NORDIA 2021 stamp exhibition in Kuopio, Finland, will be organised in August, this year. The exact dates of the exhibition are 13.-15.8.2021. The corona virus situation is still poor and that is why we cannot be sure of our possibilities to organise the exhibition, but we are very hopeful. We have now added the application Read more…
MonacoPhil 2021 has got new dates due to technical reasons, they are now 9-11 December 2021.
An exhibition of “100 iconic stamps and documents” will be held at the Musée des Timbres et des Monnaies (Stamp and Coin Museum) with items from 100 world famous collections… Read more…
The annual Conference of the Philatelic Federation of Finland was held on Saturday, 12 September 2020. Representatives of the philatelic societies and clubs gathered together in Helsinki, although their number was lower than usual. In addition to normal business the Conference elected a new President for the Federation, because Mr. Klaus Juvas had served all Read more…
The FIP Board has decided in its 134th Conference Meeting that the INDONESIA 2022 FIP Patronage World Stamp Exhibition will be held from 4 to 9 August, 2022.
The World Stamp Exhibition IBRA in Essen, which was postponed due to the Corona Pandemic, has a new date: May 25-28, 2023! Read more…
The FIP Board informs: “The FIP Consultant for INDONESIA 2020 Specialized World Stamp Championship exhibition has received the official letter from the Organising Committee, that the exhibition shall be postponed to Year 2022. The Board supports the decision of the Organising Committee to postpone the exhibition, as this would also ensure the health and safety Read more…
The Association Internationale des Journalistes Philatéliques (International Association of Philatelic Journalists, short: AIJP) has updated its website. The previous site had been in use for about ten years and was getting to the end of its technical life. The basic elements of the website are still the same, but their arrangement has been changed. Read more…
The FIP Board of Directors have made a difficult decision, during the 133rd FIP Conference Meeting on 8 August 2020, that the 76th FIP Congress shall not proceed in Jakarta on 10 November 2020. Read more…
The whole run 1 – 37 of the FEPA News journal has now been digitized and are readily available on this website! The process took longer than expected as the digitization project was launched almost exactly one year ago, namely July 25, 2019. Read more…
The Bund Deutscher Philatelisten e.V. has today given the following press release: World Exhibition IBRA 2021 will be postponed – Planning Uncertainties because of Corona Pandemic (BDPh) The World Stamp Exhibition IBRA will be postponed because of the corona pandemic. This was decided by the Board of Bund Deutscher Philatelisten e.V. (BDPh) during an extraordinary Read more…
The organizing committee of the Estonia 2020 national exhibition with international participation kept their positive attitude all through the difficult spring time, and it paid off! 42 exhibits from 14 countries were shown in a spacious and beautiful vestibule of the Estonian National Museum in Tartu on July 10-12, 2020 Read more…
The Bi-annual magazine of the FEPA, FEPA News No. 37, is now available in electronic form. It gives news from the member Federations from the first half of the 2020, and informs coming exhibitions later on this year as well as in 2021 and 2022. FEPA Board has launched a project to review the statutes Read more…
We are very sad to inform you that our President, Mr Hans Kraaibeek, has died at the age of 58. Read more…
The Commissioner General of the Cape Town 2021 FIP World spacialized exhibition has just informed us about the postponement of the event. The new dates are November 9 – 13, 2021. More information can be found at capetown2021.org
Another philatelic exhibition organized by REFS “Estonia” will take place in Tartu between July 10 and 12, 2020. The exhibition is now open to all applicants who have previously received at least 70 points at a national exhibition. Read more…
As the corona crisis appears to last longer than we hoped, the Exhibition Committee has decided to postpone implementation until the first weekend in December. Read more…
Due to the Coronacrisis and with regret, the Belgian Federation (K.L.B.P.-F.R.C.P.B) has to announce you that the National Championship of Philately – Antverpiade 2020 that was going to take place August 28-30- has been postponed. Read more…
As could have been read on Fepanews a year ago the Netherlands has a new type of postal stationery as of January 2019. It is a standard postcard size (A6) card with an imprinted stamp, meant to be for shipment of the Dutch monthly ‘Filatelie’ in which the Dutch federation and FEPA-member KNBF is Read more…
The mystery of single stamp postal items has puzzled me for years. Would it be possible to find out all possible different single usages of some certain stamp? In order to find this out I started to fill in spreadsheets and calculate the different possibilities. Read more…
The unprecedented steps taken by governments across the world to combat the Coronavirus have had a huge impact on planned philatelic exhibitions and other events in 2020. This is because of the paramount importance of avoiding non-essential social contact that might spread the disease further. Many FEPA Members have been affected. Major changes that Read more…
The recipients of the FEPA awards 2019 are Chris King, Carlo Giovanardi and Henrik Mouritsen. Read more…
The organizing committee of the Bulgaria 2020 FIP Specialized World Stamp Championship Exhibition has published its Bulletin No 1. It contains the IREX of the exhibition. Here are some facts based on the IREX: The exhibition will be held at the Inter Expo Center, Sofia, Bulgaria Approximately 1 500 exhibition frames will be available Competitive Read more…
In their latest newsletter the organizing committee of the London 2020 gives information about the situation with the CoronaVirus Covid-19 Read more…
London 2020, the International Stamp Exhibition, will provide a wonderful opportunity to show others just how fascinating the hobby can be. Why not bring along youngsters to enjoy a day of fun. Stamp Active, the voluntary group that promotes stamp collecting to young people in Great Britain, will be at the exhibition to encourage Read more…
The European Academy of Philately, AEP, has kindly sent us the latest issue of their newsletter Trait d’Union, number 2, 2019. It reports amongst other things the AEP at MonacoPhil 2019, The 100th anniversary of the Italian Federation during the European Thematics Championship in Verona, and announces the AEP meeting during London 2020. The Read more…
National stamp exhibition NAPOSTA 2020 was held in Haldensleben, Germany, on February 13 – 16, 2020. It consisted altogether of 121 exhibits in more than 800 frames representing almost every FIP class as well as 88 literature exhibits. The total number of exhibits was as high as 209. The results were excellent. According to the Read more…
Amongst its many outstanding attractions and Museums, Paris has now a new attraction for the philatelists and historians to visit the city: The Postal Museum reopened after five years of great renovation. Read more…
Nordia 2020 will be held at Malmö on September 4-6, 2020. The organization committee has recently published Bulletin 1. Read more…
Every London international stamp exhibition has historically attracted many of the best exhibits from across the world, and this is certainly true of London 2020. Regrettably, the organisers have had to turn down many top class exhibits but hope that the goal of offering the visitor examples of the finest exhibits across a wide range of subjects has been achieved. Read more…
The official website of the FEPA, fepanews.com, was active offering 100 news in 2019. The topics can be categorized as follows: Topic Number of news FEPA (Family, Board, Congress, magazine) 30 FEPA Exhibitions (Patronage, Recognition) 25 National exhibitions 22 FIP exhibitions 5 National Federation 14 FIP 8 Literature 4 Other 4 TOTAL 110 Read more…
The latest issue of the FEPA News magazine ia available in electronic form. Read more…
It’s always the same with international stamp exhibitions held in London – the events prove so popular that many want to exhibit, have stands, or simply visit.
So it is with London 2020, the international stamp exhibition being staged at the Business Design Centre in Islington from Saturday, 2 May to Saturday, 9 May. Read more…
The official request for the nomination of candidates for the 2019 FEPA Medals and Certificates of Appreciation has been sent out via e-mail to all member Federations. Read more…
At The RPSL, we were extremely honoured to welcome our Patron, Her Majesty The Queen, to officially open our new home in Abchurch Lane. It was a splendid day! Read more…
The exhibition of the “Multilaterale Briefmarkenausstellung Luxemburg 2019” was held from November 8 to 10, at the Exhibition hall LUXEXPO in Luxembourg, under patronage of His Royal Highness Grand-Duke Henri and under the auspices of the Prime Minister of Luxembourg, of the City of Luxembourg and of FEPA. Read more…
The Annual session of the Assembly of the Union of Philatelists of Macedonia had its meeting on November 3, 2019. Sinsiha Pavleski was elected as the President of the Union with Viktor Gaber as Secretary and Dimitar Belchev as the President of the Executive Board. Read more…
The FEPA Congress elected Bill Hedley as the new President of FEPA in Monaco. The past President, José Ramón Moreno, was electd the Honorary President. Read more…
So far the FEPA News Magazine has been in electronic form from issue No 17 onwards. The earlier ones are being scanned now and the first issue No 1 from March, 2002 is already available in electronic form. Read more…
The recipients of the FEPA awards are: FEPA Medal 2018 for Exceptional Service to Organised Philately: Pedro Marçal Vaz Pereira (Portugal) , FEPA Medal 2018 for Exceptional Support to Organised Philately: Modesto Fraguas Herrera (Spain), FEPA Medal 2018 for Exceptional Philatelic Study and Research: Károly Szücs (Hungary) for “Fiscal Philately of Hungary” . The FEPA Certificates of Appreciation for Outstanding Activities for the Promotion of Philately went to … Read more…
It is with pleasure that we welcome philatelic collectors from all the Nordic countries to Nordia 2019 at Quality Hotel, Sarpsborg on 23. – 25. August 2019. We are very proud that HRH Crown Prince Haakon has agreed to be the exhibition’s Patron. Updates and information on Nordia 2019. Read more…
Malmex 2018 results can be found here. Read more…
ESTEX 2018 was a huge effort from the International Estonian Philatelic Society (REFS) “Estonia”. It proved to be a well organized event with many happy visitors. Read more…
The latest issue of the of the FIP Postal Stationery Commission can be read and downloaded here:
The 2018 FEPA Congress will be held at the Clarion Congress hotel, Benada restaurant, 2nd floor from 10 a.m. till 1 p.m. After the Congress all Delegates are kindly invited to a lunch by the O.C. of PRAGA 2018. Read more…
Praga 2018 international stamp exhibition is about to begin! Read more…
fepanews.com address works again and leads to the renewed FEPA website! Read more…
The FEPA Board carefully considered the proposals received from the member Federations for the FEPA Medals 2017 at its meeting in Milan on 3 February 2018. The recipients are Ivan Libric, Raul Moreira and Brian Trotter. Read more…
FEPA website “fepanews.com” will be updated. The current website has been in production for many years and its technology is outdated. Simultaneously with the modernization the layout and structure of the site will be renewed. However, the rich content of the current site will be intact. Read more…
Cyprus is the first European country that introduced the digitization of all Cyprus stamps since 1878 to 2016. Now Cyprus stamps are available all over the world. Read more…
Nicos Rangos writes about London 2015 exhibition under the title “This is my opinion”. Read more…
FEPA Honorary President Dr. Alan Huggins shares his opinion about the present situation of philately. Read more…
The National Grand Prix was given to a postcard exhibit. Read more…
Petr Fencl shares his view about the unconventional use of the exhibit. Read more…
The Board of the Finnish Philatelic Federation was elected at the annual congress in Turku. Read more…
Pedro Vaz Pereira shares his view about Summit paper release. Read more…
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