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CAPE TOWN 2022 WSC and GP winners announced
We picked up the CAPE TOWN 2022 winners from the RPSL Twitter account:
World Stamp Championship (WSC): Jan Huys-Berlingin (Liechtenstein), “Belgium’s first issue, the Epaulettes”.
WSC First runner-up: Keith Klugman (USA), “Victorian Natal 1857-1899”.
WSC Second runner-up: Jaiswal Sandeep (USA), “British India Queen Victoria Postal Stationery”.
Photo: Peter Suhadolc, Jan Huys-Berlingin, Prakob Chirakiti, Yigal Nathaniel
Grand Prix International: Alfred Schmidt (Germany), “Prussia – The first three issues 1850-1859”.
Grand Prix National: Lars Jorgensen (Belgium), “South African Republic Transvaal 1869-1885”.
[photos credit: Sam Chiu FRPSL, provided by the RPSL Twitter account]
NAPOSTA 2023 Bulletin 1 becomes available
Trier is located at the west German border triangle close to Luxembourg and France, and will host the national exhibition NAPOSTA 2023 next July. The organisers, the Deutsch-Französische Briefmarkenclub e.V. Trier, who will celebrate their 50th anniversary in 2023, invite exhibitors from Germany and abroad to participate. Application forms are available in German, French and Dutch. According to demand, the exhibition will accommodate as many as 2000 frames.
Bulletin 1 is available here: https://www.fepanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/naposta_2023_info1.pdf
Abhishek Bhuwalka talks about L.N. & M. Williams
An article entitled “Authors’ Binding of ‘Fundamentals of Philately'” by Abhishek Bhuwalka on his blog (The Philatelist) brings to centre stage two philatelic legends: brothers Leon Norman Williams and Maurice Williams. What follows here is an updated version of what the author had already published in Philatelic Literature Review vol. 69 (2020), No. 4, based on the interview with Marcus, son of L.N. Williams, he had the rare opportunity to take.
You may read the full article here: https://thephilatelist.substack.com/p/authors-binding-of-fundamentals-of
Photo: Norman (standing) and Maurice Williams at their library around 1960.
[photo credit: Marcus Williams. Taken from the article]