Many favourable comments have been made to our editor and members of the committee regarding the new
size Bulletin, which thanks to our new Editor Terry Simister, was issued earlier this year. To keep up the
standard of the Bulletin, he will still need articles from members, not just from some of those on the committee.
Gottfried Steinmann, one of our members from Germany reports that on the 9th February at the Felzmann
auction at Düsseldorf, Germany a collection was auctioned which was of great interest to Seoul stamp
collectors. The collection consisted of about 120 items of covers, stamps and stamp designs from the time of
the Warsaw Uprising of 1944. The starting price was €190,000 (£146,000, US$ 293,000) which was quite a sum!
Will there be anybody
interested? I wondered.
But surprisingly, not
only the Polish Post
Office and the bank
PKO – both
undertakings of the
Polish Government, but
also representatives
from the German
Government showed
interest and interfered.
It was suspected, that
this collection was to be
bought by Berlin in
order to be presented to
Warsaw. Seemingly the
Polish wanted to
acquire it themselves.
So the auction was set
for two hours earlier,
apparently to keep out
other buyers, (so the
Polish media specul-
ated). In any case, there
was no other buyers
present, so the collection was sold at the starting price of €190,000 plus 18% commission= €224,200 to the
Polish buyers. In the future it will be shown at the 1944 Warsaw Uprising museum in Warsaw.
Entry forms, which should be completed by 31st March, have now arrived for
the 2008 Euro-Scout Philatelic Exhibition being held at Benken, Switzerland from
25th to 27 July 2008. The show is non-competitive and application forms can be
obtained from Fredy Scherb whose email address is
As
Switzerland is not in the EU, customs details will have to be followed and these are
mentioned on the reverse of the entry form. The exhibition will take place at the
Hall of the local municipalty and in the nearby Restaurant Rössli. Both premises
are in the centre of the village of Benken, which is situated about 35 miles from
Zurich As usual there will be an Exchange Market which will take place on the
Friday and Saturday at the Rössli Restaurant. Full details can be found on the
website www.euroscout2008.ch At the same time as the Euro-Scout meeting is
being held, the Swiss National Scout Camp "Contura '08" will be taking place
nearby from Wednesday July 231d until Wednesday July 30th.
I was interested to read and see a photograph of Len Moss in one of the New Zealand Auction catalogues that
he has reached the age of 100. Over the years I had seen his name and address on covers and at one time he was
a member of the SGSC. Peter Duck remembers him coming to his house in June 1979 when Len was in the
U.K. for the 50th anniversary of the Arrowe Park World Jamboree which he attended in 1929.
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