03/02/2012
Two jubilees and a special postmark
A double anniversary can be celebrated in the German city of Minden. The oldest document stating that Minden has obtained city rights dates from 1232, so that is now 780 years old. In the same year ...

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31/01/2012
Website www.bpp.de ‘relaunched’
The official body of philatelic experts in Germany, the Bund Philatelistischer Prüfer (BPP) has done a fine job in revamping their website www.bpp.de. The site has been ‘relaunched’ recently and it ...

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29/01/2012
Dutch Post:: ´Listen to the Music´
PostNL, the postal administration of the Netherlands, has apparently been influenced by one of the successes of the Doobie Brothers, ‘Listen to the music’. It would explain why the Dutch post has ...

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27/01/2012
In memory of the springtide of 1962
On 16, 17 and 18 February of this year a special German hand stamp commemorating the hurricane tide of 1962 will be in use. The flood, that struck heavily the North Sea Passage of Wilhelmshaven, was ...

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25/01/2012
Stamp dealers´ deadline for EuroPhilex 2015 London soon to expire
Last week, stamp dealers worldwide were invited to participate in EuroPhilex 2015 in London. The event will take place from 13 until 16 May 2015, at the Business Design Centre, Islington. It will ...

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23/01/2012
You may decide: what was the most attractive stamp about aviation in 2010?
The German study group ‘Luftfahrt e.V.’, specialised in air mail and aviation, invites all philatelists and anyone interested in aviation to participate in a survey to choose the year 2010’s most ...

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15/01/2012
MAZ Mail: put your letters in the mailbox!
For some time now the first letter box of the private mail service of the Märkische Algemeine Zeitung (MAZ) can be found in front of the building of the printer of this German newspaper. This ...

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13/01/2012
‘Day of German Philately’: AIJP members are invited
The Chairman of Consilium Philatelicum, Wolfgang Maassen, has the pleasure to invite all AIJP members to an event to be held on 4 November 2012 during IPHLA 2012, the international philatelic ...

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11/01/2012
A bargain with a kickback
A sad experience for the German coin dealer Thomas B. of Aachen. An older, unidentified man came to his shop and offered him six thousand mint stamps, each with a face value of 55 cent, issued in the ...

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09/01/2012
Your last chance for IPHLA 2012!
Time flies: authors and publishers have only a few weeks left to apply for the international philatelic literature exhibition in the German city of Mainz. The deadline for the exhibition, IPHLA 2012, ...

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