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UKRAINEPEX 2025 - Ottawa - May 3-4

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Written by: UPNS Admin
Published: 07 April 2025
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Mark your calendar now to be part of this UPNS event.  This year UKRAINEPEX 2025 will be held in conjunction with ORAPEX 2025.  UKRAINEPEX to be held May 3-4 at the Nepean Sportsplex, 1701 Woodroffe Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Show hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. Admission and parking are free. The show will feature a bourse (sales area) of 30 dealers and 170 frames of exhibits.

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Provisional 1990s Genre Comparison Table

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Written by: Mark Stelmacovich
Published: 27 March 2025
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The premise of this table is that the price of an item logically reflects its availability or lack thereof relative to others. Pricing based upon ‘Провизорные Выпуски Украины 1992-1999 гг.’ (‘Provisional Postage Stamps of Ukraine 1992-1999’), Third Edition, by Hryhoriy Lobko, ©2008, isbn 9789668550577;

Make sure to carefully read the ‘Notes’ section at the end, in order to best understand the data. For example, you will then find out that ‘t’ means ‘tariff’, why so many of them are clumped together (‘t2t3t4’ followed by a value common to all three of those tariffs), and so on for other details.

Then, outside of the data in general, concentrate specifically on the first two columns that form a data summary, the first that ranks each cover type in value order ‘1-to-458’ (there are lots of ‘ties’), the second that completes a percentage value for each given stamp in comparison to each other, and the last that does the same for covers. The higher the figure per item, the scarcer/rarer the cover, and in terms that are now quantified.

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UPNS Stamp Meet "Zustrich 2025" - June 13 - 15

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Written by: UPNS Admin
Published: 08 April 2025
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Mark your calendars! "ZUSTRICH 2025" is being held on June 13 - 15 at the Ukrainian Homestead just outside Lehighton, PA. A few members arrive Friday by 6pm to catch up with friends and rest after a long trip.

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UKRAINEPEX 2024 - Garfield-Perry - March 15-17

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Written by: UPNS Admin
Published: 31 December 2023
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Mark your calendar now to be part of this world event.  This year UKRAINEPEX 2024 will be held in conjunction with Garfield-Perry March Party, an American Philatelic Society World Series of Philately show.  UKRAINEPEX to be held March 15-17 at the Best Western Plus,15471 Royalton Rd, Strongsville, Ohio just outside of Cleveland. Show hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday. Admission and parking are free. The show will feature a bourse (sales area) of 38 dealers and 170 frames of exhibits.

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Study Featuring 'Carpatho-Ukraine' Stamps and Mail

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Written by: Mark Stelmacovich
Published: 11 March 2018
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CU 01This study was initiated during 2013, and was circulated to society peers for vetting and feedback in October 2015.  It elaborates on a genre of philately which is not as well-known as it should be. When Carpatho-Ukraine existed as a country, so very briefly in 1939 before being occupied by a neighbouring power, and then for most of 1945 before being absorbed into a neighbouring super-military, it produced stamps for 'its public'. These were a people who wanted their identity to be reflected in nationhood, though who had little choice but to bow to the dominance of others. Thus, and despite their locally produced stamps, some would argue that the nation of Carpatho-Ukraine was no more than a puppet of others, and so, not yet recognized by some philatelists who at the same time honour others with a similar history. It is a hope that this compilation will shed more light on the stamps that this small entity produced, and, as well, some of the history that these issues reflect. Know that there are many other Carpatho-Ukraine stamp texts, which this author learned from, that were completed by excellent members and friends of our UPNS!

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