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Turkish Post and
Posti our Top
Winners of the 2017
Most Beautiful EUROPA
Stamp Competitions
PostEurop is proud to announce Turkish Post PTT for the group of experts co-chaired by Dr. Botond
(Turkey - Gold), Poczta Polska (Poland - Silver) and Szebeny and Dr. Guy Coutant to proudly announce
Posta Moldovei (Moldavia - Bronze) as the winners Posti Group (Finland) as the winner of the 2017
of the 2017 EUROPA Stamps online competition EUROPA stamp Jury Prize.
through public voting. Stamps and Philately working group from Posten Ǻland.
For the EUROPA Stamps Jury prize competition, This year’s Jury composed of the following group of
our group of Philatelic experts declared Posti experts:
Group (Finland - Gold), Poste Italiane & Aland Post
(Italy & Aland - Silver) and Liechtensteinische Post • Botond Szebeny, Secretary General PostEurop (Co-Chair)
(Liechtenstein - Bronze) as winners. • Guy Coutant, Philatelist (Co-Chair)
In this year’s edition, a record number of 58 entries • Arie Piet, Former CEO Joh Enschedé Stamp Printing,
were submitted based on the theme “Castles”. Director Stamp Printing National Bank Belgium
The results of this year’s online EUROPA Stamp • Andrée Trommer, Secretary General FIP (Fédération
competition were disclosed during the PostEurop Internationale de Philatélie)
Plenary Assembly in Bucharest, in a special gala dinner,
where Turkish PTT (Turkey), Poczta Polska (Poland) • Eric Contesse, Philatelist
and Posta Moldovei (Moldavia) were revealed as the • Olaf Neumann, Stamp designer
emerging top three winners, respectively. • Stefan Klein, Stamp designer
“I am very proud to see a record number of entries with “It is truly remarkable to see that we have such good
such beautiful designs! These incredible stamps display entries representing so well these magnicent symbols
such beautiful landmarks of our diverse culture, which is of our European History and Heritage. This initiative
spread throughout Europe. I am also happy to see that the has proven itself as a valuable exercise and we couldn’t
designers used their creativity to achieve many dierent be more grateful for the time and eort that each jury
interpretations of this theme, also by using dierent member has taken to participate in the judging process.
production techniques, including engravings, varnishing Beyond that it was also good to meet after a one year
and photography” exclaimed Anita Häggblom, Chair break due to the Joint motif “Think Green” marking
of the PostEurop Stamps and Philately working group the EUROPA Stamps 60th anniversary” commented
from Posten Ǻland. Botond Szebeny, PostEurop Secretary General.
EUROPA Jury Competition
As in the past, a jury composed of seven philatelic
experts, scrutinized all the displayed entries based
on the theme “Castles”. The jurors casted their closed
ballots and two rounds of voting were necessary
