(Wien/pcp) This newly published special catalogue includes not only stamp issues from 1850 onwards, but also printing and colour varieties, plate errors and misprints. It features all other philatelic special items and rarities, such as black and coloured prints,...
(Germering/pcp) The MICHEL Mediterranean Countries Catalogue covers Gibraltar, Malta, Cyprus and Turkey. Editorial improvements have been made throughout. Collectors will now find the respective expiry dates for stamp issues from 1914 to 2006 listed for Malta. The...
(Germering/pcp) The catalogue covers popular countries such as Denmark, the Faroe Islands and Greenland, as well as Iceland, Norway and Sweden. The Faroe Islands feature perforation variations on six stamp booklets from 2022 to 2024. For the production of FDCs, the...
(Germering/pcp) The new edition of the catalogue is dedicated to the beauty and significance of Württemberg postage stamps. All main numbers are illustrated in colour for the first time, making identification of your own finds even easier. The Memel region, the...
(wm-pcp) DBZ No. 13, dated 30 June 2025, announced that Ernst Isermann, the managing director of Philapress-Verlag in Göttingen, had stepped down and would be succeeded by Axel Poelen, who had previously headed the marketing department at the Göttinger Tageblatt....
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...
