Dear Reader,
I am pleased to release April 2025 issue of Rainbow Stamp News. It is available at the following link :
2 weeks ago
04 April 2025
02 April 2025
Sydney Stamp & Coin Expo 2025
View : Result
Congratulations to all Winners !
1.Madhukar Jhingan 2.Sandeep Murjani 3, Savita Jhingan 4. Sushil Mehra 5. Ramachandran Mahalingam 6. Gauresh Mehra
Indian Winners
LARGE
VERMEIL MEDAL
Madhukar Jhingan – The
Indian Aerogrammes: Inland Issues
Savita Jhingan – From
India to Space
Kasaravalli Ananya –
Myriad Facets of Indian Woman
Mahurkar Katyayani –
Power & Grace, World of Mighty Birds of Prey
VERMEIL
MEDAL
Natarajan Lakshmi –
Perfins of Cochin
Ramachandran Madhav – A
study of Cochin Anchal Postmarks and Cancellations
Murjani Sandeep – Air
India, from Roots to Routes
Ramachandran Maheswari –
Kashmir – Heaven on Earth
Mehra Sushil – An Early
Portrait of Bengalaru
LARGE
SILVER MEDAL
Ramachandran Mahalingam
– Cochin Postal History
Mehra Gauresh – Halley's
Comet - The Science Narratives and business around the Haileys Comet
Mehra Sushil – A Post
Office Adventure along the British Indian Railway
Mehra Gauresh – Glimpses
of Bombay
SILVER
MEDAL
Raghavan Akshaya – The
Railway Mail Service of Cochin
Murjani Sandeep – Indian
Airlines
Sydney Stamp & Coin Expo 2025 Jury
18 March 2025
My Recent Covers
12 February 2025 : Maghi Purnima : Prayagraj
28 February 2025 : Celebrating 114 Years of First Air Mail Service : Prayagraj
Thanks to Mr. Rahul Ganguli, Prayag Philatelic Society, Prayagraj
14 March 2025
12 March 2025
Book Review
Threads of Tradition: Khadi Wavers and the GI Tags
By Sushil Mehra
Threads of Tradition: Khadi, Weavers
and the GI Tags By Sushil Mehra : First Edition : Type – A4 Size Paperback –
Coffee Table Book : Author, Publisher & Copyright : Sushil Mehra : Pages :
136 email : gaureshmehra@gmail.com
WhatsApp : 9972091818
The new book by Sushil Mehra , Threads of Tradition : Khadi Weavers and GI Tags features India’s textile heritage. Artisans and traditional fabrics through philately and GI. The book shows the significance of Textile industry and its heritage in different states of India through postage stamps and covers, Post marks and picture postcards. Textile industry plays an important role in the economy of India. The book gives a new theme to the Thematic collectors to develop into a beautiful exhibit. The book is presented in an excellent way and not only for the philatelists but in general for all is a wonderful book.
The book features articles by noted philatelists on Khadi, Textiles, GI Tagged handloom products of different states, List of GI Special Covers, on Textiles, Pages of Philatelic exhibit on Poshak (dresses) and many more to read. The book is very interesting. Different types of philatelic items related to Textile, Dresses, Handlooms, Silk, Khadi with lot of information are given in the book. The book will be very helpful for thematic collectors to prepare a theme related to textile. General readers would also enjoy the book with good information on handlooms of different states featured through postage stamps covers, post cards and cancellations. This beautiful coffee table book is recommended for one and all.
About the Author
Sushil Mehra is a BA (Hons) in Political Science from Delhi University and came to Bangalore in 1976. He is the Managing Director of Pan Office Systems Pvt Ltd, Bangalore which is engaged in selling office furniture and school furniture.
He has been the Past President of Rotary Club of Bangalore Orchards and Chairman of Publications Committee of FKCCI (Federation of Karnataka Chambers of Commerce and Industry) as well as the Past President of Karnataka Hardware and Allied Merchants Association (KHAMA).
He is a
keen philatelist and numismatist with special interest in various varied
subjects related to stamp, coin and note collection. He is a member
of Karnataka Numismatic Society as well as member of Karnataka
Philatelic Society. He has a complete collection of Post Independence
India Stamps. ET (Economic Times) as well Deccan Herald have published
articles on his collection. Karnataka Postal Circle has released Post
Cards on his collection as well as two books on Special Covers of
Karnataka to which he Contributed. He is author/co-author of many books on
philately. Some of them are :
- Glimpses of Vintage Bengaluru’,
- ‘Guide
to Permanent Pictorial Cancellations of India’,
- ‘ My
Dashavatar Collection with special emphasis on Rama and Krishna’,
- ‘Exemplified
Philatelic Terms’,
- ‘Jai
Hind – The True spirit of India’,
- ‘The
Handbook of Permanent Pictorial Cancellations of India’.
- ‘INK
THE PPC: An Updated Guide to Permanent Pictorial Cancellations’
- ‘My
Collection of Special Covers issued by Karnataka Postal Circle 2019-2023’
- ‘The Post Office Buildings of India’
- ‘CARRIED COVERS of INDIA’
- ‘Gandhi
Connections’ on Post Offices in India bearing the name of Gandhiji
- ‘Daakiya
Aaya, Chitti Laya’ – a book in Hindi about Postmen and Letters through the
ages through the eyes of picture postcards
He
has won several award at National and International Philatelic Exhibitions.
- - Jeevan Jyoti
AMSIPEX-25
Report - AMSIPEX-25
The 1st International Virtual Aerophilatelic &
Astrophilatelic Exhibition
Amsipex-25 is the 1st International Virtual Aerophilatelic & Astrophilatelic Exhibition, organized by the Air Mail Society India Foundation (AMSI) to celebrate World Air Mail Day on February 18. The event took place from February 15-23, 2025, and was held virtually. (www.AMSIPEX.com).
AMSIPEX-25 received Patronage from the International
Federation of Aero-and Astrophilatelic Societies (F.I.S.A.) and the Philatelic
Congress of India (PCI). It was also Jointly Sponsored by the American Air Mail
Society and the Royal Belgian Astrophilatelic Society/COSMOS. Commercial
sponsors were David Feldman (Gold), Robert A.Siegel (Gold) and Argyll Etkin
(Silver) along with Philauctions (webinar sponsor) and Phila Arts (souvenir
book sponsor).
The Exhibition:
Entries were open to exhibitors from across the world
featuring Aerophilately: Development and Operation of Airmail Services, Airmail
stamps, and their use in Airmail Service, and Astrophilately: Exhibits related
to space exploration and astronomy.
The exhibition was in various categories, including
Competitive Class: 5 & 8 frame exhibits and 1-frame exhibits; Literature
Class; Youth: Youth Class: between 10-21 years in three age groups; Novice
Class: Exhibits by new collectors in 1-5 frame exhibits.
Besides the competitive class, there was a Court of Honour with 3 outstanding exhibits (21 Frames)
The Invitee Class saw another 17 Exhibits & 70 Frames (8 from Jury & 9 other non-competitive). All exhibits can be viewed at www.AMSIPEX.COM
Judging the exhibits: The exhibition
followed FIP Guidelines for Judging Aerophilatelic Exhibits and for Judging Astrophilatelic
Exhibits. The Jury comprised of 8 world renowned international experts in
Aerophilately and Astrophilately and awards were given based on the exhibits'
scores.
AMSIPEX-25 also
introduced some innovations that were well appreciated by all:
• Novice Class exhibits
for persons who were otherwise ineligible participate in such events
• Medals for eligible 1
Frame exhibitors
World
Air Mail Day Celebrations, 18th February 2025:
The Inaugural Function lasted 30
minutes, and started with a 2600 year old Sanskrit invocation known as Shanti
Mantra (Sahana Vavatu) reminding us all to work as one for the pursuit of
knowledge in a spirit of peace and brotherhood.
A Special Cover was then released to
commemorate the 114th Anniversary of the first Airmail flight from
Allahabad to Naini on 18th February 1911. Designed and Executed by Naveein O.C.
and Akhil Reddy, the cover carried the special cancellation issued earlier that
day from Prayagraj (erstwhile Allahabad) thanks to efforts of Rahul Ganguli and
from Bengaluru thanks to help from the Karnataka Philatelic Society and its
committee members.
The AMSIPEX-25
Souvenir Book was then released. Compiled and edited by Pragya Jain, this book
is divided into three sections – All about AMSIPEX-25, expert articles on
Indian Air Mails, and a technical section with rules and guidelines for aero-
and Astrophilatelic exhibiting. This is available for free download from the
AMSIPEX-25 website (https://www.amsipex.com/test1-361884.html ).
The Jury Chair, Glen
Stafford then read out the Jury Report and the exhibition results were
announced with names of winners of all Special Prizes. The jury was divided
into 3 teams, with Team 1 led by Charles Bromser evaluated all the
Astrophilately exhibits and the Novice exhibits, Team 2 led by Glen Stafford
for the aerophilately exhibits and team 3 by Javaid Muhammad evaluated the
literature exhibits. The high standard of the exhibits was also recognised by
the Jury.
The AMSI Chairman, Piyush Khaitan then spoke about the importance of World Air Mail Day, and future plans of AMSI, the need for all air mail enthusiasts to work together to create renewed enthusiasm for this wonderful hobby.
This
was followed by the announcement of the winner of the Air Mail Society India
Foundation’s first Lifetime Achievement Award and inductee in their Hall of
Fame, Ronald M. Lee. His 5 volume The Story of Australia’s Overseas Airmails
was recognised and the citation recognizing Ron was read out by the chairman,
followed by a video recording of Ron’s acceptance speech.
Pratisad Neurgaonkar proposed the Vote
of Thanks where he thanked the patrons, jt. sponsors, commercial sponsors,
jury, exhibitors the team work by the 10-member organizing committee.
World Air Mail Day
Webinar:
The highlight of the day was the
webinar featuring 6 Speakers & 5 hours of Non-Stop Fun on Aero & Astro Philately.
• Terry Hare Walker - (Imperial Route
to India 1972-29).
• Markand Dave FRPSL - (Indian Rocket
Mails during WWII Period).
• Pradip Jain RDP FRPSL - (By the
First Aerial Post of the world 18th Feb 1911).
• Davis S Ball - (Pushing the
Envelope).
• Cheryl Ganz RDP FRPSL – (The Basel
Zeppelin Post Exchange Office).
• Ken Sanford – (Air Crashes of
Imperial Airways).
Despite the long session, audience
remained glued to their screens, and we had many participants. Each session was
followed by a Q&A. Recordings of all these talks are being made available
on the AMSI YouTube channel @HawaSaeByAir. Some have already been uploaded, and
the rest will be posted during March 2025.
Jury Feedback Session:
We had a Jury feedback session on
Saturday 22nd February 2025 for Astrophilately & Aerophilately exhibitors,
where the Jury for Team 1 & Team 2 provided feedback and suggestions to
exhibitors on how to improve their exhibits. Questions were taken from participants
and detailed responses were provided.
View : AMSIPEX- 25
Results
-Piyush Khaitan: email : pk@khaitan.in
Air Mail
Society India Foundation Updates
The following videos have been uploaded on YouTube
channel @HawaSaeByAir.
A 3-minute curtain raiser video about AMSIPEX-25 and
World Air Mail Day celebrations.
A 28-minute recording of the inaugural function of our
World Air Mail Day celebrations held on 18 February 2025.
AMSIPEX 25 - Curtain
Raiser
AMSIPEX-25 : Inauguration and World Air Mail Day
Celebration
https://youtu.be/L0BhDkSChkk?si=aluyJAjhFMuy7ndv
Indian Rocket Mails during WWII Period
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3PgKw_Yr3s
The First Aerial Post of the World 18th Febtruary 1911
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