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Youth and Picture Postcard Seminars in LONDON 2020
From left to right: Frank Walton, Birthe King and Richard Stock
The World Exhibition LONDON 2020 will host an enormous amount of philatelic activities. Birthe King has successfully even if yet provisionally, agreed with Frank Walton, Chairman of London 2020 Organising Committee, Richard Stock, representing the Royal Philatelic Society London and Philip Longbottom, Office Manager of London 2020, to give continuity to the series of FEPA Seminars on Youth and Picture Postcard after the successful presentations on occasion of FINLANDIA 2017 and PRAGA 2018.
London 2020 has also invited to host the FEPA Congress that would be held at the new premises of the Royal Philatelic Society London at 15 Abchurch Lane.
The two seminars will take place at the Exhibition venue, the Business Design Centre.
The mentioned presentations of 2017 and 2018 on Youth Philately and Picture Postcard are still available for download at
https://fepanews.com/complete-fepa-seminars-on-picture-postcards/
and at
https://fepanews.com/news/eight-presentations-of-the-fepa-symposium-of-youth-philately/
NORDIA 2019 – AN UPDATING
The jury is set, and we are proud to have one of the FEPA Board members among us. Birthe King has accepted to be in the jury, along with well known FIP/ FEPA accredited jurors, and Nordic jury members.
There will be several meetings containing lectures during the rather short period for the exhibition, like The Norwegian Postal History Society, War-and Field Post Society, Ship mail Society. The Norwegian Federation of Philatelists will as well arrange the Congress (every second year) during the exhibition.
This means lots of activities during the show.
I do have to mention the invited class, representing something special. The idea is to show the public something connected to the Nordic countries, and thereof the exhibits are in «open class».
The list is as follows:
Chris King with his classic postal history of Lübeck, probably the best ever made regarding this area. As Lübeck was «The Classic Port to Scandinavia» it is representative for mail to and from the Nordic countries, and FIP-large gold medal tells quite a lot of the quality of this exhibit.
Birthe King will bring her open class exhibit: «Conflict, Concience and Camps 1932-49» about the Danish conditions before-during-after WW II and the German occupation. The exhibit has received the honour of being printed in Vol. 46 Edition D’Or by Köhler. Come and have a look!
Iva Mouritsen is showing her beautiful «A Royal Menage á Trois» about the more or less insane King Fredrik VII / the Queen Caroline Mathilde, – and Struensee. This was a dramatic historical event during 1770-72 when Struensee was accused of High Treason and executed in 1772. IT was rewarded with a large gold medal at the FIP exhibition in Prague last year – only showing five frames!
Peter Hornung will show eight frames of Royal letters, – mail to and from Royal Families around Europe from historic time and onwards.
Gunnar Melbøewill show five frames of «Narvik at War» – also as open class. This is a fascinating story of foreign troops in Norway during the first part of WW II. This is also about the first German setback during WWII and political decisions inflicting the war.
At Saturday (most likely) there will be Powerpoint presentations of all the invited exhibits, telling about the idea behind, the story-lines, finding material, how to present the material – something for any philatelist!
We do hope for lots of visitors, as the admission is free. The exhibition will as well be a «compact» one. All the arrangements will be at the hotel used for this event.
Quality Hotel, Grålum, Sarpsborg has a favourable offer with full pension (breakfast/ lunch/ dinner) for only NOK 1650 pr. night, and is located on the west side of the E 6, just 33 km north of the Swedish/Norwegian border.
Welcome to you all, – and we are hoping for a nice show.
Ivar Sundsbø – Leader of the Philatelic Committee
Albania: National Exhibition and Seminars
Julian Demeti and Boncho Bonev at the opening ceremony
The Association of Collectors of Albania organized their first competitive national exhibition hold in Tirana from 9th to 12th April 2019. On display were 18 exhibits from different classes including Picture Postcard Class plus four titles of literature.
As they haven’t any jurors, they invited for this duty Boncho Bonev, Nicos Rangos and Bojan Bračič who did their work in pleasant atmosphere; the organisers and exhibitors were satisfied.
Bojan Bračič, Nicos Rangos and Jovan Basho at their lectures
Along to exhibition there was a sSeminar with three themes. Bojan Bračič had a lecture Experiences at Judging Picture postcards Exhibit, Nicos Rangos explains How to Attract Students 14 Year Old for a Philatelic Written Competition and Jovan Basho present his research of Austrian and Italian Levant Along the Albanian Shores.
Bojan Bračič commented some details on exhibit to exhibitor Kozma Dashi
Last day of the exhibition all jurors had long talks with exhibitors to explain them how to improve their exhibits, so everybody can receive lot of useful information how to create good exhibit.
Bojan Bračič at his short speech before presenting prizes still hidden in blue folder. Left is Edmond Budo Secretary of Association of Collectors of Albania
Bojan Bračič, Muharem Gimjani with his Certificate and Julian Demeti with the FEPA Gold Pin already on his jacket.
On palmares dinner Bojan Bračič on behalf of FEPA presented to Julian Demeti, president of Association of Collectors of Albania, FEPA Gold Pin and to its precedent Muharem Gimjani FEPA Honorary Certificate.
Bojan Bračič