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...
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...
