EXPONET - VIRTUAL PHILATELIC EXHIBITION

VIRTUAL INTERNATIONAL PHILATELIC EXHIBITION

EXPONET IS A PLACE YOU MAY USE TO PRESENT YOUR VIRTUAL POSTAL HISTORY AND PHILATELIC COLLECTION. It is intended as a public display of GOOD, VERY GOOD AND high quality exhibits of all philatelic areas and time periods in english, french, german, spanISH or other languages... The aim of the organizers of EXPONET is to provide a permanent presentation of high quality stamp and Philatelic exhibits so as to facilitate on-line study for visitors throughout the world. We do not intend to compete with trAditional classical exhibits, but rather to enable on-line viewing to everybody, regardless of distance, and thus take part in the support and propagation of philately...

COURT OF HONOUR

COURT OF HONOUR - OFFICIAL EXPOSITION OF POSTAL MUSEUMS AND POSTAL AUTHORITIES

HAYPOST, ARMENIAN POSTAL SERVICE, YEREVAN, ARMENIA

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REPUBLIC OF ARMENIA 2005 - 2007
Preview of Catalogue of Armenia Stamps 2005 - 2007

CZECH POST, DEPARTMENT OF THE STAMP DESIGN, PRAGUE, CZECIA

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POSTAGE STAMPS OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC 2009 - 2011

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POSTAGE STAMPS OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC 2010 - 2012

CZECH POST, THE POSTAL MUSEUM, PRAGUE, CZECHIA

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AUSTRIA 1851 - "BLUE MERCURY"
The „Blue Mercury“ issue of January 1, 1851 was the world´s first newspaper stamp.
This part sheet of 80 is one of the largest multiples existing and an important classic showpiece of Austria.

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AUSTRIA 1783 - "LESSER" OR "CLAPPER" POST FROM PRAGUE
A unique money letter with 50 florins in the form of banknotes from Prague to the town councillors of Ungarisch Skalitz (today's Skalica, Slovak Republic), paid in full on posting and sent by registered mail on 11.9.1783. The content of the letter was counted on posting and sealed according to the valid regulations with one seal of the sender and two seals of the office of posting, i.e. an office of the so-called lesser or clapper post. The letter was dispatched for transportation by the chief post office in Prague and cancelled with the first type of post office stamp, the single-line stamp "Von Prag". The lesser or clapper post was operated in Prague as a private post service in the years 1782-1789. The stamp "Von Prag" began to be used in 1782.
In 1782 the postal administration issued a licence to the private businessman and owner of the "lesser post" in Vienna Francois Garsia for operation of a similar business also in Prague. The lesser post, also known as clapper post according to the instrument sounded by postmen to signal their arrival, was established in the Celetná street and was operated as a local delivery service by pedestrian postmen in Prague and its close neighbourhood. Its owner was licenced to charge for a letter up to 6 half an ounces (105 g) of weight 2 kreutzers within Prague or 3 kreutzers within the distance of 3 miles from the town gates. A quarter of the netto profits on the collected charges was due to the postal administration. The lesser post had within the licenced area its own letter collection points and the lesser postmen passed five times a day through the streets of Prague where they delivered and received letters. The debts of Garsia towards the postal administration because of the unpaid due profits were used in 1789 by the chief post office as a reason for transformation of the lesser post into a part of the chief post office. In the early 19th century its couriers were sent up to a distance of thirty miles from Prague; as such it became a rural courier institution. In 1821 it was finally cancelled due to a lack of business.

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LADA-JAKUSEVIC STUDY COLLECTION - "RUSSIA'S ZEMSTVO POST"
Collection of „Russia’s Zemstvo Post” in Postal Museum in Prague - Postal Museum was addressed by Mr. Jurij Vladimirovic Korenev with the offer of the world unique postage stamp collection of the so called „Russia’s Zemstvo” in November 1981. These stamps were issued for the needs of the autonomous unites in Czarist Russia in the years 1864 - 1917. With this offer he fulfilled a request of his philatelic friend ing. arch. Leonid Sergejevic Lada–Jakusevic, who passed away shortly before and whom to a sole heir Mr. Korenev was. This large collection of great historical and philatelic value, created by Lada–Jakusevic since his youth, was taken over by Postal Museum on 16 November 1981.
After biographical data, saved in a special Russian exile archive in Slavic Library, which is part of the Czech National Library, was Mr. Leonid Sergejevic Lada-Jakusevic born in Voronez 1898. His origin was in provincial aristocratic family. His father of Serbian nationality spent the WWI time on the Serbian front. After getting back to Russia he died or probably was killed in the war against Bolshevists. Leonid Lada–Jakusevic together with his mother and sister succeeded to get away from communist terror and emigrated to Czechoslovakia, where they acquired nationality. So they cast in lot with thousands of free-thinking and not fanaticised fellow citizens. On the Czech Technical University he graduated architecture. He applied his profession realising various projects, for example the hospital in Bratislava or arrangement of the park on Jungmann’s square in Melnik. He was a president of the Russian Union of engineers and technicians. Since 1938 he published the magazine “Russian Architect in Abroad” in Russian language.
The life of Lada–Jakusevic has changed dramatically after the liberation of Prague with Soviet army. Already on 15 May 1945 members of counterespionage arrested him and dragged him off to the Soviet Union. The same revenge afflicted many other Czechoslovak citizens, emigrants after Bolshevik revolution. On 8 September 1945 he was sentenced for 10 years, which he spent in various camps from frosty north of Russian Siberian to Mongolian deserts. His punishment finished on 3 March 1955 and on 20 September he returned back to Czechoslovakia. It can be said, that he was lucky, because many dragged off prisoners died in the camps. One of them was his friend ing. Kovalevsky, whose widow Nelli Ivanovna Mr. Lada–Jakusevic get married when he returned back. Their marriage remained childless. Nelli Ivanovna passed away in the same year as her husband, in 1981. Till death they lived in Prague Bubenec, in Terronská street #9 (Zdanova street in that time).
L. S. Lada–Jakusevic started collecting stamps of the Russia’s Zemstvo Post already as a young boy. He probably brought the basis of the collection to Czechoslovakia with him and further complemented it. As marked on some exhibiting sheets, after returning back from Gulags, he presented his collection on a number of national philatelic exhibitions. Postal Museum showed off part of the collection first in 1988 in occasion of opening the new exposure in just reconstructed object Nové mlyny 2 in Prague 1. It happened during the World Stamp Exhibition PRAGA 1988. The collection of the Russia’s Zemstvo Post did not miss the attention of the representative of the Soviet agency Novosti. He was very interested in the origin of the collection and the circumstances through which it get into the museum. Perhaps, in respect to coming political changes in original Soviet Union, his interest fortunately remained on the small talk level only.

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POSTAGE STAMPS OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC 2005 - 2007 (PRESENTATION OF PRINTING TECHNIQUES)

ESTONIAN POSTAL MUSEUM, ESTONIA

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ESTONIAN SCOUTS IN BANISHMENT
EXHIBIT FROM SKM. ELMAR "MATS" OJASTE

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SLOVAK POST, THE POSTAL MUSEUM, BANSKA BYSTRICA, SLOVAKIA

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RAILWAY MAIL AT ZAHORI (SLOVAKIA)

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E-MAIL

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