(p*c/pcp) The 12th annual volume of this free digital journal for philately and literary history has been available in print since March 2025. As in the previous year, it is available in two separate hardcover volumes, as the four issues of this journal, which were...
(p*c/pcp) In 2022, the first volume of this special book series was published, dedicated to the Spiro family – a family from Hamburg (the 255-page book appeared in both German and English). In this work, the well-known author and philatelic historian Wolfgang Maaßen...
(p*c/pcp) In 2017, a book by Wolfgang Maassen was published that uncovered the countless legends and myths surrounding the most famous stamp collector of all time: ‘The Mysterious Philipp von Ferrari. Philatelist, Philanthropist and Cosmopolitan’ (special edition 12...
(p*c/pcp) This topic was long overdue, as the author had already described the history of the Association of Philatelic Experts, the Federal Association of German Stamp Auctioneers and, most recently, the Association of German Philatelists years ago. What was missing...
(RPSL/AIJP/pcp) Simon Richards FRPSL is the new President of the Royal Philatelic Society London. Simon’s appointment as President was approved on 9 January by the Council of the Society following the untimely death on 25 December 2024 of Michael Roberts FRPSL,...
(vph-cs) In 2024, associated expertizer Reinoud Brandsen VPh from ‘s-Hertogenbosch (NL) joined the previously ‘small squad’ with the expertising areas of Old Montenegro and Old Serbia. In 2025, Mariusz Maciejewski VPh (*1963) from Katowice (PL) joins with the...