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22° Premio Internazionale di Filatelia Tematica Musicale ‘Augusto Massari’
The 22nd edition of the ‘Augusto Massari’ Prize for philately will take place in Vasto on the occasion of the VastoPhil 2023 national exhibition of Open, Thematic and Maxima Philately, scheduled from 15 to 17 September, at Palazzo d’Avalos, on the initiative of the ‘Nino Piccirilli’ Philatelic Society.
The event is characterised by the “one picture plus” format, which consists of exhibiting only the first frame of each entry, while the others are available on the website to the jury for the evaluation phase and to the public during the exhibition days and afterwards; visitors may browse the exhibits using computers available at the exhibition.
The Prix Massari is organised by the Music Group of the Italian Centre for Thematic Philately (CIFT) in cooperation with the Motivgruppe Musik e.V. Since its first edition in 1980, this event has been hosted in Belgium (2 times), France (5) Germany (3), Luxembourg (4) the Netherlands (1), San Marino (1) and, of course, Italy (5). More information is available on the FSFI exhibition portal http://expo.fsfi.it/index.php?CodiceExpo=PremioMassari22&Ambito=USER&Lingua=EN.
FIP Maximaphily Commission Newsletter March 2023
On 27th March, Pascal Bandry, Chairman of the FIP Maximaphily Commission, distributed the attached 24-page Newsletter focusing to Maximaphily news around the world and the 2021 Best Maximum Card competition. The Newsletter is published right on time before the European Challenge of Maximaphily which is coming up in Teruel (19-23 April), co-hosted with the Spanish Nationals 61st Exfilna and 28th Juvenia. The three-part, five-day event is held under FEPA Recognition.
Download the Newsletter from here: https://fepanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Newsletter_Commission_MX_FIP_7_2023-3.pdf
Posta Italiana in Estremo Oriente
Italian mail in the Far East is a brand new book by Valter Astolfi, 432 pp., softbound, illustrated in colour, published by the AICPM (Associazione Italiana Collezionisti Posta Militare e Storia Postale) and distributed by Vaccari at € 60.
The work is meant to illustrate the postal implications of the Italian military presence in the Far East, from the unification of Italy (1861) until the Italian concession of Tientsin (romanised today as Tianjin) to China in 1947.
For details on the book and on how to place the order, please visit the Vaccari webpage: https://www.vaccari.it/_NEWBOOKS?_c=pm.ri.&_o=2830E