Emerged from: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Estland e.V. + Forschungsgemeinschaft Lettland + Forschungsgemeinschaft Litauen e.V. + Nederlandse Filatelistengroep "Het Baltische Gebied"
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Tartu will be the European Capital of Culture in 2024, with an abundance of events. That alone is worth the trip!
For philatelists, there is another special reason to visit Tartu: the International Stamp Exhibition MARE BALTICUM 2024.
Our member Olaf Hoffmann designed the logo on the right and 3 different daily postmarks for the 3 exhibition days.
The exhibition will be held at the Eesti Rahva Museum (Estonian National Museum). 500 frames are planned and the rules can be found on the website marebalticum.ee. Exhibit labels can be in English or German.
Country commissioners will be announced on the Mare Balticum website.
Quiet atmosphere, lively visitors, cheerful mood you could experience all this at the Berlin-Schöneberg Town Hall at the end of June, beginning of July. The exhibition focused on three themes at once::
75 Years of Currency Reform, 75 Years of the Airlift and 75 Years of Stamp Land Berlin.
The organisers, the Forschungsgemeinschaft Berlin, the International Aero Philatelic Club "Otto Lilienthal", the Berliner Ganzsachen-Sammler-Verein von 1901 and the Philatelic Association Northeast can look back on the three-day event with pride. The exhibits were just as convincing all round as the lectures.
The Baltic Working Group and the Israel Interest Group were guests in Berlin. Both showed with their information stands that the future lies in the cooperation of different associations. On their own, it would have been difficult to staff the stand continuously. A total of three active members from both associations the treasurers Michael Haslau and Christoph Wendland as well as the author managed the marathon together. We had stimulating conversations with visitors, representatives of the organising associations and, last but not least, with each other.
We look back with satisfaction on three successful days and can only recommend to everyone to take advantage of a similar opportunity to present their own work.
The International Stamp Exhibition 2023 (IBRA 2023) was a philatelic world exhibition under the patronage of the Fédération Internationale de Philatélie (FIP), organised by a team of the Bund Deutscher Philatelisten (BDPh). In addition to a large trade fair with over a hundred dealers and postal societies, various special shows and lectures, it was also a worldwide philatelic competition.
17 of a total of 809 exhibits revolved around the philately of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, i.e. about 2 % of all exhibits. The evaluation level was high, with a total of 64 times (8 %) LargeGold and 196 times (24 %) Gold being awarded. The Baltic exhibits were honoured with 2 x Gold, 9 x LargeVermeil, 4 x Vermeil and 2 x LargeSilver.
"But in Baltic philately", says Vesma Grinfelds (USA), "you have to say that Large-Vermeil actually means Gold for us, because we always get so few points for it thanks to the insignificance of the collecting area as seen worldwide!"
Class | Description | No. | Name | Country | ArGe member | Exhibit | Points | Award |
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3B | Postal History: Europe | 3B.19 | Hannes Westendorf | Luxembourg | | Postal History of Estonia during the Russian Period | 93 | Gold, Special Prize |
3B.20 | Ants Linnard | Estonia | Postage payment instruments as a reflection of Estonia's development in 19181940 | 75 | LargeSilver | |||
3B.21 | JaanErik Roots | Norway | | Estonia 1918 | 88 | LargeVermeil | ||
3B.22 | Vygintas Bubnys | Lithuania | | Lithuanian Post Office Network Development, 19181920 | 88 | LargeVermeil | ||
3B.23 | Vesma Grinfelds | USA | | Cancellations of the Provisional Era in Latvia: 19191921 | 86 | LargeVermeil | ||
3B.24 | Oliver Hanschmidt | Estonia | | Traveling Post Office cancels in Estonia 19181944 | 87 | LargeVermeil | ||
7B | Thematic Philately: Culture | 7B.1 | Kaido Andres | Estonia | 400 years of the University of Tartu (people and circumstances) | 83 | Vermeil | |
12 | Picture Postcards | 12.11 | Indrek Ilomets | Estonia | Academic fraternal organisations of University of Tartu on postcards until 1940 | 90 | Gold | |
13A | One Frame Exhibit: Traditional | 13A.2 | Audrius Brazdeikis | Lithuania | The First Color Stamp of Lithuania - Raseiniai District Local Issue of 1919 | 85 | LargeVermeil | |
13A.6 | Villu Roosa | Estonia | The Flower Design Issue | 77 | LargeSilber | |||
15A | Philatelic Literature (Monografs, Special Catalogs, Studies, published since 2018) | 15A.18 | Michael Bockisch | Germany | Handbook and catalogue: The Pictorial Postcards of Eastern Europe 2018 | 88 | LargeVermeil | |
15A.62 | Antanas Jankauskas | Lithuania | Falsifikatai Lietuvos Filatelijoje / Forgeries in Lithuanian Philately | 88 | LargeVermeil | |||
15A.73 | Aivar Kuuskvere | Estonia | Eesti Postmargid ja Tervikasjad Kataloog 2021 (Stamp and Stationery Catalogue Estonia 2021) | 80 | Vermeil | |||
15C | General Catalogues (published since 2020) | 15V.18 | Martin Bechstedt & Bernhard 'Tony' Fels | Germany | | The Daily Postmarks of the Independent Republic of Lithuania since 1990 Handbook and Companion to the Internet Database (= LithuaniaHandbook of Philately and Postal History Part 5) | 81 | Vermeil |
15D | Periodicals (2 complete volumes, published since 2020) | 15D.2 | Arbeitsgemeinschaft Baltikum | Germany | | BALTIKUM | 78 | LargeSilber |
15F | Digital Literature, websites and software as experimental class | 15F.2 | Arbeitsgemeinschaft Baltikum | Germany | | www.arge-baltikum.de | 85 | LargeVermeil |
15F.28 | Bernhard 'Tony' Fels | Germany | | Digital database of Lithuania and daily postmarks from 1994 a forward-looking project | 81 | Vermeil |