(wm) The intentions of the ‘Germeringer Briefmarkenfreunde’ were certainly good. The stamp club in the German town of Germering wished to emphasize several facts at once by using a special hand stamp. The hand stamp memorizes the fact that Schwaneberger Verlag,...
(wm) Somehow the current US President, Donald Trump, must have made a mistake when he tried to implement his saying “America first!” for his own countrymen. The regular visitors, employees and visitor of the National Museum were “not amused” when...
(wm) A welcome picture on its recently installed website has already been placed, so it will not take long before the maintenance of the official website of the ‘International Multilateral Exhibition’ in Luxembourg will start. The exhibition takes place on 8, 9 and 10...
The STOCKHOLMIA 2019 exhibition is the international celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Royal Philatelic Society London (RPSL) founded in 1869. The exhibition takes place in Stockholm, Sweden. His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden will inaugurate the...
On Thursday 18, Friday 19 and Saturday 20 April 2019, the National Exhibition GOUDA 2019 will be held in the sportscenter ‘De Mammoet’ in Gouda (The Netherlands). It concerns an exhibition in the Categories 1, 2, propaganda and literature. At the same time...
(wm) The official journal of the Greek Philatelic Society, ‘Philotelia’, was founded in 1924 and is one of the oldest in the country. It is published every two months and since the first issue the main articles have also been published in English and/or French, since...
For the exhibition in Stockholm on 28.5.–2.6.2019 two catalogues will be published (Catalogue 1: exhibition catalogue, large format, approx. 430 pages; Catalogue 2: literature catalogue, large format, approx. 350 pages), which are available softbound at 20 euros each...
(wm) Now also in Liechtenstein the die has been thrown: after Swiss Post ceased operating its stamp vending machines and printers in 2011, Liechtenstein Post has followed this example, reports the Liechtenstein newspaper “Vaterland” in its edition of 17...
(wm) Liechtenstein Post has announced that it will issue a special stamp on 4 March 2019 to mark the 100th anniversary of Liechtenstein’s foreign representation. On first sight nothing spectacular and certainly not a stamp that could cause a stir. But still...
(Unterschleißheim-PR) Hardly any other collecting field of philately underlines the importance oft he unity of countries and peoples as much as the topic ‘United Europe’, also known as ‘CEPT’. In the recently published catalogue ‘CEPT 2019’ every serious and committed...
(cph) He might be called a kind of oracle, but in the favourable sense of the word. He seemed (and seems) to be always ‘under steam’: Wolfgang Maassen, RDP FRPSL, who has left the seat of Chairman of the German chapter Consilium Philatelicum at the end of last year....
(wm) There are probably only a few post offices, if any, that can illustrate an story so unique as Dublin’s General Post Office. The office wrote philatelic history as early as 1899, when a real treasure of first editions of England – complete or partial sheets,...
