Lighthouses on New Norwegian stamps…

 

Date of Issue : 15 June 2012

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Here are the two most beautiful stamps with Lighthouses..The picture shown on these Norwegian stamps are just wonderful with mist in the background…These are in the Oslo Fjord. These stamps are perhaps showing the most beautiful view of these light hoses !! It is a delight for those collecting stamps on Light houses !!

Kavringen Lighthouse was built in 1892 and is located on Søndre Kavringdyne, a group of skerries in the western seaward approach to the Port of Oslo. There had previously been two lighthouses in the Oslo harbour basin, Heggholmen and Dyna, situated in the old main sea lane. Towards the end of the 19th century, however, larger vessels began to prefer the western lane between Kavringen and Hovedøya, round Vippetangen and into Bjørvika. After DS Norge ran aground on the Kavringen skerries in 1890, there was a cry for better lighting in the western approach. The Kavringen lighthouse was completed and operational only two years later. Until 1956, when both lighthouses were automated and the job of lighthouse keeper became redundant, the lighthouse keeper on Dyna was also responsible for Kavringen. On 15 May (St. Hallvard’s Day), as part of Oslo’s millennium celebrations in 2000, a time capsule made of titanium was bolted to the inside of the lighthouse. The time capsule is designed like the lighthouse’s lantern housing and it contains letters and greetings from the citizens of Oslo to people of the future. The capsule cannot be opened until the year 3000.

Medfjordbåen is a sunken rock in the middle of the Oslo Fjord, off Slangentangen in the county of Vestfold. Here the lighthouse was built and went into operation in 1876. Medfjordbåen Lighthouse is a familiar rounding mark in the annual Færder Regatta, on the way to Åsgårdstrand and Horten.

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HYDERABAD PHILATELIC & HOBBIES SOCIETY
50 YEARS OF CELEBRATIONS - HYPEX – GOLD – 2013

The Hyderabad Philatelic & Hobbies Society is celebrating its 50 years of service to the Philatelists, Numismatists & other Hobbyists, in 2012. As a part of the celebrations, HYPEX – GOLD - 2013, a Philatelic and Numismatic Exhibition will be held from 04 January – 06 January 2013 at Secunderabad (Hyderabad). During this exhibition, a grand meet of Dealers and Collectors is proposed to be held followed by a palmare cum dinner get together wherein doyens of Philatelic & Numismatic fields will be invited.
For further details, please write to: HydPhilSociety@yahoo.co.in  or contact :

Shri Sunder Bahirwani, President, HPHS, Phone: 09985357370
Shri Agarwaal, Shri Prakash, Chairman, HYPEX-GOLD-2013, Phone: 09346777206
Shri B K Nagpal Secretary, HPHS, Phone: 09885031013

- Secretary, HPHS

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Great Voyages of New Zealand

 

Date of Issue : 5 September 2012

New Zealand Post will issue a set of 5 stamps and a Miniature sheet on 5th September 2012 featuring Great Voyages of New Zealand.

2012 is a fitting time to look back at New Zealand’s maritime history, as it marks a number of significant anniversaries, including 50 years of the Cook Strait Inter-Island Rail and Road Service. 100 years have passed since the Earnslaw was successfully launched, and it’s been 130 years since the Dunedin completed the first successful shipment of frozen meat between New Zealand and England.

These important milestones are celebrated in the ‘Great Voyages of New Zealand’ stamp issue along with waka, which transported people and trade goods across Cook Strait, and the Rotomahana – the first ocean-going ship built of mild steel.

Whether they were enabling trade, increasing efficiencies or transporting people, each of the vessels in the ‘Great Voyages of New Zealand’ stamp issue has a unique story to tell.

70c - Aramoana

The Aramoana’s big stern door transformed domestic transport in 1962. Prior to then, double-handling had made it too costly and slow for rail to compete with coastal ships, but roll-on, roll-off ships seamlessly connected the islands. In 2012 five such ships form a ‘floating bridge’. The 4,160-ton road/rail ferry Aramoana served until 1984.

$1.40 - Waka

Over time Māori developed a range of distinctive dugout canoes ranging from the imposing waka taua (war canoes) to the humbler fishing canoes, river canoes and reed and flax craft. Usually paddled but sometimes assisted by mat sails, the bigger vessels could transport large quantities of people and trade goods across Cook Strait.

$1.90 - Earnslaw

Tourists walk the triple - expansion steamer Earnslaw’s decks these days, but 100 years ago the ‘Lady of the Lake’ was a hard-working passenger, freight and livestock carrier, one of several linking the isolated farms and settlements of Lake Wakatipu. Designed and built in Dunedin and reassembled at the lakeside in 1912, the Earnslaw still burns coal today.

$2.40 - Dunedin

In 1874 the Albion Line (later Shaw Savill & Albion) commissioned the 1,320-ton Dunedin for the immigrant trade, which it served until being converted in 1881 to carry frozen meat. A regular caller to Oamaru, the Dunedin vanished with all 35 crew after sailing from that port for London in March 1890; the ship probably hit an iceberg.

$2.90 - Rotomahana

With its rakish bow, masts and funnel, the Rotomahana looked like an elegant steam yacht. The first ocean-going ship built of mild steel, the 15.5- knot ‘Greyhound of the Pacific’ spearheaded the Union Steam Ship Company’s grab for the trans-Tasman trade in the late 1870s. The 1,727-ton ship later served on the Wellington-Lyttelton and Melbourne-Hobart runs before being discarded in 1925.

The first day covers feature imagery of historical nautical maps as well as two unique date stamps.

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Great Explores…

 

Date of Issue : 3 July 2012

This stamp issue by Australia Post commemorates two anniversaries: in 2012 it is 150 years since John McDouall Stuart returned from his overland crossing of Australia; and in 2013 it will be 200 years since Gregory Blaxland, William Lawson and William Charles Wentworth crossed the Blue Mountains.

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In 1813, Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth travelled through Durug and Gundungurra country to establish a route across the Blue Mountains to open up the western plains of NSW for farming and settlement. Others had attempted the crossing before, but the party's key strategy was to follow a westward-running ridge between the Western and Grose Rivers, travelling for 21 days to what became known as Mt Blaxland. Their expedition led, within a few short years, to a road across the mountains.

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Some 50 years later, Stuart became the first European to make the south-north return crossing of Australia. He left South Australia with his nine companions in October 1861, on his third attempt to cross the continent, reaching the coast at Van Diemen Gulf on 24 July 1862. Stuart raised the fl ag the following day, after first attempting to find the mouth of the Adelaide River. Turning south, the party made Adelaide on 17 December that year. Stuart's success has been attributed to his experience, his egalitarian leadership style and his lighter method of travel. His expedition eventually led to the Adelaide-Darwin telegraph, (enabling telegraphic communication with the world) and the Stuart Highway.

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KRPOOR CHANDRA KULISH STAMP PRESENTED TO THE PRIME MINISTER

Chairman and Chief Editor of Rajasthan Patrika Group Mr. Gulab  Kothari presented commemorative stamp of Group founder Karpoor Chandra Kulish to the Prime Minister of India Shri Manmohan Singh on 11th July 2012. This stamp was issued on 16thMay 2012 and at that time release function was not organized by the India Post.

In a meeting organized at the Prime Minister Office at SouthBlock, New Delhi, Shri Manmohan Singh told that following the traditionsestablished by Shri Kulish, Rajsthan Patrika Group will continue to maintaintraditions of healthy and positive journalism. A book “Shabda Ved” written byMr. Kulish was also presented to the Prime Minister by Mr. Gulab Kothari.

Mr. Sachin Pilot, State Minister for Communication andfamily members of Shri Kulish were also present on this occasion.

- Sudhir Jain, Satna.

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100 years of the Titanic disaster….

 

Souvenir sheet from Hungary

Date of issue: 13 April 2012

Hi ! Here is a unique souvenir sheet with two stamps  issued on 100 years of Titanic..This is the most unusual issue of this year with embossed design. The ship theme collectors would love to have this nice magnificent  item in his/her collection !! Thus is all for Today….Till Next Post …Have a Nice Time !!

Magyar Posta has issued an exclusive commemorative souvenir sheet  in memory of the Titanic and Dr Árpád Lengyel, the ship’s doctor on the first vessel to hurry to the aid of the Titanic, the British steamship RMS Carpathia. The main motif of this unusual philatelic product is the Titanic heading towards the iceberg, while the stamps show parts of the liner.

In the top right corner there is a portrait of Dr Lengyel and the outline of RMS Carpathia. The unusual feature of this release is that, in addition to offset printing and embossing, iridescent spot-varnish screen printing, usually a security device, has been used and the particles scattered across the surface sparkle icily.

The first day cover features a portrait of Dr Árpád Lengyel, while the silhouette of a lifeboat has been used for the special postmark.

Titanic

The Titanic was built in the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and when she was launched, she was the world’s largest steam-powered passenger liner. She left Southampton at noon on 10 April 1912 with 2207 pas-sengers on board. Several ice warnings were received on the evening before the disaster, but the high volume of telegrams prevented some from reaching the bridge. Although the Titanic was the largest and most elegant vessel on the transatlantic route, it was not the fastest, which jeopardised the planned arrival in New York on 16 April 1912.

For this reason it steamed full ahead and did not try to avoid the potentially dangerous area of drifting ice. At 11.40 pm on 14 April the watch spotted a floating iceberg. The officer on duty ordered the ship to be steered to the left and the port propeller to be put into reverse. A long time passed before the gigantic vessel slowly began to turn, and so the iceberg punctured a series of fatal holes below the waterline on the starboard side of the ship. The captain immediately sent distress signals and gave the order to abandon ship.

RMS Carpathia heard the Mayday but was too far from the scene to offer immediate help. The Titanic sank at 2.20 am on 15 April. The people in the lifeboats were picked up by the Carpathia about 75 minutes later.

The ship’s doctor of the Carpathia, which hurried to the Titanic’s aid, was Dr Árpád Lengyel, who did all within his power to save the survivors, endangered by hypothermia. The survivors gave him a medallion in gratitude. His grave is in the Kerepesi Cemetery in Budapest.

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