I’ve lost count of the articles I’ve read over the years discussing philately’s future. Not to mention the letters submitted to magazines and journals, invariably bemoaning the purported decline in […]
Philatelic Societies
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 […]
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 […]
Introducing ELASCA – The European Latin American Stamp Collector Association
Most Latin American countries have their own specialized society but what if your tastes are broader and you want to encompass the region as a whole? Regional societies and journals […]
The Collector | Neal West | Nicaragua
For more than twenty years, Neal West was the President of The Nicaragua Study Group (N.S.G). His most recent exhibit is Nicaragua’s Revenue Based Postal Provisional Stamps and Uses 1908-1911. […]
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 […]
Philatelic Societies – a review
I’ve recently updated the Resources pages. Part of this exercise was to revisit links to philatelic societies and investigate others that I wasn’t so familiar with. In reviewing so many […]