Cape May Point Postmaster, Melissa T. Lomax, will be promoting the first day of issuance (FDOI) of Howard Koslow’s Gulf Coast lighthouse stamps, as well as, the gifting of two Herbert Pullinger’s art prints by Arthur Joblin, President of the Cape May County Art League to the Cape May Point Post Office.
The event takes place July 23 at the post office, 408 Yale Ave., Cape May Point. It will be an all day celebration, with a 12:30 p.m. gifting of Herert Pullinger’s prints.
Howard Koslow’s five stamps depict the lighthouses of Matagorda Island, near Port O’Connor, TX; Sabine Pass, near Sabine Pass, LA; Biloxi, in Biloxi, MS; Sand Island, near the entrance to Mobile Bay in Mobile, AL; and, Fort Jefferson (also known as Garden Key Lighthouse), nearly 70 miles west of Key West, FL, in Dry Tortugas Park.
Philadelphia artist Herbert Pullinger captured the everyday scenes of the post war shore town on visits to the Cape May area during the 1940s. An accomplished American etcher, wood engraver, lithographer, painter and illustrator, Herbert Pullinger studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
