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DeBra2024 Newsletter #4
Yesterday, DeBra2024 exhibition organisers released their February Newsletter. The big news is that the AIJP has granted patronage to the exhibition and that Heinrich Köhler will be the exhibition’s major sponsor. It was also announced that in addition to over 800 exhibition frames, there will be more than 25 dealers and study groups at the premises.
The deadline for registration is 29 February.
Newsletter No. 4 is here:
https://fepanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/DE-BR-NSL04.pdf
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KARLSTAD 2024 is coming up in August
KARLSTAD 2024 is a national and regional exhibition that celebrates the 440th anniversary of the city of Karlstad, Sweden. It is organised by the local Karlstad Philatelic and Postcard Society together with the Kils Stamp Society. The Swedish Federation (SFF) and the Swedish Youth Association (SFU) are active partners, and AB Philea is the main sponsor. The three-day event will take place between 30 August and 1 September.
Norwegian exhibitors will also participate following the organisers’ invitation to the Norwegian Federation.
Details: https://karlstad2024.se
Bulletin 1: https://fepanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Karlstad-2024-Bulletin-1.pdf
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A Visit to the Frankfurt Philatelic Library
Another fine article on a philatelic library by Abhishek Bhuwalka. The article was first published as “A Visit to the Frankfurt Philatelic Library”, Philatelic Literature Review, whole no. 281 (Fourth Quarter 2023). It has been lightly edited with additional information for publication online.
The Frankfurt Philatelic Library (FPL) is the library of the Verein für Briefmarkenkunde 1878 e.V. Frankfurt am Main (Association/Club/Society for Philately 1878 e.V. Frankfurt am Main).
Containing about 25,000 media items, i.e. handbooks, catalogs, periodicals, exhibition catalogs, auction catalogs, DVDs, etc., FPL is, along with the philatelic libraries in Munich (over 65,000 items) and Hamburg (over 40,000), one of the larger philatelic libraries in Germany.
The Verein für Briefmarkenkunde 1878 e.V. Frankfurt am Main (VfB) was formed on 6 June 1878 with just 15 members. While not the first, it is one of the oldest surviving societies in Germany. The great Alfred Moschkau was reportedly present at an extraordinary general meeting of the society on 29 July 1878. In the 1st August 1878 issue of Illustrirtes Briefmarken-Journal, which he edited, Moschkau greeted the formation of the society and hoped that it would bloom and prosper and be a real nursery of philately.
A modest collection of literature was begun that year though the library is first formally referred to in a document pertaining to the Society’s annual general meeting in 1882. In 1885, the library bought its second bookcase for a price of 20 gold marks as the old one was no longer big enough and was sold for five marks!
Read the complete article here: https://thephilatelist.substack.com/p/a-visit-to-the-frankfurt-philatelic
[photo credit: Abhishek Bhuwalka]
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