NEWLY PUBLISHED: Commemorative publication 120 years of the Naumburg Stamp Collectors’ Association 1904 e.V.

(mt-pcp) On 20 April 2024, the association celebrated its centenary in Naumburg at the Nietzsche Documentation Centre, where there was also a small but fine exhibition with ten exhibits and the 36th Thuringian Philatelists’ Association Conference was held under its chairman Melchior Lemke. A commemorative publication of just under 80 pages, in which the association and philatelic chronicler Hans-Peter Garcarek published several excellent articles, was well worth reading. Firstly, on more than 20 well-illustrated pages, he continued the history of the Naumburg Stamp Collectors’ Association from 2014 to 2024, then on almost 30 pages he presented short biographies of no fewer than 23 (professional) philatelists who have left their mark on the city since the 19th century.

Garcarek is unrivalled in his ability to write such essays, as he published a 554-page study on the Zschiesche family just this year – and the book was published shortly before the event in Naumburg – which accompanied the development and history of German philately like no other. He had worked on, researched and written this work in four parts for over ten years, and it is – as the well-known philatelic historian Wolfgang Maassen recently wrote – one of the best that recent research in this field has to offer.

This commemorative publication is rounded off by a small study by Melchior Lemke from Jena on registered postage labels of the German Reichspost in the area covered by the Jena post office and an overview of the Naumburg special cancellations of the last ten years. To summarise: the commemorative publication is excellently produced and, for an association with only 13 members today, is proof that quantity does not necessarily correspond to quality. Thanks to Hans-Peter Garcarek.

Contact/Order: The commemorative publication can be obtained for 15 euros (incl. postage) from: Hans-Peter Garcarek, Jägerstr. 97, 06618 Naumburg, e-mail: petergarcarek@gmx.de

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