New Love stamp from Ireland

 

On the eve of the St. Valentine’s Day, An Post issued a Love and Marriage stamp as an extension of the popular Wedding stamp series. This year, the stamp is based on a photograph of a red rose – the symbol of love – by award-winning, Galwaybased photographer Kelvin Gillmor.

Roses have long been synonymous with love and marriage and are ancient symbols of love and beauty. The rose was sacred to a number of goddesses including the Greek goddesses Isis and Aphrodite the goddess of love, known as Venus by the Romans.

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Basant Ke Rang (Colours of Spring)

State Flower Show, Raj Bhawan, Dehradun, Uttarakhand

Started in 2003, the State Flower Show is held at Raj Bhawan, Dehradun, every year. Releasing of special cover and cancellation is customary in the flower show as it is part of the official agenda, courtesy to the then Governor H.E. Sh. Sudarshan Agarwal, who himself is a keen philatelist. Special covers has been released in 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013.

This year the flower show will be held on 22-23 February 2014. Special cover on Kedarpatri ( Skimmia laureola) will be released on 22-02-14 by the Governor H.E. Dr. Aziz Qureshi. Kedarpatri has medicinal values and is also favourite food of musk deer. It is found at 2400-3600 mt. height in northern India. It is a strongly aromatic evergreen shrub, creeping or erect to 150 cm., with simple rather thick leathery, oblanceolate to oblong-elliptic, shortly pointed leaves, and very compact terminal clusters of yellow flowers, flowering from April to June.

- Abhai Mishra, Dehradun

JAINISM PHILATELY GROUP ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATED 

Jainism Philately Group, Pune Chapter organised a special function on Sunday 16th February 2014 at Pune. JPG National Chairman Sudhir Jain of Satna was the chief Guest. 3rd Anniversary of Jainism Philately Group and 1st Anniversary of JPG Pune Chapter was celebrated in this function.

Sudhir Jain delivered talk on pictorial cancellations on Jainism and Bazaar Cards and displayed his collection on both these themes.

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A Karnataka philatelist society Life Member, Mr H MAnanda Murthy a Mechanical Engineer, philatelist,  artist and calligraphist makes time for his passion. He also paints temples, and makes models in clay and thermocol. Wax sculpture, illustration and calligraphy are his other interests.

“This philatelist does covers” an article about  his philatelic collection  was published in Indian Express .

 

This philatelist does covers

By Revati Bhat - BANGALORE

Published: 17th February 2014 08:27 AM

A Bangalorean philatelist holds the rare distinction of owning cancelled postal covers dating back to 1864 and spanning 60 years of pre-Independence India.

H M Ananda Murthy has been collecting cancelled covers whose combined worth is estimated at more than `35 lakh today.

Since his childhood, he has collected stamps of every colour and size from almost every country. Hailing from Chikkanayakana-halli in southern Karnataka and now settled in Bangalore, 54-year-old Murthy continues his hobby.

“I have collected a wide range of stamps since 1974. In 1996, I got the silver medal at Canada Philatelic Exhibition in Toronto,” he told City Express.

He also started collecting Traveling Post Office (TPO) and Railway Mail Service (RMS) cancellation covers dating back to 1864.

His unique collection includes many types of cancellations. Some names given to them are: Bombay circle, Howrah circle, up train, down train, unpaid sorting, registered, first, second, third, fourth delivery with  semi-circle, triangle, diamond, hexagon and oval design. Each of these has a story to tell and generates interest among collectors.

“My collection spans 61 years from 1864 to 1925. I have collected more than 350 to 400 covers worth more than `35 lakh. I have in my collection the rare mirror image cancellation (when the dateline is in reverse), and error cancellations (to correct wrongly mentioned date, month or year),” he explained.

The jury of the Philatelic Congress of India gave him additional marks for his unusually detailed study of every cancelled cover.

In spite of leading a very busy life as a mechanical designer, Murthy makes time for his passion. He also paints temples, and makes models in clay and thermocol. Wax sculpture, illustration and calligraphy are his other interests.

His thematic collection also includes rare flora and fauna, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Mahatma Gandhi, locomotives and more.

“I approach old people and sometimes buy or exchange covers during exhibitions. My hobby has made me more self-reliant and helped me make friends across generations and boundaries,” he said.

Murthy has participated in several exhibitions and received appreciation letters and accolades. “I have also been invited by the postal department to guide and train school children and conduct workshops,” he said.

The huge collection of these rare covers is neither available with the Railways nor the Postal department. “I feel proud and elated to say that it is out of my own efforts that I have come to this position,” he said.

So what is the future? “My dream is to do research further, gain more knowledge and to get a doctorate,” he added.

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: Jagannath Mani- Bangalore

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Valentine’s Day

 

 

Greetings on Valentine’s Day !!

Today is Valentine’s Day . Saint Valentine's Day, also known as Valentine's Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine,is observed on February 14 each year. Today Valentine's Day is celebrated all over the world on February 14. It is a festival of romantic love and many people give cards, letters, flowers or presents to their spouse or partner.  There are many stories behind this special day. But it is a day of celebration to express   love for the dear ones !! Here are some lovely stamps issued for this special day.

 

St Valentine's Day has roots in several different legends that have found their way to us through the ages. One of the earliest popular symbols of the Valentine's day is Cupid, the Roman god of love, who is represented by the image of a young boy with bow and arrow. Several theories surround the history of Valentine's Day.

Three hundred years after the death of Jesus Christ, the Roman emperors still demanded that everyone believe in the Roman gods. Valentine, a Christian priest, had been thrown in prison for his teachings. On February 14, Valentine was beheaded, not only because he was a Christian, but also because he had performed a miracle. He supposedly cured the jailer's daughter of her blindness. The night before he was executed, he wrote the jailer's daughter a farewell letter, signing it "From Your Valentine." Another legend tells us that this same Valentine, well-loved by all, received notes to his jail cell from children and friends who missed him.

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New Love stamp from Australia..

 

Date of Issue : 4 February 2014

Australia Post issued two beautiful Love stamps    for this year’s valentine’s Day greetings.

According to historians, the English word “romance” was developed from a vernacular dialect within French language meaning “verse narrative”, referring to the style of speech and writing of the elite classes of Europe.Originally, the word was an adverb of the Latin Romanicus, meaning “of the Roman style.”

Other meanings developed over time, with a romantic tryst seen as adventurous and passionate. The modern meaning of romance is an expression of love or desire. The stamp designs in this Australian issue are perfect for sending written expressions of such sentiments.

Romance Maxi Cards

Valentine Post Office set to postmark Valentine's Day cards

 

Incurable romantics who believe the most heartfelt messages for Valentine’s Day are personal and sent by mail -- not text or tweet -- are expected once again to deluge the Valentine Post Office so their greetings go out with the coveted Valentine postmark.

This year’s special postmark features the words “Love on Valentine’s Day … Valentine, NE,” and is available Feb. 2 to 15. The office has been providing the special postmark annually since 1941. Hand stamps with messages like “With Love from Valentine, NE” or “Crossroads of the Sandhills” also grace each envelope.

The Valentine office expects to receive approximately 5,000 requests for the special postmark, with some coming from as far away as Japan.

“It’s busier for us than Christmas,” Acting Postmaster Diedre Markus said in a news release advising senders to get their cards and envelopes to Valentine as soon as possible. “It really is a labor of love for everyone involved.”

Anyone wanting to have their valentines postmarked in Valentine should address their envelopes, ensure appropriate first-class postage is affixed, put the envelopes inside a larger envelope, and mail to: Valentine’s Day Postmark, Postmaster, 239 N. Hall St., Valentine NE 69001-9998. There is no charge for the postmark.

A new Cut Paper Hearts Forever stamp recently issued by the Postal Service should prove popular with those sending Valentine greetings this year. The stamp includes a large white heart enclosing a smaller pink heart with a saw-toothed edge along its left-hand side. The stamp takes its inspiration from the folk traditions of paper cutting.

Valentine cards and envelopes destined for re-mailing within the United States should be at the Valentine office no later than Saturday; those destined for Nebraska addresses should be in by Monday.

Other U.S. post offices that are popular for Valentine's Day include Bliss, NY 14024; Beauty, KY 41203; Aromas, CA 95004; Hartsville, TN 37074; Loveland, CO 80538; and Paradise, PA 17562. Juliette, GA, and Romeo, MI, have a special joint postmark; send requests for it to Romeo and Juliette Valentine Postmark, Juliette, GA, 31046 or Romeo, MI 48065.

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New Special Cover..

 

Centenary Celebration of First Felicitation of Rabindranath Tagore as Nobel Laureate

 

 

Special Cover on Centenary Celebration of First Felicitation of Rabindranath Tagore as Nobel Laureate - 1st February 2014.

As a part of Centenary Celebration of the First Felicitation of Rabindranath Tagore as Nobel Laureate organised by Rammohan Library and Free Reading Room, Kolkata a special cover was released in Kolkata on 1st February 2014. The cover is designed by Shri Babul Dey.

13 November 2013 marked the centenary of Rabindranath Tagore’s Nobel Prize in Literature. Almost 100 years back, the writer, educationist and philosopher was informed of being conferred with the prestigious award. Stating the reasons, the Swedish Academy said that “because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West”. Born on May 7, 1861, Tagore in 1913 became not just the first Asian Nobel laureate but the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for literature.

Courtesy : Indian Philately Digest

 

New Love Stamp from Slovenia

 

 

Date of Issue : 31 January 2014

Here is a beautiful stamp from Slovenia to send very special greetings to someone you love !!

Even though an old Slovenian proverb says that the way to someone’s heart is through their stomach, this relationship between two people is first and foremost a matter of the heart. This is also proven by a silver ring from the collection of the Slovenian Ethnographic Museum in Ljubljana formed by two hands holding a heart with a crown and featured on a new Slovenian stamp. The ring thus symbolizes the crown to a couple’s love, which can denote engagement, wedding or merely an objectification of love between two partners. In Slovenia this way of displaying love and affection between the two sexes goes back to the seventeenth century when wedding rings began to be used.

Wearing rings for decoration and the custom of giving a ring to someone as a token of affection developed later on, in the second half of the nineteenth century. The Slovenian word prstan “ring” itself also developed later than some other similar expressions such as rinka, rincica and rincca, which are all derived from the German word Ring “ring, circle”.

 

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New Valentine’s Day stamps

 

Date of Issue : 20 January 2014

As the valentine’s Day approaches  new stamps are being issued from different Postal administrations, Here are new stamps to be issued tomorrow by Finnish Post.

This year’s Valentine’s Day stamps from Finland depicting furry teddy bears convey a message of friendship and remembrance of others. The Bear Friends stamp series is drawn by a new face to the world of stamps from Kemi, Henna Takkinen, an artist who has specialized in teddy bears.

Born in 1969, Henna Takkinen is influenced by naivism and story illustration and has combined these elements into her own unique form of teddy bear art. In the early 2000s she completed her Master’s thesis on teddy bears, whose history dates back to ancient bear worship and up to the modern soft commercial teddy.

“Teddy bears have taken me on an endless adventure, everything is possible in their world. I want to share through art a teddy bear world of universal peace and love. Through stamps that message of caring and friendship can be shared with the world,” says Henna Takkinen, describing her artistic vision.

The Bear Friends stamp sheet has six 1st class stamps and four teddy bear stickers.

 

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New Special Cover

A special cover was released in Bangalore by Karnataka Postal Circle  to commemorate fifty glorious years of service of Bangalore Police Commissionerate,which was established in the year 1963.

: Suresh R. – Bangalore : email : suresh.hobbies@gmail.com

 

EIPEX-2014, Bhubaneswar

A Philatelic exhibition namely EIPEX-2014, Bhubaneswar is going to be organised by the Eastern India Philatelists’ Association to commemorate the 15th year of Foundation of EIPA with an objective to promote philately and to encourage new and emerging philatelists. The main theme of the exhibition is ‘Save our Environment’. The exhibition will be held on 08th and 09th, February, 2014 at the Kalinga Buddha Vihara, Unit-IX, Bhubaneswar-751007. There will be 100 frames for display in the exhibition. The participation is limited to the members of the Eastern India Philatelists’ Association whose membership is accepted by 31.12.13 only and the school students of Odisha. No previous award is required for the exhibition. The exhibition will be a Non-competitive one. Only one exhibit from a philatelist subject to two from a family is allowed. The maximum number of frames per exhibit is limited to one only. Exhibitors will submit their entry form in duplicate to the Organizing Committee, EIPEX-2014. The last date of submission of entry form is 30.01.2014.

The entry to the exhibition is free. All the exhibits will be treated as Non-Competitive Class only.
Contact persons:
Ajit Kumar Dash,
Email: akdash2000@yahoo.com
Anup Kumar Rout,
Email: anupraut@yahoo.com
Anil Kumar Dhir,
Email: anildhir2k5@hotmail.com
Shri Shanti Swarup Rath,
Email: ssrath@hotmail.com
Scheduled dates:
Receipt of Entry Forms: 30.01.2014

 

List of Prticipants ar BIRPEX 2014, Poitiers

List of participants at BIRDPEX 2014, Poitiers is available at following link .

http://www.mg-o.de/mgobirdpex2014htm.

Courtesy : Wolfgang Beyer, Vice Chairman of the German Collector Group ZOOLOGIE.

Mr.Beyer is interested to contact with the Indian participants at BIRDPEX 2014.

Mail: Wolfgang.beyer1@aol.de

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New Love stamp from USA

 

US Postal Service will issue a beautiful  “Cut paper heart stamp”   on 21st January 2014 for this year’s Valentine’s Day Greetings.

The romance of the Love stamp series continues with the Cut Paper Heart Digital Color Postmark. This First Day Cover  features an affixed Cut Paper Heart Forever® stamp. The whimsical digital illustration depicts a red square with “pinked” edges — as if cut with pinking shears — containing a large, pink heart surrounded by pink swirls and smaller red hearts.

The color postmark features the stamp title surrounded by a flower-like formation of familiar folded-and-cut red paper hearts, accented with green hearts resembling the flower's leaves. Also included are the official First Day of Issue date and location for the stamp.

Valentine’s Day Postmark from Loveland

 

"A unique design created by a local artist and selected via a competitive contest is stamped on the outside of all Valentine envelopes and re-mailed from the Sweetheart City,  "More than 200,000 cards and letters were handled last year, from more than 100 countries and every state in the Union.
"Since the start of the program in 1947, more than 12 million Valentines have been re-mailed by Loveland.
"To have cards and letters re-mailed with the Loveland postmark, properly stamp and address each individual Valentine and put them all in a larger, stamped envelope and mail them to:

Postmaster
Valentine Re-mailing
446 E. 29th St.
Loveland, CO 80538

"Deadlines for re-mailing and delivery by Valentine’s Day, Feb. 14:
•Feb. 4: Outside of the U.S. to other countries and international destinations
•Feb. 10: Within the U.S. and outside of Colorado
•Feb. 11: Within the state of Colorado"

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