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LIBEREC 2022 European Exhibition awards
The LIBEREC 2022 jury released the awards on Saturday, 15 October, noon time. Later in the day, during the palmares dinner, the jury votes were counted in front of the audience and the Grand Prize winners were announced.
Grand Prix Championship Class: Terje Heskestad, Norway, “Postal History of the southern coast of Norway from 1719 to UPU”.
Grand Prix International: Jan Huys-Berlingin, Liechtenstein, “Belgium’s 40c imperforate Medallions (1849-1863)”.
Photo: Peter Suhadolc (left), Bernard Jimenez, Jiří Kraus, Bill Hedley, Terje Heskestad, Jiří Sedlák
Photo: Bill Hedley (left), Vit Vaníček, Jan Huys-Berlingin, Jiří Sedlák, Bernard Jimenez, Peter Suhadolc
Grand Prix National: Tomáš Mádl, Czech Republic, “Czechoslovakia 1918-1939 (philatelic interests and rarities)”.
Please see the list of awards here:
https://www.fepanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Liberec2022_Results.pdf
Breaking news from the FEPA Congress in Liberec
The annual FEPA Congress took place on Saturday, 15 October, in Liberec, Czech Republic, during the European Exhibition and Polar Salon LIBEREC 2022.
Major decisions ratified by the Congress delegates included:
(a) Granting FEPA membership to the Lebanese Association of Philatelists.
(b) Granting FEPA patronage to the following future exhibitions:
EFIRO 2024 in Bucharest, April 2024.
HAFNIA 2024 in Copenhagen, 17-20 October 2024.
EuroPhilEx 2025 in Birmingham, 8-11 May 2025.
Please follow Bill Hedley’s PowerPoint presentation on FEPA’s programme 2023:
https://www.fepanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/congress2022.pdf
The 2023 Congress will be held in Tarvisio, Italy, during the Alpe-Adria exhibition, 21-24 September 2023.
Detailed minutes of the Congress will be published on a later date.
The refreshed Swedish journal “Filatelisten”
The Filatelisten, official journal of Sveriges Filatelist-Förbund (SFF, the Swedish Philatelic Federation), has changed looks! “It was time for a slight refresh”, we read at the SFF website. Follow the story and the details at: https://www.sff.nu/nya-filatelisten-ar-pa-vag/#1216
The SFF was founded in 1886 and according to its website it has almost 3,000 members. Most are involved in one of more than 100 local clubs around the country or in one of the various national societies.