
Portuguese philately celebrates Centenary of South Atlantic Crossing
The June edition of Filatelia Lusitana, the official organ of the Portuguese Federation, is dedicated to the centenary of the first air crossing of the South Atlantic by two Portuguese pioneers, Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral.
President…

The British Philatelic Bulletin available on the GBPS website
We copy from the Great Britain Philatelic Society (GBPS) website:
The "British Philatelic Bulletin" is an official monthly publication of the Royal Mail aimed at stamp collectors, supplying detailed information about forthcoming British stamp…

The Polish Philatelists Union (PZF) awards Philatelic Literature Medals
The Committee of the Medal "for the development of philatelic publications" of the Polish Philatelists Union (PZF) awarded the 2021 medals to the following recipients:
Jerzy Kupiec - Węgliński, United States (for the second time). Medal for…

An interview with the Makers of MICHEL in NFT
We received the following press release by MICHEL on 24th May.
The Norwegian collectors' magazine Norsk Filatelistisk Tidsskrift (No. 3/2022) published an interview with the MICHEL editors-in-chief. Journalist Øyvind Refsnes asked the longtime…

A call for Philatelic Literature exhibits by the AIJP President
Promoting and supporting Philatelic Literature has been one of FEPA's principal objectives. Wolgang Maassen, President of AIJP, the International Association of Philatelic Journalists, called yesterday its members to participate with their Literature…

Opus XXII dedicated to Switzerland
Opus XXII is dedicated to Switzerland. This year's big book of the European Academy of Philately (AEP) has been published in time for its official presentation, which will take place in Lugano, on the occasion of HELVETIA 2022.
The 226-page…

HELVETIA 2022 Exhibition Catalogue and Jury uploaded
As we are getting closer to the grand opening of HELVETIA 2022 World Stamp Exhibition, the organisers uploaded an elegant and comprehensive 200-page-plus Exhibition Catalogue. At the same time, they uploaded the composition of the Jury.
A Public…

MICHEL database with stamps from all over the world
Schwaneberger Verlag has revised and updated the large MICHEL-Online database. It contains the cataloguing from the 16 printed catalogues about European stamps, the 20 catalogues about stamps from overseas and the MICHEL catalogue Germany with…

New Delcampe magazine: “Collections Classiques”
For the past six years or so we have experienced the two different Delcampe magazine series: Philately (Philatélie) and Special Edition (Hors-Série). Last week Delcampe released No. 1 of a new series, the Collections Classiques.
According…

Vaccari News celebrates 19 years: “la filatelia in tempo reale”
We read in Vaccari News today that it was 8th March 2003 when their webpage was released. The first post was about Aldo Capitini's "flag of peace", a topic quite relevant to today's Ukraine conflict, as their own webmaster commented.
The webpage…

Liberec 2022 has released Exhibition Bulletin No. 1
The Liberec 2022 Organising Committee has recently released an attractive 32-page booklet and uploaded it on the exhibition website.
You can read Bulletin No. 1 here (6.35 MB).

600 numbers for the Spanish Revista de Filatelia
The Revista de Filatelia magazine celebrated its 600th number with its current February issue. The first number of the Spanish monthly appeared in September 1967. In 2005 the magazine was honoured by the European Academy of Philately (AEP) with…

New book on Postal Museum Collections: Just Large Enough
All About Stamps website reported that a new book by Douglas N. Muir, Senior Curator at the Postal Museum, will be available on 19th February.
According to the same report, Eliska Bejrova, Social Media & PR Officer at The Postal Museum,…

Edition d’Or No. 60 released from the Global Philatelic Network
The Global Philatelic Network (Corinphila, Heinrich Köhler etc.) continues the production of elegant volumes in the Edition d’Or series, which started in 2006. Each book presents a collection that has been awarded with a Grand Prix or at…

London 2022 Official Catalogue now available to pre-order
The exhibition management announced via its Twitter account that the official catalogue of the London 2022 International Exhibition is now available in a special bumper pack, along with the March 2022 issue of Stamp Collector magazine, available…

Alphonse Mayer von Rothschild: Legendary Collector #31
Devlan Kruck is the UK Representative of David Feldman SA International Auctioneers & Curator at the Museum of Philately. In April 2020 Devlan set up a series of philatelic biographies on the blog of the DFSA website and presented Georges…

Documents Philatéliques No. 251 recently released
Documents Philatéliques No. 251, the journal of l'Académie de philatélie (Paris, France), was released on 15th January. The French Academy was born in 1928, and the Documents Philatéliques has been issued quarterly for more than fifty years…

Post Horn magazine is going strong
Post Horn No. 5 is on the way to be delivered to its membership. The brand new 108-page issue marks three years since it first appeared in early Spring 2019 by Claudio Ernesto Manzati and his partners Giorgio Migliavacca and Thomas Mathà.
The…