New Valentine’s Day stamps

 

Date of Issue : 20 January 2014

As the valentine’s Day approaches  new stamps are being issued from different Postal administrations, Here are new stamps to be issued tomorrow by Finnish Post.

This year’s Valentine’s Day stamps from Finland depicting furry teddy bears convey a message of friendship and remembrance of others. The Bear Friends stamp series is drawn by a new face to the world of stamps from Kemi, Henna Takkinen, an artist who has specialized in teddy bears.

Born in 1969, Henna Takkinen is influenced by naivism and story illustration and has combined these elements into her own unique form of teddy bear art. In the early 2000s she completed her Master’s thesis on teddy bears, whose history dates back to ancient bear worship and up to the modern soft commercial teddy.

“Teddy bears have taken me on an endless adventure, everything is possible in their world. I want to share through art a teddy bear world of universal peace and love. Through stamps that message of caring and friendship can be shared with the world,” says Henna Takkinen, describing her artistic vision.

The Bear Friends stamp sheet has six 1st class stamps and four teddy bear stickers.

 

Club News

New Special Cover

A special cover was released in Bangalore by Karnataka Postal Circle  to commemorate fifty glorious years of service of Bangalore Police Commissionerate,which was established in the year 1963.

: Suresh R. – Bangalore : email : suresh.hobbies@gmail.com

 

EIPEX-2014, Bhubaneswar

A Philatelic exhibition namely EIPEX-2014, Bhubaneswar is going to be organised by the Eastern India Philatelists’ Association to commemorate the 15th year of Foundation of EIPA with an objective to promote philately and to encourage new and emerging philatelists. The main theme of the exhibition is ‘Save our Environment’. The exhibition will be held on 08th and 09th, February, 2014 at the Kalinga Buddha Vihara, Unit-IX, Bhubaneswar-751007. There will be 100 frames for display in the exhibition. The participation is limited to the members of the Eastern India Philatelists’ Association whose membership is accepted by 31.12.13 only and the school students of Odisha. No previous award is required for the exhibition. The exhibition will be a Non-competitive one. Only one exhibit from a philatelist subject to two from a family is allowed. The maximum number of frames per exhibit is limited to one only. Exhibitors will submit their entry form in duplicate to the Organizing Committee, EIPEX-2014. The last date of submission of entry form is 30.01.2014.

The entry to the exhibition is free. All the exhibits will be treated as Non-Competitive Class only.
Contact persons:
Ajit Kumar Dash,
Email: akdash2000@yahoo.com
Anup Kumar Rout,
Email: anupraut@yahoo.com
Anil Kumar Dhir,
Email: anildhir2k5@hotmail.com
Shri Shanti Swarup Rath,
Email: ssrath@hotmail.com
Scheduled dates:
Receipt of Entry Forms: 30.01.2014

 

List of Prticipants ar BIRPEX 2014, Poitiers

List of participants at BIRDPEX 2014, Poitiers is available at following link .

http://www.mg-o.de/mgobirdpex2014htm.

Courtesy : Wolfgang Beyer, Vice Chairman of the German Collector Group ZOOLOGIE.

Mr.Beyer is interested to contact with the Indian participants at BIRDPEX 2014.

Mail: Wolfgang.beyer1@aol.de

New Love stamp from USA

 

US Postal Service will issue a beautiful  “Cut paper heart stamp”   on 21st January 2014 for this year’s Valentine’s Day Greetings.

The romance of the Love stamp series continues with the Cut Paper Heart Digital Color Postmark. This First Day Cover  features an affixed Cut Paper Heart Forever® stamp. The whimsical digital illustration depicts a red square with “pinked” edges — as if cut with pinking shears — containing a large, pink heart surrounded by pink swirls and smaller red hearts.

The color postmark features the stamp title surrounded by a flower-like formation of familiar folded-and-cut red paper hearts, accented with green hearts resembling the flower's leaves. Also included are the official First Day of Issue date and location for the stamp.

Valentine’s Day Postmark from Loveland

 

"A unique design created by a local artist and selected via a competitive contest is stamped on the outside of all Valentine envelopes and re-mailed from the Sweetheart City,  "More than 200,000 cards and letters were handled last year, from more than 100 countries and every state in the Union.
"Since the start of the program in 1947, more than 12 million Valentines have been re-mailed by Loveland.
"To have cards and letters re-mailed with the Loveland postmark, properly stamp and address each individual Valentine and put them all in a larger, stamped envelope and mail them to:

Postmaster
Valentine Re-mailing
446 E. 29th St.
Loveland, CO 80538

"Deadlines for re-mailing and delivery by Valentine’s Day, Feb. 14:
•Feb. 4: Outside of the U.S. to other countries and international destinations
•Feb. 10: Within the U.S. and outside of Colorado
•Feb. 11: Within the state of Colorado"

New Love stamp from USA..

Date of Issue – 22 April 2010

Hi ! I have just come across a beautiful Love stamp, recently issued by US Postal Service. The wonderful stamps look so pretty on special sheetlet with word “LOVE” ! . On the commemorative stamp the sweet pansies are shown in a white woven basket. The basket is filled with deep and light purple pansies and green foliage. I am just thrilled to see them as the same shade of pansies are blooming these days in my garden too. The US Postal Service began issuing its popular love stamps in 1973, and over the years, these stamps - featuring swans, cherubs, candy hearts, Victorian lace, modern art and the word "Love" itself - have announced marriages, births and graduations, and delivered congratulations. I am very pleased to share this stamp with all of you as “Greetings” is my one of my favorite collecting themes. This is all for Today….Till Next Post…Have a Great Time !

Pansies

Tufted and bunched and ranged with careless art
Here, where the paving-stones are set apart,
Alert and gay and innocent of guile,
The little pansies nod their heads and smile.

With what a whispering and a lulling sound
They watch the children sport about the ground,
Longing, it seems, to join the pretty play
That laughs and runs the light-winged hours away.

And other children long ago there were
Who shone and played and made the garden fair,
To whom the pansies in their robes of white
And gold and purple gave a welcome bright.

Gone are those voices, but the others came.
Joyous and free, whose spirit was the same;
And other pansies, robed as those of old,
Peeped up and smiled in purple, white and gold.

For pansies are, I think, the little gleams
Of children’s visions from a world of dreams,
Jewels of innocence and joy and mirth,
Alight with laughter as they fall to earth.

Below, the ancient guardian, it may hap,
The kindly mother, takes them in her lap,
Decks them with glowing petals and replaces
In the glad air the friendly pansy-faces.

So tread not rashly, children, lest you crush
A part of childhood in a thoughtless rush.
Would you not treat them gently if you knew
Pansies are little bits of children too?

- RC Lehman