(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....
(wm-pcp) The 12th volume of this journal for the history of philately and literature, which has been published digitally since 2013, again counts more than 250 pages in DIN A4 format and can be downloaded free of charge as a pdf file from www.philahistorica.de. This...
(rk/pcp) The German association Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Portugal und ehemalige Kolonien e.V. im BDPh has published the 27th edition of the free digital magazine ‘Moderne Angola-Philatelie’ (MAP) in pdf format. Time and again, covers with late usages from the...
(wm-pcp) The title page of the upcoming 230th auction of the auction house Rauhut & Kruschel, which will take place on 25 January 2025 in Mülheim an der Ruhr, may have left some people a little perplexed. Because there is talk of the ‘last stamp of the Third...
(wm-pcp) The unique series of eight TROST auctions certainly did not take place at a time that one would have expected. When it was announced on the APHV website on 5 November 2019, the world was still more or less in order. But it was no longer in order when the date...
