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CNEP Salon philatélique de printemps: 23-25 March
After four years of absence due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the CNEP Salon philatélique de printemps (Spring Philatelic Show) reopens its doors from Thursday 23 to Saturday 25 March 2023. As it has been the case since 2015, it will be held in Paris at Espace Champerret, Paris 17th, Hall C.
Thirty stands of French and foreign traders will be present. The Art du Timbre Gravé association bringing together creators of stamps, illustrations and cancellations will be present with a few artists for the signing sessions. Philaposte will also have a stand. The CNEP will offer a new block presenting the catacombs of Paris designed by Louis Genty.
The CNEP is the French Trade Union of Philatelic Dealers and Experts, founded in November 1970.
Banksy mural on postage stamp wraps up the first year of the Ukraine war
The Ukrainian Post used a mural by Banksy on a postage stamp to send the world a strong message marking the first anniversary of the war.
Last November, the renowned UK artist had painted a demolished wall in Borodianka, north-west of Kyiv, depicting a young boy judoka throwing down a much bigger older man, who could well be Vladimir Putin.
At its lower left corner, the postage stamp bears a six-letter, two-word abbreviated message in Cyrillic alphabet, the first three pointing to the surname of the Russian leader, the next three to a phrase which is left to the reader’s imagination.
The new stamp was released on 24th February, the day the Russian troops invaded Ukraine in 2022.
[photo credit: Getty images from bbc.com]
Sfizi.Di.Posta. La storia attraverso la posta, la posta attraverso la storia
The following press release was issued by Poste Italiane on 22nd February in Trieste:
On Friday 3 March, in the Mitteleuropa Postal and Telegraphic Museum of Poste Italiane (Central Post Office, via Vittorio Veneto), the documentary exhibition “Sfizi.Di.Posta. La storia attraverso la posta, la posta attraverso la storia” (“Sfizi.Di.Posta. The history through the post, the post through the history“) will open. The exhibition is edited by the philatelist Marco Occhipinti, creator and manager of “Sfizi.Di.Posta”, a space on the web and on Facebook where he tells the stories behind letters, telegrams, postcards, postage stamps and other postal documents.
Through an itinerary consisting of 13 frames with as many as 156 sheets, the exhibition housed in the Trieste Postal Museum highlights about sixty stories set in the time span from the 19th century to the post-World War II period, referring to the spirit that animates Occhipinti’s blog, in which since 2018, every Monday morning, a ‘sfizio’ is published, an article characterised by curious stories, anecdotes about well-known or anonymous people, which always starts from a postal document: letter, postcard, telegram, stamp, cancellation.
“The goal of Sfizi.Di.Posta“, explains Occhipinti, “is to spread the culture of philately and postal history, bringing to light events of the past that would otherwise be forgotten or celebrating certain events, commemorating others, giving credit and honour to the protagonists of the ‘sfizi’ in order to preserve and hand down the memory of facts and people filtered through the lens of the postal document, which thus truly becomes the protagonist of history“.
In the long overview of “Sfizi.Di.Posta”, visitors will be able to “read”, through postal items, some testimonies concerning the Trieste area; the events of the family saga of the Florio brothers, Ignazio and Vincenzo; of Donna Costanza Garibaldi, daughter-in-law of the hero of two worlds, to whom a registered letter sent in 1924 by Beatrice Salvi, director of the Giuseppe Garibaldi Hospital in La Maddalena, is addressed; the sad testimonies of the Jews imprisoned in the Mauthausen concentration camp and the victims displaced by the Polesine flood.
The exhibition will be open until Friday 31 March, Monday to Friday, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., by appointment (+39 040 6764264).