(wm-pcp) This time, it was a particularly close race between the top finishers. There were 31 printed media in the group monographs, handbooks, special catalogues, as well as 26 newsletters and journals, on top of that 13 websites and three e-books, making a total of...
(wm-AIJP/pcp) This is probably a record that stands alone in the history of philately. At least the author knows of no other philatelist who has worked as an international judge at philatelic exhibitions for almost five decades. Wolff (born on 16 March 1934), who has...
(wm-pcp) The cover picture of this new work already illustrates the author’s timeliness, because it shows the only first day cover of the Bavarian Einser known to date, which was sold in Wiesbaden on 27 September 2024 for 440,000 euros, thus costing the buyer a...
(wm-pcp) ‘Unadorned premiere’ was the headline Christoph Renzikowski chose for his almost full-page article in the Rheinische Post on 30 October 2024, alluding to the first so-called square issues in Bavaria, which were available from 1 November 1849. In his article,...
(wm-pcp) The Multilateral Exhibition ‘175 Years of Federal Stamps’ will take place in Bern from 14 to 17 May 2025, and is already casting a long shadow. Advertisements in two different formats (DIN A4 and DIN A5) and three languages (German, English, French) have now...
(wm-pcp) The circular, which is once again over 100 pages long, offers a review of the DASV spring meeting in Düren as well as internal association matters, but the focus is on various specialist articles by renowned authors. Among them are: Dr Joachim Helbig...
(FEPA/pcp) The Large Gold Medals and Grand Prizes for HAFNIA 24 were announced during the Palmares Dinner at the CPH Conference in Copenhagen on Saturday evening. The big winners were: Grand Prix HAFNIA 24: Nicholas Miles Kirke (Czech Republic), The Evolution of...
(Hamburg/pcp) This is the third time that the Hamburgers have been to Ulm. They even bring a wide range of literature from their collection of duplicates for interested parties. See: Ulm, Internationale Briefmarkenbörse 24. bis 26. Oktober 2024 In October 2024, we are...
(Wiesbaden/pcp) The 384th auction of the Heinrich Köhler auction house took place at the end of September 2024. The auction included covers and stamps from various collecting areas. The highlight of the auction was the first day cover with the first German stamp, the...
(ok-bephila/AIJP/pcp) A 500-year anniversary package will only be available in 2026 during the Germany-Sweden Bilateral Competitive Exhibition. And there is a lot to celebrate. There are … … 125 years of the Berlin Postal-Stationery-Collectors Club from 1901: In...
(Rainer von Scharpen – AIJP/pcp) Probably no other non-employee is as familiar with the auction house Heinrich Köhler as Wolfgang Maassen. For years he has been coming and going at the company headquarters in Wiesbaden, knows the history of the company inside out from...
(rk/pcp) The German philatelic association Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Portugal und ehemalige Kolonien e.V. im BDPh e.V. has published the 26th issue of the free digital magazine ‘Moderne Angola-Philatelie’ (MAP) in pdf format. At the beginning of the 1980s...
