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’...
