{"id":8533,"date":"2026-03-24T13:05:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T13:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ppcp.cz\/?page_id=8533"},"modified":"2026-03-24T13:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T13:08:07","slug":"helvetia-2022","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ppcp.cz\/en\/helvetia-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Helvetia 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Helvetia 2022<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

World Exhibition Helvetia 2022, Lugano<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

May 18\u201322, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\"PPCP\"\n\n\n

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, Tom\u00e1\u0161 M\u00e1dl, exhibited in the competitive class with the Biennale 2020 catalogue, which was awarded a large vermeil medal, and V\u00edt Van\u00ed\u010dek 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Petr Pflanzer Fla\u0161ka, Marek Vrba: Endless Waiting
Jaroslav Han\u00e1k: Inverted Ship
Stanislav Havl\u00ed\u010dek: The First Postcard in the World \u2013 Its First Day in Use
Ji\u0159\u00ed Kraus: Major Antarctic Discoveries and the Earliest Known Concessionary Letter from the Falkland Island
Pavol Lazar, Tom\u00e1\u0161 M\u00e1dl, Friedrich Winter: The First Stamp Issue of the Austrian Empire 1850
Zden\u011bk Mat\u011bjovsk\u00fd: Czechoslovak First Stamp Rarities
Tom\u00e1\u0161 M\u00e1dl: Unique Block of Nine 20 F Magyar Posta with P\u010c 1919 Overprint
Radoslav M\u00ed\u0161ek: 370 Shades of Red
Pavel Mo\u0161ner, Postal Museum, Zden\u011bk Fil\u00edpek: Three Red Mercuries \u2013 Three World Rarities in Czech Collections
Petr Valo\u0161ek: The Most Significant Queen Elizabeth II Era Rarity
Peter Va\u0148uga: Blue Trinacria<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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