The continuing interest in the International Stamp Exhibition OSTROPA – now scheduled to take place from 30 June to 3 July 2022 at the Russian House of Science and Culture in Berlin – is reflected in the unbroken willingness to participate on the part of...
With the just published Newsletter No. 13, the exhibition in Athens is “ready to go”! The exhibition catalogue is already available on the event’s website (see: NOTOS2021_catalogue_low.pdf (hps.gr)), there are further important notes on entry and...
Hans-Werner Salzmann is a philatelic all-round man: collector since his earliest youth, exhibitor, juror for thematic as well as postal history collections, club and association official, organiser of exhibitions, head of the “Brandenburg Gate” study group...
Postal Stationery of Denmark: The Bi-Coloured Issue 1871-1905. Vol. 1: The Production and varieties. Volume 2: Usage]. Lars Engelbrecht. Birkenried 2021. 848 pp. in all, size 21.5 x 30.5 cm, colour illustrations, hardcover, high-quality thread binding. ISBN...
„A specialized world stamp exhibition, with FIP Patronage and FEPA Recognition, celebrating the 160th anniversary of the Sitting Helvetia, the first perforate Swiss stamp and the first to bear the appellation Helvetia, still used today....
„Effective August 9, 2021, Canada reopened its borders to allow fully vaccinated USA citizens and permanent residents to enter Canada. On September 7, 2021 the border re-opening was expanded to allow entry to Canada for other fully vaccinated international travellers....
The UK Government has made several important changes in the last week regarding COVID-19. The stance taken, particularly in England, is to acknowledge that the virus is here to stay, and that society must adapt to learn to live with it. Just about all large-scale...
The philatelic literature connoisseur and collector Abhishek Bhuwalka, who is well known beyond the borders of his home country India and who has been presenting interviews with renowned literary collectors and dealers in the US magazine “The Philatelic Literature...
Postal stationery of Denmark – the bi-coloured issue 1871 – 1905 by Lars Engelbrecht. 848 pages in two volumes. ISBN 978-87-971441-3-8. Price USD 98, available at www.postalstationery.dk The bi-coloured postal stationery of Denmark emerged in a period when...
A philatelic library was lacking in the north of Germany – until idealistic, far-sighted philatelists from various Hamburg collectors’ clubs decided to pool their book collections. In January 1971 they convened to hold the founding meeting of the...
KAHN, Serge, Jean-Baptiste Charcot en Antartique, dont le courrier façonne l’histoire / Jean-Baptiste Charcot in the Antartic Whose Mail Documents Its History. Bilingual edition. 272 pages, size 24.5 x 32.6 cm, colour illustrations; clothbound hardcover, thread...
Guy DUTAU, La désinfection du courrier en France et dans les pays occupés. Histoire, règlements, lazarets, pratiques. [The disinfection of mail in France and the occupied countries. History, regulations, hospitals, practice]. 2nd revised and enlarged edition. xxxiv +...