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Gustaf Douglas (1938-2023)
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing away of Gustaf Douglas RDP FRPSL on 3 May 2023.
A Swedish aristocrat and businessman, he will be remembered as the Head Patron of Stockholmia 2019 and the owner of the only known example of the Treskilling Yellow he acquired in 2013. In 2015 he was awarded the Tilleard Medal by the Royal Philatelic Society London and the Strandell Medal by the Swedish Philatelic Federation. In 2018 he was invited to sign the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists.
We send our condolences to his family.
[photo credit: Stockholmia 2019]
HAFNIA 24 Newsletter #3
We are open to applications!
Newsletter #3
Copenhagen, 2 May 2023
We are happy that 30 commissioners will be coming to Copenhagen in October 2024 with a wide range of exhibits.
The application form for the FEPA Exhibition Hafnia 24 is now available at the exhibition website:
https://www.hafnia24.com/exhibit-application-form/
If you would like to exhibit in Copenhagen 17-20 October 2024, please go to the website, fill in the form, and you will receive an email with the filled in form attached. Then please sign the form and send it to your commissioner, who will send it to Hafnia. See the list of commissioners here: https://www.hafnia24.com/find-your-commissioner/
The frame fee in the Competitive Classes is €60 per frame and in the Class L Philatelic Literature is €50 per entry. There is no entry fee for Class Y Youth Philately.
If you are exhibiting in literature class, please also fill in the information form:
https://www.hafnia24.com/philatelic-literature-information-form/
A revised introductory title page and synopsis may be passed to the National Commissioner for transmission to the Organising Committee no later than 1st August 2024.
See you in Copenhagen!
Best regards
Lars Peter Svendsen
President of the organizing committee
and
Lars Engelbrecht
General Commissioner, HAFNIA 24
Poste Maritime Française. La Société l’Europe. Le Havre – Saint-Pétersbourg 1840 – 1852
A new book by Robert Abensur RDP has been recently published by l’Académie de philatélie. Here is a short description taken from the Academy’s website:
The Russian Empire and its notoriously Francophile elites appreciate French luxury goods. French people expatriate to make their fortune in this country which aspires to modernise by taking advantage of their savoir-faire. The advent of maritime steam navigation in the 1830s accelerated trade and made it possible to establish a speed and regularity of transport unknown until then.
A shipowner from Le Havre, Philippe Albrecht, with his experience of steam lines to Hamburg and then Amsterdam, embarked on the adventure. During the summer of 1838, two of his steamers carried passengers, goods and mails between Le Havre and St Petersburg. He was not the only one, since steamers from Lubeck, London and Hull, Stettin and Stockholm also served the Baltic. After three years of successful trials’s round trips and obtaining a privilege from H.M. the Emperor of Russia to operate the line, he founded the Société l’Europe with several shareholders at the end of 1840. From then on, his fortnightly round trips criss-crossed the ice-free Baltic from May to October. Dunkirk introduced competition in 1842-1843, which did not succeed. But the arrival of the train in Dunkirk in 1849 moved the head of the line from Le Havre to that city.
This book, based on digitised newspapers and archive sources from the Seine-Maritime department and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, deals with the history of this shipping company and its steamships. It details the timetables of the fifteen years of operation of this regular line which disappeared at the end of 1852 due to economic difficulties. The book is illustrated with press excerpts and several letters which allow us to evoke the French and Russian maritime postal rates, but also the Danish ones because of the regular call in Copenhagen.
Price: 26 euros per copy (postage paid for all destinations), softcover, 21×29.7 cm, in colour, 44 pages.
Available at: https://ma.simpleboutik.fr/academie-de-philatelie
[credit: Jean-Bernard Parenti in Philatelic Literature FB account]