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Royal Mail: National Parks

Royal Mail will issue a set of 10 stamps on 14th January 2021 celebrating the 70th anniversary of the founding of Britain’s first National Parks.  Featuring UK’s most popular and visited landscapes, the stamp set features 10 of the 15 National Parks: 1.Peak District  2.Lake District  3.Snowdonia  4.Dartmoor  5.North York Moors 6.The Broads 7.New Forest […]

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Romania Issued Stamps on Little Owls

Stamps depicts Glaucidium passerinum (Linnaeus, 1758) – Eurasian Pygmy-owl, Athene noctua (Scopoli, 1769) , Athene cunicularia (Molina, 1782) – Burrowing Owl and Ninox theomacha (Bonaparte, 1855) Issue Date:12.08.2020 Designer:Razvan Popescu Process:Offset Colours:4 Colours Size:Stamp size: 36 x 36 mm; Block size: 120 x 120 mm ( in philatelic folder) Minisheet of 5 stamps + 1 label: […]

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New Stamps Released from Guernsey

250th Anniversary of Beethoven The Stamp features the Beethoven monument which was unveiled on 12 August 1845, in honour of the 75th anniversary of the composer’s birth. Issue Date:21.07.2020 Designer:The Potting Shed Printer:Southern Colour Print Process:Offset Lithography Size:40mm deep x 30mm wide 100th Anniversary of Rupert Bear Originally created by artist and illustrator Mary Tourtel, […]

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Croatia Issued Stamp on Bljesak and Oluja Operations

On the morning of May 1, 1995, Croatian military and police forces launched a lightning operation to liberate the previously occupied areas of western Slavonia. The operation began with an attack by Croatian forces on the southern and central part of the West Slavonian occupied territory from the direction of Novska and Nova Gradiška with […]

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Unique Combination First Day Cover’s of India (8)

By Sudhir Jain For the first time an International Philatelic Exhibition INDIPEX-73 was organized in India from 14th to 23rd Nov. 1973. To propagate this exhibition, one stamp was issued on 8th Jan. 1973 and three stamps were issued on inauguration day of the exhibition i.e. 14th Nov.1973. F.D.C. exhibited here is of first stamp issued […]

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New Stamps Issued from Israel

Butterflies : My Own Stamp Date of Release:9th June 2020 Summer Flowers:Epilobium Hirsutum Relatively few plants bloom in Israel in the summer due to the lack of rain during this arid season. It is therefore not surprising that most of the species that do bloom are found in damp habitats such as pools, riverbanks and […]

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Romania Issued Stamps on Squirrels

Squirrels (Sciuridae family) are mammals that are part of the large group of rodents, the family comprising about 55 species, spreading in the most part of Europe and Asia, and in the New World from southern Canada to northern Argentina. They generally populate coniferous, deciduous and tropical forests, both in wetlands and arid areas. Indian […]

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India Post Issued Stamps on Musical Instruments of Wandering Minstrels

India Post has released a beautiful thematic set of six stamps on Musical instruments.The stamps are released in setenant format.Each sheet contains 15 setenant stamps of denomination 5 Rs. 1. Kamaicha 2. Ravanahatha 3. Surando 4. Algoza 5. Burrakatha 6. Ektara Date of Release:25th June 2020,Designer;Sankha Samanta,Print Run:500,000 (each stamp),Process;Wet Offset,Printer:Security Printing Press,Hyderabad For Image […]

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Unique Combination First Day Cover’s of India (6)

By Sudhir Jain Gandhi and Nehru (Allahabad cancellation) : 15-08-1973 Kamla Nehru (Allahabad cancellation) : 01-08-1974

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Unique Combination First Day Covers of India (5)

By Sudhir Jain Jawaharlal Nehru (New Delhi cancellation ) : 12-06-1964 Gandhi and Nehru (Anand Bhawan, Allahabad cancellation) : 15-08-1973 Children’s Day (INDIPEX-73 Hall of Nations, New Delhi cancellation) : 14-11-1973