The new issue no. 2/2024 has around 275 pages in A4 format. It contains around 60 pages looking back on topics such as 100 years of Pfankuch, 90 years of Edgar Mohrmann and 40 years of Peter Feuser auctions. The second part of the booklet has around 140 pages, focussing on the exhibit reproduction of “Stamp Day from 1949 to 1956 in Saarland” (an item by Volker Köppel) and the 24th instalment (!) of Wolfgang Schneider’s series “Germany’s stamp artists”. Maassen recalls the first colour chart for stamp collectors, the first exhibitors, the first Episcopal stamp auction, early collection documentation and the first instalment of the early history of the APHV, the professional association of the German stamp trade. The Indian Abhishek Bhuwalka devotes 20 pages to his visit to the Frankfurt Philatelic Library, whose history and present he describes and illustrates in minute detail. Phila Historica publishes his reportage in both English and German. This new issue is rounded off by overviews of new acquisitions of literature in German philatelic libraries.
Phil*Creativ Verlag also has a feasible solution for lovers of printed literature, because after each completed volume, a so-called annual volume is published, which reproduces all the specialist articles on approx. 1,000 pages – but here with black and white illustrations – in one (or, as for 2023, two) hardcover volumes. Formerly available for 80 euros, since the enormous increase in paper and printing prices for 90 euros, usually 20 euros cheaper for subscribers. You can also be informed by e-mail about the upload of a new issue before it is published. You can be added to the e-mail distribution list by writing to W.Maassen@philcreativ.de
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