– the website that keeps you updated
The new Board of the Austrian Federation — Verband Österreichischer Philatelisten-Vereine, was elected on Friday, 20th 2019 by the members of the Austrian Philatelic clubs.
President: Mag. Helmut Kogler as before, Vice-President: Ing. Alfred Kunz as before, Secretary: Mag. Erich Böck… Read more…
It is with great regret that we have to report the death of Gary Brown. He died last Friday, September 13th at the age of 69. He died sitting at his computer working on an exhibit. Rest in peace such wonderful person and great philatelist Read more…
The Board of Directors of the European Academy of Philately – AEP has approved the 2019 Awards. The winners are: Henk Slabbinck for the European Parliament Award, Patrick Maselis for the European Philatelic Merit and Guy Dutau for the European Philatelic Literature Award… Read more…
146 collections from 16 countries were represented – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Brazil, Czech Republic, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Ukraine, USA. Competitive exhibits were presented in seven exhibition classes. Postal administrations of different countries… Read more…
Thanks to the extraordinary efforts and knowledge of our Webmaster Ari Muhonen we were able to relaunch the FEPA Website. Along this first year the site has been viewed 41.687 times by 14.119 visitors from 100 different countries! Our gratitude to all of you for your excellent collaboration sending the necessary information and the relevant news from your national Federations, Associations or Unions. Read more…
As always at NORDIA exhibitions, lots of philatelic friends meeting up and new friendships made. All awards up to gold were presented at a previous ceremony , while gold and large gold awards were presented at the Palmares, finishing with the opening of the envelope with the result in the Champion Class, where the Grand Prix d’Honneur, the Silver Postilion, was awarded to Eigil Trondsen Read more…
Jenny Benfield, President and Pascal Bandry, Bureau Member of the FIP Commission, are kindly sending us the Press Release of the contest. 30 countries took part in the competition. The result was the following: 1st Turkey (54). 2nd Spain (48). 3rd Finland (39)… Read more…
The FEPA Board unanimously agreed in granting the FEPA Recognition to the “Continental Stamp Exhibition 90th Anniversary of The Philatelic Society of Egypt”. It will be celebrated from September 9th to 15th 2019 in Cairo, Egypt, with the participation of 6 Arab countries and the Egypt Study Circle, London. The RPSL will symbolically be celebrating its 150th Anniversary with one their member attending.
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Congratulations to Adriano Bergamini (Switzerland), Ralph Ebner (Germany), Simon Richards (United Kingdom) and Arie Zonjee (Netherlands) who are now accredited as FIP Jurors once successfully served as Jury Apprentices at the FIP World Exhibition CHINA 2019 Read more…
Peter Suhadolc, President of the Slovenian Philatelic Association and Editor of the “Trait d’Union”, has kindly sent us its new issue. It is the newsletter of the European Academy of Philately, chaired by Jean Voruz. Over its very interesting 16 pages, it shows their main events of the first part of 2019 and those that will be held in the next months. Read more…
