View of the Auditorium of the Spanish Royal Mint – FNMT during the Nexofil Awards Gala
For fifth consecutive year, the auditorium of the Royal Spanish House of Mint (FNMT) , in Madrid, hosted on Tuesday, October 23, 2018 the solemn International Nexofil Awards Gala for the 2017 Best Stamps of the World, convened by EL ECO and organized by NEXO Group. Official representatives of the award-winning Posts received their awards (and the accreditation of use of the “The Best Stamp of the World” brands) in a massive ceremony attended by three hundred guests.
The V International Gala of the Nexofil 2018 Awards was chaired by the Deputy Minister of Communications of the Government of Spain, Jesús M. Gómez, flanked by the President of the Spanish Post, Juan Manuel Serrano, and the President of the Royal Spanish House of Mint, Jaime Sánchez Revenga, the Director of Postal Regime of the Ministry of Public Works, Rafael Crespo; the Director of Philately of the Spanish Post, Modesto Fraguas; the President of the Spanish Federation of Philatelic Societies (Fesofi), Miguel Ángel García; The President of the National Association of Philatelic Dealers (Anfil), Mario Mirmán; and the General Secretary of the Royal Spanish Academy of Philately and Postal History, José Manuel Rodríguez; the Gala was chaired by the President of the NEXO Group and Director of EL ECO, Eugenio de Quesada.
The prizes were awarded by an independent International Jury, formed by fifty Presidents of National Federations and Philatelic Academies from 37 countries, among which are the leaders of the great Philatelist’s Federations of America and Europe, as well as Academics members of the prestigious European Philatelic Academy and the Royal Spanish Academy of Philately and Postal History.
Together with the presentation of each of the stamp awarded, each issue was described, proceeding to the delivery of the Diplomas of Honour accrediting each Prize and the license of use thereof, to the representatives of the winning Posts.
EL ECO (which in 2019 will celebrate its Platinum Wedding, in it 75th anniversary of fruitful editorial life) and the NEXO Group are already working, with the Organizing Committee of the contest, in the convening of the VI Nexofil 2019 International Awards.
The Prize as the Best Stamp of the World went to Finland for its stamp “The Sound of Silence”. Designed by Stiina Hovi, represent the calm and the tranquillity of the Finnish Nature.
The finalists were the Irish stamp “Street Urban Art” and the Czech “The Jewels of the Crown”.
The Prize to the Best Design of a Stamp was awarded to the Spanish issue “25th Anniversary of the High Speed Train Madrid-Seville”, commemorating the world innovation of the train built on occasion of the World EXPO of Seville of 1992.Was issued on the 6th November 2017, printed in offset and die.
The Prize to the Best Stamp of the World with the most Original Shape was for the Austrian Post for the issue “20th Anniversary Forests, Oak “.All the oak stamps were made of sheets of fine oak veneer in oak. For this purpose, a single tree trunk was used, which came from the Austrian Forest Park of Breitenfurt, in the Forests of Vienna.
Left, the New Zealand’s awardee stamp. Right, Mr, Eugenio de Quesada President of the NEXO Group (left side) presenting his Diploma to the Deputy Minister of Communications of the Government of Spain, Mr. Jesús M. Gómez (right side)
The Prize for the Most Innovative Stamp of the World went to New Zealand for the stamp the “Grow your Own – Sustainable: Carrots”
The Prize to the Best Stamp of the World using intaglio technique, France “The Finest Hours of French History. The Treaty of Picquigny”
Prize to the Best Stamp of the World offset, Hvrasta Post, Croatia for the stamp “PUMed – Mediterranean Trees – Olive Trees in Lun”
Best Stamp of the World in mixed print technique, the Prize was to Island for the stamp “Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development- (The Blue Lagoon)”
The Prize to the Best Stamp of the World using other techniques, has been won by Portugal for the stamp “The Portuguese Textile Industry”
Prize to the Best definitive serie of Stamp of the World, to the United Kingdom, “Regional Definitive – England”
The Prize to the Best Souvenir Sheet of the World, for the Spanish Post, “Correos” for the “Exfilna 2017 – Portugalete”
The Prize to the Best Luxury Proof of the World ,to the Spanish the “Urban Wold Heritage Sites-Granada”
Ms Eva Hannikainen, Counselor of Culture of the Embassy of Finland in Spain receving the Award in the name of the Finnish Post “posti”, from the Deputy Minister of Communications of the Government of Spain, Mr. Jesús M. Gómez
The whole list of awardees and finalists:
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The Special One-frame Philatelic Exhibition DevetoOkno Kranj 2019 is open to exhibitors from all European Federations
The Slovenian Philatelic Association (FZS), organizer of the ninth edition of the one-frame exhibition EnoOkno – OneWindow, announces that the exhibition under the name DevetoOkno Kranj 2019 (NinthWindow Kranj 2019) will be held during September 5-14, 2019 in Kranj, Slovenia and will be open for participation to exhibitors from all European federations. The co-organizer is the Museum of Gorenjska (Upper Carniola), with the Slovenian Post support and the WG Alps Adria Philately patronage.
DevetoOkno Kranj 2019 will be a competitive exhibition of Rank 1. Exhibits should be prepared in accordance with the General and Special Regulations of the FIP for the Evaluation of Competitive Exhibits at FIP Exhibitions (GREV and SREVs), and the Special Regulations for the Special Philatelic Exhibition with International Participation DevetoOkno Kranj 2019 (IREX).
Since 2003, every odd year, the Slovenian Philatelic Association has been organizing a specialized one-frame exhibition with the name EnoOkno – OneWindow – since a one-frame exhibit is a window into a story. From the beginning in 2003 only exhibitors from the WG Alps Adria Philately and those from southeastern Europe have been invited, in order to foster the idea and practice of one-frame exhibiting in these countries. Up to 2017, five exhibits from each participating country, with a total of about 60, were on display. At the last three exhibitions the Israeli federation/exhibitors was also invited as a special guest.
In 2019 the number of frames will be doubled with 120 frames available. In order to support this competitive way of exhibiting and to improve international co-operation the organizer would like to give the opportunity to exhibit also to members of other European federations, under the conditions specified in the IREX.
The exhibition is a low-cost one with no formal commissionership. All FIP competitive classes, except literature, 16 A4 sheet frames, FIP evaluation. IREX and the Entry form are published on the www.fzs.si and www.alpadria.eu.
Igor Pirc (ipirc711@gmail.com)
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The year 2019 will be very important for the Italian Federation of Philatelic Societies since they we will celebrate our first Centenary.
One of the highlights of the celebrations will be the 9th European Championship of Thematic Philately (ECTP), to be held in Verona from 22 to 24 November 2019, with FEPA recognition.
It is the second time in the history of ECTP that such important event takes place outside Germany, since – thanks also to the support of Damian Läge – the German Philatelic Federation (BDPh) and the Regional Philatelic Federation of Nordrhein – Westfalen (VDPh) kindly agreed with the proposal of our Federation to host the 2019 edition of the ECTP in Italy.
The ECTP will be held in the framework of the 133th VERONAFIL International Stamp Fair, on the grounds of the Verona Fair. This biannual event, organized by Verona’s Associazione Filatelica Numismatica Scaligera, ranks amongst the most successful philatelic trade fairs in Europe.
The Italian national thematic association (CIFT) and the Union of Olympic and Sport Collectors (UICOS), are cooperating to organize a successful event.
As for previous ECTP, the collectors who want to participate at ECTP 2019 must submit their application, accompanied by the scan of the plan page and a synopsis, to their national delegates to the FIP commission for Thematic Philately. The deadline for that is 28 February 2019.
The national delegates shall then enter said applications at the special section of the exhibition website expo.fsfi.it/ectp2019, after having checked the data entered, with specific reference that the exhibit has the requested qualification, as far as previous results are concerned.
The full IREX is attached hereafter, together with the application form to be filled in by exhibitors.
These are the key characteristics of the exhibition:
• the registration and all preliminary phases will take place completely online, including the payment of the frame fees;
• the ECTP is open to exhibits of thematic philately, to be classified in eight different thematic classes, according to the themes of the exhibits; besides, those exhibits winners of one of the eight thematic classes at previous ECTP events may participate in the Champions’ Class;
• the frames will allow the presentation of 12 sheets of normal size;
• 11 frames (allowing for 132 pages of normal size) are allotted to those exhibits that received at least 85 points at a previous FIP or FEPA exhibition; any other exhibit receives 7 frames (allowing for 84 pages of normal size);
• the jury will work online in the months before the exhibition, allowing a more thorough evaluation of the exhibits;
• in each theme class the exhibits will be ranked in order of points assigned by the jury, with the exhibit with the highest score to be proclaimed as European Champion of that theme class, and thus be candidate for the Grand Prix;
• during the award ceremony each juror shall present his/her own ranking of the very best exhibits included in the pool of candidates; the exhibit obtaining the highest total out of such rankings will be awarded the Grand Prix ECTP 2019.
Several events will animate the exhibition, including seminars and the palmarès dinner.
All the information about the exhibition will be presented in the website expo.fsfi.it/ectp2019.
We hope you may disseminate this information among the thematic exhibitors of your Country, and we do look forward for receiving the application from the exhibitors of your Country. We remain available for any clarification you may need.
2018 Nexofil Awards: The Prize to the Best Stamp of the World went to Finland for its stamp “The Sound of Silence”. Stamps from Ireland and Czech Republic, finalists
View of the Auditorium of the Spanish Royal Mint – FNMT during the Nexofil Awards Gala
For fifth consecutive year, the auditorium of the Royal Spanish House of Mint (FNMT) , in Madrid, hosted on Tuesday, October 23, 2018 the solemn International Nexofil Awards Gala for the 2017 Best Stamps of the World, convened by EL ECO and organized by NEXO Group. Official representatives of the award-winning Posts received their awards (and the accreditation of use of the “The Best Stamp of the World” brands) in a massive ceremony attended by three hundred guests.
The V International Gala of the Nexofil 2018 Awards was chaired by the Deputy Minister of Communications of the Government of Spain, Jesús M. Gómez, flanked by the President of the Spanish Post, Juan Manuel Serrano, and the President of the Royal Spanish House of Mint, Jaime Sánchez Revenga, the Director of Postal Regime of the Ministry of Public Works, Rafael Crespo; the Director of Philately of the Spanish Post, Modesto Fraguas; the President of the Spanish Federation of Philatelic Societies (Fesofi), Miguel Ángel García; The President of the National Association of Philatelic Dealers (Anfil), Mario Mirmán; and the General Secretary of the Royal Spanish Academy of Philately and Postal History, José Manuel Rodríguez; the Gala was chaired by the President of the NEXO Group and Director of EL ECO, Eugenio de Quesada.
The prizes were awarded by an independent International Jury, formed by fifty Presidents of National Federations and Philatelic Academies from 37 countries, among which are the leaders of the great Philatelist’s Federations of America and Europe, as well as Academics members of the prestigious European Philatelic Academy and the Royal Spanish Academy of Philately and Postal History.
Together with the presentation of each of the stamp awarded, each issue was described, proceeding to the delivery of the Diplomas of Honour accrediting each Prize and the license of use thereof, to the representatives of the winning Posts.
EL ECO (which in 2019 will celebrate its Platinum Wedding, in it 75th anniversary of fruitful editorial life) and the NEXO Group are already working, with the Organizing Committee of the contest, in the convening of the VI Nexofil 2019 International Awards.
The Prize as the Best Stamp of the World went to Finland for its stamp “The Sound of Silence”. Designed by Stiina Hovi, represent the calm and the tranquillity of the Finnish Nature.
The finalists were the Irish stamp “Street Urban Art” and the Czech “The Jewels of the Crown”.
The Prize to the Best Design of a Stamp was awarded to the Spanish issue “25th Anniversary of the High Speed Train Madrid-Seville”, commemorating the world innovation of the train built on occasion of the World EXPO of Seville of 1992.Was issued on the 6th November 2017, printed in offset and die.
The Prize to the Best Stamp of the World with the most Original Shape was for the Austrian Post for the issue “20th Anniversary Forests, Oak “.All the oak stamps were made of sheets of fine oak veneer in oak. For this purpose, a single tree trunk was used, which came from the Austrian Forest Park of Breitenfurt, in the Forests of Vienna.
Left, the New Zealand’s awardee stamp. Right, Mr, Eugenio de Quesada President of the NEXO Group (left side) presenting his Diploma to the Deputy Minister of Communications of the Government of Spain, Mr. Jesús M. Gómez (right side)
The Prize for the Most Innovative Stamp of the World went to New Zealand for the stamp the “Grow your Own – Sustainable: Carrots”
The Prize to the Best Stamp of the World using intaglio technique, France “The Finest Hours of French History. The Treaty of Picquigny”
Prize to the Best Stamp of the World offset, Hvrasta Post, Croatia for the stamp “PUMed – Mediterranean Trees – Olive Trees in Lun”
Best Stamp of the World in mixed print technique, the Prize was to Island for the stamp “Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development- (The Blue Lagoon)”
The Prize to the Best Stamp of the World using other techniques, has been won by Portugal for the stamp “The Portuguese Textile Industry”
Prize to the Best definitive serie of Stamp of the World, to the United Kingdom, “Regional Definitive – England”
The Prize to the Best Souvenir Sheet of the World, for the Spanish Post, “Correos” for the “Exfilna 2017 – Portugalete”
The Prize to the Best Luxury Proof of the World ,to the Spanish the “Urban Wold Heritage Sites-Granada”
Ms Eva Hannikainen, Counselor of Culture of the Embassy of Finland in Spain receving the Award in the name of the Finnish Post “posti”, from the Deputy Minister of Communications of the Government of Spain, Mr. Jesús M. Gómez
The whole list of awardees and finalists:
The Special One-Frame Philatelic Exhibition DevetoOkno Kranj 2019 is open to exhibitors from all European Federations
DevetoOkno KRANJ 2019
The Special One-frame Philatelic Exhibition DevetoOkno Kranj 2019 is open to exhibitors from all European Federations
The Slovenian Philatelic Association (FZS), organizer of the ninth edition of the one-frame exhibition EnoOkno – OneWindow, announces that the exhibition under the name DevetoOkno Kranj 2019 (NinthWindow Kranj 2019) will be held during September 5-14, 2019 in Kranj, Slovenia and will be open for participation to exhibitors from all European federations. The co-organizer is the Museum of Gorenjska (Upper Carniola), with the Slovenian Post support and the WG Alps Adria Philately patronage.
DevetoOkno Kranj 2019 will be a competitive exhibition of Rank 1. Exhibits should be prepared in accordance with the General and Special Regulations of the FIP for the Evaluation of Competitive Exhibits at FIP Exhibitions (GREV and SREVs), and the Special Regulations for the Special Philatelic Exhibition with International Participation DevetoOkno Kranj 2019 (IREX).
Since 2003, every odd year, the Slovenian Philatelic Association has been organizing a specialized one-frame exhibition with the name EnoOkno – OneWindow – since a one-frame exhibit is a window into a story. From the beginning in 2003 only exhibitors from the WG Alps Adria Philately and those from southeastern Europe have been invited, in order to foster the idea and practice of one-frame exhibiting in these countries. Up to 2017, five exhibits from each participating country, with a total of about 60, were on display. At the last three exhibitions the Israeli federation/exhibitors was also invited as a special guest.
In 2019 the number of frames will be doubled with 120 frames available. In order to support this competitive way of exhibiting and to improve international co-operation the organizer would like to give the opportunity to exhibit also to members of other European federations, under the conditions specified in the IREX.
The exhibition is a low-cost one with no formal commissionership. All FIP competitive classes, except literature, 16 A4 sheet frames, FIP evaluation. IREX and the Entry form are published on the www.fzs.si and www.alpadria.eu.
Igor Pirc (ipirc711@gmail.com)
The 2019 European Championship of Thematic Philately (ECTP), in Italy
Dear Friends
The year 2019 will be very important for the Italian Federation of Philatelic Societies since they we will celebrate our first Centenary.
One of the highlights of the celebrations will be the 9th European Championship of Thematic Philately (ECTP), to be held in Verona from 22 to 24 November 2019, with FEPA recognition.
It is the second time in the history of ECTP that such important event takes place outside Germany, since – thanks also to the support of Damian Läge – the German Philatelic Federation (BDPh) and the Regional Philatelic Federation of Nordrhein – Westfalen (VDPh) kindly agreed with the proposal of our Federation to host the 2019 edition of the ECTP in Italy.
The ECTP will be held in the framework of the 133th VERONAFIL International Stamp Fair, on the grounds of the Verona Fair. This biannual event, organized by Verona’s Associazione Filatelica Numismatica Scaligera, ranks amongst the most successful philatelic trade fairs in Europe.
The Italian national thematic association (CIFT) and the Union of Olympic and Sport Collectors (UICOS), are cooperating to organize a successful event.
As for previous ECTP, the collectors who want to participate at ECTP 2019 must submit their application, accompanied by the scan of the plan page and a synopsis, to their national delegates to the FIP commission for Thematic Philately. The deadline for that is 28 February 2019.
The national delegates shall then enter said applications at the special section of the exhibition website expo.fsfi.it/ectp2019, after having checked the data entered, with specific reference that the exhibit has the requested qualification, as far as previous results are concerned.
The full IREX is attached hereafter, together with the application form to be filled in by exhibitors.
These are the key characteristics of the exhibition:
• the registration and all preliminary phases will take place completely online, including the payment of the frame fees;
• the ECTP is open to exhibits of thematic philately, to be classified in eight different thematic classes, according to the themes of the exhibits; besides, those exhibits winners of one of the eight thematic classes at previous ECTP events may participate in the Champions’ Class;
• the frames will allow the presentation of 12 sheets of normal size;
• 11 frames (allowing for 132 pages of normal size) are allotted to those exhibits that received at least 85 points at a previous FIP or FEPA exhibition; any other exhibit receives 7 frames (allowing for 84 pages of normal size);
• the jury will work online in the months before the exhibition, allowing a more thorough evaluation of the exhibits;
• in each theme class the exhibits will be ranked in order of points assigned by the jury, with the exhibit with the highest score to be proclaimed as European Champion of that theme class, and thus be candidate for the Grand Prix;
• during the award ceremony each juror shall present his/her own ranking of the very best exhibits included in the pool of candidates; the exhibit obtaining the highest total out of such rankings will be awarded the Grand Prix ECTP 2019.
Several events will animate the exhibition, including seminars and the palmarès dinner.
All the information about the exhibition will be presented in the website expo.fsfi.it/ectp2019.
We hope you may disseminate this information among the thematic exhibitors of your Country, and we do look forward for receiving the application from the exhibitors of your Country. We remain available for any clarification you may need.
Best regards
Paolo Guglielminetti
General Commissioner of ECTP 2019
commissario@fsfi.it
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