Stamp Cards – Chinar 2011 Philatelic Exhibition – By India Post A set of 8 Picture Post Cards/Stamp Cards are issued by India Post during Chinar 2011 exhibition at Srinagar. [...]
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Posted in India Stamps, News on Sep 30th, 2011
“Chinar 2011” was inaugurated by Governor NN Vohra at SKICC on the Dal banks on 26th September, 2011. Governor NN Vohra stressed the need to upgrade mail delivery system in the state through a publicity drive. He further said that there is a significant need to improve the mail delivery and other postal services in [...]
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Indian Stamps – The Trained Nurses’ Association of India – By India Post The Association had its beginning in the Association of Nursing Superintendents which was founded in 1905, at Lucknow. The organisation was composed of nine European Nurses holding administrative posts in hospitals. Like their counterparts in other countries, this small band of women [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 30th, 2011
11th Maharasthtra Circle Philatelic Exhibition MAHAPEX 2012 – Maharashtra & Goa Circle Philatelic Exhibition Pune will host the four-day 11th state-level philatelic exhibition, Mahapex 2012, at Ganesh Kala Krida Rangmanch from January 13 next year. After 25 years, Pune will be hosting such an exhibition for Maharashtra and Goa. The Prospectus of ‘Mahapex 2012′ was [...]
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Pvt Special Covers – Mahatma Gandhi visit at Noakhali,1946 – Bangladesh Date Of Issue:-10.02.2011. Contributed By:- S Gohiya, Chennai
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Error & Varieties – Astrological Signs – By India Post Perforation Shifted upwards 3 perforation & shifted to right 2 perforation affecting 8 stamps. Top horizontal line 4 stamp have become partial imperf. Bottom horizontal line 2 stamps denomination cut & Bharat, India cut, in 1 stamps year is out and in one stamp description [...]
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World Stamp – Mahatma Gandhi Sheet Let – Gibraltar Mahatma Gandhi Writing letter Year of Issue:-2008
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Stamps on Louis Braille – Algeria Algeria issued a stamp on Louis Braille in 2009 to mark his Bicentenary of his birth.
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Posted in Covers, First Flight Covers on Sep 27th, 2011
First Flight Cover – Bombay- London – Stamped at Cairo Souvenir, India – United Kingdom, First Flight, 8th June, 1948
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Posted in West Delhi Philatelic Club on Sep 26th, 2011
2nd Stamp Festival – 2011, a two day stamp festival cum Exhibition was held in New Delhi from 24 –25 September 2011 at Ambedkar Bhawan, Rani Jhansi Road, New Delhi. The Festival was a big success . As many as 27 dealers from all corners of India and India Post had their stalls apart from [...]
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FDC – Malta – Gandhi Birth Centenary Malta issued a stamp to mark the Gandhi Birth Centenary in 1969. Four types of FDC’s were issued.
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Stamps on Nobel Prize Winners- Ceska Ceska Republic issued a stamp on 11 Oct 1995 in honour of W C Rontgen. Rontgen was a German Physicist born in 1845 who is credit with detection of X rays or Rontgen Rays. He was awarded Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901 for his discovery. A FD C [...]
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First Day Cover – Jaimal Maharaj – By India Post Acharya Jaimal Ji was born in Lambiya.Merta (Rajasthan).His Mother’s name was Mahima Devi & Father’s Mohandasji Samdariya Mehta. He born onVikram Era 1765,Badhva Shukla 13. At the age of 23 Years he decided for dixa that was just six months after his marriage with Laxmidevi.His renunciation [...]
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