The London 2022 World Stamp Exhibition ("London 2022"), sponsored by the International Philatelic Federation (FIP) and endorsed by the European Philatelic Federation, is scheduled to take place on 19-26 February at the Islington Business Design Centre in London. After receiving the FIP flag at the 2019 World Stamp Exhibition (Wuhan) Awards Ceremony in China, the World Exhibition was originally scheduled to be held in 2020. However, due to the impact of the global COVID-19 epidemic, it has been postponed to February 2022.
Venue: Islington Business Design Centre, London
On the occasion of the opening of "London 2022", this micro-introduction of its related situation is now introduced.
Stamp Exhibition LOGO
I. Overview of the Stamp Exhibition
According to the special rules of "London 2022", there will be exhibits in 13 categories, including tournaments, postal history, traditions, aviation, stamps, postal supplies, features, philatelic documents, open, one-frame, modern, picture postcards, and teenagers. According to the list of exhibits released by the official website of "London 2022", it is planned to exhibit 588 philatelic collections (totaling 3400 boxes) and 337 philatelic documents (including digital literature).
Cover of the Exhibits Catalogue
Due to the global epidemic situation, the All-China Philatelic Federation has no philatelic exhibits to exhibit, and only 8 philatelic documents are submitted to the exhibition (including 2 digital documents), the specific list is as follows——
List of Chinese exhibitors
List of Chinese exhibitors published in the Catalogue of Exhibits (by country)
II. Stamp Exhibition Schedule
The Catalogue of Exhibits for London 2022 details the daily schedule –
Schedule published in the Exhibits Catalogue
According to the stamp exhibition briefing released by Frank Walton, chairman of the "London 2022" organizing committee, due to venue and time constraints, the stamp exhibition will be divided into two halves. The exhibition schedule of each category of exhibits is:
● February 19-22: Postal history, postal supplies, open, picture postcards, prints and youth exhibits were exhibited;
● 23-25 February: Traditional, aviation, thematic and championship exhibits on display (the award ceremony is scheduled to take place at 5:45 p.m. on May 25 at the Old Library of London City Hall);
● 26 February: Best exhibits in each category and "Three Awards" exhibits (the exhibition hall is the middle floor of The Islington Commercial Design Centre);
●One-box and modern exhibits: Exhibited together with exhibits of its corresponding categories.
National Awards, International Awards, Championship Grand Prizes
The floor plan of the exhibition hall layout is as follows——
A brief plan of the exhibition site published in the Exhibits Catalogue
III. Jury and Solicitor
The jury published on the official website of "London 2022" consists of 48 people, as follows:
List of judges
List of jury members published in the Catalogue of Exhibits (partial)
The solicitors published on the official website of "London 2022" are composed of 75 people, as follows:
List of solicitors
List of solicitors published in the Catalogue of Exhibits (partial)
IV. Commemorative stamps and postmarks
According to the latest issue of Stamp Collector magazine, a "David Gentleman Stamp" miniature sheet will be issued during "London 2022", containing six of the stamps David Gentleman has designed: The Year of national productivity (1962.11); Elizabethan sailing ships (1969.1); Oak (1973.2); coal mining (1976.4) The 900th Anniversary of the Battle of Hastings (October 1966); the Battle of Britain in 1940 (September 1965) —
Miniature sheetlet of "Stamps Designed by David Goldleman"
At the same time, the London 2022 World Stamp Exhibition limited edition commemorative stamp (limited edition of 10,000 editions) will also be issued, containing 20 stamps representing the Royal Postal Service.
London Philatelic Exhibition 2022 Limited Edition Full Stamp
Royal Mail will also use an official commemorative postmark every day at the show, with the "London 2022" logo, only on different dates. The following is a reproduction of 4 of them -
Stamp Exhibition Commemorative Postmark (Partial)
V. Philatelic literature
The exhibited philatelic literature of "London 2022" consists of two parts:
● Printed literature (8A): philatelic books, catalogs, periodicals;
●Digital Literature (8B): E-books, websites, software.
Among them, printed (paper) documents are scored according to the "FIP Philatelic Documentation Special Rules for the Evaluation of Exhibits". In view of the fact that digital literature is not included in the current Dedicated Rules, the FIP Council has agreed to apply the following experimental scoring criteria for digital literature in London 2022:
Numerical literature scoring criteria
Source: London 2022 official website; Philatelic
Contributed by: Zhang Huadong