Club News

 

AMSI 4th Monthly Zoom Meeting - 22nd August 2025

Zoom Meeting Link: https://tinyurl.com/AMSIzoommeeting

Meeting ID: 921 3527 4549

Passcode: 125235

- Dharmdev Maurya

Indian Winners at Gass 2025

M.Lokeswara Rao - Capt.Vijay Wadhwa

 

In GASS 2025 Great American Stamp Show 2025, Mr M.Lokeswara Rao received Large Vermeil medal  for his article “Great Barrier Reef on Stamps” published in American Topical Association Magazine Topical Time November- December 2024 issue and got  Silver medal for his book” Ramayana on Stamps”.

Capt. Vijay Wadhwa won 3 medals, Large Silver, Silver and  Silver-Bronze for 3 of his books. 

Visit : https://stamps.org/events/great-american-stamp-show to see the GASS 2025 palmares.

New Pictorial Cancellation

World Photography Day

19 August 2025, Raipur

New Picture Postcards from Karnataka Circle

19 August 2025 : World Humnitarian Day :Bangalore

12 August 2025 : International Youth Day : Bangalore

World Photography Day

A Picture Postcard with Cachet released by Raipur Philatelic Bureau Chhattisgarh Postal Circle of India Post on 19th August 2025.

Image courtesy : Capt. Vijay Wadhwa- Raipur & Praveen Shastry - Bangalore

New Indian Stamps

Acharya Shantisagar Muni Maharaj 

Date of Issue : 13 November 2024

100 Years of Hindustan Times

Date if Issue : 16 November 2024

Sickle Cell Eradication -2047

Date of Issue : 15 November 2024

Cape Town 2022 International Stamp Exhibition Update

 

📢📢📢Fédération Internationale de Philatélie

(F.I.P.) have granted the organising committee of Cape Town 2022 permission to host a Championship Class. 

- By Commissioner General (Cape Town 2022).

Please note that there a 2 types of Championship Class:

- World Championship Class (WSC), precondition: 1 x Large Gold or 1 Grand

Prix

- FIP Championship Class, precondition: 3 x Large Gold in 3 different years

As Cape Town 2022 is a specialized FIP-exhibition, we will be adding a WSC.

Class 12. World Stamp Championship Class For Traditional Philately, Postal

History, Postal Stationery, Aerophilately and Thematic Philately exhibits

that have been awarded:

a. F.I.P. Large Gold medals at the exhibitions with patronage or auspices

of FIP; b. FIP Grand Prix (Grand Prix National, Grand Prix International,

Grand Prix d’Honneur, or Grand Prix d’Exposition).

Neither the 10-year time frame restriction stated in F.I.P. GREX Article

9.1 nor F.I.P. GREX Article 9.5 applies.

(GREX Article 9.1: Participation in the FIP Championship Class is

restricted to exhibits which have received 3 Large Gold medals in World

Exhibitions in three separate years during a 10-year span, starting January

1st of the year after receipt of the 3rd Large Gold Medal.

GREX Article 9.5: On receiving the Grand Prix d’Honneur in the FIP

Championship Class, or having completed eligibility under Article 9.3, an

exhibit may only be shown out of competition by the same owner.)

So it will be a "World Stamp Championship" (WSC) Class. This will be added

to  IREX.

Mr. Shakil Ahmed is Indian National Commissioner for the Cape Town 2022. Exhibition Classes: Traditional, Postal History, Aerophilately, Postal Stationery, Revenue, Thematic, Open, Modern Philately, One Frame, Philatelic Literature and Picture Postcards only)

Shakil Ahmed : Email: ahmedshakil99@gmail.com : (M) +91-9437225760 / +91-7008025663

Visit : https://capetown2022.org/

IREX : https://capetown2022.org/exhibitors/#irex

Those who are interested to participate in the Championship Class may contact National Commissioner Mr Shakil Ahmed .

The deadline for entries has been extended to 30 June 2022

Reginal Meeting of PCI and Seminar at Bhubaneshwar

PHILATELIC CONGRESS OF INDIA 

 Regional Meeting at  Bhubaneswar 

Venue : 
Office of CPMG, Odisha Circle, ( Besides GPO building ) Auditorium, 2nd floor, 4th Street, PMG Square, Unit 3, Kharabela Nagar, Bhubaneswar - 751 001. 

Date : Sunday, 11th November 2018. 
Time : Registration of members : 10:00 AM Regional Meeting : 10:30 AM to 01:00 PM 

Kindly intimate confirmation of your attendance to: Mr. Shanthi Swarup Rath, Secretary, EIPA , plot no. 969/2436, Forest Park, Bhubaneswar-751009, mobile no.9437034621, 
email: ssrath@hotmail.com

Seminar

The Eastern India Philatelists’ Association, Bhubaneswar, will be organizing the following Seminars / Presentations on Saturday, 10th November 2018 in association with the Philatelic Congress of India at the following venue and time. 

Venue : Office of CPMG, Odisha Circle, ( Besides GPO Building ) Auditorium, 2nd floor, 4th Street, PMG Square, Unit 3, Kharabela Nagar, Bhubaneswar - 751 001. 

Date : Saturday, 10th November 2018.

www.philateliccongressofindia.com 

Felicitation to Philatelists

On 6th October 2018, India Posts, West Bengal Circle felicitated three philatelists, Dipok Dey, Manik Jain and Mohinilal Majumder ( posthumously) for their big contribution to Indian Philately on the occasion of sesquicentennial celebration of Kolkata G.P.O. Dipok Dey is a well known philatelist and artist of Kolkata . He is the first Indian to design UN stamp in 1985. Manik Jain is a noted philatelist and stamp dealer from Kolkata, known for his Phila India Stamp Catalogues of Indian Stamps.

Manik Jain being felicitated by CPMG

Autobiography of a Autograph Collector....

Tributes to Shri Vijay Deshpande

I am sorry to inform the Readers of Rainbow Stamp Club that Shri Vijay Deshpande, a renowned autograph collector from Mumbai passed away on 28th January 2017. He was a  regular contributor to Rainbow . He had contributed some wonderful posts related to stamps and autographs to the Rainbow Stamp Club. Our deepest condolences to all his family members.. May his soul rest in peace. Here is a glimpse of  his autograph collection. His big collection of  autographs could be in Autograph ebook by Vijay Deshpande which is available at following link :

 http://www.esahity.com/uploads/5/0/1/2/501218/swaksharankit_vijay_deshpande.pdf

Courtesy- Ulhas Chogle : email : ullhaschogle@rediffmail.com

Gandhi Philatelic Exhibition

Gandhi Philatelic Exhibition at Pune

On 30 Jan 17 Gandhi Philatelic Exhibition was held at Pune GPO was inaugurated. Exhibits of Mr Ole-Fredrik Olsen, Mr. Ashok Bayanwala, Mr. Prashant Pandya, Dr Anjali Dutta, Col J Dutta, and Dept of Post, Pune were displayed. The chief guest was Smt Aparna Mohile former chief of the Censor Board who had certified the film Gandhi. The exhibition was on for two days.

The special cover on Ahmednagar Fort was released. One special cover on forts of Pune Region will be released every month. School children came in large numbers which was very heartening. Col J Dutta spoke to the children on the theme and then took them around.

Cawnpex 2016 - District level philatelic exhibition, Kanpur

Cawnpex 2016

- A Report by Aditya Asthana

A two day district level philatelic exhibition,“Cawnpex 2016”was organized by India Post from 16^th – 17^th December, 2016. The name “Cawnpex“was inspired by the erstwhile spelling of the city - Cawnpore. The postal department branded the exhibition with a special logo of the event, featuring a picture of the current Kanpur G.P.O building. In 2015, the district level exhibition held at Kanpur was named Kanpex 2015 but Henceforth the event would be called Cawnpex. The Exhibition had 56 frames in Competitive class and 2 in Invitee class. Mr. Dinesh Chandra Sharma and Mr. Arun Agarwal were the members of the jury at the event. The exhibition took place at the Kanpur Philatelic Bureau which is situated at the second floor of the GPO building.

3 special covers were released during the exhibition. On December 16^th, the exhibition was inaugurated by PMG Mr. Alok Saxena and a special cover dedicating the flag song (Vijayi vishwa tiranga pyara, Jhanda uncha rahe hamara...') written by Shyam Lal Gupta Parshad, a popular writer from Kanpur, was released. The special cover features the image of the original notes of the writer (source: Bithoor Museum) and the cancellation features a flag. A painting competition was also organized for the school children.

On  December 17^th, two special covers were released. A cover featuring a quotation by Mahatma Gandhi, “Everyone must be his own scavenger” was released on “Swatchh Bharat”. The cancellation of the cover  features spectacles of Gandhi (Swatchh Bharat logo). Another cover featuring the pictures of Cawnpore Kotwali, Radha Krishna (J.K.) Temple and a proposed Kanpur metro train with caption “Kanpur Kal, Aaj Aur Kal” was also released. The cancellation of the cover features  Kanpur GPO building.

The award ceremony was chaired by Prof. Indranil Manna, Director of IIT Kanpur. All participants were honored with medals and certificates.

Award List

Aditya Asthana -  “Postal History of Cawnpore” Gold + Best Exhibit Trophy (Senior)

Sidak Singh Saluja –“Brave Sikhs in Defense” - Silver + Best Exhibit trophy ( Junior)

Dipak Gupta – “Innovative stamps” of Bhutan - Gold

Rajpreet Singh Saluja - “Sikhism – It’s Glory and Heritage” - Gold

Mrs. Nupur Mehrotra - Indian Postal Stationery – Gold

Winners : L to R: Sidak Singh, Aditya Asthana, Rajpreet Singh Saluja, D.D.Shukla, Dipak Gupta, Vishal Yadav

Kanpur Philatelists' meet 

 Pic 1 : D.D. Shukla, Arjun Ghosh,  Rajpreet Singh Saluja, Arun Agrawal
Pic 2 : Aditya Asthana, RS Saluja, Dipak Gupta &  Ramesh Chandra