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Very sad news: Gary Brown has passed away

Gary was a well-known philatelist all over the world, having been a philatelic exhibitor since the 1980s and a collector all his life. He was an FIP juror in Traditional and Postal History with a number of international qualified exhibits that have included Aden Postal History, for which he won the Grand Prix d’Honneur at Sharjah 2012. He collected British Commonwealth for 35 years, and then moved on to Natal, South African telegrams and the states of Northern Africa before getting into cricket on stamps.

Gary runned his family’s business in making “Platypus brand” cricket balls and that’s why he collected Cricket as a theme on stamps as well as an Open Philately Exhibit.

He was currently Chairman of the FIP Literature Commission, International Officer of the Australian Philatelic Federation, President of the Royal Philatelic Society Victoria, Editor of the APF News, the Magazine of the Australian Philatelic Federation, amongst other tasks.

He was always kind and ready to support the colleagues.

Rest in peace such wonderful person and great philatelist.

16.9.2019

Updates

The 2019 AEP Awards. The winners are : Henk Slabbinck, Patrick Maselis and Guy Dutau

The Board of Directors has approved the 2019 Awards of the European Academy of Philately – AEP. The winners are:

– Henk Slabbinck for the European Parliament Award,

– Patrick Maselis for the European Philatelic Merit,

– Guy Dutau for the European Philatelic Literature Award.

They will receive their award at MonacoPhil 2019.

Serge Kahn

Secretary General

Our warm congratulations to all the three !

14.9.2019

Updates

The Belarusian city of Brest celebrated its millennium with the 10th National Philatelic Exhibition with the participation of 16 countries

A grand opening with ribbon cutting ceremony

The city of Brest is the western gate of Belarus and one of the oldest cities in Belarus. Over its 1000-year history, Brest keeps a memory of many historical facts, battles and events. In connection with the celebration of the Millennium of Brest in the ancient city, a large cultural program was organized. One of the most significant events in the cultural program of the city of Brest was the 10th National Philatelic Exhibition “Belphila-2019” with international participation, which was held from September 4 to 8, 2019 at the cinema “Belarus”.

The Minister of Communications Konstantin Shulgan makes the special cancellation

Philatelic exhibition was organised by the Union of Philatelists of Belarus, Ministry of Communications and Informatization of the Republic of Belarus, Enterprise of Post Communications Belpost and the Brest City Executive Committee. At the current philatelic exhibition, 146 collections from 16 countries were represented – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Brazil, Czech Republic, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Ukraine, USA. Competitive exhibits were presented in seven exhibition classes. Postal administrations of different countries are traditional participants in Belarusian national exhibitions.

The jury works in the exhibition hall

The Belarusian postal exposition demonstrated all the stages of creating postal products dedicated to the 1000th anniversary of the first written mention of Brest. The Minister of Communications and Informatization Konstantin Shulgan and the Chairman of the Brest City Executive Committee Alexander Rogachuk took part in the grand opening of the philatelic exhibition with red ribbon cutting ceremony.

A fascinating story about the creation of a philatelic exhibit

Especially for the opening of the philatelic exhibition, the Enterprise of Post Communications Belpost prepared souvenir sheet “1000 years since the first written mention of Brest”, which depicts the main attractions of the city: the railway station, main temples, a monument to the millennium. In addition, for special cancellation, cover of the first day and postmark “1000 years since the first written mention of Brest” were issued, as well as entire postal and special postmark “X National Philatelic Exhibition” Belphila-2019″.

Visitors at the exhibition stands

The Minister of Communications and Informatization Konstantin Shulgan, the Chairman of the Brest City Executive Committee Alexander Rogachuk and the Chairman of the Union of Philatelists of Belarus Sergey Pilipovich took part in the special cancellation ceremony. All participants of the exhibition were awarded with medals and diplomas of the corresponding rank, and also received souvenirs and a catalog of the exhibition.

Trade of philatelic materials

During the exhibition, the sale of a variety of philatelic products was organized. The unprecedented largest philatelic exhibition was a great success and many foreign guests arrived to get acquainted with philatelic exhibits.