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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
Traditionally, a book presentation by the Heinrich Köhler auction house has taken place at previous International Stamp Exchanges. This year was no exception. This time, however, no new volumes of the Edition d’Or or Edition Spéciale book series were presented...
This publication, which appeared in 2023, also deals with a topic that is unusual even for experts, namely postmarks of postal stationery cuttings that were used as franking according to need. They can be found in numerous collections, but this has never been dealt...
At the age of almost 81, the Chemnitz-based publisher and cataloguer Eberhard Richter passed away on 29 September 2023. Richter had been publishing his special catalogue “Zusammendrucke und Markenheftchen der DDR” for more than 20 years, which appeared in...
While stamp booklets (MH) in Germany or other European countries have been extensively researched and catalogued, this is not the case for India and its history of stamp booklets, which have existed since 1904. The extent of the gaps in knowledge can also be seen from...
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...
