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Letters are tangible works of art as unique as your fingerprints

The following excerpts are from a short story published on the Guardian website in 2017:

When Kiran Sidhu rediscovered letters her aunt had written 20 years ago, she could picture her and hear her voice. The discovery transported her to a precious time in her family life in a way that a text or email never could.

“It is magical how words arranged in a particular order, immortalised in a letter, can make their way through your fingertips and travel through your veins until all you can feel is heart. Her words described moments in time, now lost in space, or wherever it is that cherished moments and departed souls go. My aunt and my mother had untimely deaths, but the letters I held in my hands cemented a time when they both walked the Earth.”

“Emails and texts act like the middleman between the author and recipient, technology even dictates your words by guessing them and filling them in for you. The pen, however, begs to be enslaved; it needs to belong to you. I would have never been able to enjoy my aunt’s flowery writing if she had sent an email, where all of her As and Ts would have looked the same. And I wouldn’t have been able to enjoy the silly face she drew as she signed off every letter. A letter is an act of creation in a way an email can never be. When someone sends you a handwritten letter, you receive a part of who they are.”

“Handwritten letters are tangible works of art as unique as your fingerprints: like your DNA, your letters belong to you.”

Read the whole story here: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/dec/02/handwritten-letters-belong-to-you-like-your-dna

Photo: Kiran Sidhu with one of the letters she found in a battered hatbox. Photograph: Alicia Canter/The Guardian

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3.9.2024

Exhibitions, News, Updates

HAFNIA 24 Newsletter #12

Newsletter #12
Literature at display

Copenhagen, 31 August 2024

There will be two literature exhibitions at HAFNIA 24

Literature has the most important role in bringing knowledge to philatelic collectors. At HAFNIA 24 no less than 60 literature exhibits will be displayed from 50 exhibitors coming from 18 different countries. All literature objects will be exhibited on display in a corner of the exhibition hall. It will be possible for visitors to have a closer look at the exhibited books.

Click here for the list of literature exhibits

At the same corner of the hall, we have asked Chris King to arrange for a special literature display for HAFNIA 24. The display aims to show some of the earliest material associated with Danish philatelic literature, some of the more unusual items, and publications which have defined their subject, or which represent the best of the literature available. Geographically, the areas covered are Denmark, Greenland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, and the Danish West Indies. The display is divided into 3 sections:
1. Philatelic Literature: Material published since 1840 aimed at supporting philatelists and collecting generally.
2. Postal and Commercial literature relating to postal services: Non-philatelic material useful to philatelists, including published matter concerning the postal services, usually contemporary, and what historians would describe as primary sources.
3. Philatelic History: Finally, there is ‘literature’ associated with philatelic history. Exhibition catalogues and documentation including competition results, ephemera such as dinner menus, entry tickets, advertising and other commemorative material. Cinderella ‘stamps’, anniversary and celebratory material relating to events, society membership cards, membership lists, minutes and agendas, statutes, rules and constitutions, printed matter related to annual meetings of clubs and societies etc.

Please join the HAFNIA 24 Club

We still need all the support we can get, and one way you can support HAFNIA 24 is by becoming a member of the HAFNIA 24 Club. Please read more about the club and the benefits:

Click here for information on HAFNIA 24 Club

Best wishes
Lars Peter Svendsen
President of the organizing committee
and
Lars Engelbrecht
General Commissioner, HAFNIA 24

Have a look at our WEB-site:
https://www.hafnia24.com

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2.9.2024

Exhibitions, News

The 7th Altmark Philatelic Exhibition (ABRIA 2025) in Stendal, Germany

The stamp collectors’ society “Stendaler Roland e.V.” will host the 7th Altmark Philatelic Exhibition (ABRIA) in the Hanseatic city of Stendal from 14 to 15 June 2025. The exhibition will celebrate the 500th anniversary of the installation of Stendaler Roland, an eight-metre-high statue, a legendary landmark of Stendal.

All exhibitors-members of the German Philatelic Federation (BDPh) are eligible to participate. Members of other associations belonging to the FIP are free to participate in the exhibition as per exhibition regulations.

On the occasion, special stamps and covers will be issued. The organisers are delighted to invite volunteers, exhibitors, and visitors.

Exhibition website: http://www.aba2025stendal.de

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30.8.2024