Amitypex 85 card

Front and back sides of the Amitypex '85 souvenir "postal card". The front side is printed vertically, and the back side horizontally. Note the dates.

The 10th Anniversary Philippine-China Diplomatic Relations Philatelic Exhibition was held at Manila.

It was jointly sponsored by the China National Stamp Corporation, the Bureau of Posts, Filipino-Chinese Amity Club, Philippine Philatelic Auction Club, and the Filipino-Chinese Philatelic Society.

UN 1980 exhibit

A souvenir card for the United Nations Week 1980 Philatelic Exhibition held at Manila from October 20 to 26.

This was issued by the then Bureau of Posts.

POSTPEX '82 souvenir cards

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Two types of POSTPEX '82 souvenir cards issued by the Philippine Philatelic Auction Club on the occasion of its 5th year anniversary.

The P5 card is inscribed "Issued with the cooperation of..." and the P4 card doesn't have that inscription, but both illustrate "The First Stamp of each era of Philippine Philately, 1854 thru 1946.

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Stamp Clubs News

According to Rene Aquino, moderator of the de la Salle (Taft) Grade School Stamp Club, his boys are already preparing for an exhibit scheduled for February 1981. The club counts over a hundred members and meets twice a week.

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Down in Alabang, the de la Salle South Grade School has also organized a stamp club with some 50 boys and girls as its first members. The moderator is Miss Gloria Pante. Last Oct. 23 and 24, she led her members in viewing the UN Photo-Philatelic Exhibit at the Bureau of Posts.

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In Iloilo, the Central Philippine University stamp club had the philatelic limelight from Nov. 17 to 23. It was the CPU's 75th anniversary and the Bureau of Posts marked the event with a set of stamps -- with first day of issue simultaneously in Iloilo and Manila
          For its part, the CPU stamp club held a non-competitive stamp exhibit -- one of those rare philatelic events outside Metro Manila. This was organized in cooperation with the Stamp & Philatelic Section which sent a whole delegation to Iloilo. It was headed by the Philatelic Chief himself, Mr. Ben Moncayo.

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The CMLI Philatelic and Numismatic Club had an afternoon auction last Nov. 9. Although attendance was lower than expected because it coincided with the NCEE, the bids were enthusiastic according to auctioneer Boy Inductivo.
          The club will hold another auction during its Christmas Party on the afternoon of Dec. 21. According to Ruby Peria, club PRO, prospective members may come to the party.

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The APO Philatelic Society formally opened its 30th Philatelic Exhibition (APOPEX) last Nov. 21. Apparently, this was not a competitive exhibit since the names of all exhibitors were displayed along with their entries. Among them were Joel Salazar, Dennis Maturan and APO Prexy Ben Aromin.
          An APO Grand Auction was also held last Nov. 30 with Tony Mendoza heading the committee and Mr. Salazar as auctioneer. For its holiday celebration, the APO has scheduled a "Fellowship Luncheon" at the Tradewinds Hotel for Dec. 6.

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The Philippine Philatelic Auction Club will hold its Christmas Party on Dec. 14 at the Army & Navy Club by the Luneta. As always, an auction full of choice local and foreign materials will follow the luncheon. The next PPAC auction after this will be on the last Sunday of February.
[Source: Hobby Time, October-November 1980]

philatelic radio program

A radio program for philately?

Yes, sir, there was in 1949 a "Philatelic Literary Musical Aircast" over DzFM every Friday at 5 p.m. and every Saturday at 6:45 p.m. 

This slogan cancel was used by the Stamp and Philatelic Division of the Bureau of Posts in Manila. The illustration caricatures an announcer on a microphone. 

I wonder how long the program lasted and what the content was.

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5th PPAC Foundation Day

Postage Stamp Day which falls on the 9th of October is also the foundation day of the Philippine Philatelic Auction Club.

The PPAC, being the co-sponsor of the Postage Stamp Day Philatelic Exhibition 1982, calls all its members and all philatelists to support the affair.

POSTPEX '82 will go along the lines of general Philippine philately. However, some worthwhile foreign postage stamps are expected to be included in the exhibition.

Participating philatelists will have to fill up a minimum of four frames of six album pages per frame to be registered in the exhibition. All participants will be recipients of Certificates of Participation. PPAC members interested in joining the stamp exhibition should see Nenita Urmaneta or Tony Mendoza....

A tentative program of the PPAC includes a merienda for members and guests to be held at the Stamps and Philatelic Section, main building of the Bureau of Posts. Information on specific time and other details regarding the celebration will be relayed to the members as soon as plans are finalized.

On a recent meeting of the PPAC Board of Directors, different committees were formed to spearhead the celebration....

...All other PPAC members are asked to serve as members of a committee of their choice. All are expected to support this affair in any way they can.

[Source: The Philippine Philatelic Auction Clipper, April-June 1982]

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Postage Stamp Day Celebration

The Bureau of Posts as lead sponsor and the Philippine Philatelic Auction Club (PPAC) as co-sponsor will hold a non-competitive stamp exhibition at the lobby of the Manila Central Post Office on October 9 and 10, 1982. The affair will commemorate Postage Stamp Day which falls on the 9th of October.

Mrs. Natalia Golez, wife of the Postmaster General, will cut the ceremonial ribbon on the opening day of the exhibition, 9:30 in the morning.

To go with the celebration, the Bureau of Posts is planning to come out with a Postal Slogan Cancellation with the text "Stamp Collecting is fun and gain". This is slated to be used at the Manila main post office starting Sept. 9 up to October 10, the last day of the exhibition....

...The PPAC, as co-sponsor of the affair, has more plans to go with the celebration. The club plans to issue a souvenir card. It is slated for sale a month before the celebration, the tentative date of which is the 9th of September.

Plans are likewise being finalized by the club on the issuance of a souvenir sheet which will feature the first six stamps of each era of our history. These are the Spanish, US Administration, Philippine Commonwealth, Japanese Occupation and the present Republic.

Proceeds from the sales of the souvenir cards and souvenir sheets will be used to help finance the exhibition.

It was likewise announced by the publisher of the NU Stamp Album that pages for the souvenir card and the souvenir sheet will be printed off the press on the slated date of the affair.

[Source: The Philippine Philatelic Auction Clipper, April-June 1982]