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 +...
Philatelic Portrait of the City VAN LOO, Wilhelm, Die Philatelie in Aachen & 130 Jahre Briefmarkenfreunde Aachen e.V. Vereine, Händler Auktionshäuser. [“Philately in Aachen & 130 Years of Stamp Lovers Aachen e.V. Stamp Clubs, Dealers and Auction Houses]....
In an online vote, the board of the European Academy of Philately (AEP) has chosen the recipients of the 2021 awards. POST HORN by editor Claudio Manzati (Italy) was selected as the best magazine. The Literature Award goes to Serge Kahn (France) for his work...
Académie Européenne de Philatélie, OPUS XXI. L’Allemagne et ses colonies. Germany and its colonies. 2021, A-4, 248 pages, colour illustrations. Softcover. Price 50 € incl. postage. ISBN 9-789082-398786. Send orders to: Patrick Maselis. E-mail: info@maselis.be...
The “Design Center for the Production of African Stamps and Security Papers” operated in Israel in the 1960s under the leadership of Abraham Eylon at the Government Printer in Tel Aviv. At this institution stamps for Guinea, Burundi, Haiti, Ghana, Togo,...
The LONDON 2022 International Stamp Exhibition will take place at the Business Design Centre in London from 19th – 26th February 2022. A revised IREX containing the latest information on the exhibition has just been published and is available...
In the last year there has been a tremendous expansion in the use of on-line facilities to enable philatelic activities to continue in the face of the draconian restrictions imposed around the world to combat the Coronavirus pandemic. Exhibitions, meetings, auctions...
