Evening star., 1953-11-08
PhiIuteIic News
Stamp Exhibition Coming Wednesday
By Jones WoIdo Fowcett

Pal Iu1CI1I VI NOLI11lLc1 &c ou1Iu-
ing, Fourteenth street, just
south of Pennsylvania avenue
NV, beginning Wednesday
afternoon at 2 o'clock and con-
tinuing until November II
at 4 pm.
Foreign and domestic stamps
and covers of exceptional in
tereSt and value are to be
shown by members of the An
napoliS Stamp Club, Baltimore
Philatelic Society, Baltimore
Precancel Club, Collectors
Club of Baltimore, Marco
Stamp Club, Frederick Stamp
Club, Silver Spring Philatelic
Society, Collectors Club of
Washington, General Services
Administration Stamp Club,
Washington Chapter of the
China Stamp Society and
Washington Philatelic Society.
Among the participants ex-
hibiting United States material
will be: Robert A. Peck, DR..
George L. Fite, Edward S. Con-
ger, 1t. Col. j. T. De VoSs, the
last two named specializing in
Canal Zone issues.
In the overseas division
those represented have been
announced as: Charles A.
Schumann, Australia; Paul j.
Plant, Belgium; Richard w.
Jubb, Bosnia; N. M. Rask-
hodoff, British Colonies;
Ellery Denison, China: H.
Dana Mitchell, Costa Rica; E.
Robert Clas. India; Miss D. H.
Coates, Lombardy Venetia;
Henry Madden, Hungary
(f1rst iSsue): Rimma Sklarev-
ski. Russia through 1879;
Merrill F. Disted. Tibet;
Edward Goldsmith, Spanish
Antilles; Alexander Halper-
son, Trieste: C. Bennett Rose,
Luxembourg: o. L. Harvey,
Union of South Africa: Svend
Yort, Ireland and Norway.
and DR.. Fite. Netherlands and
centenarianS.
Mr.. Denison also will show
his famous demonstration col
lection, illustrating philatelic
terms and procedures. Mrs.
Betty Lee Halls entry will be:
Ships on Stamps, followed by
Horses on Stamps assembled
by Mrs. E. M. Wilson, Teleph-
ony on Stamps, Joseph E.
DreiSch; Baseball on Stamps,
Charles A. Schumann: Nurses
on Stamps, Mrs. E. w. Med
berry.
Maximum cards from Vati-
can City are to be displayed
by Henry E. Hornberger;
stamps with advertising tabs,
DR.. Ellis Haworth; jet flight
covers, Miss G. S. Reinhart:
Liberian postal stationery and
cancellations, Eric P. Ander-
son. and naval aviation covers,
Robert w. Murch.
Mrs. John r. Palmer will
show maps on stamps and
Mrs. Anna D. Plant portraits
of President Franklin D.
Roosevelt.
The judges are to be: Henry
M. Goodkind, New York; Col.
Charles S. Hamilton and Jo-
seph Mandos, Philadelphia.
Visitors attending the Off
cial opening Wednesday after
noon will be received by Mr..
Denison as president of ASC-
CA, Mrs. Hall, vice president;
Mrs. Plant, secretary; Mr..
ClaS, treasurer; Mr.. Mitchell,
publicity officer; H. H. Little,
historian, and Philip Simms
Warren, librarian.
Prize awards will be distrib-
uted at a festival meeting of
ASCCA at the IOOF Hall, 419
Seventh street NV, Saturday
afternoon, November IA, at 3
o'clock, to which all exhibitors
and their friends are invited.
The general public may view
the exhibition in the Com
merce Department lobby daily
from $3.50 am. to $50 pm.
New officers of the General
Services Administration Stamp
Club are: Walter A. Reyno,
president; Henry A. Brooks,
vice president; Allan R.
Groom, treasurer, and Ga
brielle Sewall, secretary.
The Pan American Union
has published three Illustrated
pamphlets on the three great
Indian civilizations of South
and Central An erica. One
deals with the IncaS of Peru,
the others with the Mayas and
the Aztecs of Mexico. Each
contains data of significance to
stamp collectors specializing in
postal adhesiveS relating to the
Indians and their cultures.
Copies 10 cents apiece, 80 cents
for the set.
Samuel M. Burgess, jr., will
address the Washington Phi
latelic Society at 2017 I street
NV. Wednesday evening at
8. His subject will be "Philate-
lie Curiosities." Visitors well
come.
Readers having examples of
postal vandalism, including
the willful destruction of
stamps of philatelic value,
should send them to Assist
ant Postmaster General N. r.
Abrams, who is investigating
all such complaints.
A stamp in memory of Mrs.
Elizabeth Sprague Collidge, 80,
who died November 4, has been
suggested to the Postmaster
General. She was a famous
patron of music, centering her
philanthropy in the Library of
Congress, the Chicago Sym
49, DarI~eI,iI.n