John
Sinfield has been a keen stamp collector for more than thirty years and a
regular exhibitor since 1980.
| John Sinfield, MAP |
John
Sinfield has been a keen stamp collector for more than thirty years and a
regular exhibitor since 1980.
John has formed and continues to develop important and notable collections in several disciplines including thematic philately where his Whiskers exhibit has won several international and national gold medals. It has been exhibited in the Court of Honour at Taipei 96, a FIAP exhibition. His has assembled various exhibits of postal stationery which have won international gold medals at FIP exhibitions at Brasiliana 1993, Finlandia 1996 and Indepex 1997. He won the Grand Award at Newcastle 1997 and the Grand Prix National at Natsamp 98 in the postcard class. John currently has five different FIP 8-frame qualified exhibits.
John has been an accredited national judge since 1989 and is qualified in the postal stationery, thematic philately, traditional and youth classes. He has judged at five Australian and several New Zealand national and one-frame national exhibitions including being a team leader at Northpex 92, 93 and 94 (New Zealand) and at Melbourne 96.
Behind the scenes, John was Bin Room Assistant at Ausipex 84 and Treasurer to the 1989 Stampshow in Melbourne. He was also Vice President of the Melbourne 96 National Philatelic Exhibition. Since 1992, John has been a commissioner to several exhibitions within Australia and New Zealand as well as national commissioner to three FIP international exhibitions: Genova 1992, Istanbul 1996 and Italia 98.
John has been a member of the Royal Philatelic Society of Victoria since 1976 and has served on its Council for 14 years from 1977-79 and again from 1988. He was secretary for two years (1997-98) and President in 1996-97 as a delegate to the Victorian Philatelic Council for eight years between 1986 and 1993. John was awarded the Victorian Philatelic Council Award of Merit in 1996.
John Sinfield has served on the Executive of the APF between 1989 and 1992 and was secretary between 1989 and 1991. He has twice represented Australia and New Zealand at FIP Thematic Commission meetings as a substitute delegate. He was also the philatelic representative for a five year term on the Stamp Advisory Committee of Australia Post.
John has been a contributor to publications such as Philately from Australia, Postal Stationery Collector, The Date Stamp, Thematics Queensland and the Australian Commonwealth Specialists Catalogue. In addition, John has undertaken archival postal stationery research which will be the major contribution to be incorporated into the forthcoming Australian Postal Stationery Catalogue which is currently in the course of preparation as part of the Brusden White Specialist Catalogue series. John has lectured in postal stationery and thematic philately at the Royal Philatelic Society of Victoria School of Philately in 1996. He has also lectured overseas at Northpex 94 (New Zealand) and at Taipei 96. His other promotional work has included radio and a weekend feature article on philately which appeared in the Melbourne Herald-Sun.
[ Source: APF News, October 1998 ]