The Ukrainian Post used a mural by Banksy on a postage stamp to send the world a strong message marking the first anniversary of the war.
Last November, the renowned UK artist had painted a demolished wall in Borodianka, north-west of Kyiv, depicting a young boy judoka throwing down a much bigger older man, who could well be Vladimir Putin.
At its lower left corner, the postage stamp bears a six-letter, two-word abbreviated message in Cyrillic alphabet, the first three pointing to the surname of the Russian leader, the next three to a phrase which is left to the reader’s imagination.
The new stamp was released on 24th February, the day the Russian troops invaded Ukraine in 2022.
[photo credit: Getty images from bbc.com]
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The following press release was issued by Poste Italiane on 22nd February in Trieste:
On Friday 3 March, in the Mitteleuropa Postal and Telegraphic Museum of Poste Italiane (Central Post Office, via Vittorio Veneto), the documentary exhibition “Sfizi.Di.Posta. La storia attraverso la posta, la posta attraverso la storia” (“Sfizi.Di.Posta. The history through the post, the post through the history“) will open. The exhibition is edited by the philatelist Marco Occhipinti, creator and manager of “Sfizi.Di.Posta”, a space on the web and on Facebook where he tells the stories behind letters, telegrams, postcards, postage stamps and other postal documents.
Through an itinerary consisting of 13 frames with as many as 156 sheets, the exhibition housed in the Trieste Postal Museum highlights about sixty stories set in the time span from the 19th century to the post-World War II period, referring to the spirit that animates Occhipinti’s blog, in which since 2018, every Monday morning, a ‘sfizio’ is published, an article characterised by curious stories, anecdotes about well-known or anonymous people, which always starts from a postal document: letter, postcard, telegram, stamp, cancellation.
“The goal of Sfizi.Di.Posta“, explains Occhipinti, “is to spread the culture of philately and postal history, bringing to light events of the past that would otherwise be forgotten or celebrating certain events, commemorating others, giving credit and honour to the protagonists of the ‘sfizi’ in order to preserve and hand down the memory of facts and people filtered through the lens of the postal document, which thus truly becomes the protagonist of history“.
In the long overview of “Sfizi.Di.Posta”, visitors will be able to “read”, through postal items, some testimonies concerning the Trieste area; the events of the family saga of the Florio brothers, Ignazio and Vincenzo; of Donna Costanza Garibaldi, daughter-in-law of the hero of two worlds, to whom a registered letter sent in 1924 by Beatrice Salvi, director of the Giuseppe Garibaldi Hospital in La Maddalena, is addressed; the sad testimonies of the Jews imprisoned in the Mauthausen concentration camp and the victims displaced by the Polesine flood.
The exhibition will be open until Friday 31 March, Monday to Friday, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., by appointment (+39 040 6764264).
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At the meeting of the Board of Election of the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists on 16th February 2023 it was unanimously agreed that the following philatelists be invited to be the new signatories to the Roll:
Pradip Jain, RDP, India
Ms. Patricia “Trish” Kaufmann, RDP, United States of America
Professor Dr. Damian Läge, RDP, Switzerland
Jesús Sitjà-Prats, RDP, Spain
Turhan Turgut, RDP, Turkey
This year’s signing ceremony, on the occasion of the 102nd anniversary of the first signatories to the Roll, will take place at 5 pm on Friday 26 May 2022 at Schlosshotel Hugenpoet, Essen, Germany, during the IBRA 2023 International Philatelic Exhibition.
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Banksy mural on postage stamp wraps up the first year of the Ukraine war
The Ukrainian Post used a mural by Banksy on a postage stamp to send the world a strong message marking the first anniversary of the war.
Last November, the renowned UK artist had painted a demolished wall in Borodianka, north-west of Kyiv, depicting a young boy judoka throwing down a much bigger older man, who could well be Vladimir Putin.
At its lower left corner, the postage stamp bears a six-letter, two-word abbreviated message in Cyrillic alphabet, the first three pointing to the surname of the Russian leader, the next three to a phrase which is left to the reader’s imagination.
The new stamp was released on 24th February, the day the Russian troops invaded Ukraine in 2022.
[photo credit: Getty images from bbc.com]
Sfizi.Di.Posta. La storia attraverso la posta, la posta attraverso la storia
The following press release was issued by Poste Italiane on 22nd February in Trieste:
On Friday 3 March, in the Mitteleuropa Postal and Telegraphic Museum of Poste Italiane (Central Post Office, via Vittorio Veneto), the documentary exhibition “Sfizi.Di.Posta. La storia attraverso la posta, la posta attraverso la storia” (“Sfizi.Di.Posta. The history through the post, the post through the history“) will open. The exhibition is edited by the philatelist Marco Occhipinti, creator and manager of “Sfizi.Di.Posta”, a space on the web and on Facebook where he tells the stories behind letters, telegrams, postcards, postage stamps and other postal documents.
Through an itinerary consisting of 13 frames with as many as 156 sheets, the exhibition housed in the Trieste Postal Museum highlights about sixty stories set in the time span from the 19th century to the post-World War II period, referring to the spirit that animates Occhipinti’s blog, in which since 2018, every Monday morning, a ‘sfizio’ is published, an article characterised by curious stories, anecdotes about well-known or anonymous people, which always starts from a postal document: letter, postcard, telegram, stamp, cancellation.
“The goal of Sfizi.Di.Posta“, explains Occhipinti, “is to spread the culture of philately and postal history, bringing to light events of the past that would otherwise be forgotten or celebrating certain events, commemorating others, giving credit and honour to the protagonists of the ‘sfizi’ in order to preserve and hand down the memory of facts and people filtered through the lens of the postal document, which thus truly becomes the protagonist of history“.
In the long overview of “Sfizi.Di.Posta”, visitors will be able to “read”, through postal items, some testimonies concerning the Trieste area; the events of the family saga of the Florio brothers, Ignazio and Vincenzo; of Donna Costanza Garibaldi, daughter-in-law of the hero of two worlds, to whom a registered letter sent in 1924 by Beatrice Salvi, director of the Giuseppe Garibaldi Hospital in La Maddalena, is addressed; the sad testimonies of the Jews imprisoned in the Mauthausen concentration camp and the victims displaced by the Polesine flood.
The exhibition will be open until Friday 31 March, Monday to Friday, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., by appointment (+39 040 6764264).
The 2023 Signatories to the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists
At the meeting of the Board of Election of the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists on 16th February 2023 it was unanimously agreed that the following philatelists be invited to be the new signatories to the Roll:
This year’s signing ceremony, on the occasion of the 102nd anniversary of the first signatories to the Roll, will take place at 5 pm on Friday 26 May 2022 at Schlosshotel Hugenpoet, Essen, Germany, during the IBRA 2023 International Philatelic Exhibition.
The Press Release with the recipients’ short biographies and more details is here: https://fepanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/2023-new-RDP-Biographies.pdf
[photo credit: FEPA Board]