New Stamp from India..

 

R. Venkataraman

Date of Issue : 18 April 2012

Image : Mansoor B. Mangalore

President Pratibha  Patil released a commemorative postage stamp of the former President of India, R. Venkataraman at Rashtrapati Bhawan, in New Delhi on Wednesday. Also seen are Union Minister for Communication and IT, Kapil Sibal and Venkataraman's daughter, Lakshmi Venkataraman Venkatesan. – The Hindu

Ramaswamy Venkataraman 4 December 1910 – 27 January 2009) was an Indian lawyer, Indian independence activist and politician who served as a Union minister and as the eighth President of India.

Venkataraman was born in Rajamadam village in Tanjore district, Madras Presidency. He studied law and practised in the Madras High Court and the Supreme Court of India. In his young age, he was an activist of the Indian independence movement and participated in the Quit India Movement. He was appointed member of the Constituent Assembly and the provisional cabinet. He was elected to Lok Sabha four times and served as Union Finance Minister and Defence Minister. In 1984, he was elected the seventh Vice-President of India and in 1987, he became the 8th President of India and served from 1987 to 1992. He also served as a State minister under K. Kamaraj and M. Bhaktavatsalam.

Club News

New pictorial cancellation from Germany

A pictorial  cancellation featuring  a goat will be available on May 27^th,2012, in Kaltennordheim, Germany . Interested  philatelists in the cancellation may contact Wolfgang Beyer,Vice Chairman of the German Collector Group ArGe ZOOLOGIE. Mail: Wolfgang.Beyer1@polizei.sachsen.de .Postage rates are 0,75 Euro AIRMAIL or 2,80 Euro REGISTERED AIRMAIL.

From Our Readers….

Perforation Error on Madhubala sheetlet

 

: Timir R Shah - Vadodara

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Pt Deendayal Upadhyay stamp with smiling teeth ??

 

 

Pt. Deendayal Upadhyay stamp - A variety with teeth 

The reported variety shows the mouth of the personality open with stunning white teeth, the normal variety shows mouth closed. The reported variety is used, with the usual round date stamp at the corner.

Hi !

Here  I share  a report  published in February 2012 issue of Stanley Gibbons "Stamp Monthly", informing an important post independece olive-brown and pale orange Indian stamp issued on 5th May, 1978, commemorating Pt Deendayal Upadhyaya, with denomination 25p. (SG Cat. N0. 888). It is interesting and  readers  must check their collection if they have any such stamp ?? However I doubt the existence of such a stamp. It could also be a manipulation of the existing stamp, which was stuck on the cover and thus was defaced by the post (the name of the post office where it was defaced is not clear from the cancellation). I am thankful to Dr Avinash Jagtap of Switzerland  who sent me scan of this report with the details !!

This is all for this evening….Till Next Post….Have a great time !

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New Stamp from India…

 

Civil Aviation Centenary

Date of Issue : 14 March 2012

India Post  issued a set of  four stamps and a Miniature Sheet on 14 March 2012  to commemorate 100 years of civil aviation in the country.Indian Civil Aviation completed 100 years on 18th February, 2011. 

: Mansoor B., Mangalore

 

Interview

Recently Etv Gujarati had taken Interview  of renowned philatelist of Ahmedanad Mr Praful Thakkar.  It could be viewed  on following URL.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBjjz5i7Iqg&context=C40d6959ADvjVQa1PpcFMCT2VUYjT5FZCAdOQNUyPCUOVkNeApiuA

Praful Thakkar, the renowned philatelist of Gujarat is Limca Book Record Holder in 2009 for Autographs & Canteen Tokens and  is a collector of autographs, stamps, First Day Covers (FDCs), coins, medals, tokens, badges , badge plates etc. and many more collectibles of India since last more than 45 years. He has written several books on these subjects of Hobbies. His recent book is on autographs. Mr Praful Thakkar may be contacted at e mail : pkthakkar@yahoo.com

Error on stamps

Gum missing

: Vijay Modi, Himmatnagar ( Gujarat)   email : vijay_idom@rediffmail.com

 

Request to contributors

The contributors are requested to send small files for publication. As due to unavoidable reasons I am unable to download heavy files.

My  broadband connection is not working for the last 15 days due to Big Road repair project on Shamshi - Kullu  highway and all telephone lines of BSNL have been broken down in whole Shamshi area   for unlimited period . This has caused lot of problem for Internet connectivity in offices and home. Now I am using another 2G connection which takes time to download heavy files. So plz do not send  your mails with heavy files.

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K2 (Godwin Austen) stamp…

 

Date of issue : 19 May 1988

On stamp : Godwin Austin, the correct name of peak is Godwin Austen

Wrong spelling of peak on stamp

India Post issued a set of 4 postage stamps on 19 May 1988 on Himalayan Peaks.Many collectors might not be aware of the fact that the stamp with Rs 4 denomination issued on K2 (Godwin Austen) bears the wrong spelling of the peak. On stamp the designer has inserted Godwin Austin which should have been Godwin Austen.K2 is the second-highest mountain on Earth, after Mount Everest. With a peak elevation of 8,611 m (28,251 feet) and India’s highest mountain peak. The name Mount Godwin-Austen was suggested, in honour of Henry Godwin-Austen, an early explorer of the area.

Discussion

What is an approppriate maxim Card ?

Here  is a scan of Maxim card sent by Mr Sanjiv Jain of Dehradun. I publihed two cards prepared by him with cancellation from Bilaspur (CG)  in my last post. After the publication I received mails from some philatelists of Bilaspur as they were anxious to know how a collector from Dehradun could get max cards cancelled at Bilaspur. For all  those who are keen to know is just to inform them  that  a person has  liberty to get cancellation from any place of his choice if he can approach that  place ….

However in case of these Maxim Cards the choice for  place of cancellation is not appropriate. It should have been  New Delhi where Rashtrapati bhawan is located and easier to obtain for a collector from Dehra Dun.

Here is another card from Mr Jain with four stamps on it. As per FIP rules and regulations there should be ONE stamp on the view-side of the card. The card with more than one stamp cannot be considered as Maximum Card.

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Club News….

 

 

Indian Errors major interest at SG Auction

Stanley Gibbons June auction demonstrates the strength of Indian and Chinese stamps with a bidding frenzy for rare Indian errors and 60% of China lots selling for double estimate or more.

15th June saw collectors and investors from across the globe focusing their attention on the Stanley Gibbons bi-annual public auction, held at 399 Strand, London as more than 1000 world lots went under the hammer.

Starting with foreign countries, the auction got off to a strong start with all Chinese lots finding buyers. More than 60% of Chinese lots went for double or more their pre-auction estimate including lot 19; the ever popular 1964 Chinese Peonies 2y miniature sheet (SG MS2199a) fine u/m, which sold for £2,760.

The highlight of the foreign section however, was lot 57; A 1862 (April 9) Neapolitan Provinces cover to Glasgow franked with the 1861 1g, 2g, 5g and 20g which were cancelled by two Napoli al Porto cds’s. This superb quadruple franking cover with two other covers sold for £16,100 after a long battle between room and telephone bidders.

The highlight from the British Commonwealth offering was a very strong section of India, where errors were strongly fought over. Lot 271, a 1976 Wildlife 25p with black omitted (SG 825a) fine u/m with a catalogue value of £500, reached £1,610, but this was quickly outshone by the very next lot; a 1992 Birds of Prey error of value (SG 1525a) fresh and fine u/m which realised £11,500 against a catalogue value of just £1,000.

The Great Britain session held in the afternoon saw lot 1092, a collection of approximately 350 RAF Covers in seven volumes, most being signed by such as William Reid VC, Douglas Bader and Sir Barnes Wallis, realising more than double its pre-auction estimate, at £2,530.

Interestingly for a philatelic auction, one of the final items to go under the hammer, lot 1183, a mixed accumulation of coins, achieved more than five times its pre auction estimate, selling for £506.

Source: Stanley Gibbons

 

West Delhi Philatelic Society is going to organize a stamp Festival in Delhi from 24 – 25 September 2011 at Ambedkar Bhawan, Rani Jhansi Road New Delhi. For more details Mr Vinod Sabharwal may be contacted at email : vksabharwal@gmail.com or indianstampghar@gmail.com  Ph : 9818148338, 9810241363

 

For Autograph Collectors

              

   

For the lovers of Autographs, Autograph Club of India is a registered Club in Kolkata.The club promotes and guides the study of autographs and organizes exhibition of autographs.  For more details Mr Santosh Kumar Lahoti,  may be contacted at email : sklahoti@gmail.com  Website : www.autographindia.com 

 

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