The Organisers of the Irish national exhibition (STAMPA) have been obliged to cancel the exhibition this year because COVID restrictions have made it impossible to use the Conference Centre. The exhibition was due to take place in Dublin in October.
The next STAMPA will, therefore, be held in Dublin from 15-17 October 2021. The Irish Federation is also looking forward to 2022 which will mark the centenary of Irish independence and the 50th anniversary of the Stampa exhibition.
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The American Philatelic Society (APS), together with the American Philatelic Research Library and Museum, is organising a virtual Postal History Symposium from 26 – 30 October 2020. The theme will be ‘Postal Innovation in the Classic Era – Evolution leading to Modernization’ and an impressive list of speakers to deliver 14 presentations has already been confirmed, with more possibly to follow. This will be an important event in the postal history calendar and the APS has confirmed that the Symposium will be open to all.
Anyone who would like to join the Symposium will need to register in advance. The APS hopes that registration will be open from early August.
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We were sorry to hear that Manfred Bergman died in early July in Geneva at the age of 92. He participated in Verso Mexico 68 in Riccione where he came into contact with Italian collectors. He then made proposals for modifying the FIP Thematic Regulations which at the time were penalizing for sport-Olympic collections and more generally for all collections built with a chronological or systematic structure.
At IBRA 73 he began his journey at FIP exhibitions with an increasingly innovative Olympic collection, arriving at the Class of Champions. In 1977 he joined the Bureau of the FIP Thematic Commission as coordinator of the Thematic Groups and had a fundamental role in the development of the Regulations and their subsequent modifications up to the Congress of Madrid (2000) He also contributed intensively to diffusion of the Regulations and the training of jurors and exhibitors. He was often a juror but also a team leader and jury secretary at FIP exhibitions.
When the advent of Juan Antonio Samaranch as President of the Olympic Committee led to philately being added to the cultural framework of the Olympic Games Manfred played a key role, with Maurizio Tecardi, in creating the International Federation of Olympic Philately (FIPO) and in drafting an agreement with the FIP which gave its patronage to the sport-Olympic exhibitions (OLYMPHILEX) held at the Games between 1988 and 2004. Thanks to his contribution the philatelic section of the Olympic Museum in Lausanne became a point of reference for specialized collectors and for dissemination of stamp collecting to the general public. His numerous articles in the specialized press, including those on Stockholm 1912, Paris 1924 and the Portuguese issue for Amsterdam 1928, were noteworthy and proactive and his research on the cancelled Games was second to none. Among his latest stances was a strong warning about the dangers of fakes, both those of old origin and new forgeries created with the most recent digital technologies.
He will be greatly missed.
R.I.P.
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STAMPA 2020 has been cancelled
The Organisers of the Irish national exhibition (STAMPA) have been obliged to cancel the exhibition this year because COVID restrictions have made it impossible to use the Conference Centre. The exhibition was due to take place in Dublin in October.
The next STAMPA will, therefore, be held in Dublin from 15-17 October 2021. The Irish Federation is also looking forward to 2022 which will mark the centenary of Irish independence and the 50th anniversary of the Stampa exhibition.
American Philatelic Society Postal History Symposium is open to all
The American Philatelic Society (APS), together with the American Philatelic Research Library and Museum, is organising a virtual Postal History Symposium from 26 – 30 October 2020. The theme will be ‘Postal Innovation in the Classic Era – Evolution leading to Modernization’ and an impressive list of speakers to deliver 14 presentations has already been confirmed, with more possibly to follow. This will be an important event in the postal history calendar and the APS has confirmed that the Symposium will be open to all.
Details of the Symposium are at:
https://stamps.org/news/c/collecting-insights/cat/postal-history/post/2020-postal-history-symposium-goes-virtual#.Xv7Vkd4o9Ew.mailto
Anyone who would like to join the Symposium will need to register in advance. The APS hopes that registration will be open from early August.
Manfred Bergman has passed away
We were sorry to hear that Manfred Bergman died in early July in Geneva at the age of 92. He participated in Verso Mexico 68 in Riccione where he came into contact with Italian collectors. He then made proposals for modifying the FIP Thematic Regulations which at the time were penalizing for sport-Olympic collections and more generally for all collections built with a chronological or systematic structure.
At IBRA 73 he began his journey at FIP exhibitions with an increasingly innovative Olympic collection, arriving at the Class of Champions. In 1977 he joined the Bureau of the FIP Thematic Commission as coordinator of the Thematic Groups and had a fundamental role in the development of the Regulations and their subsequent modifications up to the Congress of Madrid (2000) He also contributed intensively to diffusion of the Regulations and the training of jurors and exhibitors. He was often a juror but also a team leader and jury secretary at FIP exhibitions.
When the advent of Juan Antonio Samaranch as President of the Olympic Committee led to philately being added to the cultural framework of the Olympic Games Manfred played a key role, with Maurizio Tecardi, in creating the International Federation of Olympic Philately (FIPO) and in drafting an agreement with the FIP which gave its patronage to the sport-Olympic exhibitions (OLYMPHILEX) held at the Games between 1988 and 2004. Thanks to his contribution the philatelic section of the Olympic Museum in Lausanne became a point of reference for specialized collectors and for dissemination of stamp collecting to the general public. His numerous articles in the specialized press, including those on Stockholm 1912, Paris 1924 and the Portuguese issue for Amsterdam 1928, were noteworthy and proactive and his research on the cancelled Games was second to none. Among his latest stances was a strong warning about the dangers of fakes, both those of old origin and new forgeries created with the most recent digital technologies.
He will be greatly missed.
R.I.P.