Archive for category: Updates

HAFNIA 24 Palmarés Tickets Newsletter #9 Copenhagen, 15 April 2024 The Palmarés will take place Saturday 19 October 2024 at 7.00 pm at CPH Conference 50 meters from the exhibition hall and next to CPH Hotel. The price per ticket is 130€…

HAFNIA 24 exhibitor applications are closing by year end! Newsletter #6 Copenhagen, 21 December 2023 HAFNIA 24 - An International Success Already now more than 10 months before HAFNIA 24 the exhibition seems to become a huge international…

If you want to exhibit? Send in your application now! Newsletter #4 Copenhagen, 22 August 2023 Even though there is long time to deadline 1 January 2024, it is now you should send in your application for exhibiting at HAFNIA24. Your application…

The following Newsletter arrived yesterday from IBRA 2023: Welcome to the 5th IBRA Newsletter IBRA is now over and the gates of the fair in Essen have closed again. What remains are countless memories of a true philatelic festival. The…

The IBRA 2023 Grand Prizes were announced at the Palmares dinner on Saturday evening, 27th May: Grand Prix d'Honneur: Walter Britz (Uruguay), "Uruguay: Early issues of the XIX century (1856-1862)" Grand Prix International: Julio Cesar…

We are open to applications! Newsletter #3 Copenhagen, 2 May 2023 We are happy that 30 commissioners will be coming to Copenhagen in October 2024 with a wide range of exhibits. The application form for the FEPA Exhibition Hafnia 24 is now…

Welcome to HAFNIA 24 Newsletter #2 Copenhagen, 31 March 2023 We would like to inform you that informations from 40 invited FEPA countries is running in to our Commissioner General about the different country responsible commissioners. We have…

NORDIA 2023 will take place in Iceland this year, organised by the Icelandic Federation. The exhibition will host all competition classes on 700 frames with a very modest participation fee at 25 euros per frame or per Literature exhibit, while…

On 25th November, during MONACOPHIL 2022, FEPA hosted a Round Table discussion in front of an audience on the strengths and weaknesses of philately and how it might evolve in the 21st century. Moderator of the event was Charles Epting, CEO of…

MONACOPHIL 2022 (23-26 November) is under way. A short video (2 min.) of H.S.H. Prince Albert II visiting the exhibition was released today by Monaco Info, a TV channel based in Monaco. You can watch the video here: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=856800645359483 Photo:…

CAPE TOWN 2022 146-page Catalogue is now available. It contains all the useful details from both the World Stamp Championship and the National Exhibition. Both events will take place between 8 and 12 November. The Catalogue may be downloaded…

The LIBEREC 2022 jury released the awards on Saturday, 15 October, noon time. Later in the day, during the palmares dinner, the jury votes were counted in front of the audience and the Grand Prize winners were announced. Grand Prix Championship…

We received the following email from our Irish fellows: Hi All, STAMPA, the Irish National Stamp Exhibition, will celebrate its 50th anniversary this week, with a return to the venue at Griffith College, Dublin. This year also marks the centenary…

We received the latest press release from the Deutsche Philatelisten-Jugend e.V. (DPhJ-ÖA) reporting that at the virtual NAPOSTA 2022, which started on 3rd September, all 12 Youth exhibits successfully presented themselves to the jury and at…

The organisers of LIBEREC 2022 European Stamp Exhibition and Polar Salon have recently released important information on the exhibition website for the upcoming event which is scheduled to take place in the beautiful city of the Czech Republic…

From 21 to 25 September, the city of Irún will host the 60th edition of EXFILNA 2022 National Philatelic Exhibition, organised by the Spanish Philatelic Federation (FESOFI), the Spanish Post (Correos) and the Bidasoa Philatelic and Numismatic…

The INDONESIA 2022 Palmares dinner took place on Sunday evening, 7 August. Major winners: World Stamp Champion: William Kwan, Hong Kong, “Hong Kong Designs, Proofs, Specimens and Other Archival Materials” Grand Prix International: Jan…

Subsidy for philatelic societies: Walter Bernatek, IBRA 2023 Treasurer, announced that philatelic societies wishing to travel together by bus to Essen and visit the exhibition will be subsidised on a first come first served basis. The subsidy…

We read on the French Federation (FFAP) website that after an interruption in 2020 for health reasons, La Poste, the FFAP, the CNEP and the ADPhile have joined forces to organise, from 23 to 26 June, the PARIS-PHILEX 2022 exhibition at the Parc…

CORREOS, the Spanish Post, has been a regular advertiser in the FEPA News magazine for quite some time. Their Creative Team surprises us every six or twelve months when they send in a different advertisement, each time a simple concept, a brand…

On 27 May we received the STAMPEX 2022 latest newsletter: Last month we opened ticket sales for Stampex - 28th September - 1st October 2022. We have had a wonderful response and continue to work on activity to make the show bigger and more…

The HELVETIA 2022 winners were announced during the palmares dinner on Saturday evening, 21 May, at the Palazzo dei Congressi. World Stamp Champion: Adriano Bergamini (Switzerland), "Postal relations between Ticino (Switzerland) and foreign…

ANTVERPIA 2022, the National Philatelic Exhibition in Belgium will take place at the Antwerp Expo, Antwerp, between 10-12 June. In addition to the regular competition classes, there will be 8 exhibits in the Championship Class, 5 exhibits in…

HELVETIA 2022 is only a couple of weeks away. The full programme has been uploaded on the exhibition website. The 2000-frames plus 100-literature items world stamp exhibition will take place in Centro Esposizioni Lugano, between 18 and 22 May,…

On 5th May, the Swiss Post will release a second miniature sheet to promote HELVETIA 2022 World Stamp Exhibition, with central theme the Seated Helvetia, who is honoured on her 160th anniversary. The designer added perforation to one vertical…

Grand Opening today of HUNFILEX 2022 World Stamp Exhibition in Budapest. The official ceremony was honoured by H.E. Mr János Áder, President of the Republic of Hungary, Mr. László Kövér, Speaker of the National Assembly of Hungary, and…

On 8 March, Jay Bigalke, Editor-in-Chief of Linn's Stamp News and Scott catalogs at Amos Media, wrote in linns.com: In the Sept. 20, 2021, issue of "Linn’s", we announced the upcoming publication of the "Most Influential Philatelists and…

The Organising Committee of Ostropa 2022 issued a long statement on Saturday 26th February, expressing their regret in their decision to cancel Ostropa for a third time. The reasoning behind the decision was stated loud and clear: "Ultimately,…

The FIP announced the nominations for the upcoming elections of the Board and the Commissions. The elections will take place in August, at the 76th FIP Congress in Jakarta, during the World Stamp Championship Indonesia 2022. Read the official…

Jiří Kraus, President of Liberec 2022 Organising Committee, posted yesterday a personal call on the exhibition website, an open invitation to the philatelic community to visit the European Stamp Exhibition and the associated exhibition "Polar…

HUNFILEX 2022 will take place from 31 March – 3 April 2022 at a new venue - the Groupama Arena (home of the Ferencvarosi Sport Club). The address is: Groupama Arena, Üllöi utca 129, Budapest. The Organisers have advised that this venue…

A draft Agreement has been reached to enable FEPA to grant Patronage to the LIBEREC 2022 exhibition. The FEPA Board's recommendation that Patronage should be granted will be discussed by Congress at its meeting in Athens on 23rd November and,…

  The IBRA Organising Team have recently published further details about the World Stamp Exhibition to be held in Essen, Germany from 25 - 28 May 2023. The exhibition will include a Grand Prix Club, Consilium Philatelicum and Schatzkammer…

The European Stamp Exhibition and Polar Salon will take place at the Hotel Babylon in Liberec, Czech Republic from 13-16 October 2022. The Organisers have applied for FEPA Patronage and FIP Recognition. The Organisers have just issued additional…

Congratulations to the Cercle Philatélique Echternach and the FSPL who succeeded in holding the '32e Journée Maximaphile & Cartes Postales' on 24th July in the face of huge problems. First, it was only in early June that the Organisers…

  We have received the following information about a video competition organised as part of the HELVETIA 2022 exhibition. Today’s technology enables new forms of communication that can reach a large number of potential new collectors,…

We are sorry to report that, due to the continuing COVID restrictions, the organisers of NORDIA 2021 have been forced to cancel this prestigious regional exhibition. NORDIA 2021 was due to be held in Kuopio, Finland from 13th - 15th August 2021. In…

The XXV^ ALPE-ADRIA exhibition, involving seven Philatelic Federations from the region of the Alps and Adriatic, has been cancelled. It was due to be held at the Sports Hall in Tarvisio, Italy from 10-13 June - having been postponed from 2020…

The Bi-annual magazine of the FEPA, FEPA News No. 37, is now available in electronic form.  It gives news from the member Federations from the first half of the 2020, and informs coming exhibitions later on this year as well as in 2021 and…

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...

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.

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

In a good 18 months IBRA 2021 will open its doors at Messe Essen from 6 to 9 May. A foretaste of the first World Stamp Exhibition in Germany after 1999 is the IBRA homepage, which went online recently. The redesigned and modern website provides an overview of the major event is constantly updated and regularly informs about news. Info 1 is available for download in PDF format. Just have a look at www.IBRA2021.de!

The Exhibition, organized by the "Fédération des Sociétés philatéliques du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg" (FSPL) has the auspices of His Royal Highness the Grand Duke and the auspices of Mr. Xavier Bettel, Minister of State, Mme Lydie Polfer, Mayor of the City of Luxembourg and FEPA Recognition. Will be held from 8 to 10 November 2019, participating exhibitors from The Netherlands, Germany, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Austria, Switzerland and Slovenia

The new Board of the Austrian Federation -- Verband Österreichischer Philatelisten-Vereine, was elected on Friday, 20th of September 2019 by the members of the Austrian Philatelic clubs. President: Mag. Helmut Kogler as before, Vice-President: Ing. Alfred Kunz as before, Secretary: Mag. Erich Böck…

146 collections from 16 countries were represented - Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Brazil, Czech Republic, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Ukraine, USA. Competitive exhibits were presented in seven exhibition classes. Postal administrations of different countries...

The FEPA Board unanimously agreed in granting the FEPA Recognition to the “Continental Stamp Exhibition 90th Anniversary of The Philatelic Society of Egypt”. It will be celebrated from September 9th to 15th 2019 in Cairo, Egypt, with the participation of 6 Arab countries and the Egypt Study Circle, London. The RPSL will symbolically be celebrating its 150th Anniversary with one their member attending.

EFIRO 2019 will take place at the Museum of Romanian Records, Bucharest, from the 19th to the 21st September 2019. It is still time for the exhibits in the "Literature" class that must be sent in a single copy until August 20, 2019. There are no participation fees for any of the exhibition classes.

The French National Exhibition was of high level: 180 exhibits in the 15 competition classes which were awarded 23 Gold medals, 40 Grand Vermeil medals and 47 Vermeil. Was also held the 92nd Congress of the FFAP with the participation of 600 Delegates representing the nearly 400 Philatelic Societies and Clubs members of the French Federation.

Many of you have already received the 84 pages magazine that includes the information of the events from January to June 2019, as well as updated information of the upcoming exhibitions and events. If you are not in the list of your National Federation to receive it (is for free), you can read it here, or download the full magazine. In this issue are news from Albania, Austria, Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Moldova, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey.

We are receiving today the information that a new Board has been elected at the „Union of Philatelists of Serbia“, the Serbian Philatelic Federation, for the period April 2019 - April 2023. It consists of all the regional representatives directly delegated and confirmed by the Assembly. Nikola Ljubicic was elected as a new President of Union of Philatelists of Serbia. Congratulations and our best wishes for success.

Alan Druce, Mark Schwartz, Vittorio Morani, Tim O’Conner, Bruce Marsden, Colin Tobitt and Fred Hoadley, awarded

Mr. Jeffrey Stone received during the Stockholmia 2019 his Certificate as finalist to the FEPA Medal 2018 for Exceptional Philatelic Study and Research...

The leading motto of the Conference was "Polish Post Offices in the years 1918-1922, in the period of establishing the borders of the Second Republic". During the opening of the Conference. Hans Vogels, a member of the Polish Academy of Philately, was appointed finalist "to the 2018 FEPA medal for exceptional research"

On the occasion of the 29th International Stamp Fair in Essen on May 10th 2019 important steps have been taken towards IBRA 2021. The signing of the patronage contract with the Fédération Internationale de Philatélie (FIP) took place in attendance of guests and journalists specialized in philately

The FEPA Board unanimously agreed in granting the FEPA Recognition to the HUNFILA 2019 , with the invited National Federations of Austria, Croatia, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Slovenia (Alps-Adria countries), Czech Republik, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain with Hungary total 13 countries, moreover the Hungarian Philatelic Society in Great Britain (HPS) and ARGE Ungarn e.V. The exhibition will be held in Budapest from 04-06 October 2019.

Mr. Vladimir Kachan, Vice-chairman of the Union of Philatelists of Belarus, has sent us the interesting article "The Imperial Families of Habsburgs very loved of Butterflies". Mr. Kachan, who has been collecting stamps for 55 years, starting at 6 years old, has published more than 100 articles about butterflies and moths in philately with the aim of popularising the subject of lepidoptera on stamps, cancels and postal stationeries

Ivar Sundsbø, Leader of the Philatelic Committee, is sending us an updating of what promises to be an extremely interesting exhibition. NORDIA 2019 is quite up to schedule, just setting up the detailed program for each day, catalogue and the arrangement of frames. NORDIA 2019 which received the FEPA Recognition, will host lots of activities during the show.

Mr. Tone Simončič, President of The Philatelic Society of Ljubljana has received the Certificate of Appreciation granted to the Society  for outstanding activities for the promotion of philately. It has played an important role in spreading philatelic knowledge and attracted many younger people to stamp collecting.

On occasion of the Slovenija 2019 exhibition, a new course of the FIP Jury Academy was held in Kamnik. The outstanding trainers have been Peter P. McCann, USA and Charles Verge, Canada. Acted as FIP Observers Bernard Beston, Australia, FIP President, and Peter Suhadolc, Slovenia. The list of participants, in alphabetical order is: Boncho Bonev …

As you were informed, the past FEPA Congress in Prague decided to have the 2019 Congress in Monaco accepting the kind request of the Club de Monte-Carlo (Monaco Federation). Now, the President, Patrick Maselis inform us that all Delegates to the Congress and their partners can go for free to all MonacoPhil activities, including Gala Dinner, cocktails...

The FEPA Board unanimously agreed to grant the requested FEPA Recognition to the OSTROPA 2020 International Exhibition to be held in Berlin from the 25th to the 28th of June 2020, with the participation of Germany, Estonia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Ukraine and Hungary

Miguel Ángel García Fernández was re-elected President for the period 2019-2023, with the support of all the Regional Federations, at the General Assembly of the Spanish Federation of Philatelic Societies – FESOFI, held in Madrid on the 10th of March 2019.