FEPA News

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…

On the 30th of October was held at the auditorium of the Spanish Royal Mint, FNMT, the Gala of the presentation of the prizes of the year, organized by the President of the NEXO Group, Mr. Eugenio de Quesada. The International Jury was formed for Presidents of Philatelic Federations and Academies from 33 different countries as detailed inside. Also were awarded stamps issued by the Posts of Belgium, Spain, Austria, Italy, United Kingdom, Slovakia, Slovenia, Estonia, Germany, Liechtenstein, Iceland, New Zealand, Hungary and Czech Republic. Read more…

Another reason for celebration of the 90th anniversary for which a stamp was issued for the occasion and our sister society in London, the Egypt Study Circle (ESC) shared with us by having some of the members visiting Egypt for the occasion. From September 9th to 15th, Dr. Sherif Samra, President of the PSE was host to exhibitors from UK, Bahrain, Oman, Iraq, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and of course Egypt who exhibited 200 frames of powerful material. Read more…

At the annual meeting of the Club , Prof. Ludwik K. Malendowicz presented on behalf of FEPA, the Certificate of Appreciation to this outstanding Club as “The Best European Philatelic Club of the Year 2018”. The meeting took place in Mikstat Las and was attended by about 50 members and supporters of the Club. The meeting was accompanied by a philatelic show Read more…

This is the first volume of a historical trilogy on Turkish postal stationery, Microhistory of theTurkish Posts, 1920-2015. Running 821 pages in color and fully bilingual, volume I covers the postal stationery of Turkey from 1920 to 1950. Most of the studied categories had not been catalogued before, let alone analyzed in depth Read more…