(Jon Aitchison / AIJP) At the meeting of the Board of Election of the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists on 6 February 2025, it was unanimously agreed that the following philatelists be invited to be the new signatories to the Roll: Adriano Bergamini, RDP, Switzerland...
(Günther Korn/pcp) With the approval of the Administrative Board, the BDPh’s Executive Committee has appointed new members to the Consilium Philatelicum (CPh). Günther Korn, Chairman of this body, informed the members of this decision on 16 February 2025,...
The journal “(The) Indian Philatelist” is one of the rarest and most important specialised journals of the 19th century, which reported on philately worldwide. It was published from 1894, although only 50 copies were printed in 1894/95. Hardly any of these have...
(p*c/pcp) The 12th annual volume of this free digital journal for philately and literary history has been available in print since March 2025. As in the previous year, it is available in two separate hardcover volumes, as the four issues of this journal, which were...
(p*c/pcp) In 2022, the first volume of this special book series was published, dedicated to the Spiro family – a family from Hamburg (the 255-page book appeared in both German and English). In this work, the well-known author and philatelic historian Wolfgang Maaßen...
(p*c/pcp) In 2017, a book by Wolfgang Maassen was published that uncovered the countless legends and myths surrounding the most famous stamp collector of all time: ‘The Mysterious Philipp von Ferrari. Philatelist, Philanthropist and Cosmopolitan’ (special edition 12...
(p*c/pcp) This topic was long overdue, as the author had already described the history of the Association of Philatelic Experts, the Federal Association of German Stamp Auctioneers and, most recently, the Association of German Philatelists years ago. What was missing...
(RPSL/AIJP/pcp) Simon Richards FRPSL is the new President of the Royal Philatelic Society London. Simon’s appointment as President was approved on 9 January by the Council of the Society following the untimely death on 25 December 2024 of Michael Roberts FRPSL,...
(vph-cs) In 2024, associated expertizer Reinoud Brandsen VPh from ‘s-Hertogenbosch (NL) joined the previously ‘small squad’ with the expertising areas of Old Montenegro and Old Serbia. In 2025, Mariusz Maciejewski VPh (*1963) from Katowice (PL) joins with the...
(tf-Boston/AIJP/pcp) The second Boston 2026 bulletin detailing information about the show with emphasis on exhibit rules and registration has just been released and is available in electronic format on the show’s web site at www.boston2026.org. The 44-page document...
(wm-pcp) Under a similar title, Christian Wapler published his study with the Research Community Postage and Sender Freeposts as early as the 1990s. These were first used by the IPOSTA in Berlin in 1930. Volker Köppel, who will be the chairman of the History Study...
(FEPA/AIJP/pcp) On 17 December, we received the following news from the Museum of Philately: In honor of our Museum President, we are delighted to announce the publication of a book presenting the Simon Martin-Redman’s acclaimed Grand Prix Collection of Sarawak....
