New SEPAC 2014 stamp from Greenland…

 

 

Date of Issue : 20 January 2014

Here is new SZEPAC 2014 stamp from Greenland. The newly issued Sepac-stamp from POST Greenland depicts a photo of Rhodiola taken by photographer John Rasmussen. The joint Sepac-theme in 2014 is “Flowers”. In Greenland Rhodiola grows in Southern and Middle Greenland up to the area around Disko Bay on the Western coast and up to the Daneborg area on the Eastern coast.

Rhodiola is primarily used in Greenland as both a spice and in salads. The leaves are used as salad and spinach, the stem is eaten as asparagus and the root is eaten raw or boiled. The dried roots smell of roses and are said to keep away moths and other harmful insects.

Club News

A stamp exhibition of the collection of Allahabad philatelist, Mr Ambrish Kumar  started today at Allahabad Museum. The exhibition was inaugurated by Senior Advocate and Former President of Kayashtha Pathshala Trust, Shri T.P. Singh. Shri Rajesh Purohit, Director of the Museum welcomed the guest of  honour and vote of thanks was given by Dr Prabhakar Pandey. Mr Ambrish Kumar spoke about the importance and value of the  stamp collection. On this occasion Smt. Asha Rani, Smt. Mukta Saxena, all the Officers and the Staff Members of the museum, distinguished guests  and many visitors were present.

 

 

Mr Ambrish recently donated his lifetime collection to Allahabad Museum .  The collection  of Indian stamps from 1947 to 2013 and  special covers issued on  Kumbh Mela and other special occasions of  Allahabad were displayed in about 150 sheets.  The collection features cultural heritage of India, Indian Freedom Movement, prominent personalities, nature wildlife,Cinema and  science & technology through stamps and Covers.The exhibition will be continued till 5th February 2014.  

 

 

New Special Cover

KOLAMPEX-2014

A special cover was released on the inaugural function of KOLLMPEX-2014 on 22 January 2014 by Smt. Sumathi Ravichandran PMG (Business Operations). The cover was accepted by Dr.Sivaramankrishna Pillai,Jt.Secretary, Quilon Public Library & Research Centre.

The Quilon Public Library and Research Centre has been the horizon for the prolific lore of the myriad generations that have excelled from this part of Kerala. Quilon Public Library was established in the year 1973. The Quilon Public Library and Research Centre had played a vital role in the cultural development of the people of Kollam. In recognition of its unique contribution towards nurturing the literary and cultural life of Kollam, the postal department issued a special cover in its honour.

-  P.Mohanachandran Nair : email : pmcnair.1957@gmail.com

  Thiruvananthapuram

New Sepac stamps..

 

Luxembourg

Date of Issue : 24 September 2013

Luxembourg Post and Guernsey Posts will issue Sepac  stamps on 24th September 2013. This year’s theme of Sepac issue is Wildlife. On 20th September Gibraltar Post issued  a set of stamps featuring  wildlife .One of the stamps depicting fish features Sepac  logo.

SEPAC stamps

The Small European Postal Administration Cooperation (also Small European Postal Administrations Cooperation or SEPAC) is an association of 13 European postal authorities. They are Åland, the Faroe Islands, Gibraltar, Greenland, Guernsey, Iceland, the Isle of Man, Jersey, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, San Marino and Vatican City.

The first joint issue of SEPAC postage stamps occurred on October 1, 2007. Further joint issues within the group are scheduled every two years.

Guernsey

Gibraltar

Date of Issue : 20 September 2013

All Sepac 2013 stamps can be viewed at : Europa – Sepac stamps

My Recent Cover

Cover from Ukraine

Received this nice cover with Rainbow stamps from Ukraine. The stamps were issued on UNICEF. Many thanks to the Olesya Dvaenko for this cover with beautiful stamps.

From Olesya Dvanenko , Ukraine

The European Peacock butterfly….

Date of Issue : 20 August 2013

Here are some new SEPAC stamps. Aland Post issues a beautiful stamp on European Peacock butterfly.The European Peacock butterfly belongs to the family Nymphalidae and has a wingspan of 55 to 65 mm. All smartphone or tablet PC users can join the European Peacock butterfly for an enticing visit to several tourist attractions in Åland.

With this stamp, you do not only get a lovely and colourful stamp but also an interesting device. If you have a smartphone or a tablet computer you can download a free app by the name Sepac stamps. When you later scan the stamp, an entirely new world reveals itself!

This is a so-called AR-application. AR stands for augmented reality, which implies that information from your physical surroundings is mixed with three-dimensional information via the app. Scan the Peacock stamp and join the butterfly for a virtual tour around Åland, taking part of information and interesting facts about the Åland attractions Kobba klintar, Kastelholm castle, Bomarsund fortress, Pommern museum ship and the Maritime Museum.

Forthcoming Sepac stamps

Iceland

Date of Issue : 12 September 2013

Guernsey

Date of Issue : 24 September 2013

SEPAC

The Small European Postal Administration Cooperation (also Small European Postal Administrations Cooperation or SEPAC) is an association of 13 European postal authorities. They are Åland, the Faroe Islands, Gibraltar, Greenland, Guernsey, Iceland, the Isle of Man, Jersey, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, San Marino and Vatican City. SEPAC is smaller than PostEurop. Luxembourg was not originally a member of SEPAC but it joined at the end of 2006. Also Vatican City joined subsequently.

The first joint issue of SEPAC postage stamps occurred on October 1, 2007. Further joint issues within the group are scheduled every two years, in 2009 and 2011 (San Marino does not participate in these issues).

The following criteria are requisites for membership:

• The postal administration must be located in Europe
• The postal administration must be independent
• The postal administration must have a small market with more than 50% of its philatelic customers living outside the country.

 

Articles

Wildfire threatens World Heritage Area of ‘Yosemite National Park’

- Pradeep Kumar Mallik

A wildfire in California (USA) has, raging since last 11 days, scorched an area nearly as large as New York City near Yosemite National Park. The so-called Rim Fire has charred about 280 square miles, making it California's seventh largest fire in US history. The raging blaze is expected to move farther into the park.

In 1984, UNESCO designated Yosemite National Park, USA as the World Heritage. In its justification for inclusion in the World Heritage list, UNESCO states:

Yosemite has exceptional natural beauty, including 5 of the world's highest waterfalls, a combination of granite domes and walls, deeply incised valleys, three groves of giant sequoia, numerous alpine meadows, lakes, diversity of life zones and variety of species.

Glacial action combined with the granitic bedrock has produced unique and pronounced landform features including distinctive polished dome structures, as well as hanging valleys, tarns, moraines and U-shaped valleys. Granitic landforms such as Half Dome and the vertical walls of El Capitan are classic distinctive reflections of geologic history. No other area portrays the effects of glaciations on underlying granitic domes as well as Yosemite does.

Yosemite National Park lies in the heart of California in area of outstanding wilderness and great scenic beauty. With its hanging valleys, many waterfalls, cirque lakes, polished domes, moraines and U-shaped valleys, it provides an excellent overview of all kinds of granite relief fashioned by glaciations.

At 600-4000 m, a great variety of flora and fauna can also be found here. The National Park, on the west slope of the central Sierra Nevada Mountains, represents practically all the different environments found within the Sierra Nevada, including sequoia groves, historic resources, evidence of Indian habitation, and domes, valleys, polished granites and other geological features that illustrate the formation of the mountain range.

The variety of flora in the park is reflected in the existence of six distinct vegetation zones which are governed by altitude. There are 1200 species of flowering plant along with various other ferns, bryophytes and lichens.

Let us hope that 4000 firefighters already deployed in the area will be able to contain the wildfire and save the outstanding features of Yosemite National Park.

: Pradeep Kumar Mallik : email : mallikphila@gmail.com

New stamps on Wildlife

 

Date of Issue: 5 June 2013

Here are some  new SEPAC stamps. This year’s SEPAC theme is wildlife. SEPAC stamps are issued every second year. All SEPAC stamps can be viewed at : SEPAC stamps.

Greenland

Date of Issue : 11 June 2013

Aland

Date of Issue: 20 August 2013

The Small European Postal Administration Cooperation (also Small European Postal Administrations Cooperation or SEPAC) is an association of 13 European postal authorities. They are Åland\, the Faroe Islands, Gibraltar, Greenland, Guernsey, Iceland, the Isle of Man, Jersey, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, San Marino and Vatican City. SEPAC is smaller than PostEurop. Luxembourg was not originally a member of SEPAC but it joined at the end of 2006. Also Vatican City joined subsequently.

The first joint issue of SEPAC postage stamps occurred on October 1, 2007. Further joint issues within the group are scheduled every two years, in 2009 and 2011 (San Marino does not participate in these issues).

The following criteria are requisites for membership:

• The postal administration must be located in Europe
• The postal administration must be independent
• The postal administration must have a small market with more than 50% of its philatelic customers living outside the country.

 

Isle of Man

Date of Issue: 13 September 2013

Jersey

Date of Issue: 8 March 2013

New Sepac stamp from Luxembourg..

 

Date of Issue : 27 September 2011

The Small European Postal Administration Cooperation (SEPAC) is an organisation that brings together Europe’s small postal administrations or operators. They are Åland, the Faroe Islands, Gibraltar, Greenland, Guernsey, Iceland, the Isle of Man, Jersey, Liechtenstein, Malta, Monaco and Luxembourg.

SEPAC’s goal is to promote philately and ensure the continued use of postage stamps in the face of other means of postal franking. For the joint issue of the participating members, the theme that was chosen was the most beautiful landscapes of the different countries. P &T Luxembourg has opted for Luxembourg City’s Chemin de la Corniche for its SEPAC 2011 stamp.

Indian theme on foreign stamps

                                                   - Kenneth Sequeira

Tuvalu Post issued a souvenir sheet featuring four prominent Indian personalities during INDIPEX 2011 .

1. Amrita Sher-gil - Painter

Amrita Sher-Gil  was an eminent Indian painter, sometimes known as India's Frida Kahlo, and today considered an important woman painter of 20th century India, whose legacy stands at par with that of the Masters of Bengal Renaissance.

2. Subramanyam Chandrashekhar - Physicist

Chandrasekhar served on the University of Chicago faculty from 1937 until his death in 1995 at the age of 84. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1953.

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar,  was an Indian astrophysicist who, with William A. Fowler, won the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics for key discoveries that led to the currently accepted theory on the later evolutionary stages of massive stars.

3. Satyajit Ray - Filmaker

Satyajit Ray was born in the city of Kolkata into a Bengali family prominent in the world of arts and literature. Numerous awards were bestowed on Ray throughout his lifetime, including 32 National Film Awards including Bharat Ratna (posthumously) and many awards at international film festivals.

4. Rabindranath Tagore – Writer

Most prolific writer of India.Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European Nobel laureate by earning the 1913 Prize in Literature.

Vintage Cars…

 

Date of Issue : 28 September 2011

Faroe Islands Post will issue a set of three stamps and a miniature sheet featuring vintage cars of Faroe Islands. “Vinatge Cars “ is a popular theme and many postal administrations have issued stamps on this theme. Faroe Islands Post will also issue a SEPAC 2011 stamp on the same day featuring scenery which is the theme of SEPAC issues .

Vintage cars

Each vintage car featured on  stamps has its own unique story. The black lorry was the first vehicle to arrive in the Faroe Islands in 1922. The red bus that operated between Vestmanna, Kvívík and Kollafjørður was converted from a tanker and the home-made ‘De Luxe Model’  was the first car on the island to have a cassette player and loudspeakers.

The first car on the Faroe Islands

The first car arrived on the island on 6 May 1922 when Johannes Olsen and Júst Sivertsen from Tórshavn bought a Ford TT truck from Wenzel Petersen and Vilhelm Nielsen, who had a forge in Quillingsgård in Tórshavn.

‘De Luxe Model’ built on the Faroe Islands

In the mid-1950s a home-made Faroese car drove through the streets of Tórshavn. It belonged to the Norwegian Almar Nordhaug, who built the car together with his colleagues at the barrel factory in Tórshavn. It was not unusual to convert cars in the Faroe Islands in the mid-20th century, but the car they built at the factory was unique and far ahead of its time.

Sepac 2011

Date of Issue : 28 September 2011

Special Covers

Rajasthan

AJPEX 2004  – Philately Day

: Ashwani Dubey- Gorakhpur

Sepac 2011 Stamps..

 

Iceland

 

Date of Issue: 15th September 2011

In the month of September  Sepac stamps will be issued . I have published first list  of stamps in my earlier post . Now here are the rest of stamps of Sepac 2011. Only one set of Sepac stamps was issued in March this year by Malta Post. All the rest of stamps will be issued in the month of September.

Aland

Date of Issue: 18th September 2011

Faroe Islands

Date of Issue: 28th September 2011

Monaco

Date of Issue: 28th September 2011

Isle of Man

Date of Issue: 28th September 2011

Malta

Date of Issue : 9 March 2011

 

List of Sepac stamps 2011

09.03.2011 Malta - 1 stamps (0.37 €)
15.09.2011 Gibraltar - 1 stamp (0.42 GBP) out of a set of six stamps
15.09.2011 Iceland - 1 stamp (165.- ISK) part of a se-tenant set
16.09.2011 Faroe Is. - 1 stamp (10.50 DKK)
18.09.2011 Åland - 1 stamp (0.85 €)
27.09.2011 Luxembourg - 1 stamp (0.85 €)
28.09.2011 Greenland - 1 stamp (8.- DKK)
28.09.2011 Monaco - 1 stamp (0.75 €)
28.09.2011 Guernsey - 1 stamp (0.52 GBP) out of a set of six stamps
28.09.2011 Jersey - 1 stamp (0.49 GBP) out of a set of six stamps
28.09.2011 Liechtenstein - 1 stamp (1.40 CHF)
28.09.2011 Isle of Man - 1 stamp (0.58 GBP) out of a set of six stamps

No issue from  San Marino Post  this year

View all Sepac issues from 2007 –2011

 

Club News

New Stamp from India

 

Courtesy : Mansoor  B., Mangalore 

India Post issued a commemorative postage stamp today on birth anniversary of famous Telgu writer Shri Tripuraneni Gopichand.

Tripuraneni Gopichand (8 September 1910 - 2 November 1962) was a Telugu short story writer, novelist, editor, essayist, playwright and film director. Gopichand's writings are remarkable for interplay of values, ideas and 'isms' - materialism, rationalism, existentialism, realism and humanism. He is especially celebrated for his second novel 'Asamardhuni Jeevayatra' (The Incompetent's Life Journey). This is the first psychological novel in Telugu literature. Gopichand's work Panditha Parameshwara Sastry Veelunama in 1963 was presented with the Sahitya Akademi Award - This was the first Telugu novel to win the award.

 

New Sepac 2011 stamps

 

 

Date of Issue : 15 September 2011

In the month of September new Sepac stamps will be issued .SEPAC stands for Small European Postal Administration Co-operation. This cooperation is primarily concerned with issuing postage stamps but also includes sales and marketing.

Since 1996 a number of Small European Postal Administrations have cooperated in a group called SEPAC.Today this group includes Aland, Faroe Islands, Gibraltar, Greenland, Guernsey, Iceland, Isle of Man, Jersey, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco and San Marino. All the members of the group have small home markets and face the same challenges, making it natural to cooperate.Twice, in 2007 and 2009, the SEPAC members have issued postage stamps according to a common theme.

Membership Criteria

The criteria for membership of the SEPAC group of Post Offices/Postal Administrations are:

• The Post Office/Postal Administration must be located within Europe

• The Post Office/Postal Administration must be independent

• The Post Office/Postal Administration must have a small home market with more
than 50% of its Philatelic customers living outside its own country.

Joint Stamp Issues

Every second year, the SEPAC group issues a Folder containing one stamp from each of the membership Postal administrations.  Stamps have been issued by SEPAC countries in following years So far. The common theme of these issues is Scenery “ Beautiful Corners of Europe”

• 2007
• 2009
• 2011

Jersey

Date of Issue : 27 September 2011

Luxembourg

Date of Issue : 27 September 2011 

Guernsey

Date of Issue : 28 September 2011

Greenland

Date of Issue : 28 september 2011

Liechtenstein

Date of Issue : 28 September 2011

Club News

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