Memoriam - Her Majesty The Queen
The
black-and-white set of 4 stamps commemorates the HM Queen Elizabeth II with
four portrait stamps, each featuring a photograph over the years. These are the
first stamp images to be approved by King Charles III
Dehradun 0ctober 2022 Vol. XV
Issue No. 178
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Editorial….
Dear Reader,
I am pleased to release October 2022
issue of Rainbow Stamp News. October is the month of festivals . Greetings to all the Readers on the occasion of
Navratri. Many philatelic exhibitions are also being held this month. Have a
double fun of hobby and festivities. A national philatelic exhibition AMRITPEX
2023 will be held next year in February at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi from 12 to
15 February, 2023 with the active support of Philatelic Congress of India.
There will be approximately 1500 frames on display. A Special Section will be dedicated
to Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav. Now its time to prepare for the national
exhibition. Best wishes to each and everyone for the forthcoming shows . Let’s
find some more beautiful themes on stamps and make new exhibits…..
This is all for this month. More in the next issue.
Have a wonderful Festive Time ! Happy Collecting!
Contents
§ Editorial
§ From the Desk of
Naresh Agrawal
§ Recent Indian
Issues
§ In The News
§ Thematic
Watch
§ Specialized Section
§ Beginners’
Section
§ New Issues from
Other Countries
§ Philatelic Clubs
and Society
§ Blogs &
Websites on Philately
§ Current
Philatelic Magazines & Newsletters
INVESTMENT
IN INDIAN STAMPS : DETERIMENTAL FOR INDIAN PHILATELY
Accumulation
of stamps is for the sake of just collecting, collection of stamps for the
purpose of relaxation, displaying the stamps for the purpose of joy and
exhibiting the stamps for complete fulfilment of the joy. But what about collection for the purpose of
investment, collection with a hope that if not premium but at least the money
spent will be recovered in future when the need arises or the charm of stamps
reduces in any case.
Stamp
collection has always been a hobby of kings and later in the last few decades
it reached masses and became hobby of masses though the control on the hobby
still remains in the hands of kings. Kings mean the men with huge pockets full
of money. People started collecting stamps as one of the best hobbies being
educational, versatile in its scope and the one which can be enjoyed alone or
by sharing. Being versatile, flexible in nature and the one with huge and wide
scope, it soon reached masses.
Well,
the world has changed tremendously in the last few decades. People become
materialistic, joys become temporary, sharing become purposeful and so the
procurement or buying of stamps become a planned investment.
That has given entry to investors who looked at stamps as a fruitful
mean of investment which could yield huge amount.
In
India, the practice blossomed after 2000 when lots of investors recognized the potential
in investment in Indian Stamps and started ruling the philatelic world of stamp
lovers of Indian Stamps. The huge investments caused seldom hike in prices which
also tempted genuine stamp lover to invest in stamps according to his will and
financial capacity. For last about 15 years, these stamp investors regulated
and controlled the Indian philately at their will and wish which in fact
exploited the genuine stamp lovers as the prices of stamps reached their record
heights. Later, when the market collapsed, small buyers / collectors found
themselves cheated. A few new upcoming investors were practically ruined. The
price hike of Indian stamp material also motivated DOP to think in those lines.
The price of stamps increased and DOP also indirectly changed its stamps
production, pricing and sale schedules. The genuine low budget collectors
suffered a lot due this price hike caused by investments.
Stamp
dealers who invested in Indian stamps to get good gains initially enjoyed but
later they all repented for the investments done. Slowly the scenario changed. Genuine
philatelists who initially turned in to investors lost their genuine interest
in Indian stamps. That caused overall disinterest in India philately by the
Indian stamp lovers. There have been other factors also but what we see today
is that Indian stamps are not being looked forward as those were a few years
back. This in other words is a big setback to Indian philately.
Hence,
there is a great need to look upon this cause and some methodology has to be
evolved to regenerate the interest of philatelists in Indian stamps to help
promotion of Indian philately. Indian stamp designs, pricing, production and
sales policy has to be monitored, checked and formulated.
Hope
Indian philately will revive soon.
: Naresh Agrawal : email : nareshkumar1992@yahoo.co.in
Whatsapp : 9425530514
Recent Indian
Issues
2
August 2022 : Journey of the Indian Flag – MS Rs 75
20
August 2022 : Ondiveeran – Rs 5
1
September 2022 : 2nd International Tiger Forum – Rs 5
New Special Covers
20 September 2022 : 34th
All India Postal Tournament, Shimla 2022-23
22 September 2022 : Harmony of the Pines, Himachal Pradesh Police Orchestra
23 September 2022 : Rajiv Gandhi Govt Degree College, Shimla
24 September 2022 :
Durga Puja
2 October 2022 :
Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti 2022
New Picture
Postcards from India Post
Five Picture Postcard issued today during 13th M.
P. State Level Philatelic Exhibition MAPPEX-2022 at Jabalpur.
27
September 2022 : World Tourism Day : 15
Picture Postcards : Kashmir/Ladakh “In Panorama” with Specia Postmark on
World Tourism Day.
New
Special Cancellation
1
October 2022 : World Postcard Day
26
September : Ghatstahapna
28
September 2022 : Donate Blood and Save Life
In the
News
‘Lifetime Achievement
Award’ conferred to Shri Madhukar Deogawanka
Bharatiya Daktikit Sangstha
(BDS) conferred ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ on Shri Madhukar Deogawanka for
his outstanding contribution to the Indian Philately on 4th September
2022 in Kolkata. Shri Dipok Dey, President of BDS, handed over the trophy to
Shri Deogawanka. Shri Dilip Das, Vice-President of BDS, and Shri Abhijit Gupta,
Secretary of BDS gave the Certificate and Uttariya to Shri Deogawanka
respectively. Eminent philatelists Shri Partha Chakraborty and Shri Babul Dey
were also present.
Forget Me Not
On 26 September 2022, PostNL issued the
« Forget-me-not » stamp sheet of six stamps marked with ‘International 1’ for
post weighing up to 20g destined for delivery outside of the Netherlands. The
stamp sheet was designed by Audrey Large, who was born in France and works in
Schiedam. Large won the Young Designer Award at the Dutch Design Awards 2021.
The « Forget-me-not » issue is part of
the Dutch Design series. Each year, for this series, PostNL gives winners of
prestigious design competitions a free commission to design stamps. They can
use their own interests for inspiration, as well as anything that intrigues and
influences them. In other words, their personal passions play a leading role.
The « Forget-me-not » stamp sheet was designed by
Audrey Large and is based on a 3D digital image of a futuristic mythological
creature. The beast’s body is on the bottom edge of the sheet. The neck runs
across the tabs on the left of the stamp sheet and the head is on the stamp in
the top left-hand corner. From the torso, a second neck grows parallel to the
first neck over the middle of the sheet. Bulges are attached to the second neck
in the form of vases and pots in various shiny colours. The bulges form the
central image elements on the other stamps. The image element on the stamp in
the bottom-right hand corner is again linked to the body shape on the bottom
edge of the sheet. The long horn on the stamp in the top right-hand corner
continues through the tab next to it onto the upper sheet edge, where it
crosses the short horn. The coloured areas in the background of the 3D image
have a wavy colour gradient.
The typography of the texts is based on the Ulm
Grotesk (2018), designed by Ilya Naumoff (France) and published by Indian Type
Foundry from Ahmedabad (India).
Designer Audrey Large is best known for the images she
creates using 3D software and then transforms into material objects using 3D
printers. She was surprised and intrigued by PostNL's request to design this
year's stamps for the Dutch Design series. ‘After all, I’m neither a graphic
designer nor an illustrator. But PostNL explained that they were interested in
the visual language of my 3D objects, and that I was given free reign in terms
of the image I wanted to create for the stamps. I also realised that a stamp is
just like an object, only two-dimensional.’
A floating image
Large’s approach to design did not involve first
coming up with a well-defined concept. ‘That’s not how I work. I had complete
freedom to come up with this floating image, and my initial idea was that one
day, six elements would travel away from it. For me, coming up with the concept
and implementing it happen at the same time. I create the shapes in my head and
draw them spontaneously with a pen on my tablet at the same time. I sometimes
copy existing elements. For example, I have created the flowers in the object
before to represent pawns on a 3D chessboard. Those flower shapes also travel,
in this case from one object to another. The overall image is a limitless world
in itself – an open world where you can focus on each individual element. Every
stamp has its own character, but each shape leads to another. I build the image
digitally, print it on paper and then make changes on the computer until it’s
finished.’
Light and cartoonish
In this visual and intuitive approach, the ambiguity
of the objects' surfaces plays an important role. Large: ‘I chose shiny
surfaces so that the objects could be both ancient and futuristic. Of course, I
could tell a nice story about why my images look the way they do, but it
doesn't work that way. The image isn’t abstract at all – you can identify lots
of things in it, such as the archetypal vases and pots on the stamps – but I
don’t want to describe or interpret my objects in language. When I work in my
free space, I simply have fun and visually translate how I feel at that moment.
In this assignment, that resulted in images that are light creative
collaboration with me. We added a separate layer containing all the
typographical information, making a clear link between text and image.’ That
fusion of text and image is enhanced by the oval shape in which NETHERLANDS
2022 and INTERNATIONAL 1 are positioned on the stamp. ‘I aim to literally
embrace each object on the stamp by placing the text in circles around them,’
says Breen. ‘The light blue line in the background reinforces that effect. The
circle is open, floats and adds movement through the changing width of the
line. It has become an image in itself, creating a link between object and
typography.’
N for NASA
The correct font was not discovered straight away.
Breen: ‘I often choose a font based on one or two letters that I like. Audrey
talked about space, travelling and floating. For this assignment, I therefore
looked for a font that had an ‘n’ that resembled the ‘n’ in the old NASA logo –
a beautiful ‘n’. We only found that letter at the end of the design process:
the Ulm Grotesk by Ilya Naumoff. The typography therefore really came into its
own – both in terms of form and content, to allow the various elements to
merge.’
Continuity in motion
Cape
Town 2022 International Stamp Exhibition
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/
LIBEREC 2022
European
Stamp Exhibition and Polar Salon “LIBEREC 2022”
is organized by Svaz českých filatelistů, z.s. (Union of Czech
Philatelists) in cooperation with club “Evropská výstava poštovních známek
LIBEREC 2022, z.s.”, established for this purpose under FEPA patronage and with FIP recognition.
Venue:
Wellness Hotel Babylon https://www.hotelbabylon.cz/en/
Date: October 13th – 16th, 2022
Exhibition
size: 1200 exhibition frames
Visit : https://www.liberec2022.eu/en/aktuality-en/
IBRA 2023
IBRA 2023 and 33st International Stamp Fair will be held at Hall 1 and 2, Messe Essen, Germany from 25 to 28 May, 2023. Mr. Madhukar Jhingan is Indian National Commissioner for the IBRA 2023.
IBRA 2023 is being organized by the German Federation of Philatelists (BDPh) under the Patronage of International Philatelic Federation (FIP) With a capacity of 2800 display frames, IBRA 2023 is the first General World exhibition since 2019, with participation open in all Classes - FIP Championship, Traditional, Postal History, Postal Stationery, Aerophilately, Astrophilately, Thematic, Maximaphily, Revenues, Modern Philately, Open Philately, Picture Postcards, One Frame, Youth, and Philatelic Literature.
For the Rules of
exhibition (IREX) please visit : https://ibra2023.de/wpcontent/uploads/2022/03/IREX-IBRA-2023-english.pdf
and for the Exhibit
Application forms please visit
https://ibra2023.de/wpcontent/uploads/2022/03/IBRA2023_ApplicationForm_engl.pdf
Please submit the duly
filled Forms with a copy of the first page of the exhibit to the
National Commissioner
for India, Madhukar Jhingan, mj@stampsofindia.com +919811160965
ANDHRAPEX- 2022
A state level philatelic exhibition will
be organized by the Andhtra Postal Circle in October 2022 at Vishakhapatnam.
Visit : andhrapex2022.blogspot.com
HYPEX – Diamond 2022
Hyderabad Philatelic and Hobbies Society
is going to organize an exhibition of stamps ,coins, notes and other collectibles
from 19 to 21 November 2022. For more details plz contact : Shri Prakash
Agrawal Ph. 9346777206 email : spagarwaal07@gmail.com
ASSAMPEX 2022
For detail visit : http://www.assampost.gov.in/
UPHILEX 2022
12th Uttar Pradesh Philatelic
Exhibition UPHILEX-2022 is being organised by Uttar Pradesh Postal
Circle from 15.10.2022 to 17.10.2022
at Lalit Kala Academy, Regional Centre, Lucknow.
GUJPEX 2022
State Level Philatelic Exhibition GUJPEX-2022 will
be held by Gujarat Postal Circle from 5
to 7 November 2022, at Shreemati Sushilaben
Ratilal Hall, Navarangapura, Ahmedabad.
News from Philatelic Societies/ Clubs/Philatelists
A collector’s delight
Sir Thomas Edward Ravenshaw must be a very happy man. In the nearly 150 years of its glorious history, an alumnus had paid back to his alma mater in the form of an artistic tribute. The set of postcards are really wonderful, the first time for any heritage university in the country.
I remember that the idea had germinated in my
mind when the centenary celebrations of the East Hostel were being planned. I
had told Hitesh Bhai to wield his pen/pencil and give a visual presentation of
the great institution that Ravenshaw was and is. Initially, it would have been
an INTACH sponsored project, with India Post being roped in in its official
capacity.
The proposal had all been finalised, but got
mired in red tape and could not be released in the centenary celebrations of
the East Hostel. I had felt very bad, as Hitesh Seth had really worked hard and
sketched nearly two dozen aspects of the hallowed institution. Not just the
tangible structures, but also the ethos and essence of the University. The
canons, the sun-dial, the University logo, the masala-mudi cone were all
wonderfully captured in the final 16 that were chosen.
I had once again proposed that we release the set during the Centenary Day celebrations of the English Department. However fate turned a full circle, and the State Level Philatelic Exhibition was slated to be held at Ravenshaw. This time, the officials of India Post cleared things in a hurry and the release of the covers was one of the high points in the three day celebrations. Thanks to Ms. Madhusmita Padhi, Kashinath Sahoo and Manas, the covers were made ready in a record time.
The set of 16 postcards, each individually autographed by the artist and posted and stamped at the century old Ravenshaw Sub Post Office inside the campus, will be every collectors delight. It will be a valuable addition to every philatelists’ collection. Sadly, a very limited number were printed, just 400 sets. They will be on sale at the Philatelic Bureaus at Cuttack and Bhubaneswar GPO's. Take yours while you can.
As for me, I am proud of the small part that I played in the release of the covers. Look out for more from the restless pen of Hitesh Bhai. This is just the beginning.
-Anil Dhir : email - anildhir2k5@hotmail.com
New Book Marks featuring stamp images
A set of philatelic bookmarks were released by Drishti
Daan on the 5th September 2022. The Governor of Odisha had released the set. A
set of bookmarks were presented to the CM of Odisha.
-Anil
Dhir
OPHILEX 2022 , Cuttack
Result & Glimpses
Visit : http://rainbowstampclub.blogspot.com/2022/09/ophilex-2022.html
Glogg, the best drink of Christmas from Aland and traditional ‘knäck’ toffee.
Handicrafts
Regional
Cuisines from India
Luxembourg : 13 September 20222
Faroe Islands : 16 May 2022
Jersey : 24 May 2022
Liechtenstein
: 7 June 2022
Monaco
14 June 2022
Guernsey
: 22 June 2022
Malta
: 13 September 2022
Aland
: 6 September 2022
Locally Produced Beverages
This year’s theme for the Sepac stamp series issued by
the small European postal administrations is locally produced beverages. As
stamp motif, Åland Post decided to highlight sea-buckthorn, Åland’s own super
berry. A varied range of sea-buckthorn beverages is produced in Åland. Tiina
Tahvanainen has photographed the motif of the stamp to be issued on 6
September.
Åland is one of a few areas in Finland where
sea-buckthorn grows in the wild. The wild shrubs grow in dense stands and
thrive best on stone and gravel beaches. The thorny branches make the berries
difficult to pick. The small orange, juicy and sour berries of the
sea-buckthorn ripen in the autumn and contain high amounts of beneficial
vitamins, antioxidants, and fats. Squeezed from the berries, the raw juice is
used as such, but also as the base of jams, marmalades, syrups, and ice cream.
The fruit pomace is also used in various products.
Specialized
Section
On big demand of many readers the article 'Disinfection of Mail'
by Naresh Agrawal is being published here again in a series. The article was
highly appreciated by the readers around the globe. -Editor
DISINFECTION OF MAIL
the sender to the addressee. Climatic, geological
and biological conditions all around the world differs from place to place and
time to time. Sometimes there are some epidemics or contagious, infectious and
communicable diseases spread in some area which are likely to be transmitted
through the mail. Also sometimes there are chances of chemical or bioterrorist attacks by so called militants through the mail
system, sometimes some viruses get
attached to the mail which are then
spread to wherever the mail goes and whosoever handles it or the mail in
contact with the mail adds to the threat.
Contd. from the last
issue…
QUARANTINE
:
Quarantine is voluntary or compulsory isolation,
typically to contain the spread of something considered dangerous, often but
not always disease. Quarantine was applied to humans, cattle, goods, mail,
packages etc. Though quarantine refers to forty days but could be as long until the person was healed properly with no
threat to others, and might be very short, such as in the case of a suspected
anthrax attack, in which persons were allowed to leave as soon as they shed
their potentially contaminated garments and undergo a decontamination shower.
Or had a shower in a decontamination tent.
1799 fumigated folded letter quarantine outside
Philadelphia at Health Station situated about
Fumigated
Ship letter dated 16.07.1829 from Havana,Cuba to Boston, held in
quarantine for 21 days on Rainsford
Island in Boston Harbor due to Yellow fever in the West Indies.
HISTORY AND ORIGIN OF QUARANTINES : The concept of quarantine is deeply related to heath practices prevailing during middle ages and thereafter as a protection and prevention measure especially during epidemics involving isolation of the diseased men or infected material.
When a
smallpox epidemic struck Rome around 164 A .D., Galen is said to have hastily
returned to his home in Pergamon on the Ionian Coast of modern-day Turkey. When
plague returned to London in 1665, Thomas Sydenham, a physician, prudently
sought safety in the countryside.
The
Bible mentions the separation of infected people in order to prevent the spread
of disease as early as 1513 BC, as recorded in Leviticus chapter 13 of the ld
testament.
It
was as early as in the 14th century, most citizens could not flee pestilences, plagues
and epidemics threatening their towns, but civil authorities sought to protect
them by excluding suspected human carrying disease and merchandise from
outside. In 1347 when bubonic plague
reached ports on the Mediterranean and Adriatic Sea were among the first to
deny entry to ships coming from infected or affected areas, notably from
Turkey, Middle East or North Africa. Florence, on the Arno River, issued
restrictions on travelers and goods as early as 1348. The Venetian Republic
formally excluded "infected and
suspected ships" in 1374. The earliest such action in the America was
by the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1647 to 1648, when it barred ships coming
from the West Indies thought to be carrying yellow fever.
The
first recorded system of disinfection
and decontamination was basically isolation, restriction, protection and
separation for good required period
until the infection was checked satisfactorily, was quarantine. Decontamination
of mail was for hundred of years an aspect of quarantine, as a part of the
larger effort o to destroy the agents of epidemic disease likely to spread
through transmission of mail.
In
1377 it was first at Ragusa in Dalmatia, on the eastern shore of the Adriatic
that all persons coming from an infected region were detained at a point
distant from the city for thirty days. ( trentina). This period was soon found short
and then extended to 40 days (quaranata giorni), from whence the word
quarantine, and for the first time this was enforced in Merseilles in 1383.
Later,
other cities established isolation
stations on shore or on nearby islands. Ragusa's use of an offshore island
in 1377 was an early example of such a quarantine
station. In spite of Ragusa's seeming priority, various sources claim that
the first such station was a pest house built on the island of Sardinia in 1453
or buildings erected at Pisa near the church of San Lazzaro in 1464. The Bible
mentions the separation of infected people in order to prevent the spread of
disease as early as 1513 BC, as recorded in Leviticus chapter 13 of the ld
testament.
The
disinfection of letters was first attempted in Venice around 1493 by dipping
them in vinegar In North America during the 1743 epidemics of smallpox and
yellow fever, an early quarantine station was established in Philadelphia on
Providence Island in the Schuylkill River. Other major U.S. cities soon
thereafter organized quarantine stations to cope with later epidemics of
smallpox, yellow fever, typhus and cholera.
The
Sydney Quarantine Station has hundreds of rock carvings made by crew-members from the Himalaya during their
detention. Periods of detention for smallpox contacts could last a few days to
a few months depending on circumstances and vaccination history. Rock carving
was a popular way to pass the days.
Different
laws and acts were made in the different parts of the world like Italy,
Germany, France, Australia, America, West Indies at different time to control and regulate the
quarantine practices.
LAZARETTOS
(QUARANTINE STATIONS)
Quarantine
stations in southern Europe were originally called lazarettos. These stations
were the places where the infected human, cattle, goods, packages, mail etc.
were detained, treated and after the goods were
decontaminated or the persons were healed of the disease they suffered /
infected under supervision of the health authorities and their clearance and
certification , they were sent to the final destination. The period was never
specified for such detainment or quarantine.
The
quarantine stations / places were made outside far away from the townships or
at distant banks, islands to check spread of any virus, epidemic or contagious
disease carried by the incoming ship through the man and material it carried.
These could be temporary housing, temporary hospitals but were made in
isolation.
QUARATINE METHOD
:
As described above, quarantine is voluntary or
compulsory isolation, typically to contain and stop the spread of something
considered dangerous, often but not always disease. Though the word quarantine,
in fact means forty days isolation applied to humans, cattle, goods, mail,
packages etc. but this period could be very long as un till the person was healed properly
and there was no threat to others, and might be very short, such as in the case
of a suspected anthrax attack, in which persons were allowed to leave as soon
as they shed their potentially contaminated garments and undergo a
decontamination shower even in a tent.
A treatment tent for infected persons planted near an old quarantine
station
In
some parts of the world like Australia mail was treated to prevent spread of
disease to humans. Nowadays it is treated to protect indigenous wildlife and
our agricultural industries. Mails have been sprayed, gassed, scorched, baked,
irradiated, detained and soaked in the pursuit of cleanliness. The most sought
after covers are those from detainees in quarantine or from ships arriving with
cases of infectious disease aboard.
OTHER METHODS :
Apart from the quarantine the letters were treated
by three basic methods, perforation, to let out the harmful “ miasma” and let
in clean air; immersion or sprinkling of vinegar or sea water ( both ) thought
to have phylactic properties and heating and fumigating properties briefly detailed as under :
PIERCING OR SLITTING
OR MAKING HOLES
The
usual practice was to puncture the envelope with small holes, often in a grid
pattern. The mail / letters were pierced
by the use of spike headed “ rastel” , tongs, needles, or knives. Practice
varied from one area to another. The perforation also varied from place to
place at that time. The use of rastels and tongs made very deep perforation
normally penetrating the letters
completely and are readily visible. In many cases however, the perforation took
the form of a fine slit, often so fine as to escape the notice, until the
letter is handled and careful observation revealed the slit or the cut.
1830 RASTEL, A
PERFORATING MALLET
Piercing for the purpose of disinfection may generally
be distinguished from accidental damages by the presence of cuts at two or more
places. However, in some cases there can be one cut also.
01.09.1832
U.S. Navy folded letter written
at Port Mahon, and disinfected by sulphur fumes in a steam kettle. This letter
contains unusual chisel slits and punctures in a star shaped circular pattern
which are only known from this Naval installation.
Russia 1849 cover/disinfection slits, punch holes/Odessa quarantine
Entire letter
dated 15.11.1852 from Braila to Marseille, rastel punched for
disinfection
10.06.1847 entire from
Alexandria written in Italian several slits
SNIPPING
OFF CORNERS :
Cover dated
28.02.1926 from Kalaupapa to Detroit, Michigan, disinfected prior to
leaving the leprosy settlement. All four corners of the envelope were cut off
prior to fumigation.
27.04.1900 Soldier letter clipped at the corners. The plague quarantine
lifted on April 30, 1900 following a
month in which no new plague cases occurred.
Cover dated 08.09.1930 from a detainee
who was suspect of smallpox at the North Head Quarantine Station, Sydney using
the envelop of the K.P.M. steamship company. Envelop corners clipped to admit
fumigant gas, before taken to Quarantine P.O..
IMMERSION / DIPPING / SOAKING :
Immersion in liquid has the effect of causing inks to run, sometimes
to the point of producing illegibility, and in case of vinegar – very widely
used –causing a brown staining. Sprinkling from vinegar, less obliterate,
produces a splash pattern of brown staining. Sprinkling of vinegar, less
obliterate, process a splash pattern of staining. Immersion in sea water,
commonly used in ports and quarantine harbors, had very bad effect on mails. As
with all evidence of “Disinfection”, the damage provided a reassurance to the
recipient.
In Malta, the
disinfection was existence even in 1678 and till 1787 like in Marseilles
Incising the letter and soaking it in
vinegar and continued even after 1809.
SPRINKLING :
Sprinkling of
disinfectants on the mail was also in practice to disinfect the same. Vinegar
was one of the major disinfectants in use being less obliterate but produced a splash pattern of brown staining
on the over
Sprinkling did not confine to the mail articles only
but to the room or the building also to check spread of the infection. In November 2001,
chlorine dioxide gas was sprayed into the partly contaminated Hart Senate
Office Building, while the Postal Service used a 10% solution of bleach to
"sterilize" its mail sorting centers. As some suspected mail had
arrived in that building.
Entire Letter dated 19.12.1590 from
Bologna to Castle Bolognese with VINEGAR STAINS for Disinfection. Vinegar
Stains for disinfection not disfiguring the document
HEATING / BURNING / BAKING /SCORCHING :
Heat disinfection involved holding the letter over
glowing coals. The effect here was to scorch the letter, leaving unburnt
patches where tongs had held the letters / items for treatment.
Instruments used for disinfecting mail by smoking
STEAMING :
Putting
the mail in steam of water or vinegar water solution was one of the methods to
disinfect the mail. This method mainly treated the outer surface. However , for
treatment of the contents large slitting
was done on covers giving way to steam to enter and treat the contents.
Registered Letter dated 21.06.1897 from Peshawer (N.W. India)
to Bokhara, directed via Odessa Sent by
P.& O. India from Bombay to Brindisi. By rail ( Italian and Austrian
), to frontier had 32 days transit.
The letter had been disinfected by steam under Govt. regulations dated
19th April, 1897
FUMIGATION :
Fumigation is the process of exposing letters to
sulphur fumes or smoke. Letters were slitted / cut and fumigant gas in form of
smoke or spray was put in side it so that all the letter inside and outside
both is disinfected. But during this process discoloration occurred. It was not
uncommon for letters long journey to be treated in one or more health stations
separately during its transmission. Later, some common fumigants like Propylene
oxide, Ethylene oxide Eto, Methyl Bromide were in use. .
1799 fumigated folded letter quarantine outside Philadelphia at Health Station situated about
Small outbreak of smallpox in Launceston in
1903 is perhaps the most written incident that caused the fumigation of mail.
The disease was attributed to a traveling performer who visited Launceston
after contracting the disease on tour in India. Mail was fumigated and hand stamped as shown on the cover
Most
countries have instituted mail fumigation at one point or another, and
investigation of the specific incidents is an active area for postal history
Letter fumigators from the quarantine station at Torrens Island here in Adelaide presently displayed at the National Museum in Canberra. It is believed that all Australian quarantine stations received a pair of these.
1817 DISINFECTED COVER WITH WAX
SEAL CORSE FRANCE TO TUSCANY ITALY
Entire
Letter dated 04.09.1817 from BASTIA (Corsica, French Island) to Cavalier
Spannocchi disinfected on arrival with a
fumigation procedure that resulted in light
browning of the paper, leaving lighter areas where the tongs holding the letter
made contact with the paper during fumigation. It was fumigated inside and
outside and then re-sealed by opening the letter by breaking the seal of the
sender (at right, middle of back flap). The re-sealing was done by applying two
red wax disinfection seals featuring the House of Lorraine Coat of Arms of the
Grand Duke of Tuscany.
PERFUMING AND EXPOSING
:
During quarantining of vessels, at some places of
the world ( Malta 1720 ) the rules were passed not to take delivery of
correspondence ( packets and letters)
unless those were perfumed thoroughly prior to unloading from the ship followed by opening of mail and
double perfuming the same and leaving the same open exposed for the action for
at least 24 hours.
SMOKING :
Apart
from the above mentioned methods which remained in practice for hundreds of
years throughout the world which damaged
the mail substantially in some cases up to the extent of illegibility of text
or burning of or hard to handle ; some other methods were also tried and
employed not only to disinfect the mail covers or packets but also to the place
where those were kept such as exposure
to smoke and various fumes. The eventual widespread use of burning sulfur
yielding sulfur dioxide (with its "sharp, irritating odor") may have
been based on an ancient idea that the more foul a medicine, the more effective
it might be. In the late 19th century, sulfur gave way to chlorine or
formaldehyde gas.
NOTE : Fumigation, quarantine, baking, splashing,
steaming, smoking, immersion and sprinkling vinegar were one of the methods
widely used not only in Europe ( great Britain 1671 to 1850 ) but in Russia and
other parts of the world since 14th century due to limited
medical and scientific knowledge based
on the assumption and belief that paper products and paper are one of the major
carriers of these epidemics like plague, cholera, yellow fever, typhus, smallpox
etc. until early 19th century
when the causes of all these epidemics were identified and so these traditional disinfection methods were considered useless.
In some cases for additional safety, the letters were exposed to all the three
or even more than one treatments.
To be contd…..
:
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Beginners’ Section
The World Series of
Philately
US #1474 was issued in response to collector calls for a “stamp of their own.” On September 19, 1968, the American Philatelic Society (APS) introduced the World Series of Philately (WSP).
The competition was unveiled at the 82nd Annual APS Convention held in Rochester, New York that ran from September 19-22. The structure of the competition was developed by Postmaster General Gordon Morison and was an answer to calls made by serious collectors for several years.
Prior to the WSP, collectors could only see large
numbers of award-winning stamp exhibits at international exhibitions. As
a result, most stamp shows didn’t have many exhibits. The WSP encouraged
stamp shows to improve their exhibits by holding a national competition.
Collectors could exhibit their most impressive stamps at national
exhibitions. Each show would declare a winner, and those winners would
then compete to be the Champion of Champions at that year’s annual APS Stamp
Show.
From the time it was announced, the WSP was widely popular. It gave show organizers a reason to plan even bigger and better shows. They actively sought high-quality exhibits, promoted their shows on a wider scale, and held their shows on weekends that didn’t compete with other WSP shows. Their shows also offered interesting seminars and encouraged collectors to participate in the APS.
US #2198-2201 was issued in 1986
for the 100th anniversary of the APS.
Because many shows and collectors wanted to participate in this prestigious competition, the APS established a set of strict rules to qualify.
To
participate in the WSP, exhibitions are required to meet all of the APS’s
requirements and be certified by the APS. They also have to maintain
those standards to continue to participate. The APS limits the number of
shows eligible to participate to 35. Other shows that qualify are placed
on a waiting list.
Winners of the Champion of Champions award are then eligible to participate in international exhibits if they chose.
Source : Mystic
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New issues
from other countries
Israel
13 September 2022
: Israel- Mexico 70 Year of Diplomatic Relations
France
26 September 2022 : Guide Dogs for the Blind
Guide Dogs For The Blind
The
French Federation of Guide Dog Associations (FFAC) FFAC is a charity gathering
guide dogs schools in France. Our common aim: provide the visually impaired
with guide dogs as a mean for a safe independence and a better integration in
society.
5 October 2022 : Christmas 2022
Portugal
27 September 2022
: Solidarity with Ukrainian People
Slovenia
23 September 2022 : Wells in Slovenia
Wells in Slovenia
Well with weighted pumping mechanism in Lož – a
rarity among wells
The well in the centre of
Lož, a settlement in the south- western Notranjska region, is a rarity among
wells in Slovenia. Not by virtue of its role as a former gathering place for
the local population – a function shared by the majority of village wells – but
because of its special pump, operated with the help of a weighted lever.
By moving this lever
manually to the left and right, water was pumped from the well. It is this that
makes the well a remarkable piece of technical and cultural heritage. It was
built in 1876, as confirmed by the year on the ornamental metal flag on its
pavilion hipped roof. Although Lož was connected to the water supply in the
1960s, individual villagers continued to go to the well for water. The well was
restored in 2006.
The large trough next to
the well was used to water livestock, although in Austro-Hungarian times this
was prohibited by a notice that read “Watering draught animals prohibited –
penalty 3 crowns”. A similar well is found in nearby Stari Trg pri Ložu. It is
believed that the wells in Lož and Stari Trg pri Ložu are the only two wells
of their type in Slovenia.
Spain
26 September 2022 : Eruption of Cumbre Vieja Volcano 2021, La Palma
28 September 2022 : 50th Anniversary of the University of Cordoba
Eruption of Cumbre Vieja Volcano 2021, La Palma
At 14:10 hours on 19 September 2021, the eruption
began on the island of La Palma, specifically in the area of Cabeza de Vaca, in
the municipality of El Paso, after days of intense seismic activity.
The volcanic origin of the Canary Islands is well
known and, for decades, the activity of the whole archipelago has been
monitored 24 hours a day by the Scientific Volcanological Committee of the
Canary Islands, which makes the necessary predictions, thus guaranteeing the
safety of all citizens.For this reason, just before the terrible eruption of
Cumbre Vieja, many people living in the danger zone were evacuated.
Many families lost their homes and their livelihoods.
Entire villages were buried by the rivers of lava that the volcano spewed forth
relentlessly for three months.The volcanic eruption officially ceased on 25
December and is now in a phase of degassing and cooling of lava flows.
The island has the youngest territory in Spain and a
new appearance in a portion of its territory, reminiscent of the volcanic
origin of the Canary Islands. Throughout those three months, the island
received the support and attention of the rest of Spain, which threw itself
into helping the people of La Palma by organising the sending of materials,
personal belongings and economic resources.
There is still a long road to reconstruction and La
Palma still needs a lot of help to start again, to continue. But we must not
forget that the island is much more than the 10% affected by the volcano and
invites the world to visit it and enjoy a unique natural space.
The Post Office issues a miniature sheet with a
die-cut in the shape of the island's silhouette. In the background, the image
of Cumbre Vieja and on the stamp, one of those impressive and beautiful
moments, in spite of everything, when on any given night during those three
months of hell, the volcano let out all its strength in the form of fire and
lava from its interior.
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