Recent Max Card from Australia issued on Marsupials
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Name : K. Sridhar, MangaloreCollecting Interests : Lighthouse and Oil/Gas/Energy Themes
E- Mail : krishnaraosridhar@yahoo.comI'm K Sridhar from Mangalore. I'm Life member of Dakshina Kannada Philatelic and Numismatic Association, Mangalore and South India Philatelic Association, Chennai. I'm a Philatelist with Topical collection(s) on Lighthouse and Oil/Gas/Energy themes. I won 2 (two) Karnataka State Level and 1 (one) National level awards for my collection on Lighthouse.
Name : AVG Rajulu, ChennaiE-Mail : rajulustampsandcoins@yahoo.co.inI am AVG Rajulu from chennai. I am manufacturing stockbooks , coin albums, stock cards . I have 500 diff Australia used stamp packets. I am interested in buying small def stamps of any country in larger quuantity.
See On Line Exhibit of our Reader......On-line Exhibit on International Virtual Philatelic Exhibition EXPONET –
Kingdom of Laos album by Eli Moallem, Israel
UPDATESSTAMPMANIA 2009 - the First National One Frame Philatelic Exhibition to be held at Vadodara.
Dear Fellow Philatelists,
Once again it gives me a great pleasure to update you about STAMPMANIA 2009 - the First National One Frame Philatelic Exhibition to be held at Vadodara.
We have found great enthusiasm in philatelists across the country. Till date we have received entries with variety of theme and subjects in each Class.
List of titles of entries can be viewed at our website
www.stampmania2009.comLast date for submission of Entry Forms has been extended to 15.08.2009.As announced earlier the Exhibition dates are 18th to 20th December 2009 but we have decided to have an exclusive event on 17th December 2009.
On 17th December 2009 we have decided to organize a ‘Heritage Walk through Stamps’ in Vadodara City. The Heritage Walk will conclude at the Venue of the Exhibition in the evening and the Exhibition will be inaugurated in the evening. More details about timings will be sent later.
School Children will join this This ‘Heritage Walk through Stamps’ holding blow ups and replica of Stamps depicting heritage our country.
Those who are visiting STAMPMANIA 2009 are requested to plan their schedule in such a way that they can join us in this exclusive event of ‘Heritage Walk through Stamps’. Don’t miss this opportunity.
Printed Prospectus and Entry form are now available at Stampmania 2009. The same are being sent at all Philatelic Bureau and philatelic organizations. Anyone who wishes to get printed prospectus and entry form may send their mailing address to us.
Once again we wish to clarify that One Participant can submit maximum three entries but all of them should be in different class. Similarly in Youth Class three entries can be sent by one participant but all three should be in different class as mentioned in 2.1 to 2.9.
For ready reference and for study purpose examples of One Frame Exhibits are available at our website in “Link to One Frame Exhibits” link. Please do visit these examples of one frame exhibits to have any idea.
Few exhibits which you would like to see are:
With warm regards,
Prashant Pandya
Auction
ITS POSTAL AUCTION Indian Thematic Society indianthematicsociety@gmail.com is holding Auction Sale #45 closing on July 25, 2009. There are 150 lots in this sale. The scans of some lots are available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/its_offers
For Cricket Lovers .....At Lord's cricket ground on 30th June a special set of stamps commemorating the 2009 Ashes series was released. Britain's secret little post office at Bletchley Park has got together with the Isle of Man Post Office and the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) to celebrate an Ashes Summer. The result is a presentation pack and first day cover for three unique stamps. One features W G Grace playing at Lord's, another shows the Ashes urn with the crystal trophy and the third a Karen Neale painting of the 2005 series. The stamps are featured against a backdrop of a match at Lord's.
A good licking for the "Ashes".
England has not beaten Australia at Lord's since 1934, so this time perhaps?Either way cricket fans can give the "Ashes " a good licking with a newstamp issue on sale at Lord's from the 16th July. A strange combination ofthe MCC, the Isle of Man and a secret little post office has produced a setof postage stamps commemorating cricket's best-known clash.Bletchley Park is best known for its wartime links with the enigma codebreakers. But the tiny post office that was once an undercover mailroom hasbeen issuing stamps and first day covers for the MCC since 2004. On bigmatch days at Lord's fans queue up to get these limited edition littlepieces of cricket art and history.For 2009 they have teamed up with the Isle of Man Post Office to issue a setof stamps featuring the work of cricket artists Christina Pierce and KarenNeale.
The stamps and covers will be available on the day outside the MCC Museum.They can also be viewed and ordered from the MCC section of the web site at
http://www.bletchleycovers.com/. Write to BPPO, The Mansion, Bletchley Park, MiltonKeynes MK 3 6EB or call 01908 637797/272690 for more information.
Indian cricket legend honoured by UniversityThe University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) is to award an Honorary Fellowship to former Indian cricket captain Sourav Ganguly for hiscontribution to the world of cricket. The ceremony will take place at Preston Guildhall on Wednesday, 15 July at 3.00pm.It is the first honorary award to be accepted by Ganguly from any UKuniversity. Commenting on the fellowship, Dr John Minten, Head of the Schoolof Sport, Tourism and The Outdoors said Sourav's distinguished international career and his reputation for having played cricket with such commitment and tenacity would be of great inspiration to U CLan students. "Our students and staff take great pride in their association with honorary fellows and we're delighted that Sourav has accepted our Honorary Fellowship."Acknowledged as India's most successful cricket captain, having led the sidein 49 test matches that included 21 test wins, Sourav will accept his award in front of a packed audience of 2000 graduates and parents.Dr Minten continued: "The award also reflects our excellent reputation forsport-related courses and research, which includes new, cricket-related programmes, and a growing collaboration with partner educational institutions in India."The Honorary Fellowship also coincides with the ICC Centenary Conference that U CLan is co-sponsoring with the University of Oxford.To commemorate the award Chapman and Mitchell Covers have commissioned a special portrait and will be issuing a limited edition stamp and first day cover. These will be available after the event from the web site at
http://www.bletchleycovers.com/ and provide a special memento of the occasion.
- Terry Mitchelle
