Roberts Sails,
vice-president of the exposition
Mrs. Jennie B. de Boer, general
secretary of the exposition and
of the sponsoring society; Mr..
and Mrs. Robert Graham; Mr.. and
Mrs. j. S. Dudley; Mr.. and Mrs.
Defiance o. Martin. Two Key
West Senior High School girls
will assist in conducting visitors
through the building. They are
the Misses Virgie Key and Shirley
Faye Russell.
Judges Elected
Several committees of judges
were elected by the sponsoring
society at its last meeting. These
judges will consider philatelic
knowledge, neatness, and other
points of merit in the displays
which are basic in the rendition
of a verdict.
The committee of judges on
foreign government entries con-
sists of Lieutenant William Klaus,
u. S. NJ, host to the exposition in
the U. S. Navy Administration
Building; DR.. Blenn R. Bales of
Circleville, Ohio, an eminent
philatelist and a winter resident
of Key West; Commodore Matho
FIR. Won Metk-Liuba, H. D. W.,
president of the sponsoring So
ciety.
The committee of judges in
the strictly philatelic division con-
sists of State Senator Arthur
Gomez; DR.. Blenn r. Bales, and
Mrs. Ruth B. Graham. In this
division the grand prize of the
stamp exposition will be awarded.
The committee of judges in the
stamp novelty division consists of
DR.. Blenn R. Bales; Margaret
Zinaida Won Mietk-Liuba, and Joe
Pearlman, chairman of the coin
division of the exposition.
The committee of judges on
coins and paper moneys consists
of Professor Ernst Agathon Won
Mietk-Liuba, formerly of Ger
many and now a permanent resi-
dent of Key West; Mr.. Robert
Graham of the department of
commerce, and Lieutenant Will
liam Klaus. In this division the
grand prize of the coin exposition
will be awarded.
To Start Work
Immediately after the formal
opening of the exposition by the
Commodore, the judges will COM
mence their work. Temporary
cards of award will be placed on
the winning frames so that the
public may see what decisions
have been reached, and why these
decisions were made.
On Sunday at 4 p. M, during
the closing exercises in the Con-
vent of Mary Immaculate, the
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