The topic of our monthly meeting was exhibitions – the past DEBRA 2024 in Haldensleben and the upcoming MARE BALTICUM 2024 in Tartu.

Despite 86 points for the BALTIKUM and 87 points for this web www.arge-baltikum.de – and thus two national gold medals –, a strange feeling of incomplete satisfaction remained in addition to pride and joy, which could hardly be put into words.

We are looking forward to the exhibition in Tartu and invite all Baltic collectors to a joint meeting on Saturday July 27, 2024 from 10 am to 12 noon in the adjoining room of the Estonian National Museum in Tartu!

Gold for the BALTIKUM...

...and for the Web of the ArGe

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On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the first Song Festival in Lithuania, a Lithuanian Post souvenir sheet was issued on June 28, 2024 with four face values of € 1.55 (each for a standard domestic letter up to 20 g)).

It is the first stamp block in Lithuania to feature a QR code which, when scanned with a simple photo app, leads to the official website of the Song Festival www.dainusvente.lt.

In 2003, the Baltic song festivals were recognised by UNESCO as masterpieces of the oral and immaterial heritage of humanity..

The first song festival took place in August 1924 in the then capital Kaunas. This year's anniversary event was held in Vilnius from June 29 to July 6; here is the special postmark for the first day of issue.

In our monthly video chat, Olaf Hoffmann showed us letterboxes from all over the world, as real photos and depicted on stamps. The designs vary, as do the differences in the destinations per slot and the labelling as a whole.

Further topics were::

– The elaborate procurement of a photo of the Junkers F13 aeroplane leased from Germany with the registration "D 335", with which the Finnish Aero OY carried out ice flights between Tallinn and Helsinki in 1924 (Michael Wieneke)

– Notifications from Eesti Post about restrictions on postal services in 2024 (Friedhelm Doell, see separate news article below)

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