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July 2006 |
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Click here to see the current job vacancy within our Team. All these news stories, and others, can be read in full in the July 2006 Philatelic Exporter First Iraq stamp for over two years ON March 21 2006 Iraq issued this stamp to mark the Iraqi New Year and the spring equinox ...
Serbia and Montenegro split FOLLOWING the referendum in Montenegro on Sunday May 21 2006, Serbia and Montenegro have split and are now independent nations ... One of two Montenegro stamps issued for the 2006 Winter Olympics.
Afinsa four released THE four Afinsa board members arrested on May 10 2006 on suspicion of operating a fraudulent stamp investment scheme were released on June 7 on the order of a Spanish judge ...
Harmers to auction 'Sciaky' Ethiopia and Romania HARMERS of London are to auction the gold medal winning collection of Ethiopian postal history formed by the late Professor Roberto Sciaky on July 25 ... www.harmers.com
160 riders and runners at 30th York Racecourse meeting WITH around 160 stamp and coin dealers, the York Racecourse fair can justifiably claim to be the largest such event in Britain. Held twice a year in January, and next on Friday and Saturday, July 21 and 22, it is organised by Trevor Davis and Chris Rainey ... www.stampshows.net
España 06 souvenir sheet SPAIN issued this souvenir sheet on May 29 to publicise the international philatelic exhibition to be held in Malaga on the Costa del Sol from October 7 to 13 ...
Third London show in May 2010? ONE of the rumours circulating at Washington 2006 was that a British consortium of collectors and dealers was planning an alternative international stamp show for May 2010, to be held at a London venue ...
Mystic acquires Morville MYSTIC Stamp Company, Camden, New York, has purchased the worldwide packet business of Morville Trading ...
October show in Malta MALTEX, the Maltese Philatelic Society/Malta Post annual exhibition, will be held on October 6 to 8 2006 in Floriana ...
Zeppelins float away ABOUT 160 flown Zeppelin covers or postcards to and from South America 1931 to 33 in a Lighthouse cover album were stolen from J A L Franks & Co, London, on April 27/28 2006 ...
Tokyo to Paris cover missing THIS 1925 Tokyo to Paris airmail cover has been lost in the mail to Israel ...
Also: Croatia most beautiful in 2004 Rugby pack kicks off Postiljonen move IBRA 2009 in Essen Royal Mail hires dyslexic postman Bangkok 2007: advance notice
This month's special reports - Washington 2006 :
Jammed Washington 2006 easily exceeds dealers’ and organisers’ expectations by Chad Neighbor CARLSBERG don’t do stamp exhibitions, but if they did they might have come up with Washington 2006! Dealers ranged from positive to ecstatic after a massive turnout of free-spending collectors from around the world resulted in one of the most successful international stamp events in recent decades. The clicked-in attendance of more than 226,000 and an estimated turnout by about 85,000 different people over the eight-day extravaganza created a dream event for dealers ...
Washington 2006 – an extraordinary exhibition! by Charles E and Mark C Cwiakala THE American Philatelic Society hosted the Washington 2006 World Philatelic Exhibition from Saturday May 27 to Saturday June 3 2006, an event that is convened in the United States once every ten years. The show was supported by the United States Postal Service, the APS, the American Stamp Dealers Association, and membership contributions. Over 200 dealers and numerous postal administrations created a very comprehensive and philatelically diverse array of booths ...
Dealers’ bourse gets Washington 2006 off to flying start by Chad Neighbor ORGANISERS of the dealers’ trade bourse at Washington 2006 watched it unfold with bated breath, for it was the first sign of how the $3.3 million investment in the ambitious US international stamp exhibition would pay off ...
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From our contributorsAlbert Boerma - Europe: NVPH ceases supplying Afinsa
Otto Hornung - In My View: 800 stands and tables at Verona - twice a year!
Liz McKernan - Postcard World: Back on-line! ... Lost in translation ... Another defeat at Hastings ... Not a Shoreham success ... Advance notice ... Don't faint at fairs ... July fair diary
David Rennie - New Books: All reviewed in the July 2006 Philatelic Exporter.
James Skinner - Great Britain: Concise and Stoneham go head-to-head
Glen Stephens - Australasia: See it all on CD! more>>
Les Winick - USA: As Les Winick was touring Europe in June he was unable to submit his usual 'USA' column in time for this month's issue. |
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