Stamp Collector

IN BRIEF

he cancellation of the proposed Phila-Essen 2024 event was announced recently. Initially proposed as a replacement for the Essen Stamp Fair, which was discontinued earlier in the year, plans for the replacement show at a venue in the Zollverein mine area in Essen had been in progress since September 2023. However, as not enough exhibitors were signed up to attend by the end of November 2023, the organisers, the Association of German Philatelists (BDPh) and the German

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