Evening star., 1945-05-13
Stamps
By James Waldo Fa.pcen.

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By James Waldo Fawcen.
The most important local phil
atelic event in several years is the
stamp and cover phase of the
Spring Festival at Washington
Cathedral, Mount st. Alban, Wis
consin and Massachusetts avenues
NV, which opened Thursday and
will not close until 10 pm. tonight.
Mrs. Catharine L. Manning, phil
atelic curator of the Smithsonian
Institution, and Mrs. Edward B.
Martin Il the Washington Phil
atelic Society Of the Collectors
Club Of Washington, assisted by j.
Russell Sirlouis, prepared the ex-
hibition of stamps in Booth II
in the south crypt of the Cathedral
building. Among the collectors
whose material is on display are:
Col. Hans Lagerloef, David D. Cald-
well. DR.. Ellis Haworth, Miss Irene
M. Pistorio, Charles H. Vaughan,
Mrs. Grace Lowering MacKnight,
Albert F. Kunze and w. Grierson
Smith.
An adjacent booth contains a COM
prehensive showing of photographs
of coins and medals rejecting
Christian idealism over many hun
dreds of years, assembled by DR..
Theodore T. Belote, numismatic
curator of the Smithsonian.
Tho oxhihitipr of ~
the crypt includes letters signed
by Alexander Hamilton, Zachary
Taylor, Henry Wadsworth Long
fellow, John Greenleaf Whittier,
Charlotte Cushman, Gen. Ethan
Allen Hitchcock, Salmon P. Chase.
Horace Greeley, Ralph Waldo EN-
erson, Henry James, Asa Gray,
James Russell Lowell, Horace Mann,
Louisa May Alcott, Josiah Quincy.
Thomas Hutchinson. Julia Ward
Howe, Maria Mitchell, Theodore
Parker, Andrew D. White, Edward
Everett, Sir John Tenniel. Sir Isaac
Coffin, Sir Joseph Banks, Queen
Victoria and many other famous
persons.
For collectors who never have seen
any demonstration of the technical
processes by which engraved stamps
are produced, Booth 26 at the west
end of the crypt is center of at
traction. There Cathedral en-
craving on steel by Edward R.
Grove, engraver at the Bureau Of
Engraving and Printing, is being
pTip+nd %o or5or ~, Nt+o Harcob q
skilled craftsman who knows ex-
actly how to achieve perfection in
such work
Other displays in the crypt of in
/ terest to stamp and coin collectors
are: Photographs and drawings of
cathedrals, by DR.. Arnold Genthe.
Mrs. Antoinette Bryant Hervey and
Mrs. Clara Hallard Fawcett; Bach
manuscripts and associated mate
rial, Music Division of the Library
of Congress; religious embroidery.
/ Cathedral Altar Guild; architects
drawings for the Cathedral, Philip
H. Frohman; religious relics from
| the east and west. DR.. Riley Moore:
Cathedral Christmas cards, John H.
Bayless; art prints and postcards,
National Gallery of Art; autographs
and seals of the Presidents of the
United States, Cathedral archives;
books about cathedrals, etc.
I An exhibit of stained glass, en-
phasizing the methods employed in
its designing and construction, is
! sponsored by Wilbur Herbert Burn
ham and Joseph G. Reynolds, jr.
! Likewise Of special Importance is
a display of manuscripts and print
ed books in the Cathedral Library
Building, east of the apse, arranged
by Stephen A Hurlbut, scholar,
teacher and master printer. we'll
known for his hand-set publications
in Latin as well as English.
The Pitney-Bowes Mailomat, as
announced last Sunday, was set up
and placed in service in the cura-
tors Office at the west front en-
trance of the Cathedral on Thurs
day morning and has been in op-
GRAFTON ever since, thousands Of
covers and cards passing through il
to receive the special Spring Fes-
tival imprint. reading: Washington
Cathedral: A House of Prayer for
All People" Red ink was used
Thursday, Friday and yesterday;
purple will be used today.
Also in the curator's Office is
counter for the sale of Cathedral
envelopes. printed in four different
colors for the Festival occasion;
cards, religious poster labels and
other novelties. presided over by
Mrs. Martin and a committee of
friends.
A service in commemoration of
the heroic dead is to be held in the
Great Choir of the Cathedral at IL
am. and service in behalf of
church unity at pm.
The philatelic public again is in
vited to attend any or all aspects
Of the Festival. Members of the
Associated Stamps Clubs of the
chesapeake Area are expected to be
present in body.
When Paraguay changed the
names and values of its currency
units about year ago, new stamps
obviously were indicated. Three
regular postage issues and three
airmails now have been re-
leased. Designs feature historical
scenes. A 1-centimo, black, and 7Oc,
brick red show a group of Indians
being instructed in the reformed
monetary system. On the SC. green
olive, and zoe, light brown, an 1861
variety of railroad locomotive is pic
tured. The starting point" of ma
tional liberation-a lane In Asuncion
appears on soc, gray, label, and
an altar in a Jesuit church is rep
resented on a 1-guarani, yellow.
The Collectors Club of Washing
ton will meet at the Knights of
Pythias Temple, 1912 Ninth street
NV. Tuesday evening at 8. An
auction of foreign and domestic
stamps and covers is scheduled.
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