Helvetia 2022
World Exhibition Helvetia 2022, Lugano
May 18–22, 2022
From May 18 to May 22, 2022, the Helvetia 2022 World Exhibition was held in Lugano, Switzerland. The exhibition was organized to commemorate the 160th anniversary of the issuance of the Sitting Helvetia stamp, which was the first perforated stamp of Switzerland. The president of PPCP, Tomáš Mádl, exhibited in the competitive class with the Biennale 2020 catalogue, which was awarded a large vermeil medal, and Vít Vaníček exhibited in the Championship class. The competitive exhibition classes included traditional philately, postal history, postal stationery, aero-philately, thematic philately, literature, and one-frame exhibits. The total capacity of the competitive part of the exhibition was nearly 2,000 frames.
The Prestige Philatelic Club had the opportunity to present eleven rare contextual exhibits in the non-competitive section, which attracted great interest among visitors. These exhibits included:
Petr Pflanzer Flaška, Marek Vrba: Endless Waiting
Jaroslav Hanák: Inverted Ship
Stanislav Havlíček: The First Postcard in the World – Its First Day in Use
Jiří Kraus: Major Antarctic Discoveries and the Earliest Known Concessionary Letter from the Falkland Island
Pavol Lazar, Tomáš Mádl, Friedrich Winter: The First Stamp Issue of the Austrian Empire 1850
Zdeněk Matějovský: Czechoslovak First Stamp Rarities
Tomáš Mádl: Unique Block of Nine 20 F Magyar Posta with PČ 1919 Overprint
Radoslav Míšek: 370 Shades of Red
Pavel Mošner, Postal Museum, Zdeněk Filípek: Three Red Mercuries – Three World Rarities in Czech Collections
Petr Valošek: The Most Significant Queen Elizabeth II Era Rarity
Peter Vaňuga: Blue Trinacria
Through its participation, the Prestige Philatelic Club successfully promoted its activities on the international stage and also highlighted the upcoming European philatelic exhibition in Liberec, in which it will actively take part.