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 George Washington
Masonic Stamp Club
Year 2000
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GWMSC participated in the June 26, 1999,
Dedication Day at The George Washington Masonic National Memorial, honoring
George Washington's life 200 years following his death on December 14,
1799.
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The George Washington Masonic Stamp Club
(GWMSC) officially sponsored the special pictorial postmark for which the
Memorial hosted the temporary postal station. GWMSC produced its own
separate cachet, and assistedwith the Memorial's official cachet.
The
GWMSC cachet may be ordered for $1.25 plus SASE from:
Paul
M. Williams,
GWMSC Cover Chairman & Past President
2364 Beaver Valley Pike
New Providence, PA 17560-9622 USA
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Official
Masonic Memorial Cover and its
Postmark
Designer for Two Decades
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The GWMSC Station official USPS postmark , and the
Masonic Memorial's Official cachet (below) were both designed by GWMSC Past
President John R. Allen, who designed three prior Masonic Memorial Station
Postmarks used:
October
15, 1981,
February 22, 1982, and
May 12, 1982,
for
the Rochambeau March Reenactment (culminating at the Yorktown
Bicentennial), the 250th Birthday of George Washington, and the 50th
Anniversary of the Masonic Memorial Building Dedication, respectively.
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Available at 2 for $5.00, or $3 each, from:
John
R. Allen - GWMNM Covers
Post Office Box 633
Midlothian, VA 23113-0633
Proceeds
benefit the George Washington Masonic National Memorial.
250
of the 5-12-82 50th Anniversary Cachet are available at the same price; or
get 1 of each at the 2 for $5 price.
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GWMSC Washington Birthday Covers Since 1957
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The Club has sponsored Washington Birthday Covers
on February 22nd, annually, since 1957. In the mid-1970s, then President Mo
Nafzinger initiated a George Washington Masonic Stamp Club Station special
pictorial postmark at Mount Vernon, Virginia. Although the design of that
Mount Vernon pictorial postmark has varied, at times throughout the years,
the Club's special postmark there has been used on Washington's Birthdays
for more than 20 years.
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Mount
Vernon GWMSC Pictorial Postmark for 12/14/99 - 12/18/99
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The December 14, 1999 Bicentennial of the Death
of George Washington at Mount Vernon was originally intended to mark the
end of the U.S. Bicentennial Era.
The
GWMSC will propose the reuse of it's February 22, 1999, pictorial postmark
for the 200th Anniversary of Washington's Death on 12-14-99, and for use
daily through the 12-18-99 reenactment of Washington's Funeral at Mount
Vernon. The postmark contains a bust of Washington with a Flag at half
staff.
Official
club cachets on Mount Vernon postcards will be available only if ordered
from Cover Chairman Williams (address above) before 1-December-1999, and
supplies permit. The cacheted postcards will be $1.00 each (plus SASE), or
five for $4.00 (plus SASE). You must specify the postmark dates in advance!
Otherwise, one will be 12-14-99, and five will be all 5 days.
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Commemoration Day,
June 26, 1999,
photo by 13 year old
(14 @ 7/11/99),
Chris M. Allen,
who was first at a GWMSC meeting in 1986.
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Washington Masonic Stamp Club
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