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In 2024, the OCC celebrated its thirtieth anniversary. Originally, the OCC
was intended as an international club. At the end of 2007, it became a registered
club with currently about 40 members from twelve different countries from all
continents. The OCC deals with the topic "orchids" in philately and telephone cards.
Its task is to support a very personal and professional relationship among the
orchid philatelists and collectors of telephone cards, and to deal with the motif
"orchids" in any field of collection. The OCC neither has any economic, political,
ideological nor religious goals.
Every second year there is the General Meeting of the members, usually in spring time,
when orchids are blooming, or if there is an exhibition at the same time. So the
members can take the opportunity to explore in excursions the habitats of orchids,
in the area where the meeting takes place.
In 1905, the first stamp with the motif of the Vanilla Orchid was issued by the
French post office in Guadeloupe. Since then, several thousands of orchid stamps
have been produced, and every year more than about a hundred new ones are following.
In addition to this, far more than 2000 postmarks with the issue "orchid" have been
published up to now in a catalogue of the OCC.
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Four times a year, the members of the OCC get the ORCHIDeenREPORT, the journal
of our club, in a German or English edition. Beginners, experienced collectors
and also specialists can find the latest and highly valuable information on orchid
philately and collection of telephone cards. Reports on varieties, printings on
margins of stamp pages, orchid researchers, orchids as a side motif or of
kuriosum or the register of orchids belong to the regular articles as well as all
new issues of stamps, complete stamp editions, postmarks and telephone cards, etc.
All illustrations are in colour.
The current membership fee you can find at the page Report.
For further inquiries, e.g on OCC membership, please contact one of the
Committee members or send an e-mail to:
orchideenphilatelie@web.de
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