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Dingle Smith MAP, Hans Karman MAP, lan McMahon : Critique of an Exponet Exhibit
„CZECHOSLOVAKIA DOUBLE POSTCARDS IN POSTAL USE FROM 1918 TO 1939“
Dingle Smith MAP, Hans Karman MAP, lan McMahon CRITIQUE OF AN EXPONET EXHIBIT It is pleasure to comment on the exhibit of reply cards by Milan Cerník: http://www.japhila.cz/hof/0001/index0001a.htm Firstly because he was one of the Czech philatelists responsible for establishing the online Exponet which makes available exhibits to a worldwide philatelic audience and he has volunteered his own display for comment. Secondly because this is the first time that NAPE has provided critiques of this kind based on material available electronically – an innovation that has potential for expansion. The exhibit discussed can be viewed on http://www.japhila.cz/ We printed the 128 pages of the exhibit ln black & white, as it is almost impossible to judge on the screen -you can't get an overview, and it is quite tricky to jump from one page to another (the webmaster might add a frame and page number to each page, and a jump mechanism that allows getting to a selected page rapidly). The material in the display is restricted to "double cards" for which the more usual English term is "reply cards". Although many of these are relatively easy to obtain in mint condition it is very difficult to acquire the reply halves postally used. Indeed those judging postal stationery always hasten to check if correctly used reply halves are included. The display of Czech reply cards contains a very large number of used reply halves. To add to the rarity factor for most issues these not only demonstrate commercial use but many of the examples have additional adhesives that pay for return by registered or express post. Further the locations to which the cards were sent indicate a very wide range of unusual destinations; examples include Siberia, Eritrea, Memel and French Indo-China! In all cases the descriptions that accompany the cards shows a wide knowledge of the rates and postmarks. In summary, the material is excellent and the assemblage of such a wide range of commercially used reply cards is outstanding as is the information on rates and postmarks. However on closer inspection it becomes clear that there are problems in evaluating this exhibit using FIP criteria and procedures. The major problem is whether the exhibit is to be judged as postal history or as postal stationery. Whichever class is chosen there are difficulties in assessing the exhibit. I have chosen to evaluate the eight frames using Postal Stationery criteria; the accompanying critique focuses on Hans' assessment as a Postal History exhibit... Full text: http://www.japhila.cz/pdf/NAPE_critique_cernik.pdf |
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