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Astro Update – December 2018

Richard Tan will be the new FIP Board Coordinator for the Astrophilately Commission.

The FIP Astrophilately Section – Delegates’ Meeting approved a new set of Guidelines.  The draft has been sent to the FIP Board for ratification.  Many national federations still need to appoint a delegate to the Astrophilately Section.  After the meeting, we held a seminar on preparing an Astrophilately exhibit.

There will be a national one-frame Astrophilately challenge at the Bunbury Stamp, Coin & Banknote Show 2019.  The exhibition will be held over two days, 20-21 July 2019 in Bunbury, Western Australia.   The venue will be the South West Italian Club, 20 White Street East Bunbury.   Further details, prospectus and entry form are available from the  West Australian Philatelic Council website.

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Astro Update – November 2018

FIP Astrophilately Section – Delegates’ Meeting – Bangkok 2018

Friday 30^th November 2018 at 17:00 – Meeting Room 4 – Asia Hotel, Bangkok

Agenda:

1) Welcome by the Chairperson

2) Roll call

3) Activity report 2016-2018

5) New Guidelines for Astrophilately

1. Context/objective/approach to the changes made.
2. Longer term ambitions of eliminating the SREV
3. Approval of Astro Guidelines by vote*

6) Short seminar (time permitting)

7) Any other business

8) Closing of the meeting

*) In-person or please feel free to delegate your voting right to another person representing your member country.  However, please note that this person must hold a formal proxy document signed by your federation and/or you as the official delegate.  Anyone person may only hold one proxy.

Charles Bromser

FIP Astrophilately Section Chairperson

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Astro Update – November 2018

CHINA 2019 FIP GENERAL WORLD STAMP EXHIBITION
Date: June 11 -17, 2019
Venue: Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China
Competitive Classes: FIP Championship Class, Traditional Philately, Postal History, Postal
Stationery, Aerophilately, Astrophilately, Thematic, Maximaphily, Revenue,
Modern Philately, Open Philately, Picture Postcards (Experimental), Youth
Philately, One Frame Exhibits and Philatelic Literature.
Frames: 2,500 frames
CHINA 2019 letter of invitation to nominate National Commissioners and Jurors will be issued on
the first week of November 2018.  All National Commissioners are advised to fly direct to Wuhan
City.  When this is not possible, then please make a transit via Hong Kong, Singapore or Bangkok
which have a direct connection to Wuhan City.  The China customs checkpoint for CHINA 2019
exhibits in n Wuhan City only.

We now look forward to receiving some 20 Astrophilately entries for China 2019.

Good collecting.

Charles Bromser

FIP Astrophilately Section Chairperson

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Astro Update – September 2018

The Specialised Astrophilatelic Exhibition in Lanzhou was a great success with some 143 frames of astrophilately.

The exhibits were of a high standard with three Gold, four Large Vermeil, four Vermeil, five Large Silver, five Silver, two Silver-Bronze and two Bronze Awards.

We had 40 people attending the Astro seminar

We now look forward to receiving some 20 Astrophilately entries for China 2019 to be held in Wuhan next year.

Good collecting.

Charles Bromser

FIP Astrophilately Section Chairperson

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Astro Update – September 2018

We held a Bureau meeting at the Praga 2018 International Exhibition.  The members discussed revising the SREV and Guidelines.  We want to have the revised Guidelines available for the Section meeting, that will be held during the Thailand 2018 International Stamp Exhibition in December.

(Walter Hopferwieser, Julius Cacka, Umberto Cavallaro, Chris Schmied, Charles Bromser, Madhukar Jhingan)

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Astro Update – September 2018

 

The Bureau unanimously decided to bestow a “Life-Time Achievement” award upon Beatrice Bachmann for her work in establishing Astrophilately as a FIP Class and her tireless efforts in championing Astrophilately as Chairperson of the Section for over thirty years.

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Astro Update – July 2018

There will be a National Astrophilately and Thematic Philately exhibition in Lanzhou, China from 15-18 September with an Astrophilately Seminar on September 16.

Good collecting.

Charles Bromser

FIP Astrophilately Section Chairperson

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Astro Update – April 2018

The Australian National Exhibition to include an Astro Challenge for the 50th anniversary of the Moon, in July 2019.  The Challenge could include exhibits in the following classes: Astrophilately, Astro Maximaphily, Astro Picture Post Cards, Astro Open and Astro Subject.  The exhibition will be held in Bunbury, Western Australia.

Good collecting.

Charles Bromser

FIP Astrophilately Section Chairperson

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Astro Update – January 2018

THAILAND 2018

The entry forms for THAILAND 2018 World Stamp Exhibition are now available from their website: www.thailand2018.org .

Your national commissioner should also have copies.  So take up our challenge, download the entry form and send the completed form to your national commissioner.

Remember we need as many entries as possible, our target is 15 entries.

Good collecting.

Charles Bromser

FIP Astrophilately Section Chairperson

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Astro Update – Jan 2018

Dear friends,

This morning I got the sad notice that our friend, Vyacheslav Klochko passed away. He suffered from brain cancer.

Vyacheslav Klochko was the leading expert for Space Mail from Star City near Moscow and an enthusiastic Astrophilatelic judge.

We will miss him very much.

Goodbye, Slava!

Charles Bromser

FIP Astrophilately Section Chairperson

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Astro Update – Jan 2018

THAILAND 2018 International Stamp Exhibition

The next international exhibition to include an Astrophilately Class will be THAILAND 2018 which will be held in Bangkok from 28 November to 3 December.

It will be your chance to Astrophilately back on track. We need your exhibit, so please contact your national federation to find out, who is your national commissioner and complete the entry form.

Good collecting

Charles Bromser

FIP Astrophilately Section Chairperson

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Astro Update – May 2017

Finlandia 2017 was an interesting exhibition.  I met with two of our European delegates, Jürgen Peter Esders (Germany) and Chris Schmied (Switzerland) to discuss various ideas to bring new life to the Astrophilately.

The great exhibits of the 1990s have, in the main, have been sold, whilst after Portugal 2010 we saw fewer and fewer Astro exhibits at FIP exhibitions, today most FIP exhibition do not even offer Astrophilately as a competitive class.

The only way forward for Astrophilately is to attract a new wave of Astro exhibitors through making our class more attractive for today’s collectors.

The key proposals were to update the Astro Guidelines to include:

Pre- & Post Flight strategic events such as: Wind Tunnel, Roll-Out, etc. covers

In-flight events: EVAs & Onboard experiments that could be illustrated with contemporaneous stamps & stationery related to the flight

Addition of modern Space programmes (India, Europe, & Private consortiums)

Studies of covers cachets makers

The inclusion of Official Publicity photographs

The next FIP exhibition that will have an Astrophilately Class will be Malaysia 2018 to held in Kuala Lumpur from 10-16 December.  Our challenge will be to get 15 Astro exhibits accepted.

Please send your ideas on how to attract a new wave of Astro exhibitors to our Secretary, (Tan, Chee-Hui), and also let him know if you will be taking up the challenge to exhibit at Malaysia 2017.

Good collecting

Charles Bromser

FIP Astrophilately Section Chairperson

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After the International Exhibition in Tampere, Finland next May 29, there will be a meeting of all the FIP Commission Chairs and Secretaries to share ideas and experiences.  The FIP Board would us to have regular catch ups to improve communication and cooperation across the Commissions.  Let our Secretary (Tan, Chee-Hui) know if you have any matters that you would like discussed at the meeting.

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The Bureau now has its full complement of seven members after Jürgen Peter Esders (Germany) and Walter Hopferwieser (Austria) were co-opted.

Walter Hopferwieser               Jürgen Peter Esders