My recent covers
Lynx and Moose on cancellation
Moose on stamp
Here are some nice covers with special pictorial cancellations from Germany sent by Mr Wolfgang Beyer from Germany. Many Thanks to Mr Beyer for these lovely covers !!
Butterfly
Lynx and Moose
Lynx on stamp
Sadar Hospital, Kendujhar Odisha : Centenary Celebration
Date of Issue : 1 April 2012
"The centenary Celebration of the Sadar Hospital, Kendujhar District of Odisha was held on the Odisha Day, 01.04.2012 at the Town Hall, Kendujhar. On the occasion, besides other programmes, a special cover was also released by Sh. Prasanna Kumar Acharya, Honourable Minister for Health and Family Welfare. Sh. Badri Narayn Patra, Minister for Higher Education, Sports and Youth Affairs was also present on the occasion.
The other dignitaries present on the dais were Sh. Yashobanta Narayan Singh Laguri , Honourable MP, Kendujhar, Sh. Jitu Patnaik, MLA, Champua, Sh. Premananda Nayak, MLA, Telkoi, Sh. Bhagirathi Sethi, MLA, Anandapur, Sh. Subarna Nayak, MLA, Kendujhar, Sh. Hrusikesh Naik, MLA,Patna, Sh. D.V.Swamy, IAS, Collector, Kendujhar, Sh. Asish Kumar Singh, IPS, SP, Kendujhar,Dr. Kishore Chandra Behera, CDMO, Sadar Hospital, Kendujhar, etc .
Senior Philatelist Shri Ajit Kumar Dash, Secretary, Eastern India Philatelists’ Associaton( EIPA), Sh. Akhay Kumar Nayak, President Kendujhar Philatelists’ Association(KEPA), Dr. C.S. Basak and other local Philatelists were also present during the function. A total number of 2012 covers have been printed and are numbered from 0001 to 2012"
- Ajit Dash - Bhubaneshwar
Great Indian Personalities
Mohammad Ali Jauhar
Mohammad Ali Jauhar (1878-1931) was an Indian Muslim leader, activist, scholar, journalist and poet, and was among the leading figures of the Khilafat Movement.
He was one of the founding members of All India Muslim League and its former president.
Mohammad Ali Jauhar is remembered as a fiery leader of many of India's Muslims. He is celebrated as a hero by the Muslims of Pakistan, who claim he inspired the Pakistan movement. But in India, he is remembered for his leadership during Khilafat Movement and the Non-Cooperation Movement (1919–1922) and his leadership in Muslim education.
The famous Muhammad Ali Road in south Mumbai, is named after him. He along with Gandhi traveled to Britain for attending round table conference sometimes in the 1930s. There he delivered his famous speech which included his wish not to get buried in 'slave India'. During the same tour he fell ill and died in London. Respecting his wish, his followers brought his dead body to Palestine, which was then a British Mandated territory (not in Turkish control), and buried him at Baitul Muqaddas. Many Indian Muslims with interest in history were wondering if his tomb is still intact. One Hyderabadi scholar Omar Khakidi who was working with MIT, Boston, found Ali's grave, which was still in good shape.
India (1978) & Pakistan (1978,1991) released stamps in his honour .
- Kenneth Sequeira : email : kenneth.sequeira@hotmail.com
P.O Box 27181
Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
150 Years of Locomotive Workshop, Jamalpur (Bihar)
Date of Issue : 8 February 2012
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Smithsonian's National Postal Museum Opens New "Fire & Ice: Hindenburg and Titanic" Exhibit
Open March 22, 2012 to January 6, 2014
"Fire & Ice:Hindenburg and Titanic," an innovative new exhibit, opened at the Smithsonian's National Postal Museum. The exhibit brings together two marvels of transportation. Titanic and Hindenburg served demands for rapid worldwide communication and transportation. Both operated as the world's largest mobile post offices. Each in its day promised the fastest possible worldwide mail service. Each offered onboard gentility and opulence. Each met a tragic end.
As the largest, fastest, and most glamorous ships of their eras, Hindenburg and Titanic share many similarities. The human tragedy associated with each stunned the world . . . a shock that affects people to this day. Both offered travelers elegant accommodations, and both provided postal services. In each era, the public trusted modern technology to provide safety and speed. And as anniversaries of the disasters are marked in 2012—seventy-five years since Hindenburg burned and a century since Titanic sank—many questions remain unanswered.
The Zeppelin Company of Friedrichshafen, Germany, completed the 804-foot long LZ-129 Hindenburg in 1936. Financed in part by the Nazi regime, the rigid airship, designed to use non-flammable helium for lift, confirmed Germany’s technological prowess as Adolf Hitler prepared for war. The U.S. refused to sell helium to the Zeppelin Company, which instead used highly flammable hydrogen for Hindenburg’s lift. On May 6, 1937, carrying ninety-seven passengers and crew, Hindenburg burst into flames at Lakehurst, New Jersey. The disaster destroyed the ship in thirty-four seconds, ending the magnificent era of lighter-than-air commercial travel.
Between 1909 and 1911, Harland & Wolff, Belfast, Ireland, built the massive, 882-foot long Titanic for Britain’s White Star Line, owned by American J.P. Morgan. On April 10, 1912, the lavish Titanic left Southampton, England, on its maiden voyage. Bound for New York, the ship hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic late night April 14, and sank in fewer than three hours. Of its 2,229 passengers and crew, only 712 survived, predominantly women and children.
Titanic was the world's largest floating post office of its day, and Hindenburg still holds the record as the world's largest flying post office. This year-2012-the National Postal Museum raises visitors' awareness of the two giant ships' postal operations with its new exhibit. And this year-2012-both mark anniversaries. Hindenburg burned 75 years ago, and Titanic sank 100 years ago. The exhibition will be open through Jan. 6, 2014.
Exhibit highlights include a very rare piece of mail sent from Titanic and burnt mail salvaged from Hindenburg. Other items include mail, postcards, menus, photographs, keys from Titanic's post office and the salvaged postmark device from Hindenburg.
"Although many visitors to "Fire & Ice: Hindenburg and Titanic" will be very familiar with some of the iconic imagery shown, I believe that they will be amazed to see documents, artifacts and photographs that have never been publicly displayed before," said Cheryl R. Ganz, museum curator for the Hindenburg-related aspects of the exhibit. "These salvaged objects and newly discovered photos bring the story to life in new ways."
The exhibit is organized into themes that compare and contrast the large, fast, glamorous ships: 20th-century icons, technological advancements, life onboard, mail ships and disaster. Survivor stories portray the human tragedy associated with each shocking disaster: shocks that reverberate to this day.
"This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to reflect on the hundredth anniversary of Titanic's sinking in the presence of real objects from the ship and her passengers," said Daniel Piazza, museum curator for the Titanic-related aspects of the exhibit. "A century later, her brief life and tragic end still haunt and captivate us."
Visitors will be able to recreate the onboard letter-writing experience by applying a cachet to postcards and mail that identify the item as from the exhibition. Stamps and a postmark are available in the U.S. Postal Service philatelic shop in the museum to post the cards. A booklet available in the museum's gift shop and online will accompany the exhibit.
A virtual edition of the exhibit is available on the museum's website: www.postalmuseum.si.edu/fireandice.
: Smithsonian's National Postal Museum
April Fools' Day is celebrated in different countries in the Northern Hemisphere on April 1 every year. In the Southern Hemisphere it is celebrated six months later, on October 1. Sometimes referred to as All Fools' Day, April 1 is not a national holiday in any country, but is widely recognized and celebrated as a day when many people play all kinds of jokes and foolishness. The day is marked by the commission of good-humoured or otherwise funny jokes, hoaxes, and other practical jokes of varying sophistication on friends, family members, teachers, neighbors, work associates, etc.
In France and Italy children (and adults, when appropriate) traditionally tack paper fish on each other's back as a trick and shout "april fish!" in their local language ("poisson d'avril!" and "pesce d'aprile!" in French and Italian respectively).
The earliest recorded association between April 1 and foolishness can be found in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1392). Many writers suggest that the restoration of January 1 as New Year's Day in the 16th century was responsible for the creation of the holiday, but this theory does not explain earlier references.
APRIL FOOL’s DAY in PHILATELY
April Fool's Day is a "for-fun-only" observance. Practical jokes are a common practice on this Day. Some believe it sort of evolved simultaneously in several cultures at the same time, from celebrations involving the first day of spring.
American April Fool’s Day postcard prepared by Geo. W. Parker Art Co. of Minneapolis
Sometimes, elaborate practical jokes are played on friends or relatives that last the entire day.
The closest point in time that can be identified as the beginning of this tradition was in 1582, in France. Prior to that year, the New Year was celebrated for eight days, beginning on March 25 and culminating on April 1. With the reform of the calendar under Charles IX, the Gregorian calendar was introduced, and New Year's Day was moved to January 1.
Though in general sense the First April is a day for practical jokes but for philately it gave many first. Few countries chosen this day to start a new postal service and some to close down. This day also witnessed first stamp issue of few postal administrations. Illustrated Postal stationeries also brought out commemorating this special day.
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From our Readers
Picture with Ramanujan stamp
While searching for philatelic acknowledgements to Srinivas Ramanujan, I found the above imagery. Here I could not identify the building and what this imagery stands for? If anyone could identify this picture ???
: Anil Nawlakhe – Pune email : anil_nawlakhe@yahoo.com
Cancellation on Kabir
Here is a sp cover with cancellation on Kabir issued some years ago at Sant Kabir Nagar near Gorakhpur. If anyone has the cover with clear cancellation , may send scan for publication.
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