FEPA Medal for Exceptional Study and Research 2015
Michèle Chauvet RDP (France)
for “Les tarifs helléniques des lettres internationales 1861-1878”
published by JF-B Philatélie, Paris, 2015
This original research on the rates of international correspondence in the first two decades of adhesive stamps in Greece provides a systematic and detailed analysis of the different types of services concerning about 40 countries. It also presents a collection of the official documents supporting the research, the result of keen searches in the several public and private archives, where they are dispersed.