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Spring STAMPEX will be virtual

Faced with the impossibility of holding Spring Stampex as usual in February at the Business Design Centre in London due to the pandemic, the Philatelic Traders’ Society has decided to cancel it and hold another virtual exhibition instead.

The next Virtual Stampex will be open continuously for 72 hours from 25th – 27th March 2021 and the PTS invites collectors from across the world to come and have a look.

We will post further details when they become available.

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German Federation announces new programme of on-line seminars

The Bund Deutscher Philatelisten (BDPh) has announced a new programme of on-line seminars (German language) for the period up to 12th June 2021.

The programme is shown in the table below. A reservation to join one of the seminars can be made by clicking the short link given in that row.

Datum	Uhrzeit (MESZ / CEST)	Referent	Titel	Short link
23.01.2021	16-17:30h	Lars Böttger	Vorraussetzungen für ein Exponat	https://bit.ly/3mVeiAM
06.02.2021	16-17:30h	Martin Rhein	Das Telegrammwesen in Ungarn 1873 – 1900	https://bit.ly/2JFeoyf

13.02.2020	16-17:30h	René Smolarski, Universität Erfurt	“Gezähnte Geschichte” – Welchen Beitrag die Philatelie und Postgeschichte für die Geschichtswissenschaft leisten kann	https://bit.ly/2GvguQ5
20.02.2021	16-17:30h	Christoph Kohl Jürgen Warmbrunn	Beitrag aus der Reihe “Gezähnte Geschichte”	https://bit.ly/32g045U
27.02.2021	16-17:30h	Andreas Benz Jasper Trautsch	Beitrag aus der Reihe “Gezähnte Geschichte”	https://bit.ly/3k2yZsN
06.03.2021	16-17:30h	Ingo Egerlandt	Britische Truppen in Frankreich vom September 1939 bis zum Juli 1940	https://bit.ly/2Gu5nXu
13.03.2021	16-17:30h	Laura Hindelang Matthias Lieb	Beitrag aus der Reihe “Gezähnte Geschichte”	https://bit.ly/3esCR5b
20.03.2021	16-17:30h	offen	Beitrag aus der Reihe “Gezähnte Geschichte”	https://bit.ly/38eBtSI
27.03.2021	16-17:30h	Hartmut Fueß Nadja Springer	Beitrag aus der Reihe “Gezähnte Geschichte”	https://bit.ly/3k5jZKK
03.04.2021	16-17:30h	Johannes Hoffner	Der Übergang vom Kaiserreich zur Weimarer Rebublik aus dem Blickwinkel der Philatelie	https://bit.ly/32i7xBc
17.04.2021	16-17:30h	Jürgen Herbst	Die Francomarken der Königlich Sächsischen Post – vom Entwurf zum Druck	https://bit.ly/3mTJyAb
24.04.2021	16-17:30h	Frank Heitkamp	Die Geschichte der ersten Briefmarkenausgaben der USA 1847 und danach	https://bit.ly/32hVFz4
15.05.2021	16-17:30h	Johannes Hoffner	Probleme und Lösungen bei der Aufbewahrung von klassischen Briefmarken	https://bit.ly/34X2xDM
29.05.2021	16-17:30h	Michael Mallien	Internetmarken? Ich wusste gar nicht, dass man die sammeln kann!	https://bit.ly/3oZbnsN
12.06.2021	16-17:30h	Franz Zehenter	Die Geschichte der “Ein-Penny-Marke” von Großbritannien 1840 bis 1879	https://bit.ly/388J4lI

10.1.2021

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Bulgarian Philatelists celebrate first Bulgarian banknotes

On 1st December 2020 the Union of Bulgarian Philatelists and the Bulgarian Postal Administration organised a ‘solemn validation’ of a single-stamp block (miniature sheet) celebrating the 135th anniversary of the printing of the first Bulgarian banknotes in St Petersburg. The ceremony was held in the Royal Palace ‘Vrana’ with the number of guests kept small to comply with pandemic restrictions.

Among those present (right) were His Majesty Tsar Simeon II, Honorary President of the Union of Bulgarian Philatelists; Spas Panchev, President of the Union of Bulgarian Philatelists; Deyan Daneshki, CEO of Bulgarian Posts and Lyuba Tomova, the artist of the block.

As a donation to the Vrana museum, Spas Panchev presented the original design, specially framed, to His Majesty who signed a limited number of special carnets with a version of the block for those present (left).

The design (right) draws on fragments of iconic Bulgarian banknotes – a lion (symbol of Bulgarian statehood), a portrait of His Majesty Tsar Simeon II taken from the BGN 200 banknote in use between 1943 and 1947, and a typical cameo from the BGN 2 banknote, in use from 1962. It also carries a caption referring to the BULKOLEKTO Collectors’ Fair organised by the Union of Bulgarian Philatelists and the Plovdiv International Fair which was unfortunately cancelled in 2020 due to the pandemic.

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