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Opening meeting of the Royal Philatelic Society London at 15 Abchurch Lane
More than 200 members attended a superb display of New South Wales and Western Australia material from the Royal Philatelic Collection at the opening meeting at 15 Abchurch Lane. The meeting room on the second floor was packed at 4.45 pm to hear Prof. Charles Oppenheim’s presentation of our latest and popular publication ‘The History of the Royal Philatelic Society London 1869 – 2019.’ This was followed by Chris Harman’s vote of thanks and the reading of the Notice of Thanks to Her Majesty The Queen by the Hon. Assistant Secretary. Refreshments served in the members’ lounge concluded a memorable day.
Meeting 26 September 2019
The next meeting on 26 September comprises a large display by the North Region featuring a wide range of postal history, traditional philately, postal stationery, ephemera, postcards and Cinderella material from 18 countries. Once again a high attendance is expected for the second meeting at 15 Abchurch Lane.
Life Membership
The time in which applications for Life Membership may be made has been extended until 31 October 2019. This is part of our Tomorrow’s Royal fundraising programme.
Nominations for Fellowship
A reminder that nominations for Fellowship of the Society are invited and further details may be found on page 295 of the July/August issue of the London Philatelist or, together with a nomination form, on the website (Members’ Home Page/Society Business/Member downloads). The closing date is 31 October, 2019.
Finally I hope to see many members at the next meeting on Thursday 26 September.
Richard Stock FRPSL
President
Elected the new Board of the Austrian Federation. Mag. Helmut Kogler and Ing. Alfred Kunz were re-elected President and Vice-President respectively
Left photo, President Mag. Helmut Kogler. Right photo, Vice-President Ing. Alfred Kunz
The new Board of the Austrian Federation — Verband Österreichischer Philatelisten-Vereine, was elected on Friday, 20th of September 2019 by the members of the Austrian Philatelic clubs.
The new Board is formed as follows:
President Mag. Helmut Kogler as before
Vice-President Ing. Alfred Kunz as before
Secretary Mag. Erich Böck as before
Deputy Secretary Gerhard Winter
Treasurer Horst Horin as before
Deputy Treasurer Friedrich Pölz as before
Finance Herbert Robisch
Exhibitions national / international Ing. Alfred Kunz
Youth Mag. Erich Böck
Total philately / commissions Horst Horin
Judiciaries and collector protection Dr. Christoph Wiesinger as before
No longer in the board:
Jaromir Matejka former deputy secretary
Dr. Wolfgang Weigel former responsible for total philately / commissions
Sybille Pudek former responsible for youth
Mag. Wolfgang Schubert former responsible for exhibitions
Please sent in the future all information’s
Best regards,
Alfred Kunz – Vice president VÖPh
Our warmest congratuations and best wishes for success
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.