Spazio Filatelia, the area devoted to philately at Milan’s central location of Poste Italiane, hosted the final ceremony of the second edition of the “Giovanni Riggi di Numana” Award. This award, jointly set up by the Khouzam Foundation (in memory of Giorgio Khouzam, past president of the Federation of the Italian Philatelic Societies) and the Association of Collectors of Ordinary Stamps (CIFO), aims at promoting and stimulating studies concerning philately and postal history through a dissertation for a Master’s degree. On 14 October, the € 3,000.00 fellowship prize was presented to Dr Lucia Rusin of Fiumicello Villa Vicentina (Udine), who had received a Master’s Degree in Science for the Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage at the faculty of the Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna with a dissertation on “The Origin of the Kingdom of Italy from the first postage stamps”. Her work deals with the study of the first stamps of the Old Italian States, analysed through X-ray refractometric techniques, UV and Mass Chromatographic, fluorescence, UV spectrophotometry and Visible, as well as chemometric studies of its components such as dyes, binders and paper.
Photo: Claudio Ernesto Manzati (who started the initiative), Aniello Veneri (CIFO President), Lucia Rusin, and Giorgio Migliavacca (vice president of the Italian Academy of Philately and Postal History).
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Since 2018, Marco Occhipinti has been uncovering stories from letters, postcards, telegrams or any other interesting piece of postal history and presenting them on his “Sfizi.Di.Posta” website and Facebook page.
A few days ago, the “Sfizi.Di.Posta” book was born, with thirty unpublished such stories – ‘whims’ as Marco likes to call them – that cover 130 years in his country, Italy: from a boy who skips school to the letters of Silvio Pellico, from General Nobile and the survivors of the Red Tent to the poor and abandoned father. Experiences and glimpses of everyday life are brought to light thanks to postal documents.
Foreword by Gianfranco Jannuzzo; historical introduction by Bruno Crevato-Selvaggi; with the collaboration of the graphologist Mirka Mantoan.
Cosmo Iannone Editore, Isernia, October 2023, 216 pp., ill. colour, paperback, format 17×24, ISBN 978-88-516-0240-6, €22 + €5 reg. shipping (for Italy).
How to place an order: http://www.sfizidiposta.it/il-libro
The author, Stavros Andreadis, is a renowned collector and exhibitor of the Large Hermes Heads (LHH). His exhibit has been published twice in Edition d’Or series: No. 28 in 2011 and No. 60 in 2021. He was nominated for the Grand Prix International in “Washington 2006” and “Portugal 2010” and for the Grand Prix d’Honneur in “New York 2016”. Although he reached the top by winning the World Stamp Championship in “Israel 2018”, he is still the passionate collector he has always been.
This book is the product of the author’s affection and devotion to the first Greek postage stamp issue and his enthusiasm to share with fellow collectors the elegance of the design and the abundance of the colour shades of these unique pieces of art of the classical period.
He clearly defined his goal in the preface, which was to help the LHH collector distinguish between the various printings and shades of the LHH postage stamps, by representing each Hellas catalogue number with five different samples – with both their front and reverse sides – in high-resolution enlarged images.
He managed to achieve his goal by (a) the accurate digital reproduction of the postage stamp shades, following their scanning and printing in carefully and professionally calibrated state-of-the-art equipment, (b) his acquired experience after the years he spent classifying thousands upon thousands of LHH stamps and (c) his patience to supervise the printing process of each page of the book, while disposing of dozens of trial pages before being absolutely satisfied with the end product.
This is a publication of outstanding quality in all aspects, at the same time an easy-to-use colour chart of 1144 different shades, and a great companion for the novice as well as the experienced LHH collector; a precious addition to philatelic literature.
The 160-page book is larger than the usual A4 format, at 26×36 cm, it is hard-bound and gold print on a linen-wrap cover, bilingual (Greek and English) and available by A. Karamitsos eshop priced at € 170 postage included.
“Giovanni Riggi di Numana” Award
Spazio Filatelia, the area devoted to philately at Milan’s central location of Poste Italiane, hosted the final ceremony of the second edition of the “Giovanni Riggi di Numana” Award. This award, jointly set up by the Khouzam Foundation (in memory of Giorgio Khouzam, past president of the Federation of the Italian Philatelic Societies) and the Association of Collectors of Ordinary Stamps (CIFO), aims at promoting and stimulating studies concerning philately and postal history through a dissertation for a Master’s degree. On 14 October, the € 3,000.00 fellowship prize was presented to Dr Lucia Rusin of Fiumicello Villa Vicentina (Udine), who had received a Master’s Degree in Science for the Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage at the faculty of the Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna with a dissertation on “The Origin of the Kingdom of Italy from the first postage stamps”. Her work deals with the study of the first stamps of the Old Italian States, analysed through X-ray refractometric techniques, UV and Mass Chromatographic, fluorescence, UV spectrophotometry and Visible, as well as chemometric studies of its components such as dyes, binders and paper.
Photo: Claudio Ernesto Manzati (who started the initiative), Aniello Veneri (CIFO President), Lucia Rusin, and Giorgio Migliavacca (vice president of the Italian Academy of Philately and Postal History).
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Sfizi.Di.Posta (the book)
Since 2018, Marco Occhipinti has been uncovering stories from letters, postcards, telegrams or any other interesting piece of postal history and presenting them on his “Sfizi.Di.Posta” website and Facebook page.
A few days ago, the “Sfizi.Di.Posta” book was born, with thirty unpublished such stories – ‘whims’ as Marco likes to call them – that cover 130 years in his country, Italy: from a boy who skips school to the letters of Silvio Pellico, from General Nobile and the survivors of the Red Tent to the poor and abandoned father. Experiences and glimpses of everyday life are brought to light thanks to postal documents.
Foreword by Gianfranco Jannuzzo; historical introduction by Bruno Crevato-Selvaggi; with the collaboration of the graphologist Mirka Mantoan.
Cosmo Iannone Editore, Isernia, October 2023, 216 pp., ill. colour, paperback, format 17×24, ISBN 978-88-516-0240-6, €22 + €5 reg. shipping (for Italy).
How to place an order: http://www.sfizidiposta.it/il-libro
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Large Hermes Heads – Printings and Shades
The author, Stavros Andreadis, is a renowned collector and exhibitor of the Large Hermes Heads (LHH). His exhibit has been published twice in Edition d’Or series: No. 28 in 2011 and No. 60 in 2021. He was nominated for the Grand Prix International in “Washington 2006” and “Portugal 2010” and for the Grand Prix d’Honneur in “New York 2016”. Although he reached the top by winning the World Stamp Championship in “Israel 2018”, he is still the passionate collector he has always been.
This book is the product of the author’s affection and devotion to the first Greek postage stamp issue and his enthusiasm to share with fellow collectors the elegance of the design and the abundance of the colour shades of these unique pieces of art of the classical period.
He clearly defined his goal in the preface, which was to help the LHH collector distinguish between the various printings and shades of the LHH postage stamps, by representing each Hellas catalogue number with five different samples – with both their front and reverse sides – in high-resolution enlarged images.
He managed to achieve his goal by (a) the accurate digital reproduction of the postage stamp shades, following their scanning and printing in carefully and professionally calibrated state-of-the-art equipment, (b) his acquired experience after the years he spent classifying thousands upon thousands of LHH stamps and (c) his patience to supervise the printing process of each page of the book, while disposing of dozens of trial pages before being absolutely satisfied with the end product.
This is a publication of outstanding quality in all aspects, at the same time an easy-to-use colour chart of 1144 different shades, and a great companion for the novice as well as the experienced LHH collector; a precious addition to philatelic literature.
The 160-page book is larger than the usual A4 format, at 26×36 cm, it is hard-bound and gold print on a linen-wrap cover, bilingual (Greek and English) and available by A. Karamitsos eshop priced at € 170 postage included.
Sample pages:
https://fepanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Andreadis-LHH-pages.pdf
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