FEPA News

We have started setting up NOTOS 2021 two years ago and right now we are exactly two years away from the Grand Opening. The 38-page Bulletin No. 1 which you are invited to download herein pretty much sums up the first part of the story. A brand new software: It was developed by our team as a web application in order to be used by anyone involved with NOTOS 2021. Commissioners’ appointments and Jurors’ proposals by the National Federations, exhibitors’ entry forms as well as visitors’ data will be submitted online Read more…

To paraphrase the slogan of the World Philatelic Exhibition – EFIRO 2008 – Time goes by, stamps remain, for the National Philatelic Exhibition with international participation EFIRO 2019 we launched the motto Time goes by, the philatelists remain. Held in the halls of the Museum of the Romanian Records, the Vth edition of the EFIRO exhibition offered the opportunity to the Romanian and the foreign exhibitors from Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Israel, Republic of Moldova, Serbia and Hungary… Read more…

It will not be long before London 2020, the international stamp exhibition to be held at the Business Design Centre in London’s Islington in May, is upon us. The dates to note are Saturday, 2 May to Saturday, 9 May. There will be over 125 standholders comprising dealers, auctioneers and philatelic publishers. In addition several postal administrations will have stands.There will be much to see among the exhibits, these filling no fewer than 1,700 frames. Indeed, such has been the demand to exhibit that the entries will be shown in two sections. The first half (Saturday, 2 May to Tuesday, 5 May) will include… Read more…

The exhibition was organized by the National Federation of Hungarian Philatelist (MABÉOSZ), with the Sponsorship of the FIP and the FEPA Recognition , moreover support from the Hungarian Post. Were shown 500 frames from 12 invited countries. The National Grand Prix, went to the Austrian exhibitor Herbert Kotal, with his collection „Stamps of the first twenty years of Hungarian Postal Administration 1867-1887”. The International Grand Prix winner was the Portuguese collector Luiz Barreiros for his fantastic collection „Postal History of the Pre-stamp period of Portugal and it’s colonies”. Read more…

We are informed about the sad news: Eugenijus Uspuras , President of the Union der Philatelisten Litauens has died at the age of 64. Born on July 24, 1955, in Irkutsk, Russia, he was professor and member of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences. He carried out a successful scientific career being Director of the Lithuanian Energy Institute and at present, Manager of the Division of Nuclear research. Passionate for philately he had a Gold Medal exhibit “Railway Post in Lithuania 1861 – 1949”. In collaboration with Jan Kaptein he wrote an important book on the same subject. Rest in peace Read more…

The 57th National Spanish exhibition had this year the Czech and German Federations as guest’s participants. It was held from the 6th to the 10th November 2019. The motto has been ‘Immerse yourself in the immensity of philately’. At the exhibition opening, the special stamps and HB issued by the Spanish Post “Correos” were postmarked under the water by four divers at the huge aquarium of the Cantabrian Maritime Museum. Read more…