There are a few ways in which an advanced collection can be shared with fellow philatelists, not least in the global competitive arena in the Quest for Gold. Club displays are the alternative route with some offering more cachet than others; none more so than an invitation to speak at the Royal Philatelic Society in […]
Events
London 2022…from a Latin American perspective
London stages an International once every decade but in the case of London 2022 it was a twelve year wait. In common with so many other shows, the tribulations of the past two years led to the inevitable postponements. This time, the organisers were going to delay no more. And rightly so. After a slowish […]
Forthcoming auctions and initiatives in the hobby
There have been a few notable initiatives in the wider stamp world in the past few weeks but let’s start with the auctions. If you are kept up to speed with auction email alerts or read the monthly philatelic press, then it won’t have escaped your attention that the late Leo Malz collections of Central […]
Latin American Philately Zooms Forward (Updated February 2023)
The article below was originally written in the midst of the COVID pandemic during May 2020. Mi Oficina has gone from strength to strength and has since held over five-hundred presentations, all of them published on their YouTube channel. The majority of videos include a link to a downloadable pdf of the presentation. The presentations […]
Exhibiting Latin America…from Denver to Stockholm (Part 2)
Back in Europe, the philatelic world was gearing up to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Royal Philatelic Society by hosting Stockholmia 2019 in the Swedish capital. This was a somewhat unusual blend of regional Scandinavian stamp show combined with a truly world class philatelic event, attracting around 8000 participants from 51 countries. Drawing on […]
Exhibiting Latin America…from Denver to Stockholm (Part 1)
A significant proportion of philatelic clubs and societies are inevitably based ‘in country’, supporting the local collector base and promoting the philately of the nation. There are, however, numerous societies around the world that are based thousands of miles away from the focus country, many with members who have never reached the shores of the […]
El Salvador finally makes it to London
After a mere 148 years, the RPSL finally got to put on a display of El Salvador on 9th November. Guillermo Gallegos had come from over from Mexico to present “The Prestamp Period of El Salvador” with a twelve-frame display covering the colonial period through until the end of the pre-stamp Republican period. Much of […]
Brasilia 2017 – is this the future for major stamp exhibitions?
If I’ve read one article on “how do we attract more collectors to the hobby?”, I must have read it a hundred times. And no stamp exhibition escapes the post-event commentary on “how many visitors really attended?”, “how did it compare to last time?” and “what do we need to do better to encourage greater […]
Royal puts on a Latin American show
Fifty-two frames of some exceptional Latin American material was the feast laid on by the RPSL yesterday. Exhibits were described as covering the canvas between “world class rarities” and “modest, but nonetheless interesting”. Either way, it was a treat. With so much to cover I can only give a flavour. For want of a theme, […]
World Stamp Show – NY2016
The US holds an international stamp show every ten years but it was back in 1956 that New York took centre stage as the host of the world’s most important philatelic event. The cavernous Javits Centre in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan provided ample space for collectors and dealers to spend seven days meeting, buying, selling, exhibiting […]