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Dear friends,
last weekend I was at the Czech National Exhibition. Regretfully I did not have the opportunity to talk with Lumir Brendl, because they were all at their meeting while I was there. What was a good sign was the fact, the neither Mr. P. nor his exhibits were present. A good sign perhaps ?
The second is something which came up after the weekend:
Yesterday I was at a club meeting in Antwerp. There was a lot of discussion and even the president of the Belgian Union of Philatelist was present.
Two weeks ago we had the Belgian National Exhibition in Liege. As we heard now the exhibition was raided by the Belgian police on the opening day on Thursday. They confiscated a lot of material from the dealers. The reason was the fact that they were investigating the fact if the material was illegally removed from the provincial archives.
After they had finished with the dealers, they wanted to start on the exhibits. Only a long discussion with the union board could prevent this on Thurday, but they came back on the Sunday, when the collections were dismounted.
Again they confiscated a lot of material, not only mail addressed to official addresses (like town councils or courts) but even mail to and from private persons.
At this moment the material is in the hands of the provincial keepere of the archives. He is going to study each item and is going to decide if it doesn't belong in his archives. This may take ages ! Exhibitors even count on the fact that they will not be able to participate in international exhibitions later this year, where they were admitted.
Of course if the pieces are bought at official auctions the owners will not be prosecuted, but if justice is right, they will lose their material without compensation according to European law.
If justice is successfull in this action, it may well spread across other Belgian provinces. And God knows it will give ideas to justice in other EU countries.
Since a lot of the material in our postal history collections comes from archives in Austria and the Czech Republic, this may well be of influence to us too and especially to our participation in Brno.
I intend to contact Lumir Brendl about this shortly and ask him his opinion if such a thing is possible in the Czech Republic too.
I will keep you informed.
Kindest regards to all,
Hans
Hans van Dooremalen
Hoofdstraat 101
5121 JC Rijen
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Email: hans@wolfsweide.nl
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