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News Bulletin No. 35

The 2007 jubilee fair is over

A total of 11,624 collectors of postage stamps, historical postcards, coins, banknotes, minerals and telephone cards from all over this country and from abroad gathered from 14 to 16 September 2007 at the Prague Exhibition Grounds, where the jubilee tenth-annual international fair Collector was held. The fair is the biggest gathering of collectors in Central and Eastern Europe, this year hosting 221 exhibitors from 36 countries.

Freddie Mercury´s album

Attracting plenty of media attention was the exhibit of the British Postal Museum, which lent the unique album of the singer Freddie Mercury of the rock band Queen to a foreign exhibition for the first time since 1999. The museum acquired the album for its collection at an auction in 1993 for 3,500 pounds sterling. Among those who came to see the album was Peter Freestone, who was Freddie Mercury’s personal assistant for twelve years and is today a permanent resident of the Czech Republic. The so-called blue album also contains stamps from former Czechoslovakia. Today its value has more than doubled. On the home page of the web site below, you will find more information about the fair that just ended

Preparations for 2008 began immediately

Already during the last fair, preparations got started for 2008. From 12 to 14 September 2008, the international fair Collector will be held jointly with the World Stamp Exhibition PRAGA 2008 (www.praga2008.cz). The last world stamp exhibition in Prague was twenty years ago. Organization of the Praga exhibition was entrusted to the same firm that presented the fair Collector – Progres Partners Advertising. The contest for philatelic exhibits is being organized by the Union of Czech Philatelists (secretariat@praga2008.cz).

Already at this year’s fair, over 40 exhibitors turned in applications for next year. More are arriving daily by mail. The director of the fair Collector, Jindřich Jirásek, expects participation in the joint event in 2008 by more than 30 postal administrations, at least 20 mints and a total number of exhibitors/vendors certainly in excess of 250. For the fair Collector and the exhibition Praga, for which there will be a single entry price, a much larger area will be available for exhibitors. The organizers expect near 30,000 visitors for the 2008 event.