Friday, 27 March 2009
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17.00–18.00
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Prof. Milan Škrabec: About old postcards
Presentation of the evolution and meaning of old postcards, important historical sources that have become valuable in the last 25 years.
Slovenian life is depicted in the way the public have reported it during many decades. This is one of the simplest, most popular and most effective visual media ever to exist. Over 27 years, History Professor Milan Škrabec has collected and studied this historical source and has written many books on this topic, among them the recently published “Slovenia on postcards”.
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Slovenian Filatelec Union: presentation of stamps issued on March, 27th, 2009
The second group of Pošta Slovenije stamps will be issued on March 27th, 2009. It will include a stamp for the 90th anniversary of the first Chainbreakers issue, four stamps with corn weeds themes (cornflower, poppy, bugle and buttercup), a stamp with Lovrenska jezera na Pohorrju (Lawrence's lakes in the Pohorje region) themes, a stamp with Carthusian Žiča themes, a set of two stamps focusing on polar ice melting problems and a picture postcard of Škofja Loka Passion. The presentation of the above mentioned stamps will take place at the end of Collecta’s first day.
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Saturday, 28 March 2009
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11.00–13.00
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Antikvariat Glavan: auction
In Ljubljana, Antikvariat Glavan has started well known auctions of old books and prints in Hotel Union for the last five years. The Slovene got their first books and prints auctions ten years ago. Today this activity has become so popular that there are already three to four auctions a year. Collecta, under the widespread name of Slovenika, will offer some interesting children books, bibliophilic publications, literary first publications, old postcards and prints. The Catalogue and instructions for the auction will be published two weeks before the auction on the sites of Collecta www.collecta.si and antique shop Glavan www.antikvariat-glavan.si.
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14.00–16.00
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(Auction House) Dražbena hiša Fock & Pirc: acuction
Fock & Pirc d.n.o. auction house for philately has been active since 1997. It foucuses on featuring philatelic material mainly connected with postal history and the Slovenian area. Auction sales of stamps are for sellers an opportunity to display their belongings for all potential buyers at the same time thanks to their collections being listed and valued at a fair price in the sales catalogue. At auctions single lots (a lot is a sales unit) are sold at the highest price offered. An aution is for buyers an opportunity to acquire rare materials. At Collecta auction there will be numerous whole collections from sports and mainly olympic thematic fields, collections of Scandinavia, arts and collections from Wolrd War 2 occupation period. (fockpirc@hotmail.com).
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Dr. Miha Jeršek, Slovenian Museum of Natural History: Amber -gold of the North
Coniferus trees has special glandular cells where resin forms, it is a viscous liquid or a thick composition of essential oils and resin acids. Resinous secretion flows trhough canals to the cut places of the tree trunks protecting plants from insects at the same time. When the tree dies it usually disappears. In places without free oxygen, like swamps for example, coal forms from plant remains. Amber is formed as a result of the fossilization of resin, it is the fossilized conifer tree resin.It has been known and admired for thousand of years and it is the only jewel that gave name to some »European main road«-amber road. In ancient times this road on which famous baltic amber was transported used to cross today Slovenian territory. Today amber has become very popular again. Beside classic yellow and brown colours we can find red, blue and even green amber. During lecturing you will find out about amber characteristics and how to distinguish it from other resins, specially imitations.
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CHILDREN'S CORNER
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Location:
B2 basement |
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Every day during the fair, there will be workshops for children in a corner meant especially for them. During this time, experts from different collection fields will be present in the corner to guide the youngsters, and try to introduce them to the world of collections. The children will rinse gold, write letters, draw stamps, learn about coins etc. |
Philatelic workshop
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From May 21th till May 24th 2009 the 5th Youth Philatelic Exhibition FIRAMLA 2009 will be held in Trbovlje. At the philatelic workshop taking place on Saturday March 28th 2009, between 10am and 1pm, the young will practise how to prepare competition philatelic exhibits (exhibit plan elaboration, use of different materials, comments), check their exhibit plans and make eventual corrections for a better preparation of items to be put on display. Anyone interested in stamp exhibition and competition is more than welcome to join in. |
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