New stamp on Pierre de Coubertin..

 

Monaco Post has issued a stamp to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Pierre de Coubertin.

Pierre de Coubertin was born into an aristocratic family in Paris in 1863. He turned his back on the military career that had been mapped out for him, preferring the world of education. Influenced by the culture of the English-speaking world, he militated for the inclusion of sport in French schools. In 1894, he founded the International Olympic Committee to revive the Olympic Games. The first Games of the modern era took place two years later in Athens.

 

150th Birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda

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Date of Issue : 12 January 2013

India Post released 4 stamps on 150th Birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda.

: Sreejesh Krishnan - Trivandrum

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Glimpses of Allaphilex-2013

A stamp exhibition   “Allaphilex-2013” is being  held in Allahabad from 13 -14 January, 2013   at Gandhi Art Gallery of North Central Zone Cultural Centre. The exhibition was inaugurated by Justice Pankaj Mithal of Allahabad High Court accompanied by Padam Shri Shamshurrahman Farooqui, Postmaster General, Allahabad Region Shri A. K. Gupta, and Director Postal Services, Allahabad Shri Krishna Kumar Yadav.

In this exhibition the Philatelists of the city showcased various types of Postage Stamps. Thousands of Stamps were displayed in 59 frames,which includes a wide range of colorful collection of stamps, issued on Allahabad, 100 years of cinema in Postage Stamps, Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi, Ravindranath Tagore, Nehru family, Indian Freedom Struggle, Stamps issued on Mosques, Bio Diversity, Rotary, Fire Brigade, Red Cross, and also included AIDS, Maleria etc. issued to spread awareness about these diseases. It included not only stamps issued in India but also included rare postage stamps and postage stationary issued in Foreign Countries. Other than senior Philatelists of the city, students and children also exhibited their postage stamps collection. It is worthwhile to mention here that such type of exhibition is being organized after 5 years. Earlier Postage stamp exhibition was organized in 2007.

 

Rich Tradition of Philately shown in Allahabad Philatelic Exhibition- “Allaphilex-2013”

Euphoria among visitors to get own stamp printed under “My Stamp” scheme

The much awaited “My Stamps” scheme of the Postal Department was also launched in this programme. Many people including Justice Pankaj Mithal got there photos printed on Postage Stamps. There was a lot of enthusiasm among youngsters for this scheme. Shri Krishna Kumar Yadav, Director Postal Services Shri Krishna Kumar Yadav informed that due to its popularity this scheme will also be launched in Kumbh Mela for a few days. A Philatelic Workshop and Design a stamp competition was also organized for children. While Children enjoyed Philatelic Exhibition, Philatelic Deposit Accounts were also opened.

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Guernsey

London Olympic Games 2012

 

Pre stamped Picture Post card from Samsung !!

Latvia

Friedrich Zander  Latvian: Frīdrihs Canders; was a pioneer of rocketry and spaceflight in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. He designed the first liquid-fuelled rocket to be launched in the Soviet Union, GIRD-X, and made many important theoretical contributions to the road to space.

Zander was born in Riga, Russian Empire, into a Baltic German family.He graduated with his engineering degree in 1914, moved to Moscow in 1915.Zander lodged a patent in Moscow for a winged rocket that he believed would be suitable for interplanetary flight, and in October gave a lecture to the Moscow Institute on the possibility of reaching Mars by rocket. Read More…

EN Limanski, Riga - Latvia

Poland

200. ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF JÓZEF IGNACY KRASZEWSKI

Józef Ignacy Kraszewski (28 July 1812 – 19 March 1887) was a Polish writer, historian and journalist who produced more than 200 novels and 150 novellas, short stories, and art reviews . He is best known for his epic series on the history of Poland, comprising twenty-nine novels in seventy-nine parts.As a novelist writing about Polish history, Kraszewski is generally regarded as second only to Henryk Sienkiewicz. Read More…

 

Andrzej Bek, Nowy Sacz – Poland

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Sport for Peace – Paralympic Games 2012

 

Date of Issue : 17 August 2012

The Paralympic Games are held every four years, following the Olympic Games, and are governed by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). The Paralympics first started in 1948 when Dr. Ludwig Guttmann organized a sports competition at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in England for Second World War veterans that had spinal injuries. The competition took place between sports clubs and other hospitals on the same day as the Opening Ceremony of the London 1948 Olympic Games.

The first Paralympic Games were held in Rome, Italy, in 1960 and involved 400 athletes from 23 countries. Originally, only wheelchair athletes were invited to compete. Since that time, the Paralympic Games have grown dramatically. Athletes competing at the Games are divided into the following disability groups: visual impairments, amputees, cerebral palsy, spinal cord injuries and Les Autres - athletes with physical disabilities that are not included in the categories mentioned above.

The 2012 Paralympic Games will take place between 29 August and 9 September. They will be the biggest Paralympic Games ever, featuring 4,200 athletes from 160 countries who will compete in 20 sports.

To commemorate the 2012 Summer Paralympic Games, the United Nations Postal Administration will issue stamps on 17 August 2012 featuring six paralympic sports. Three souvenir sheets will also be released on the same day.

Sport is a universal language that can be a powerful tool in promoting peace, tolerance and understanding by bringing people together across boundaries, cultures and religions. The 2012 Paralympic Games in London will continue its tradition of promoting the Olympic spirit by featuring exceptional athletes with amazing talents that continue to inspire people around the world.

Team GB – Gold Olympics Stamps 2012

Royal Mail has issued next day stamps for the first time and have painted the Post-boxes gold to celebrate each win for Team GB at the London Olympics 2012.The final tally is 29 Gold Medal Wins for Team GB in Cycling, Rowing, Shooting, Sailing, Tennis, Taekwando, Athletics, Triathlon, Equestrian, Canoeing and Boxing.

The Stamps are getting so popular day by day , that they are all sold out at the Royal mail Post offices in the early working hours; one can seen the young and old waiting in queue's to have a complete set in their collection.

The most popular stamp being ‘The Women's Boxing Gold’ medal stamp - of Nicola Adams which is hard to find in the post office.Good initiative by the Royal Mail Post to boost Philately & felicitate the Olympians, but the face value of the stamps is high and with the price rise early this year makes it a tough buy for all to get the best.

Note: there are more Olympics stamps GB released over the year and a special minisheet on the Opening ceremony day.What a great gift and appreciation to the Olympians to have a Stamp each for a Golden Victory!!

- Julian Fernandes - email : julian.destiny@gmail.com

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London Olympics 2012…

 

Cards issued by India Post for London 2012

View : LONDON OLYMPIC issues by India Post

: Shrikant Parikh, Ahmedabad

Ukraine

Slovenia

China

Greece

Philippines

View :  More stamps on London Olympics

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AFMC, Pune

FDC with Place cancellation of AFMC Pune  Post Office

 

Thanks to Dr Anjali Dutta, Pune

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Philatelic news from London Olympics 2012…

 

Gold Medal heroes on stamps

 

Australia

Tom Slingsby becomes first individual medalist to feature on 2012 Australian Gold Medallist stamp

After winning Australia's first individual gold medal of the London 2012 Olympic Games, sailing superstar and five time world champion, Tom Slingsby, will become Australia's first individual gold medalist to feature on a 2012 Australian Gold Medalist Stamp.

Stamps featuring an image of Slingsby from the gold medal dais in London will be available in participating Australia Post retail outlets from Thursday, 9 August while stocks last.

Australia Post is producing stamps for every Australian gold medalist from the London 2012 Olympic Games, and they are expected to be available in metropolitan Australia Post outlets within 48 hours of each gold medal presentation.

 

 

Women's 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay Team features on first 2012 Australian Gold Medallist Stamp

After their gold medal-winning performance in the Women's 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay on Saturday 28 July, Alicia Coutts, Cate Campbell, Brittany Elmslie and Melanie Schlanger will be the first Australian athletes to feature on the Australian Gold Medallist Stamps for the London 2012 Olympic Games.

Some best designed  Stamps on London Olympics 2012

 

Most beautiful stamp issued for LONDON 2012 !!

Slovakia

During these Olympic Games, 10,500 athletes from 204 countries are struggling for 302 collections of medals in 26 Olympic sports.

The first Paralympic Games for physically handicapped sportsmen, mostly British soldiers - disabled people from WWII, were held on 29th July1948. It took place on the same day as the Opening Ceremony of the XIV Olympic Games. The Paralympic Games are coming back to its cradle with a wide-ranging schedule for more than 4,000 contestants from 166 countries who are participating in 21 disciplines.

Besides the traditional Olympic disciplines (light athletics, swimming, weightlifting, fencing, equestrian disciplines, cycling, rowing, yachting) or games (football, volleyball, basketball, rugby, tennis, table tennis),an extremely popular game of boccia or goalball has also been introduced.. It was devised after WWII as a ball game for visually impaired soldiers. It is played in silence and players try to throw a ball that has bells embedded in it into the opponent's goal. The players do not see the ball; they only hear it. But after the goal, the applause is a legitimate doping!

Costa Rica

Portugal

Date of Issue : 19 June 2012

 

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Stamps on ‘WORLD HERITAGE’

- Pradip Kumar Malik

HIGH COAST (SWEDEN)

The High Coast is located on the west shore of the Gulf of Bothnia, a northern extension of the Baltic Sea. The area covers 142,500 ha including a marine component of 80,000 ha, which includes a number of offshore islands. UNESCO designated High Coast as World Heritage property in 2000 for being an outstanding example representing major stages of Earth’s history.

Sweden 2005

Se-tenant set of four stamps, with views of the High Coast. In the lower selvedge, stamps are inscribed in Swedish "Världsarvet Höga Kusten" (World Heritage High Coast). The stamps are from a booklet pane of eight stamps, and are perforated on three sides.

The irregular topography of the region - a series of lakes, inlets and flat hills rising to 350 m - has been largely shaped by the combined processes of glaciations, glacial retreat and the emergence of new land from the sea. Since the last retreat of the ice from the High Coast 9,600 years ago, the uplift has been in the order of 285 m which is the highest known 'rebound'.

The High Coast site affords outstanding opportunities for the understanding of the important processes that formed the glaciated and land uplift areas of the Earth's surface. The site is one of the places in the world that is experiencing isostatic uplift as a result of deglaciation. Isostatic rebound is well-illustrated and the distinctiveness of the site is the extent of the total isostatic uplift which, at 294m, exceeds others.

Mr Pradeep Kumar Malik may be contacted at email : mallikphila@gmail.com

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Red British mailboxes painted gold for Olympians….

 

A post box is painted gold in Penzance, England, Thursday, Aug. 2, 2012. The Royal Mail celebrated the Olympic gold medal of British rower Helen Glover by painting an iconic red post box gold in her home town of Penzance. (AP Photo/The Royal Mail Press Office, Phil Monckton)

LONDON (AP) — Britain is turning red into gold

Some of the country's iconic red mailboxes were painted gold Thursday, to celebrate gold medals won by British Olympians.

In this photo  a post box is painted gold in Penzance, England, Thursday, Aug. 2, 2012. The Royal Mail celebrated the Olympic gold medal of British rower Helen Glover by painting an iconic red post box gold in her home town of Penzance. (AP Photo/The Royal Mail Press Office, Phil Monckton)

Champion cyclist Bradley Wiggins and rowers Helen Glover and Heather Stanning were honored with a gold mailbox in each of their hometowns, Royal Mail said.

It's the first time the mail service has changed the color of its mailboxes in more than a century. The boxes have been red since 1874.

The Royal Mail plans to paint another mail box gold every time a British Olympic or Paralympic athlete wins a gold medal during the London games. The pillar boxes will remain in use, and will stay gold for some time. The mail service did not specify when they will be repainted red.

It is also selling special gold medal stamps to celebrate all of the nation's champions. Stamps commemorating Wiggins, Glover and Stanning went on sale Thursday.

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Sp Cover on Olympic Games from Bangalore

Due to non available of new stamps till date we only used old stamps for 200 covers and still waiting for new stamps and for your kind information all ready 400 covers have been booked the cover cost @ Rs 30/-  each and the postage charge up to two covers 25/- and 3 to 9 covers Rs 50/- and more than ten covers postage free of charge.

we have created a page to book the special cover, link for the same is

http://www.numispoint.com/featured-product/olymphilex-2012.html

http://www.numispoint.com/olymphilexindia-2012/form/3-book-olymphilexindia-2012-special-cover.html

Bank details is as below 
M.VIJAYA KUMAR, 0411101058842 CANARA BANK RAJAJINAGAR 3RD BLOCK , Bangalore

- Jagannath Mani
C/o Automotive levers,
#232/A, 2nd Main, 4th Stage,
Industrial Town, Rajajinagar,
Bangalore - 560010
www.olympicgamesphilately.blogspot.in

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