The Royal Philatelic Society London is the world’s oldest stamp society, founded in 1869. It awards the Crawford Medal annually for the most valuable and original contribution to the study and knowledge of philately in book form, whether physical or electronic. It was...
(London-fw/pcp) Where will you be this time next year? After several months with no significant activity, the time has come for the London 2022 exhibition to be promoted – especially as it is exactly one year from today that the show opens. The UK has been hit badly...
(AIJP/pcp-wm) This renowned journal, which Jonas Hällström RDP FRPSL, one of Sweden’s best-known philatelists, has now taken over from his predecessor Morton Persson, is published five times a year. The latter was editor of the journal from 1994-2020, i.e. for...
(AIJP/pcp-wm) This year’s MonacoPhil exhibition announced for 9-11 December 2021 in Monte-Carlo unfortunately had to be cancelled. As many organisers are currently focusing on the end-of-year calendar, this proved impossible, so the planned event for this year...
At the end of 2020, another new post-historical publication will be published, and what a kind! It concerns a set of 4 books with a total of no less than 1.780 pages and a total weight of approx. 16 kg! This book set is the crème de la crème for all those concerned...
From 25 to 30 January 2021 Corinphila Auctions will offer for sale a very unusual range of material. The high-quality material being offered will be presented in no less than eight luxury auction catalogues. The auction begins with high-quality offers from South...
The Fédération Internationale de Philatélie (FIP) has recently made two important decisions in response to the continuing evolution of philatelic exhibiting. The first relates to Open Philately, an approach to exhibiting whose popularity has increased steadily since...
Right on time, the Organising Committee of NOTOS 2021 has published Bulletin 2 in preparation for the exhibition. NOTOS will be held at the Peristeri Exhibition Centre in Athens from 19 – 22 November 2021 and is expected to have 2,000 16-sheet frames + 200 Literature...
After this exhibition in the Prague National Museum had been canceled weeks ago, the Prestige Philately Club in Prague announced on December 2, 2020 that it will now be held in the museum from December 16, 2020 to January 3, 2021. Large numbers of visitors are...
Pan American Airways Wartime Transatlantic Air Mail: Censorship and the LATI Substitute, written by John Wilson and Frank Walton RDP FRPSL, is a fascinating account of how the USA and UK co-operated during World War II to run a censorship and intelligence-gathering...
(Wolfgang Maassen RDP FRPSL, AIJP) Recently, there has been an increase in the number of important works in which the existing and/or well-known frankings from the early period of philately, the so-called ‘classic’ philatelic period, are recorded and...
(Wolfgang Maassen RDP FRPSL, AIJP) Recently, there has been an increase in the number of important works in which the existing and/or well-known frankings from the early period of philately, the so-called ‘classic’ philatelic period, are recorded and...
