The winners of the Crawford Medal at the 4th Annual Crawford Festival were Tomas Bjäringer and Mårten Sundberg, co-authors of Tête Bêche: Rarities from the Oval-Issue of Finland. The shortlisted books included: Dominica: Philately to 1967 by Simon Richards. New York...
With deep regret we announce the passing of Dr Alan K Huggins RDP (1936-2025) who had been unwell for some time. Alan made many contributions to philately in the UK and the world over many years, especially through his ground-breaking work on postal stationery. He...
“Italy, its colonies and territories” is this year’s theme of Opus XXV, featuring eighteen articles by different authors in 236 pages. “The fact that the current Opus bears the number 25 means that the annual book of our European Academy of Philately is already a...
Stamps as Witnesses of History is not a book about the history of stamps as such. It is a book about how stamp issues since Rowland Hill invented the first adhesive postage stamp in 1840 have “witnessed” the seismic global political developments over the years. It is...
(wm-pcp) Sometimes it is difficult to know whether to admire or acknowledge more: the perfection of a philatelist or the innovative approach they take to a theme or exhibit. Jonas Hällström’s introductory sentence in this book confirms this, as he writes:...
(wm-pcp) In his foreword to the lavish, deluxe, hardcover catalogue of lawyer Dr. Christoph Priebe’s collection, entitled ‘The Kingdom of Bavaria 1949 to 1875’, owner Roland Meiners writes: The catalogue contains 710 selected ‘treats’...
The album book featuring Albanian postage stamps dedicated to Mother Teresa was first published in 2018. Six years have now passed, and this book has been well received by readers, especially philatelic researchers and collectors of Albanian postage stamps in Albania...
For more than 35 years, I have devoted my life to studying and researching postage stamps dedicated to our national hero, George Castriot Skanderbeg, and publishing books about them. In 2018, I collaborated with the Albanian Post to publish this book in Albanian and...
(Germering/pcp) The newly published volume contains details of all Chinese stamp issues, from the first issue by the Empire in 1878 to the most recent issues from the four active sub-regions: Taiwan, the People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong, and Macau. It also...
(Germering/PCP) The newly published volume covers Moldova and Romania. Editorial improvements have been made throughout. Romania’s collectors can now find the exact withdrawal date for each issue from 1940 to 2001, as well as for Moldova’s 100 invalid...
(Germering/PCP) The newly published volume covers Albania and Bulgaria, including Eastern Rumelia, as well as Greece and its many formerly autonomous regions and small states, such as the Aegean Islands, Mount Athos, Epirus, Ikaria, the Ionian Islands, Crete, Samos...
(wm-pcp) A preliminary remark is in order. Although the book was declared to have been published in 2024, it did not reach editorial offices until 2025. It was not exhibited until May 2025 at the EuroPhilex in Birmingham. It did not appear under the author’s...
