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August 2016 Newsletter of the very active Postal Stationery Commission
Left, the Commission’s Chairman, Lars Engelbrecht. Right, Ross Towle presenting at the Postal Stationery Commission meeting, New York 2016
3 Days Symposium on Postal History in Carinthia
Left photo, Bojan Bracic during his presentation. Right photo, the attendats on the last day, when the resume of the symposium was discussed. On the left side (from left to right): Mr. Fritz Sturzeis, Dr. Armin Lind, Mr.Georg Ziegler, Dr. Hermann Dietz, Dr. Helmut Kobelbauer, Mr. Herbert Robisch, NN , Mr.Igor Pirc. On the right side (from left to right): Mr. Robert Lipp, Mr. Thomas Artel, Mr. Mihail Fock, Dr. Hadmar Fresacher, Mr. Ingomar Pinter, Mr. Bojan Krajnc, Mag. Bostjan Petauer.
The Slovenian Philatelic Association (FZS) andthe Carinthian Philatelic Club (KärntnerPhilatelistenclub Klagenfurt, Austria) organized the 4th Postal history Symposium
POSTAL HISTORY OF FORMER KRAIN AND LOWER STYRIA FROM PRE-PHILATELY TO THE END OF WWI, DURING SHS 1919-1921 AND DURING OCCUPATIONS OF SLOVENIA IN WWII
The event was held on the Carinthian hill at an inn in the village of Plöschenberg/Plešivec with a beautiful panorama over the romantic countryside on both sides of the river Drau/Drava. About 25 postal history fans from both countries (and a guest from Germany) took part to the three-day meeting held from April 15to 17, 2016.Among the participants there were also the president of the Slovenian Association, Dr. Suhadolc, and a representative of the board of the Austrian Federation, Dr. Lind.
The program consisted in the following presentations:
Gert Geier, Austria: The post in Crown land Krainun til 1918
Bojan Bračič, Slovenia: The post in Lower Styria until 1918
Bojan Kranjc, Slovenia :Late use of Austrian postmarks after the end of WWI in the State/Kingdom of SHS
Dr. Helmut Kobelbauer, Austria: Other late usage of Austrian Monarchy postal items after WWI
Dr. Robert Lipp, Austria: Lower Styria under German Occupation (1941 – 1945)
Dr. Hadmar Fresacher, Austria: Oberkrain(1941 – 1945)
Fritz Sturzeis, Austria: Italian and German Occupation of ProvinzLaibach(1941 – 1945)
All the presentations were enriched with small displays of postal material in frames, as well as with scanned postal items. Dr. Kobelbauer summarized at the end of the symposium the important points raised by each presentation and proposed some topics for the next symposium to be planned in two or three years.
The venue of the symposium – Austrian Carinthia – was quite meaningful for the discussed topics. In its southern part the Slovenian minority is present (The 1920 plebiscite after WWI was the topic of the previous symposium), the village Plöschenberg/Plešivecbears the name in both languages, the mother language of the landlord of the inn is Slovenian, the small nine-men choir from the nearby village enriched the evening with harmonious singing that included one old Slovenian folk song. And we – the lovers of postal history – are all very good friends.
A special thanks for this successful symposium is due to its main organizer, Dr. Hadmar Fresacher.
Igor Pirc
ABPS York Fair 2016, National Exhibition with international participation at the York Racecourse
Left, the winner, Mr Sandeep Jaiswal. Right, view of the York Racecourse which hosted the Exhibition
On the 15th – 16th July 2016 the York Racecourse hosted the exhibition organised by Stamp World Exhibitions, on behalf of The Association of British Philatelic Societies. So, no horses but stamps were admired in this occasion.
All FIP Classes together with Cinderella and Picture Post Card Classes were accepted.
This National Competition was open to all exhibitors in the United Kingdom, and to exhibitors from other FIP and FEPA affiliated countries. As many as 95 Stamp Dealers were present.
Mrs Yvonne Wheatley very kindly sent us the following information about the awards:
The Best in Show and Large Gold Medal was awarded to Mr Sandeep Jaiswal with British India – Queen Victoria Postal Stationery. An in depth study of Victorian postal stationery with special emphasis on errors and varieties and unusual and extraordinary usages.
Gold medals in the Traditional Class were awarded to Mr Jon Aitchison – Identifying the Seventeen Printings of the first Herm Island issue, the ‘Nautical Chart’ Stamps.
Dr Richard Hobbs with British Propaganda Envelopes of the 19th Century and Mr Stan Lawrence with The elaboration of the Gibraltar 1977 definitive – the ‘Nature’ set.
In the Postal History Class Prof Peter Chadwick gained a Gold Medal for Handstruck Chargemarks of the Official London Posts.
Lastly in the Postcard Class Mr Colin Hoffman received a Gold Medal for The Early Postcards of Rhodesia in the undivided back era.
Thank you Yvonne for your excellent collaboration and congratulations to the winners!