In deviation from the text of the printed version of INFO 2 for IBRA, the hall planning has been reconsidered and changed in recent weeks. This was prompted on the one hand by the desire for more flexibility, and on the other hand by Messe Essen’s efforts to obtain...
It is with sadness that we have heard of the loss of Bernard Behr, on 16 January last, aged 97, following 77 years of a passion for Philately that he shared with us all.Everybody knows the renowned Maison Behr, founded in 1920 by his father Georges, which Bernard...
Corona, like many others, had delayed the publication of this book. Now the first volume with 255 pages is available in colour. The subtitle “A History of Fiction and Truth” already indicates that this research work by the well-known philatelic historian...
First, a very clear statement of intent: the Organising Committee of London 2022 has absolutely no intention of cancelling or postponing London 2022. The exhibition will go ahead from 19 to 26 February 2022. We have been looking very closely at the current UK...
New Signatories for 2022 and details of the signing ceremony An open invitation to all, in person or by Zoom. At the meeting of the Board of Election of the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists on 2nd January 2022 it was unanimously agreed that the following...
Understandably, we are receiving numerous questions from all over the world asking whether or not the London 2022 exhibition will go ahead in light of the escalating Omicron variant of COVID 19. I can make a very clear statement: the Organising Committee of London...
Wolfgang Maassen (left) and BDPh President Alfred Schmidt pose for photographer Dr Bernhard Jankowsky. At the anniversary celebration of the BDPh in Bonn on 7 November, BDPh President Alfred Schmidt awarded Wolfgang Maassen the Association’s Medal of Honour, the...
This news will move the philatelic world far beyond Germany. Recently, Ralph Hohenstein, head of the Sindelfingen Trade Fair let the trade fair agency Jan Billion know: “The Sindelfingen Trade Fair will close on 31 March 2022. An adequate venue is still being...
The Royal Philatelic Society London awards the Crawford Medal annually for the most valuable and original contribution to the study and knowledge of philately in book form, whether physical or electronic. Named to honour the memory of the Society’s former President,...
The pandemic has thrown up many challenges, but one issue that the Organising Committee was not expecting to have to solve was that in the two years between 2020 and 2022 the planning regulations regarding traffic access around the Business Design Centre (BDC) in...
Tickets are now available for the opening day of London 2022, the international stamp exhibition taking place on 19 to 26 February at the Business Design Centre in Islington in London. Admission on the first day will cost £10: or all other days it will be free....
For over four hundred years, the history of Ireland has been marked by the striving for national self-assertion of the Irish on the one hand and the defending of British supremacy on the other. After countless wars and rebellions (1594-1603, 1641, 1798) which are...
