(pcp-wm) Roland Meiners, owner of the Cologne auction house Dr. Wilhelm Derichs, is well known for his unusual forewords, as well as for his unusual “accompanying actions”, which often provide topics of conversation even in insider circles. This time the...
(pcp-wm) , One might not believe one’s eyes and think that a scribbler might have made a mistake for a position, that it might have to be 4,400 or only 4,000 copies. Far from it, because this number was announced by Harald Rauhut in Sindelfingen, who had a...
(pcp-wm) From 17 to 20 March 2021 a World Exhibition of Philately under FIP Patronage will take place in Cape Town, the capital of South Africa. It is the first ever to be held on the African continent. On the website https://capetown2021.org/ you can already...
(pcp-wm) Ingo Maahz, born on March 30, 1936 in Rostock, Germany, had written history with his NAVICULA Ships and Shipping Company and at the same time closely linked his profession and hobby. In 1956 he moved from the DDR to Hamburg in the west and was trained as a...
(pcp-wm) On September 30, 2019, the renowned philatelist and philatelic patron Consul Hermann Walter Sieger from Lorch was relieved of his many years of suffering. Sieger, born on 6 April 1928 in Schwäbisch-Gmünd, He had been known worldwide for over seven decades...
(pcp-wm) One is reminded of the old saying that the USA is the land of unlimited possibilities when one looks at the three auction catalogues of the renowned auction company Robert Siegel, which has been auctioning the collection of the stock market The first two...
The President of the FIP Literature Commission, Gary Brown from Australia, died suddenly and unexpectedly. At STOCKHOLMIA 2019 he was still a member of the jury and evaluated philatelic literature. There we also had the opportunity to get to know and appreciate each...
(ok/pcp-wm) MICHEL Südosteuropa 2019/2020 is another volume produced with the new Philatelic Database (PDB). On the outside you can see the change in the revised layout. This is noticeable, for example, in the column titles (the headers on each page). They now consist...
(pcp-wm) One might think that this popular field of collecting has already been extensively researched in recent decades. Volker Köppel’s new book, however, brings more. Because – for the first time ever – he assigns price valuations – concrete...
(ok/pcp-wm) In 2017 a series was started about the issues of the colonial powers. There are now four volumes for the French, British (two volumes) and Colonial issues of the other European states. But there were also states outside Europe . These are in particular the...
