Phil@poste regularly participates at different, not strictly 'philatelic', shows and fairs, in an effort to publicize its philatelic offerings to a wider audience. In this vein, the company annually attends the Salon des Seniors, the largest fair dedicated to people over 50, and the Salon International de l'Agriculture, in Paris. For the first time in 2019, they also decided to participate at the Salon de toutes les Collections, in Mulhouse.

In its 112th show, this major biannual collectors fair organized by the Club Multicollections, 'Les Chasseurs d'Images' was held on Sunday October 20th 2019, at the Mulhouse's Parc des Expositions, in eastern France, near the border with Germany and Switzerland.

		With 200 exhibitors from several European countries covering a multitude of collecting fields, this event is one of the most important in France, both for the number of exhibitors and visitors. At this show the organisers also held a very special exhibition, 'Les 50 ans de l'aventure du Concorde'.

Phil@poste installed a stand at the fair and just like a few months earlier, for the Salon International de l'Agriculture (see article, also published in VARIABLE 52), released a special vignette d'affranchissement.

The design of the new issue is by Romain Hugault, from photographs of the Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace de Le Bourget. The composition shows Concorde taking off from EuroAirport, a cross-border airport that serves the regions of Basel in Switzerland, Mulhouse in France and Freiburg in Germany.

2019 marks the 50th anniversary of Concorde. This supersonic aircraft was developed and built by the French company Aérospatiale and the British Aircraft Corporation. The first flight of the prototype was on March 2nd 1969 over Toulouse, although it did not enter service until 1976. In its 27 years in service, the plane visited the EuroAirport twice, in April 1979 and in May 1986, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the airport.

In addition to the new vignette, and related to the theme of the exhibition, Phil@poste offered the '50 ans du premier vol du Concorde' stamp, issued a few months earlier, on March 4th 2019.
	Visitors were able to mail their postal items with a special show postmark.

And as in the Salon de l'Agriculture, Phil@poste did not install a kiosk on its stand (upper image). Instead 5,000 packs of four vignettes LISA or stamps were sold with the basic values ​​of domestic and international mail. These stamps had been printed before the show from the back-office computer system and a Brother printer.