Philatelic Summit Papers Number 2

The second Seminar Paper in this series has the title “Judging Postal History Exhibits of the early Second Period (1875-1914)” by Henrik Mouritsen. This is an attempt to help other judges evaluate exhibits from the early GPU/UPU period, which is my main area of expertise. The general knowledge presented here is likely to be relevant for judging postal history exhibits of almost any country in the world from the time when the country entered GPU/UPU until the beginning of the first World War, because the GPU/UPU regulations affected the postal history of most countries very similarly. In order to refer to my own collecting, an appendix on how a story telling concept of treatment can be reflected in the design of exhibiting pages in the traditional, postal history, and postal stationery classes is attached.