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...
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...