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News Bulletin No. 32

Czech Post Cancellation Stamps and Postcards

As has been the case every year, a daily cancellation stamp and a commemorative stamp for United Nations Day at the fair will be available at the Czech Post stand. That stamp of UNO will only be available to collectors on Sunday, 16 September. An R sticker has also been issued for the fair, and Czech Post is additionally issuing postcards featuring more artwork from the series begun last year.

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Biener GmbH in Prague for the First Time

The company Biener GmbH from Reutlingen, Germany, will be participating at the fair for the first time this year. Founded in 1981, the company’s varied exhibit stands are among the biggest at German philatelic fairs. Udo Biener takes part in about 45 events each year. In his exhibits, collectors find a complete offering of German and European postage stamps and 500 folders with motifs. The wide assortment is supplemented with whole collections, over 300 superior sets with photographic certification, inexpensive accessories and a big selection of catalogs.

The Curiosity Collectors’ Club Comes Every Year

Since the very beginnings of the fair Collector, the Czech Curiosity Collectors’ Club has been a loyal exhibitor. Founded in 1965, it is active throughout the country and has nearly a thousand members. It is the biggest collector’s club in the Czech Republic and it is involved with two hundred collecting fields. The greatest interest is in collecting of postcards, models and figures, beer souvenirs, cheese labels and pocket diaries. The big collectors’ meeting held regularly by the club attracts over 10,000 visitors each year. Some of the members’ collections are world famous, and in some cases are the world’s largest collections. For this year’s fair Collector, the club is preparing exhibits of the collections of its members and is also issuing pocket diaries with the fair’s logo for the year 2008.

Exhibition of Czech Numismatic Society

For this year’s jubilee fair, the Czech Numismatic Society has prepared the exhibition Czech Coins from the Middle Ages to the Modern Age. The exhibition will present the oldest, most famous and most expensive Czech coins. The Czech Numismatic Society participates at the fair each year and is one of the fair’s patrons. Its members provide visitors with consulting and expert services free of charge.

A Big Exhibit by the Polish Company Hanmart

The Polish company Hanmart from Wiele will be greatly expanding its exhibit at the fair Collector this year. While it will mainly focus on philately, its offering will also include coins and bank notes as well as telephone cards. Last year when they participated in the fair for the first time, the owners of Hanmart were enthusiastic. After all, 13,000 visitors eager to buy – that’s really something!

More Exhibitors Are Registering

Again appearing at this year’s tenth anniversary fair will be the Slovak Post, the Cyprus Postal Services, philately dealers from faraway Argentina, the Kremnica Mint, Phila from Slovenia, Schoeller Münzhandel from Austria, Miroslav Prusac from Croatia, World Gemstones from Germany, Monique Salmon from France, Xu Wei from China and many, many others. And let’s not forget the Czech exhibitors. All of them will be returning.

Philatelists Aren’t Just at the Fair

Although the international fair Collector is the climax of the year’s activities for all collectors including philatelists (one dealer says the collectors eagerly look forward to it like little boys would), a number of philately exchanges are held in Prague throughout the year. The best known and largest exchanges are held regularly on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays in the Barikádníků House of Culture (Kulturní dům Barikádníků) at the address Saratovská ulice 200/1 in the Prague District 10 neighborhood of Strašnice. The weekend exchanges are held in the morning starting at eight o’clock, and the Wednesday exchanges start at 3:30 p.m. They are held throughout the year except for July and August.