150 Years of the Red Cross

 

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Today is World Red Cross Day. World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day is an annual celebration of the principles of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. World Red Cross Red Crescent Day is celebrated on the 8th of May each year. This date is the anniversary of the birth of Henry Dunant (born 8 May 1828), the founder of International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the recipient of the first Nobel Peace Prize.

I wish to share here two nice stamps from Serbia and Finland here. One shown above issued on 150 years of foundation of the International Committee of the Red Cross and the other stamp shown below features beautiful bouquet  issued by Finnish Post recently !!

Both the stamps are beautiful for theme on  ‘Red ‘Cross’ and ‘Flowers’ .

150 Years of Red Cross

An ambitious idea of Henry Dunant (1828-1910) to alleviate human suffering and provide assistance to the victims of armed conflicts, natural and other disasters became reality 150 years ago with the foundation of the International Committee of the Red Cross and Relief Societies, known today as National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.

Although in the beginning its sole objective was to ensure protection and assistance to the wounded in the battlefields, the scope of the International Committee of the Red Cross activities, as well as of the entire International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, has been constantly expanding to address ongoing humanitarian challenges. Through its direct action around the world, as well as by promoting of the development and respect of international humanitarian law, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, as the largest humanitarian network of the world, still strives to improve the lives of victims and respond to all kinds of humanitarian crises on an impartial, independent and neutral basis.

Bouquet on new Finnish stamp

Clover, geranium, forget-me-not, buttercup, vetch and many other summer flowers in one bouquet are offered to everyone by the post of Finland with the issue of the new “Summer Bouquet” stamp.

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New Blog on Thematic Philately

 

Noted Thematic Philatelist Mr Dinesh Chandra Sharma of Lucknow has created a new Blog, “ Indian Thematics ” . It can be viewed at following link :

http://indianthematics.blogspot.in/

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Suncheon Bay Garden Expo 2013

 

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Here is a magnificent stamp issued by Korea to commemorate Suncheon Bay Garden Expo 2013. The stamp is just beautiful and  a wonderful stamp for themes on environment, Tourism and flower and Birds !!

The Suncheon Bay Garden Expo 2013, authorized by the International Association of Horticultural Producers (AIPH), is being held in Suncheonman Bay from April 20, 2013.

The expo will be divided into three sections: the main expo site (564,000m²), featuring 10 country gardens and 60 themed gardens; the International Wetland Center (100,500m²), featuring an animal/plant exhibition hall, a theater, an ecology learning hall, and a wetland experience hall; and an arboretum (253,000m²). Connecting the main expo site and the wetland center will be a bridge, constructed using freight containers decorated with 160,000 artworks created by children from all over the world.

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Organized under the theme ‘Garden of the Earth,’ the Suncheon Bay Garden Expo 2013 is a global festival is being held for six months from April 20 to October 20, 2013 in Suncheon City of the Namdo region. Suncheonman (Suncheon Bay) is a coastal wetland registered on the Ramsar Convention. Korean photographers often select Suncheonman Bay as one of the best spots to watch sunsets in Korea.

Suncheon Bay

A place with never-ending field of reeds with hooded cranes roaming about, Suncheon Bay comprises one of the world’s top 5 coastal wetlands and is a rich ecological repository where 235 species of migratory birds and 120 species of plants inhabit.

The beautiful natural setting of Suncheon Bay will be the host site of “Suncheon Bay Garden Expo 2013″. Suncheon Bay Garden Expo 2013 will be held under the theme of “Suncheon Bay, the Garden of the Earth”, for 6 months from April 20, 2013 to October 20 around the Suncheon Bay.

For this Expo, 83 gardens will be created: “World Garden Zone” where visitors can appreciate various and unique garden cultures of various countries; 70 or so of “Participation Garden Zone” created by world famous garden designers and installation artists; “Oriental Herbs Experience Center”; “Kids’ Garden”; “International Wetland Zone”; and an “Arboretum Zone” where visitors can appreciate a Korean traditional garden and a Southern Forest Path. What makes the Expo more exciting is  the “Suncheon Lake Garden” created by the world-renowned gardener Charles Jencks; “The Dream Bridge”, a recycled container, designed by Kang Ik-jung, an installation artist, that displays 140,000 pictures drawn by children around the world about their future dreams; and PRT (Personal Rapid Transit), transportation that connects the Expo site with Suncheon Bay.

In hoping for the success of the Suncheon Bay Garden Expo 2013 which pursues environment-friendly values as shown by the recycling of the discarded trees, stones and containers, as well as the reed fences, compost manure made by worms, etc.,

Korean post has issued a postage stamp featuring a view of Suncheon Bay.

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Special Cover on Spring Festival..

 

"HE Azeez Qureshi, Governor, Uttarakhand along with Mrs. Amrita Rawat, Tourism Minister, Mr. Surendra Singh Negi, Health Minister Uttarakhand & Mr. S.M. Ramanuj, CPMG Uttarakhand released a special cover on Kilmora, a medicinal hilly yellow flower in Kumaon region of Uttarakhand, during the annual Colors of Spring festival 23-24 March 2013 at Raj Bhawan, Dehradun, on 23-3-12. The cancellation on the cover was on Buransh (Rhododendron), state flower designed by Philatelist Vinay Gupta."

: Vinay Gupta : – Dehradun - email : vinay5981@gmail.com

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Iris from Latvia…

 

Date of Issue : 8 March 2013

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Here is a lovely stamp from Latvia featuring beautiful flower Iris, issued on 8 March 2013. I am very much thankful to my friend E N Limanski of Riga, Latvia who sent me its first day cover shown below with a beautiful cancellation. It’s really interesting to note that Iris means rainbow in Greek. it’s a good item for my Rainbow collection too !!

To welcome the coming spring, Latvijas Pasts has released a new stamp depicting an iris as part of the popular Flowers series. Irises have been cultivated for around two thousand years; the plant originates from the Mediterranean region. Approximately 250 species of iris are known in the wild, found in Asia, Europe, North America and North Africa. It is recommended to plant irises in sunny spots, so they are sometimes called children of the sun. Irises have a rich variety of colors - in Ancient Greek, the word iris meant rainbow.

Iris is the fourth stamp in the Flowers series by Latvijas Pasts, which was launched in 2010; the first release in the series was Peony, the second - Rose, and the third - Lily.

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LUPHILEX 2013

Lucknow Regional Philatelic Exhibition is being held from 16-17 March,2013  at Faizabad (UP). A special cover on Saryu river was issued today.

 

: Ashwani Dubey from Faizabad

 

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New Stamps on Flowers

 

Fresh Roses from Finland

Finnish {Post  issued a traditional Roses-stamp with a luscious rose and a fresh rosebud. Some water drops on the flowers bring the well-known fragrance on your mind.

Magnolias from Canada

Canada post issued a set of two stamps depicting "Yellow Bird" and "Eskimo" varieties of magnolia.

Named after French botanist Pierre Magnol, the Magnolia genus comprises more than 200 flowering plant species in the subfamily Magnolioideae, part of the Magnoliaceae family. What’s truly fascinating about the magnolia is that it may be one of the oldest flowering plants on earth. Magnolia fossils believed to date back more than 20 million years have been found, and there is evidence that some plants of the Magnoliaceae family may have existed up to 95 million years ago.

Bright and saucy "Yellow Bird", so called for its sunny yellow colour, blooms in May, making it ideal for briefer Canadian summers. Closed, it’s reminiscent of a tulip waiting to bloom. "Eskimo", with its large cup flowers in white with a hint of lavender, is so hardy it can survive a mild frost.

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La Florida – Feast of the Flowers

 

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Here is a wonderful set of stamps to be issued by USPS  featuring beautiful flowers. These stamps are just fantastic and appear as the real  flowers have been pasted   on these stamps, look so real and fresh !! The date  of the issue of these beautiful stamps is unknown. These will be issued sometime in mid 2013.

The U.S. Postal Service commemorates the 500th anniversary of the naming of Florida with the release of stamps that celebrate the state’s floral abundance. During the Easter season of 1513, Spanish explorers first visited the state we now know as Florida. They named the land "La Florida" for Pascua Florida ("Feast of the Flowers"), Spain’s Easter celebration, and for the verdant display of vegetation that they could see from their ship.

The four se tenant stamps contain a cascade of blossoms that evokes the feeling of a tropical garden. Each stamp shows a particular variety of flower: red and pink hibiscus; yellow cannas; morning glories in white, red, and shades of purple; and white and purple passionflowers. The stamp pane includes on the selvage an imagined scene of explorers traveling in a small boat along a river or channel surrounded by tropical foliage.

Flowers are a perennial favorite with collectors and the stamp-buying public, and La Florida’s exquisite blossoms will be an elegant addition to the U.S. Postal Service’s tradition of producing appealing and beautiful floral stamp art.

Art director Ethel Kessler designed the stamp, with floral art by Steve Buchanan. La Florida stamps are being issued as Forever® stamps. Forever stamps are always equal in value to the current First-Class Mail one-ounce rate.

Source : Beyond the Perf

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Flowers’ Clock on stamps…

 

Date of Issue : 25 January 2013

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Here is a wonderful issue of Flowers from  Romania Posta with Flowers’ Clock.The issue is very unique and a collectible item for flower lovers !!

Each stamp shows flower and its blooming time on the clock featured on the stamp. As we know that all flowers do not bloom at the same time !! What a great idea…. I just love this issue and would like to have in my collection !!

Have you ever taken into consideration that flowers do not all blossom at the same time? That there is a specific hour when each one reveals itself to the light, nature and peoples? With an interesting thematic approach, this year, Romfilatelia is offering a two-part postage stamps issue, Flowers' Clock. This issue, achieved in an original illustrative manner, combines the image of a flower with an exhibit from the Nicolae Simache Clock Museum in Ploiesti.

The postage stamp with the face value of 0.60 lei illustrates the Field Poppy (Papaver rhoeas) which blooming hour is 5 a.m.

On the postage stamp with the face value of 0.80 lei is illustrated the Common Chicory (Cichorium inthybus) which blooming hour is 6 a.m.

The postage stamp with the face value of 1.00 lei illustrates the Viper’s Grass (Scorzonera rosea) which blooming hour is 7 a.m.

The postage stamp with the face value of 1.60 lei illustrates the Marsh Marigold (Caltha palustris), which blooming hour is 8 a.m.

The postage stamp with the face value of 2.40 lei illustrates the Sunflower (Helianthus annuus) which blooming hour is 9 a.m.

On the postage stamp with the face value of 5.00 lei is illustrated the Bird's-eye Speedwell (Veronica chamaedrys) which blooming hour is 10 a.m.

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Grand Numismatic & Philatelic Exhibition will be held at Vellore (Tamilnadu)

Date : 8,9 &10 February 2013 ( Friday,Saturday and Sunday)

Place : Vellore.

venue: Town hall

For more details contact -

C.M.A.Tamilvanan[secretary]
Numismatic & Philatelic association of vellore fort
email: tamil_4442004@yahoo.co.in
http://numismaticphilavellore.site40.net/

Phone 09245591886

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International Bouquet Competition..

 

Date of Issue : 16 January 2013

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Here is a beautiful stamp issued by Monaco Post..The stamp features a magnificent bouquet – a wonderful stamp for flower lovers !!  The International Bouquet Competition never fails to amaze its many visitors with the quality of the floral designs in competition. Organized by the Garden Club de Monaco and chaired by H.R.H. the Princess of Hanover, the 46th competition will take place on the Casino terraces, Monaco, on 4 and 5 May 2013. The bouquet shown on the stamp won last year's prize in the "Mediterranean Garden" category.

INTERNATIONAL CAT EXHIBITION 2013

Date of Issue : 16 January 2013

The Turkish Angora featured on new Monaco stamp will be honoured at the next International Cat Exhibition. The event, organised by the "Fédération Féline de Monte-Carlo" in Auditorium Rainier III, gives the public an opportunity to admire the most beautiful cats of each breed.

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Sealed with Love..

 

 

Date of Issue : February 1, 2013

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Here is a beautiful stamp to be issued by USPS for this year’s Valentine Day !! The stamp has a touch of soft and elegant romantic gesture…to be liked by one and all !! So make your Valentine’ Day very special with this beautiful romantic stamp !!

This is all for this Morning …..More in Next Post…. Have a Great Time !!

Evoking the romance of a bygone era, the U.S. Postal Service 2013 Sealed with Love (Forever®) stamp expresses the joy and beauty of handwritten love letters. The stamp art depicts an envelope fastened with an elegant wax seal. The seal, in shades of red, is a small heart enclosed inside a larger heart, both surrounded by a graceful filigree circle. The exquisite delicacy of the stamp art invites one to send their own love letters, a romantic gesture that never goes out of style.

This elegant First Day Cover carries an affixed Sealed with Love stamp and a First Day of Issue color postmark.Evoking the romance of handwritten love letters, the stamp art depicts an envelope flap fastened with a red wax seal—a small heart inside a larger heart, surrounded by a delicate filigree circle. The complimentary postmark design features custom script typography, and includes the official First Day of Issue date and location.

The Victorians were ardent letter writers and believed that there was a proper way to compose letters, particularly love letters. Etiquette manuals aided Victorian romantics in penning appropriate letters to their beloveds. While these books reflected the Victorian obsession with propriety, the senders still wished to make their feelings known, and there was a precise etiquette for using sealing wax. Although today red is the color most associated with passion, in the mid-1800s, blue was the color of love, with wax of various shades denoting the degree of emotion felt by the sender.

The Sealed with Love stamp is being issued as a Forever® stamp in self-adhesive sheets of 20. Forever stamps are always equal in value to the current First-Class Mail one-ounce rate.

Kaleidoscope Flowers on new USPS stamps

Date of Issue : 14 January 2013

Spring flowers, state flowers, wildflowers — these are but a few of the many botanical subjects on stamps issued by the U.S. Postal Service. Flowers are among the most popular subjects for collectors and the stamp-buying public. In a modern twist on a perennial favorite, the Kaleidoscope Flowers stamps combine the allure of flowers with the impact of modern computer graphics.

The set of four stamps depict the same contemporary flower drawing, with each stamp featuring one of four different color combinations: red and blue, green and purple, orange and violet, or pink and green. Some of the color combinations create the illusion that patterns recede or come forward, giving the stamps a dramatic visual appeal. The lines and curves of the drawing are reminiscent of a kaleidoscope flower—familiar, yet at the same time utterly distinctive.

 

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New stamps from USA..

 

Date of Issue : 30 November 2012

The US Postal Service will issue a souvenir sheet on 30th November 2012  to commemorate Centennial of the birth of Lady Bird Johnson (1912-2007) and celebrates her commitment to projects to preserve and enhance  Natural Heritage of America.

The Lady Bird Johnson souvenir sheet features six stamps, a quote from the First Lady reflecting her belief that the environment is our common ground, and a black-and-white image of the First Lady taken from a family photograph shot in 1963 by Yoichi Okamoto. Text on the back of the stamp sheet highlights a few of Lady Bird Johnson’s many successes. The single stamp on the right side of the sheet features her official White House portrait, an oil painting by Elizabeth Shoumatoff showing the seated First Lady wearing an empire-waist gown of buttercup yellow.

The five stamps on the left, adaptations of stamps originally issued in the 1960s commemorate the visible legacy left by her projects — and to encourage others to follow.

The top stamp reads “Plant for more Beautiful Streets” and shows a row of blooming crab apple trees along a paved suburban road.

The second from the top offers the encouragement to “Plant for more Beautiful Parks,” with an image of a field of daffodils along the Potomac River with the Washington Monument in the background.

“Plant for a more Beautiful America,” the center stamp, depicts the Jefferson Memorial in the background seen through branches of flowering cherry blossoms.

The fourth stamp is a scene of yellow and blue wildflowers along a highway with the caption “Plant for more Beautiful Highways.”

The last stamp, which reads “Plant for more Beautiful Cities,” shows plantings of pink and red azaleas and white tulips with the U.S. Capitol in the distance.

The original engraved stamps featuring art by Walter D. Richards (four stamps, issued in 1969) and Gyo Fujikawa (center stamp, issued in 1966) have been adapted for printing in offset lithography by artist Paloma Alcalá of Alexandria, VA.

 

 

 

Happy New Year 2013 stamps from France

The French Post has issued a set of colorful and joyous self-adhesive stamps containing New Year 2013 greetings. These stamps will become a good addition to the Christmas and New Year's cards sent on holiday eve.

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New stamps from Poland

 

CITY - GARDENS IN POLAND

Date of Issue : 31 October 2012 

 

 

PEOPLE OF CINEMAS AND THEATER

Date of Issue : 31 October 2012

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Language of Flowers….

 

Greeting stamps from Taiwan

Date of Issue  : 28 September 2012

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Here are some beautiful Greeting stamps to be issued by Taiwan Post on 27 September 2012. Each flower has its own meaning…. A wonderful set of stamps to send greetings to your dear ones…This set will be liked by all those who love flowers….There are two sets in different denominations with same Flowers but the background color  is different !!

This is all for Today……Have a Nice Day !!

To provide more custom design options, Chunghwa Post is issuing a second set of ten stamps featuring the "language of flowers". This series is a follow-up to the "Personal Greeting Stamps – Travel in Taiwan," issued on September 27, 2011. All ten stamps come in denominations of NT$3.50 and NT$5.00; the different denominations are distinguished by different background colors. The designs follow:

1. Cotton rose: daintiness. Comely and graceful, cotton roses always manage to stand out in a sea of flowers. They are often used to describe ladies of extraordinary beauty. 

2. Bird-of-Paradise: passion. It is known for its distinguished, moon-gazing crane shape. The colors are a bright, flaming red. Bird-of-paradise also represents freedom, fulfillment and bliss.

3. Clary sage: respect. Clary sage comes in pink and bluish purple. It represents longevity and defense against bad fortunes.

4. Dancing lady orchid: gentleness. Dancing lady orchid inspires an impression of dancing butterflies. Small, dainty yellow blossoms hang around the stalks like tiny bells.

5. Zinnia: everlastingness : Zinnia is known for its long flowering period. When in full bloom, the flowers seem to tower one another. It therefore also represents elevation in status.

6. Tagetes erecta: health : The petals are full and bright, with a relatively long flowering period. As a flower species, Tagetes erecta is popular for its vitality.

7. Chinese hibiscus: grace : The blossoms are flamboyant and pleasing to the eye. Chinese hibiscus also represents new love.

8. Fragrant olive: humility : The blossoms are exquisite and sweet with fragrance. Its Chinese moniker, "Gui," is also homonymous with the Chinese word, "value." The flower therefore is seen as a symbol of status and prosperity.

9. Flowering crab apple: warmth. The flower blooms in spring, and brings with it the welcoming warmth of the season. Known for its magic spell, crab apple is also lovingly called, "understand me."

10. Hydrangea: hope : Hydrangea flowers thrive in the warmth of spring. They are the vanguard of a new season.

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