Philately heading for future

by Jos Wolff, RDP

              After philately appeared as a consequence of the birth of the stamp, it developed rather quickly from mere compiling of stamps to a wide-ranging science as we know it today. It began in 1841, one year after the issue of the first stamp, with a small advertisement in an English newspaper asking for cancelled stamps. Since 1860 dealing with stamps appeared, catalogues were first issued in 1863 and the first association solely for stamp collecting was founded in 1866 in Canada. The first international exhibition exclusively for stamps was organised in 1881 inVienna, and one can surmise that already at the exhibition in Vienna in 1873 some stamp exhibits were shown. The first exhibition under FIP patronage was organised in 1930 in Algeria.

              At first only traditional exhibits were mounted and exhibited. With the collecting of prephilatelic letters and the study of rates and routes of cancelled documents, Postal History as we know it today started and is one of the most popular disciplins in philately. Also other collecting fields derived from the traditional collection and became separate disciplins, as Postal Stationery and Aerophilately. Thematic collections started around 1887 to 1890, and the first theme was of course philatelic portraits, that were the most frequent motives on the stamps at that time. Since its foundation FIP was also always concerned by the young collectors. It was one of the points in the aims of FIP at its foundation in 1926, and since 1959, when M. Hartwig Danesch was elected chairman of the Youth Commission, this field was more and more developed. Under his guidance the young collectors found the place they deserved in the annals of philately.

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85th Meeting of the FIP Board on February 23 & 24, 2010, in Zurich

President Wolff welcomed the Board members to the meeting in Zurich. Director Comelli could not attend the meeting as his mother had been taken to hospital and was dying. The President and the Board members expressed their sympathy to Director Comelli. President Wolff came then to the different points of the agenda.

The FIP Board gratefully acknowledges the receipt of a generous donation from an anonymous support of philately. Obviously the donor wishes to remain anonymous and we respect his wishes.

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Forthcoming seminars

BANGKOK 2010 (August 4 - 12, 2010)

Venue :           Queen Sirikit National Convention Center

Date :              August 7, 2010      

Class :             Traditional Philately

Time :              11.00-13.00 h  

Speaker :        Surajit Gongvatana

Class :             Thematic Philately  

Time :              14.00-16.00 h 

Speaker :        Chan Huei Lock 

Class :             Postal History

Time :             16.00-18.00 h    

Speaker :        Malcolm Hammersley

APS STAMPSHOW 2010

Richmond, Virginia (USA)

Class :             Judging Postal History

Venue :           Room B16 Richmond Convention Center

                        403, North Third Street

Date :              August 13, 2010          

Time :              3.00 - 5.00 pm  

Speaker :        Peter P. McCann, RDP

Title of the Exhibit

Tay Peng Hian RDP, Director FIP

In my course of work as a FIP Consultant for ST PETERSBURG 2007, ISRAEL 2008 and CHINA 2009 World Stamp Exhibitions, I have had the opportunity to go through more than one thousand competitive exhibit application forms submitted by exhibitors from all FIP Member Federations. I noticed that a small number of exhibitors have changed the titles of their exhibits quite drastically. This practice has to come to a stop and that is the purpose of writing this article.

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