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The FIP Board informs: “The FIP Consultant for INDONESIA 2020 Specialized World Stamp Championship exhibition has received the official letter from the Organising Committee, that the exhibition shall be postponed to Year 2022. The Board supports the decision of the Organising Committee to postpone the exhibition, as this would also ensure the health and safety Read more…
The Philatelic Traders’ Society is organising a ‘Virtual’ Stampex from 1st – 3rd October to replace the Autumn exhibition normally held at the Business Design Centre in London. Visitors from anywhere around the world will be able to enter the show via an interactive lobby open 24 hours a day and connect with dealers, auction Read more…
The Association Internationale des Journalistes Philatéliques (International Association of Philatelic Journalists, short: AIJP) has updated its website. The previous site had been in use for about ten years and was getting to the end of its technical life. The basic elements of the website are still the same, but their arrangement has been changed. Read more…
The Prestige Philately Club Prague has sent us the following information regarding its BIENNALE 2020 ‘TREASURES OF WORLD PHILATELY’ exhibition. The exhibition will be held from November 7th to 22nd 2020 in the ceremonial halls on the 2nd floor of the National Museum in Prague. 80 to 100 individual rarities of extraordinary importance from the collections of Read more…
The FIP Board of Directors have made a difficult decision, during the 133rd FIP Conference Meeting on 8 August 2020, that the 76th FIP Congress shall not proceed in Jakarta on 10 November 2020. Read more…
Delcampe, the well-known internet trading house popular with many philatelic collectors, recently invited the FEPA President Bill Hedley to talk about what FEPA does and its priorities in the next few years. They have just published this interview on their blog. You can read it here: https://blog.delcampe.net/en/do-you-know-fepa/ A French translation of the interview will Read more…
The Académie Européenne de Philatelie (AEP) has this year awarded its Prize for the Philatelic Press to the magazine ‘Cursores’, published by the Associazione Italiana di Storia Postale (AISP), and edited by Paolo Zavattoni. This is a recognition of the high standard set by ‘Cursores’ and consolidates its standing as a journal of international importance. Read more…
The whole run 1 – 37 of the FEPA News journal has now been digitized and are readily available on this website! The process took longer than expected as the digitization project was launched almost exactly one year ago, namely July 25, 2019. Read more…
The Bund Deutscher Philatelisten e.V. has today given the following press release: World Exhibition IBRA 2021 will be postponed – Planning Uncertainties because of Corona Pandemic (BDPh) The World Stamp Exhibition IBRA will be postponed because of the corona pandemic. This was decided by the Board of Bund Deutscher Philatelisten e.V. (BDPh) during an extraordinary Read more…
The FIP Postal History Commission has put together a programme of five on-line seminars on the theme of: ‘The importance of ……… in postal history exhibiting’. The programme will run from August – October 2020 and all the seminars will be held on Sundays. The programme is as follows: Starting Time A 16 Read more…
