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			 Almost seventy years ago, in July of 1954, Volume 1, Issue 12, of the Vatican Notes contained the following article: 
<center>VATICAN INTERNATIONAL STAMP EXHIBITION 
OPENS IN NATIONAL PHILATELIC MUSEUM SEPTEMBER 22, 1954</center>
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According to a Press Release received from the National Philatelic Museum, Broad and Desmond Streets, Philadelphia, Pa. the following are the up-to-date details on the Vatican Exhibit to be held this fall: 
To simultaneously commemorate the 25th Anniversary of the first Vatican postage stamps in 1929, and the Marian Year, the National Philatelic Museum, in Philadelphia, will be host to the finest and most comprehensive exhibition of Vatican and related stamps ever presented in one place at one time. 
The exhibition, which will be under the patronage of His Eminence, Francis Cardinal Spellman, Archbishop of New York, and is endorsed by Vatican officials, will use the museum’s entire facilities for one month beginning on September 22. 
Plans for the remarkable display have been underway for more than one year and the preliminary work already accomplished promises to make it one of the most important events ever presented in the Museum. 
While in Rome for the canonization of St. Pius X, Cardinal Spellman made many important personal arrangements for unprecedented participation by Vatican postal and ecclesiastical officials. His Eminence brought back with him some material, while other displays, being especially prepared, will be brought to the United States during the summer months. 
In conjunction with the exhibition, the Museum also will publish a book of no fewer than 200 pages, under the editorship of Ernest A. Kehr. 
It will contain articles of a philatelic nature, specifically prepared and written by the world’s foremost students of Vatican City and Roman States issues, as well as features about the Vatican and Catholicism written by Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, Dr. John Harrington and others in the Vatican or the United States. 
The exhibition will be formally dedicated by Cardinal Spellman and Archbishop O’Hara of Philadelphia, on Wednesday, September 2, 1954.
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Over the next few days, the VPS Website Team will be presenting excerpts from the book mentioned above, entitled “Vatican” from the National Philatelic Museum. Issued for the exhibition, it serves as a valuable resource for the Marian Exhibition, Vatican and Church history and governance, as well as for Vatican and Roman States philately. The book contains articles contributed by Church officials and historians, as well as many members of the young Vatican Philatelic Society, which was only one year old when this exhibition took place. Perhaps the article of most importance to collectors of Vatican philately is the article written by the first president of the VPS, William Wonneberger, Jr., entitled “Vatican Postage Stamps”. In the article, covering forty-eight pages, he provides in-depth profiles of each Vatican stamp issue from 1929 through 1953.
 
With the permission of the Spellman Museum of Stamps and Postal History, which took ownership of the materials of the National Philatelic Museum on its closure, the VPS has been granted permission to reproduce material from the book, and the Website Team has taken the opportunity to edit Mr. Wonneberger’s article by breaking it into its component sections for each stamp issue. The Team has supplemented the article with digital color copies of the stamps and included images of first day covers for each stamp issue to produce a series of presentations for these earliest and classic Vatican City stamps. Over the next few days, by clicking on the Page 2 tab, the reader can review excerpts from the Team’s work. It provides a look back at the early days of Vatican philately.
 
Some of the articles in this series have presented previously in either the Daily Emails or Page 2 articles, but it was thought that it would be a good idea to consolidate them into a running series over the next few weeks to provide exposure to all the early Vatican issues in chronological order for review and study. 
 
The first excerpt from Mr. Wonneberger's article can be accessed by clicking the Page 2 button below. Today excerpt covers the initial set of stamps issued by Vatican City in 1929, which is sometimes referred to as the "Conciliation Issue".
 
As a note, I would encourage each VPS member to click on the link to the issue of Vatican Notes highlighted in this article, and scroll through the eight mimeographed pages of the newsletter from 1954--a different time indeed! It provides a great look back at the early days of our Society, which now dates back over seventy years. The VPS has a grand and storied history which we should be proud to cherish and honor.
 
REFERENCES: 
<li>Ernest A. Kehr, editor, Vatican, National Philatelic Museum, Volume VII, Number 1, 1954 
<li>Anonymous, Vatican Notes, Volume 1, Issue Number 12, July, 1954, <a href='https://vaticanstamps.org/vaticannotes/idisplay2.php?p=011-02&r=0'>Vatican International Stamp Exhibition Opens in National Philatelic Museum September 22, 1954</a>

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