Archive for category: Updates

With effect March 2019, the new board has been elected, being formed as follows: President, Hans-Peter Rheinberger. Board Members (In alphabetical order): Danler Siegfried, Dürr Thomas, Erne Stefan, Huys Jan and Windels Heini

The Italian Federation (FSFI) announced the celebrations of the 100th anniversary of its foundation at the General Assembly held at Milanofil 2019. The main event, including also the European Championship of Thematic Philately,will be from 22 to 24 November in Verona at the 133th Veronafil, with the FEPA Patronage

At the ordinary Assembly of delegates of the Swiss Federation of Philatelic Societies in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Rolf Leuthard was elected as the new Central Chairman of the VSPhV / FSPhS. Rolf Leuthard officially took office on 1st January 2019 and succeeded Hans Schwarz. The latter led the Federation for about 2 ½ years after Ivo Bader's resignation for health reasons in mid-2016. Hans Schwarz has been elected Vice-President. With this "rotation of function" at the head

On the 28th of February the Organizing Committee of NOTOS 2021 has issued its Newsletter number 2 including the confirmation of the Philatelic and Postal Museum, Athens, to exhibit to the public together for the first time the seven printing plates of the Large Hermes Heads of 1861, known as the “Magnificent Seven”. A special webpage dedicated to the seven printing plates...

With this title, the cover page of the “Tageblatt” advise the interview that is presented at full big page inside to Jos Wolff RDP, FIP Honorary President, President of the Federation of Luxembourg... . The Tageblatt is one of the most important daily newspapers of Luxembourg. This is an outstanding example of fantastic promotion of Philately. Congratulations, Josy!

The National Exhibition with International participation of Youth Philately, Spanish Championship, JUVENIA 2019, will be held in the Monastery of San Juan de Burgos, from May 7 to May 11, 2019, under the sponsorship of the Spanish Post, the City Council of Burgos and

The city of Warsaw and the Polish Olympic Committee are honored to host the 25th jubilee gathering of Olympic stamp, coin, pin and memorabilia collectors from around the world at the Olympic Centre from 24-26 May for WARSAW 2019.

The FEPA Board unanimously agreed in granting the FEPA Recognition to "ÖVEBRIA 2020", on occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the Philatelic Club BSV St. Pölten. This city, capital of Lower Austria, will host the exhibition from the 2nd to the 4th October 2020.

The European Academy of Philately has issued the Newsletter 2018-2 with plenty of interesting activities of the AEP. Congratulations particularly to the Academy's President, Jean Voruz and to the Editor of the "Trait d'Union", Peter Suhadolc.

Quite possible. We do not have any proof of a similar postal stationery. Dutch Monthly Filatelie, in which the Dutch Federation KNBF is publishing their official announcements, was delivered on the 10th of January with its first issue (out of 11 yearly) for 2019. The carrier is – at least – for this year and 2020 the other Dutch postal operator SANDD. This is not unique, as SANDD is delivering a lot of magazines as well as state mail, such as from the tax office. What makes it unique is the new postal stationery with which the magazine has been delivered. This is a magazinekaart, not to be mixed up with briefkaart which is a postal card send by itself with a text.

The year 2019 will be very important for the Italian Federation of Philatelic Societies since they we will celebrate our first Centenary. One of the highlights of the celebrations will be the 9th European Championship of Thematic Philately (ECTP), to be held in Verona from 22 to 24 November 2019, with FEPA recognition.

The National Dutch Exhibition with International participation GOUDA 2019 will be held on 17-20 April 2019 together with the 26e International fair for postage stamps and covers. The exhibition of around 700 frames (plus literature) will have international participation. Among some other countries there will be many entries from Belgium and collections from

It was a Philatelic Exhibition on the 100th Anniversary of the first Czecho-Slovak Stamp celebrating the formation of the Czechoslovak Republic in 1918. The organisational team under the strong commandment of Miroslav Bachratý (and with the great support of the Slovak post / POFIS) was able to compile an incomparable pile of great exhibits

The FEPA Board has unanimously agreed in granting the requested FEPA Recognition to MonacoPhil 2019 to be held from 28 – 30 November 2019. Amongst its events will be celebrated the FEPA Congress 2019

Amongst the events of the FEPA Exhibition “EXFILNA 2018”, on the 3rd of November were held in Seville at the “Archivo General de Indias” a cycle of conferences in front of a numerous and interested public coming from Spain, Colombia, Argentina, Panama, Portugal, France, Netherlands, Sweden, Germany

At the 2018 General Meeting of the Working Group of Maximaphily and Postcards were honoured Günter Formery (D), Jean-Louis Reuter and Jos Wolff (L)

Italia 2018 International Literature Exhibition is approaching and jurors have already started their work using the special software prepared for the evaluation. As that allows more flexibility, applications for participation can be entered till 10 November at www.italia2018.eu

The 2018 CIFO and Giorgio Khouzam Foundation “Giovanni Riggi di Numana Award” has been given to her “For carrying out an in-depth research and study on forty-two letters sent by Isabella d'Este Gonzaga to his brother, Cardinal Ippolito d'Este, in the years 1504-1506, preserved in the Secret Archive Estense of Modena”.

Three members of The Royal Philatelic Society London showed aspects of Latin America at the meeting held on 4 October. John Shaw MBE FRPSL displayed traditional philately of Paraguay and Haiti, Glen Stafford showed Nicaragua postal stationery, while Ray Todd OAM RDP FRPSL chose traditional philately of Chile, postal history of Haiti and postal stationery of Paraguay.

Monsieur Pascal Bandry has kindly sent us the result of the competition for the best Maximum Card of 2017, organized under the chairmanship of Mrs. Jenny Banfield, President of the FIP Commission for Maximaphily. The result: 21 countries participation Votes…

Most of the FEPA Awards of the year were presented in Prague on occasion of the FEPA Congress, while some were already handed out and two will be presented in November on occasion of FEPA Exhibitions in Spain and Italy

The Specialized World Stamp Exhibition to be held in Essen from 6th to 9th May 2021 will include the Championship Class, Traditional Philately, Postal History, Thematic, Open Philately, Picture Postcards and a large Philatelic Literature Class.

Amongst the very interesting events hosted on occasion of "PRAGA 2018" was held the AIJP Congress to which were invited representatives of all European federations and the president of the FIP literature commission. The President of the AIJP, Mr. Wolfgang Maassen gave the lecture "Philatelic literature at exhibitions: a critical examination" which you can read here in full

We have the sad task to inform that Ingolf Kapelrud, FRPSL passed away on the evening of the 10th of July 2018 at the age of 74. He was President of FEPA 1995-2001, and Honorary FEPA President since 2001. He was a fantastic philatelist who worked very hard for philately. He was also an extremely kind person and we were lucky to have worked together and to became a good friend of him. Rest in peace.