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The Future of Latin American Philately

Keep Calm and Collect Stamps

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 […]

15th July 2024Categories Analysis, General Philately, Philatelic SocietiesLeave a Comment8

London 2022…from a Latin American perspective

London 2022 - The Main Hall

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 […]

28th February 2022Categories Dealers, Events, Philatelic SocietiesLeave a Comment0

Latin American Philately Zooms Forward (Updated February 2023)

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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 […]

21st May 2020Categories Events, Philatelic SocietiesLeave a Comment5

Introducing ELASCA – The European Latin American Stamp Collector Association

ELASCA website

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 […]

26th December 2019Categories People, Philatelic Societies, The CollectorLeave a Comment0

The Collector | Neal West | Nicaragua

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. […]

1st November 2019Categories People, Philatelic Societies, The CollectorLeave a Comment1

Exhibiting Latin America…from Denver to Stockholm (Part 1)

Rocky Mountain Stamp Show 2019

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 […]

7th June 2019Categories Events, Philatelic SocietiesLeave a Comment0

Philatelic Societies – a review

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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 […]

14th October 2018Categories General Philately, Philatelic SocietiesLeave a Comment6

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