At the Swedish Philatelic Federation Congress, held in Täby on 14 May, the Strandell Medal was awarded to three recipients, as earlier award ceremonies were postponed due to the pandemic. Strandellmedalj 51: Christer Brunström. A frequent writer in SFF’s Filatelisten, and in several other magazines, domestic and foreign. He was involved in the management team Read more…
In order to promote philately among the younger ages, HELVETIA 2022 organisers launched “Philamovie”, a video competition with a philatelic theme. Participation was open to young people under thirty and the only limits set were 300 MB file size and 1 min video duration. The videos submitted have already been uploaded on the exhibition website: Read more…
Michael Cortese Co-owner and Executive Vice President of NobleSpirit and Charles Epting CEO of H.R. Harmer interview philatelists around the world; collectors, dealers, exhibitors, enthusiasts, and researchers. The “Episodes” or “Conversations with Philatelists” as they prefer to call them are available on YouTube or on different podcast platforms. You will find everything on their website: Read more…
Promoting and supporting Philatelic Literature has been one of FEPA’s principal objectives. Wolgang Maassen, President of AIJP, the International Association of Philatelic Journalists, called yesterday its members to participate with their Literature works at future FIP exhibitions where applications are still possible and the AIJP is greatly involved. We copy his words here so that Read more…
On 28 January 2022, at the Sala Zuccari of Palazzo Giustiniani (residence of the President of the Senate), Rome, an important conference took place among governmental officials and postal historians. It was titled “Public and private allies for the protection of the heritage of postal history”. All the major Italian philatelic associations were present: FSFI, Read more…
During the weekend 6-8 May, LATINPHIL 2022 took place at the Museo Piana delle Orme, in the town Cisterna di Latina near Rome, organised by the Italian National Federation and the Circolo Filatelico Tres Tabernae. The exhibition was divided into two parts: National and Qualification. Accepted exhibits belonged either to Traditional Philately or Postal History, Read more…
The International Philatelic Federation (FIP) clarified yesterday on its website a few points for exhibits that had achieved Large Vermeil or Large Gold medals. This announcement is dated April 2019, however it is very important, as it seems that exhibitors are usually not aware of some crucial details, sometimes to their benefit. In short: (a) Read more…
Dittmar Wöhlert of the Deutsche Philatelisten-Jugend e.V. has sent us their latest press release: Within the framework of IBRA 2023 in Essen, the German Philatelic Youth will hold a youth meeting from 26 to 29 May 2023 (Whit Monday). All young stamp enthusiasts from Germany and all over the world are cordially invited to attend. Read more…
On the occasion of the CANNIS 2022 exhibition in Romania, Victor Iordache, acting President of the Philatelic Federation of Romania, and Marius Muntean, President of the Timişoara Philatelic Association, have sent us the details of the three-day event which will take place in Timisoara, during the weekend 6-8 May. The main celebration is the 100th Read more…
ANTVERPIA 2022, the National Philatelic Exhibition in Belgium will take place at the Antwerp Expo, Antwerp, between 10-12 June. In addition to the regular competition classes, there will be 8 exhibits in the Championship Class, 5 exhibits in the Court of Honour (all related to the 1920 Antwerp Olympics), and 18 exhibits from Belgian Academy Read more…
Opus XXII is dedicated to Switzerland. This year’s big book of the European Academy of Philately (AEP) has been published in time for its official presentation, which will take place in Lugano, on the occasion of HELVETIA 2022. The 226-page A4 size book contains 21 articles, all related to Swiss philately from various authors. In Read more…
We’ve picked up the story from Linn’s Stamp News, and we copy the official announcement from the PostEurop website: Following the decision of the Extraordinary PostEurop Board of Directors meeting held on 25 April 2022, the 2023 EUROPA Stamp theme will be “PEACE – the highest value of humanity” as proposed by Ukrposhta in order Read more…
As we are getting closer to the grand opening of HELVETIA 2022 World Stamp Exhibition, the organisers uploaded an elegant and comprehensive 200-page-plus Exhibition Catalogue. At the same time, they uploaded the composition of the Jury. A Public Academic Seminar is scheduled on Sunday morning, 22 May, by a joint session of Consilium Philateliae Helveticae Read more…
The Monaco Post Office released a postage stamp today to remind us of the upcoming MONACOPHIL 2022 next November. Since 2009, Monacophil has been established as the event of the year, every two years, on odd years. Because of its postponement in 2021, it remains to be seen if the organisers announce the next one Read more…
The development of the FEPA website has become one of the Board’s principal priorities. As an ongoing procedure, new pages are added from time to time and older pages are continuously updated in order to maintain a website worth visiting regularly. A Seminars page is now part of the main menu, containing for starters the Read more…
The week following Easter, a travelling exhibition reached the city of Ourense in the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain, organised by the Spanish Federation (FESOFI) and sponsored by the Spanish Post (Correos). It has toured Spain since 2006 and visited the city for the first time in 2007. The youngsters had the opportunity to take Read more…
HELVETIA 2022 is only a couple of weeks away. The full programme has been uploaded on the exhibition website. The 2000-frames plus 100-literature items world stamp exhibition will take place in Centro Esposizioni Lugano, between 18 and 22 May, under FIP Patronage and FEPA recognition. The programme will guide you through the opening hours, parallel Read more…
PARIS-PHILEX 2022 will take place in Hall 5.1, at the Paris Expo, Porte de Versailles, from 23 to 25 June. The exhibition is organised by CNEP (Chambre syndicale des Experts et Négociants en Philatélie), FFAP (Fédération Française des Associations Philatéliques), La Poste (The French Post) and l’Adphile (French organisation in support of philately). 26 exhibits Read more…
Two renowned philatelists from Spain, both exceptional researchers, Fernando Aranaz del Río and Eugenio de Quesada, have been awarded with the Medal of the Civil Order of Postal Merit (la Placa de la Orden Civil al Mérito Postal), which will be formally bestowed by the Grand Chancellor of the Order, the Minister of Transport, Mobility Read more…
The STAMPA 2022 Organisers sent out a Newsletter yesterday to announce that the National Irish National Exhibition will be back in October 2022: 2022 marks 100 Years of Irish Postage Stamps and also 50 years of STAMPA. It also marks the first STAMPA Irish National Stamp Exhibition since 2019 due to the Covid pandemic. So… Read more…
If you haven’t visited Budapest and HUNFILEX 2022, here is your chance to take a peek at the exhibition. One hundred or so photographs have been uploaded on the Facebook account of Mabéosz, the Hungarian Philatelic Federation. Here is the link: https://www.facebook.com/mabeosz/photos
We received the latest Newsletter from LIBEREC 2022 Organising Committee with a lot of details in: Applications for participation The FEPA Congress 2022 Availability of rooms for lectures and seminars Accommodation for visitors, commissioners and jurors Signing the FIP Agreement The Collectors’ Sales Expo You can read the Newsletter here. Photo: Jiří Kraus, OC President, Read more…
The 37th International Stamp Fair in 2019 at the Sindelfingen Exhibition Centre was the last. Two years of the pandemic and the subsequent change of ownership of the Exhibition Hall has forced the organisers to seek another location. The new venue was announced a few days ago: the exhibition hall in Ulm (Messe-Ulm), on the Read more…
On Saturday 9 April, in Hotel Amigo, Brussels, members of Académie royale de philatélie de Belgique and Académie de philatélie (Paris) met for a joint session. Keynote speakers: Jean-François Brun, “La troisième dimension” Dominique Hardy, “Les cachets des départ(ts) français en Belgique et aux alentours” Charles Bruart, “La coopération franco-belge pour faciliter la transmission du Read more…
Member federations are reminded to submit nominations for the FEPA Medals as well as for the Certificates of Appreciation. They should reach Vice President Giancarlo Morolli at latest by 23 April 2022. For 2022, the FEPA medal 2021 for exceptional service and the FEPA medal 2021 for exceptional support will be delivered according to the Read more…
The ALPEN-ADRIA PHILATELIE 2022 Multinational Exhibition will be held in Kongresshaus Toscana, Gmunden, Austria, from 26 to 28 August. All philatelic classes will be represented. Seven countries will participate with National Commissioners: Germany, Italy, Croatia, Austria, Switzerland, Slovenia and Hungary. However, the exhibition is open to all philatelists of the FEPA member countries. This year the Read more…
On 5th May, the Swiss Post will release a second miniature sheet to promote HELVETIA 2022 World Stamp Exhibition, with central theme the Seated Helvetia, who is honoured on her 160th anniversary. The designer added perforation to one vertical side of the m/s, a reminder to the philatelists that in 1862 the seated Helvetia was Read more…
Right from BBC News (yesterday): A British charity (the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust) is searching for people to spend five months in Antarctica, to run the world’s most remote post office. Candidates are required to have good level of physical fitness, environmental awareness and a knowledge of minimum impact living. They will be tasked with Read more…
If you visit INDONESIA 2022 website today you will find the most critical information: The National Commissioners page, the newly revised IREX (2 April), the application forms for participation and the deadlines to observe, among which: 25 April 2022: Deadline for the Federations to appoint a new Commissioner and nominate Jurors. 30 April 2022: Deadline Read more…
The winners of HUNFILEX 2022 World Stamp Championship were announced during the Palmares dinner yesterday night. World Stamp Champion: Damien Läge (Germany), “Australasian Birdlife” WSC 1st Runner up: Jean Voruz (Monaco), “Geneva from the Cantonal to the Federal Post 1839-1862” WSC 2nd Runner up: Vittorio Morani (Italy), “Tuscany 1836 to GPU” Grand Prix International: Tom Read more…
It is with great sadness that we report that Frank Walton passed away last night. He was suffering from stomach cancer. Frank will be sorely missed. We send our heartfelt condolences to his family. Frank Walton RDP FRPSL was a specialist in Sierra Leone philately, an international juror, formerly Editor of the London Philatelist (2001-2014), Read more…
Grand Opening today of HUNFILEX 2022 World Stamp Exhibition in Budapest. The official ceremony was honoured by H.E. Mr János Áder, President of the Republic of Hungary, Mr. László Kövér, Speaker of the National Assembly of Hungary, and Ms. Sára Hegmanné Nemes, Chairman of the Hungarian Post. The exhibition will take place in the Groupama Arena Read more…
A short story uploaded on the Postal Museum (London) website by Ms. Georgina Tomlinson, Deputy Curator, Philately, introduced us to Marjorie Saynor (1924-2012), an artist, who submitted stamp designs to the Royal Mail during the 70s and the 80s. Marjorie Saynor has been initially commissioned for two stamps of the 1970 Anniversaries issue, an then Read more…
CAPEX 22 is the first large international one frame exhibition. It will take place at the Metro Toronto Conference Centre (MTCC) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, from 9 to 12 June 2022. A little over 400 exhibits are expected to participate. The exhibition will be held under FIP recognition. All the necessary details are on the Read more…
Schwaneberger Verlag has revised and updated the large MICHEL-Online database. It contains the cataloguing from the 16 printed catalogues about European stamps, the 20 catalogues about stamps from overseas and the MICHEL catalogue Germany with all price evaluations and many thousands of high-resolution stamp images. You can search for all contained stamps by many search Read more…
The Danish Postal History Society (Dansk Posthistorisk Selskab, DPHS)`was founded in 1972. This weekend, 26-27 March, the Society celebrates its 50th anniversary, with a 200-frame exhibition featuring postal history exhibits only. The exhibition, called POST ’22, will take place in the Hornslethallerne Sports and Culture Centre, in Hornslet. The DPHS was honoured with the FEPA Read more…
Yesterday, we received the latest Newsletter from Axel Brockmann at the editorial office of Junge Sammler, the official magazine of the Deutsche Philatelisten-Jugend e. V. (https://www.dphj.de/) This is the first issue of the year for the Junge Sammler (or Young Collector, in English) which is on the way to its membership. Its featured articles are Read more…
For the past six years or so we have experienced the two different Delcampe magazine series: Philately (Philatélie) and Special Edition (Hors-Série). Last week Delcampe released No. 1 of a new series, the Collections Classiques. According to Delcampe magazine Chief Editor, Ms. Héloïse Dautricourt, Philatélie and Hors-Série have merged to the Collections Classiques, which will Read more…
Opened to the public in 1927 in Helsinki, the Postimuseo has moved to Tampere in 2014. Learn more about the Postal Museum of Finland from the museum’s website. Just to get an idea, we copied the following from the Introduction at the “Collections” webpage: The Postal Museum’s collections shed light on the history of postal Read more…
Hunfilex 2022 is just around the corner. The exhibition will take place at the Groupama Arena in Budapest from Thursday 31 March to Sunday 3 April. The organisers have recently uploaded their three latest newsletters on the exhibition website: Newsletter No. 9 on Customs, Covid and the Ukrainian War. Newsletter No. 10 on latest developments Read more…
Ms. Birthe King FRPSL, renowned exhibitor and juror and former FEPA Board member, will lead the FEPA seminar on Open Philately during Hunfilex 2022. The seminar will take place on Saturday 2 April, 10:30-12:00, at the exhibition grounds, the Groupama Arena, 3rd floor. [photo credit: Ms. Marina Tsiaousidou]
On 8 March, Jay Bigalke, Editor-in-Chief of Linn’s Stamp News and Scott catalogs at Amos Media, wrote in linns.com: In the Sept. 20, 2021, issue of “Linn’s”, we announced the upcoming publication of the “Most Influential Philatelists and Their Epic Stamp Stories”. The special 2022 edition recognizes 76 individuals who have had an impact on Read more…
Kaido Andres sent us this touching message: Today, the oldest philatelist in Estonia will be 100 years old. Henno Sepp has been popularizing philately in Pärnu for over 60 years. Today, it is hard to imagine that the philatelic society of one city had nearly 600 young members. This was only possible with permanent work. Read more…
The 60th Spanish National Philatelic Exhibition Exfilna 2022 is scheduled to take place next fall in the city of Irún, in the Basque Country, on the border between Spain and France. A couple of days ago the website of the exhibition was launched announcing the organising committee, the regional commissioners, the regulations and the application Read more…
Helvetia 2022 organisers came up with an interesting offer to their exhibitors: they had asked them to select and send before 15 March the images of up to 12 pages of their exhibits. When the jurors receive and examine these sample pages they will certainly be better prepared towards their final evaluations. One might suggest Read more…
We read in Vaccari News today that it was 8th March 2003 when their webpage was released. The first post was about Aldo Capitini’s “flag of peace”, a topic quite relevant to today’s Ukraine conflict, as their own webmaster commented. The webpage is in Italian and the majority of the news have to do with Read more…
We received from Delcampe the following email: Due to the conflict in Ukraine, which we deplore, we have decided to suspend all sales and purchases from Russia and Belarus. In concrete terms, the following actions have been taken: • suspension of the account of users based in Russia and Belarus • cancellation of sales and Read more…
On the occasion of the International Women’s Day, on 8 March 2022, the Polo bibliotecario del Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico and the Comitato Unico di Garanzia del Ministero (CUG) have organised a teleconference with central theme “The woman in Italian philatelic history”. Ms. Maria Grazia Dosio, a passionate philatelist and a renowned philatelic blogger, will Read more…
The Fishermen’s Bastion in Budapest, built in the late 19th century, is featured on a pair of se-tenant stamps placed in circulation on 4 March by Magyar Posta to promote Hunfilex 2022. Details of the issue here. The World Stamp Exhibition in the Hungarian capital will take place between 31 March and 3 April under Read more…
The FEPA Board met on 2 March 2022 to consider its position regarding the conflict in Ukraine initiated by the Russian Federation and Belarus. It has agreed the following points: FEPA is a non-political organisation dedicated to promoting cooperation between its Members in the belief that philately brings people together. It does not exercise control Read more…
The Organising Committee of Ostropa 2022 issued a long statement on Saturday 26th February, expressing their regret in their decision to cancel Ostropa for a third time. The reasoning behind the decision was stated loud and clear: “Ultimately, what made us decide to take this painful step was the realization that with the invasion of Read more…
London 2022 Awards: World Stamp Champion: James Peter Gough (USA), “UPU and its Impact on Global Postal Services” Grand Prix International: Vittorio Morani (Italy), “Tuscany 1836 to UPU: Letter mail in, from and to Tuscany: routes, rates and charges” Grand Prix National: Howard Hughes (UK), “The Maltese Cross” Details on Grand Prix winners and candidates Read more…
The Liberec 2022 Organising Committee has recently released an attractive 32-page booklet and uploaded it on the exhibition website. You can read Bulletin No. 1 here (6.35 MB).
The Revista de Filatelia magazine celebrated its 600th number with its current February issue. The first number of the Spanish monthly appeared in September 1967. In 2005 the magazine was honoured by the European Academy of Philately (AEP) with the Philatelic Press Award. The R.F. is published by Edifil S.A. Browse through some sample pages Read more…
The FIP announced the nominations for the upcoming elections of the Board and the Commissions. The elections will take place in August, at the 76th FIP Congress in Jakarta, during the World Stamp Championship Indonesia 2022. Read the official FIP Nominations (a) to the FIP Board here and (b) to the FIP Commissions here.
Jon Aitchison, the Keeper of the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists, talks to George James of Stanley Gibbons about the history of the Roll; how it all started in the 1920s, the fathers of philately, the selection of the new signatories, its centenary, his projection towards the bicentenary and much more. You can watch the video Read more…
All About Stamps website reported that a new book by Douglas N. Muir, Senior Curator at the Postal Museum, will be available on 19th February. According to the same report, Eliska Bejrova, Social Media & PR Officer at The Postal Museum, said: ‘From the Penny Black and the Machin, right up to present day Post Read more…
Newsletter No. 32 was out today (read it here) and Frank Walton promised that this is going to be the last one. In closing, he says he will be in London tomorrow hoping to see many old and new friends from all over the world very soon. Don’t forget to attend the two FEPA seminars. Read more…
The European Academy of Philately (AEP) announced its 2022 agenda in the latest “Trait d’Union” which reached its membership yesterday. The AEP will be in London 2022 for a full day on Friday 25 February, from 10:00 to 16:00. It is an important members’ meeting where guests are welcome. Eight two-frame exhibits will be displayed Read more…
Jiří Kraus, President of Liberec 2022 Organising Committee, posted yesterday a personal call on the exhibition website, an open invitation to the philatelic community to visit the European Stamp Exhibition and the associated exhibition “Polar Salon Liberec 2022”. The double event will take place at Liberec, Czech Republic, from 13th to 16th October 2022. Read Read more…
The Library was established in 1971 when several Hamburg stamp associations and the “Schleswig-Holstein Postal History and Philately” working group joined their literature holdings. Today the Hamburg Philatelic Library with its counterparts in Berlin, Munich, Frankfurt and Wuppertal set up a unparalleled network of philatelic libraries in Germany. According to the Library’s website the collection Read more…
The Global Philatelic Network (Corinphila, Heinrich Köhler etc.) continues the production of elegant volumes in the Edition d’Or series, which started in 2006. Each book presents a collection that has been awarded with a Grand Prix or at least a Large Gold Medal in a major exhibition. The Edition d’Or series includes renowned exhibitors (their Read more…
You may have seen the information on FEPA Seminars in the latest FEPA News (page 81). In 2022 there will be two seminars at London 2022 and one at HUNFILEX 2022. London 2022 20th February 12.00 – 14.00 Title: Best Practice in Youth Philately Presenter: Mr. John Davies FRPSL Location: BDC Meeting Room London 2022 Read more…
The French Federation of Philatelic Associations (FFAP) in cooperation with Phil@poste and l’ADPhile organises each year a major philatelic promotional event known as “Fête du Timbre ©” (formerly called “Journée du Timbre”). La Fête du Timbre © is celebrated all around France (almost one hundred cities participate each year) and is intended to be a Read more…
The exhibition management announced via its Twitter account that the official catalogue of the London 2022 International Exhibition is now available in a special bumper pack, along with the March 2022 issue of Stamp Collector magazine, available to order now from the https://allaboutstamps.co.uk website. The 116-page catalogue will also be available in stores, including WH Read more…
Devlan Kruck is the UK Representative of David Feldman SA International Auctioneers & Curator at the Museum of Philately. In April 2020 Devlan set up a series of philatelic biographies on the blog of the DFSA website and presented Georges Herpin as Legendary Collector #1. The series was gradually built up by the biographies of Read more…
Documents Philatéliques No. 251, the journal of l’Académie de philatélie (Paris, France), was released on 15th January. The French Academy was born in 1928, and the Documents Philatéliques has been issued quarterly for more than fifty years now. Robert Abensur RDP, the President of the Academy since 2002, is also current Editor-in-Chief of the journal Read more…
Latest news from Sofia: On 11th December 2021, the General Assembly of the Union of Bulgarian Philatelists elected a new Board for the next five years. Chairman: Spas Panchev (re-elected). Deputy Chairman: Georgi Dechev. In charge of international affairs: Boncho Bonev. Members: Vladimir Kurtev, Dimitar Monev, Ivaylo Marinov, Ivan Panayotov, Krassimir Lilov, Krastyo Krastev, Lyubomir Read more…
Post Horn No. 5 is on the way to be delivered to its membership. The brand new 108-page issue marks three years since it first appeared in early Spring 2019 by Claudio Ernesto Manzati and his partners Giorgio Migliavacca and Thomas Mathà. The three renowned postal history enthusiasts believe that the Post Horn aims to Read more…
Stamp Active will publish a new “STAMP COLLECTING GUIDE”, to be launched at the London 2022 International Stamp Exhibition. The Guide has been partly sponsored by the Philatelic Fund and the Spear Charitable Trust. It contains a range of information including how to get started, various aspects of collecting, mounting and writing up a collection, Read more…
Christopher G. Harman RDP was named by the Collectors Club, New York, the 2022 recipient of Alfred F. Lichtenstein Memorial Award. A short philatelic curriculum vitae of Chris Harman is included in the announcement of the Collectors Club here. The list of the previous Lichtenstein Award winners is here.
HUNFILEX 2022 will take place from 31 March – 3 April 2022 at a new venue – the Groupama Arena (home of the Ferencvarosi Sport Club). The address is: Groupama Arena, Üllöi utca 129, Budapest. The Organisers have advised that this venue is close to the city centre and may be an improvement on the original venue (‘The Read more…
Reuters news agency reported from Shanghai on 18th January that “China is urging people to wear masks and gloves when opening mail, especially from abroad, after authorities suggested the first case of the Omicron coronavirus virus variant found in Beijing could have arrived via a package from Canada”. The report goes on saying that “authorities Read more…
“The Organising Committee of London 2022 has absolutely no intention of cancelling or postponing London 2022. The exhibition will go ahead from 19 to 26 February 2022.” This statement followed by the announcement of the installation of a Covid-19 testing facility at the Business Design Centre was included in the latest newsletter posted by the Read more…
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