by vs | Jan 8, 2024
To mark the first signing of a Universal Postal Convention 150 years ago, the Universal Postal Union UPU is organising a scientific colloquium on postal history. This will take place on 1 and 2 February 2024 at the UPU headquarters in Bern in the “Heinrich von...
by vs | Jan 8, 2024
Tom Pickford, CEO of Strand Collectibles Group, announced on 6 January 2024: Dear Customers, As a new year starts so does a new chapter for Baldwin’s and Stanley Gibbons as both brands are acquired by Strand Collectibles Group. Baldwin’s, already a global...
by vs | Dec 22, 2023
Herewith I regrettably report to you that Korea Post has made a decision to postpone Philakorea 2024 to 2025. Although the head of the Korean delegation to Thailand 2023 announced and confirmed that Philakorea would be held in August, 2024 on the occasion of the...
by vs | Nov 20, 2023
The Vincent Graves Greene Philatelic Research Foundation is pleased to announce the appointment of Natalie Mitchell as Library Manager of the Harry Sutherland Philatelic Library in Toronto, effective November 1, 2023. Natalie earned Bachelor and Master of Arts,...
by vs | Nov 20, 2023
At 11am this morning an Extraordinary General Meeting of shareholders, David Feldman was confirmed as the new majority shareholder in the company. David had spent the last decade as an international consultant while following other pursuits which have since matured...
by vs | Nov 7, 2023
The acronym DEBRA stands for the international “German-Brazilian Exhibition”, i.e. a rank 1 exhibition to be held in Haldensleben from 27 to 30 June 2024. In a letter dated 19 October 2023, the President of the BDPh, Alfred Schmidt, asked the AIJP for the...
by vs | Nov 7, 2023
Until now, the date of this next year’s FEPA exhibition at the National Library in Bucharest had been Wednesday, April 17 to Saturday, April 20, 2024. Now Francis Ambrus, General Commissioner of EFIRO 2024, informed the AIJP that due to a different hall...
by vs | Oct 13, 2023
There are publications where one does not know what to admire more: The depth and scope of the research and documentation, the content of the information offered for the first time in such profusion, or else the combined aspects of significant philatelic and literary...
by rvs | Oct 8, 2023
This book is a very welcome addition to the literature on Hungarian postal history, and it also makes a valuable contribution to understanding the social and economic history of Hungary during the last years of peace in the old kingdom of Hungary before the cataclysm....
by vs | Sep 13, 2023
Just in time for the 117th German Philatelists’ Day in Bautzen, the Consilium Philatelicum of the BDPh presents number 16 of its “Series on the History of Philately in Germany”. This 128-page brochure is dedicated to the IBRA 2023 World Exhibition....
by vs | Jul 14, 2023
In English, perfectly bound (21.5 x 30.5 cms), 176 pages, colour throughout. SEK 700 (+ SEK 200 postage). Available from nordisk@filateli.se. In today’s world postal history literature has seen some rather remarkable changes. In addition to the traditional treatment...
by rvs | Jul 2, 2023
It was the Portuguese who, in the 15th century, explored areas where no one had ventured before. In 1488, Bartolomeu Dias was the first to sail around the Cape of Good Hope; ten years later, Vasco da Gama completed the pioneering feat and discovered the sea route to...
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