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Edwin P. Haworth, founder of Pent Arts in Kansas City, MO, often produced five different cachets per stamp issue%u2014as he did with the Indiana Territory Sesquicentennial stamp. He also utilized #10 envelopes.Born in 1875, Edwin Pearl %u201cEP%u201d Haworth, along with his wife Cora, founded the Willows Maternity Sanitarium in Kansas City, Missouri when he was 30 years old. It was a home for unwed pregnant women in an age when pregnancies outside of marriage were not discussed in polite society. The Willows catered to a clientele willing to pay a bit extra for its compassionate services and privacy, and it remained in the hands of the Haworth family until 1969, when it was closed. Edwin was the Willows%u2019 first Superintendent, and Cora was its first Matron. Later, their son Donald assumed control, and Donald%u2019s wife Garnet, took over in 1953. An estimated 25,000 to 35,000 babies were born in the facility. Edwin founded a business called Collector%u2019s Surplus as early as 1916, but precisely what it involved is now unclear. After he retired, he devoted much of his time to philately. By 1934 he became interested in covers, and he joined the American Air Mail Society in 1939. In October 1942, he won an award for his Postal History Exhibit at the two-day Mid-West Philatelic Society Show in Independence, Missouri. His Pent Arts series of cachets can be found mostly on First Day Covers, but also Highway Post Office Covers. Pent Arts was begun in 1943 with the Overrun Countries stamps, and he also produced Velvatone Maximum Cards, starting in 1951. Edwin died in 1960 at the age of 84.