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Monthly e-Stamp Bulletin edited and published by Jeevan Jyoti from Dehradun.

Sunday, November 5, 2023

Rainbow November 2023

 

Diwali - The Festival of Lights


Wishing you a very Happy and Prosperous Deepawali ! 





Dehradun November 2023  Vol. XVI  Issue No. 191

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Christmas 2023



Date of Issue : 2 November 2023


Editorial….


Dear Reader,

I am pleased to release the November 2023 issue of Rainbow Stamp News. Recently India Post issued a Rs 20 stamp on Shri Arvind N. Mafatlal. Usually, India Post issues stamps on personalities in Rs 5 denomination. Such high-denomination stamps are not popular among stamp collectors. However, there must be criteria or guidelines from India Post for the issue of stamps of different denominations. High denomination stamps have been issued by India Post in the past on some international events, World Heritage sites, or internationally renowned personalities. It has always been reiterated by the Philatelic Community that a few stamps on selected themes are to be issued by India Post annually. This will make Indian stamps more popular among international philatelists. There is always a demand for quality stamps from India Post. It should be maintained by the Department of Posts.

The festivals are around both Diwali and Christmas. This is the month of The festival of lights ‘Diwali. I wish all the Readers of Rainbow a very Happy and Prosperous Deepavali. May you all have a wonderful festive time!

This is all for this month. More in the next issue. Happy Collecting!



                                        

                                                

 Contents    

 

  • Editorial 

  • From the Desk of Naresh Agrawal

  • Recent Indian Issues
  •  
  • In The News

  • Stories behind stamps

  • Specialized Section

  • Beginners’ Section

  • New Issues from Other Countries

  • Philatelic Clubs and Society

  • Blogs and Websites on Philately

  • Current Philatelic magazines and Newsletters


WHAT NEXT Contd……



Continuing the discussion on WHAT NEXT, it is interesting to see that many veteran philatelists either are thinking of settling sales and disposal of their long-accumulated philatelic treasure or have shared their experiences and difficulties they faced in disposal. I would like to mention the concern shown and experience shared by Prof VK Gupta who is 82 years of age now and started disposal of his stuff about 10 years back. His story which is shared in the Readers' Views column speaks a lot about the seriousness of the issue.

He tells about how difficult it was for him to sell his philatelic stuff. Even he had to sell those at 20% to 30% of the market value at that time. My concern is that timely and planned disposal can fetch good fortune apart from easy and smooth disposal. One has to frame his mindset. Despite Prof. VK Gupta has good contacts with dealers as well as philatelists, he faced lots of troubles which indicates that the disposal is not an easy process. Apart from searching for prospective buyers, accurate or reasonable valuation is also important. He also mentions that his family members were of no support to him as none knew anything about the value and importance of the material. They did not know about how to preserve the material which for them was just pieces of paper.

His concluding lines read “The Crux of the story is if a collector himself cannot sell, how his family members sell. Do sell in your lifetime. “  

Mr.  Prakash Moody’s opinion and experience also speak a lot about the seriousness of the subject. He suggested for the accomplishment of this project of sales and disposal of philatelic stuff,  one can contact different auction sites, some museums or some such groups, etc.. which can help to a great extent. But again the problem remains when, how, and where? He also supports the idea of creating a state advisory committee with a WhatsApp group to share the information.

Social media is the strongest means of communication, education, and advertising. It is now being actively and strongly used for commercial purposes. Various philatelic groups are in operation on WhatsApp, Facebook, and other social media platforms. Material is being sold through these actively. One can choose to select a few for the purpose where one can find collections or individual pieces of stamp of philatelic material on offer. One can start from these group selling also. But to sell a whole lot of accumulation in a short time is a little difficult as it takes a lot of time and effort. To accomplish sales, particularly in the case of the sale of individual pieces or small bunch of stamps.

Apart from this as already suggested and supported by many veteran philatelists such platforms may be designed to help such aspirants. These groups will not only help in the valuation of the material but also give necessary suggestions about when to sell and where to sell followed by the sales execution.

A WhatsApp advisory committee can be formed which can help such philatelists.  As I have already mentioned in my previous articles the valuation and guidance may be chargeable but will be very helpful.

In a nutshell,  it is high time that philatelic fraternity and philatelic thinkers should come forward to find easy and amicable solutions to this problem so that outgoing philatelists are relaxed and assured of the future of their life-long accumulations. Further, the philatelic gems may be detected and preserved to preserve not only the philatelic history but social history also. The stuff instead of going to waste will come to the philatelic world and help give life to philately and to help its promotion. 

While I strongly profess the formation of WhatsApp groups and committees to help this cause, I look forward to some more opinions and suggestions from the readers.

 - Naresh Agrawal,  email: nareshkumar1992@yahoo.co.in 


Readers’ views


Prof VK Gupta

During my philatelic journey, I decided to purchase material from outgoing collectors and dealers.  I purchased nearly 15 collections. Sometimes I had to pay through my nose, while at others at a reasonable cost. Where I couldn't find the money to buy,  I helped. When I was writing my Gwalior book, I was offered a huge lot of Gwalior and other material by the son of a deceased dealer from Bhopal. My valuation was 1 lac rupee. I had no money. I directed him to contact a Bombay dealer, and the deal was done in a few installments. I had decided to do this ex gratis.

When in Delhi, help was sought by a senior official for the disposal of a huge lot of a deceased dealer. I valuated the material along with a reputed philatelist cum dealer. I had no money, so I called two other reputed philatelists to purchase the lot for 20000. They declined. On being persuaded by the official, I asked him to wait for a few months, and the deal was completed.  

I helped the outgoing philatelist from Gwalior and Jaipur by purchasing their Gwalior collections, which resulted in the writing of the Gwalior book. 

Today, I am running 82 years of age. The time came for the disposal of my wares. I must admit that I am a condition crank. when I celebrated my 70th birthday, nobody in the family could afford to keep philatelic material in pristine condition. After all, it is paper, which has its own life and the material requires the care of a philatelist.  

I divided my literature into 2 parts - magazines and books and sold to 2 different persons. I sold Gwalior traditional After a wait of 2 - 3 years. Gwalior Stationery was divided into 2 - 3 lots to be sold to several philatelists.  

Several dealers, auctioneers, and philatelists visited me acquiring materials of their choice. I joined one or two selling groups, wherein I was able to dispose of huge material catering to the needs of philatelists.   

10 years had passed. I decided to keep my ' environment ' collection. Yet 120 boxes full of material were still left. One never knows his life span and I had no patience. Ultimately, I decided to sell all at 20 -30% of market value. I called a dealer, whom I knew for more than 50 years. He visited me along with another expert. I did not show him any material, but explained to him in another 10 minutes, what was contained in those 120 boxes and told him about my expectations. He left the house for lunch and came back after half an hour. The deal was clinched. When he met me after a month, during  Amritpex 23 dinner, he was very happy about the deal. 

The Crux of the story is if a collector himself cannot sell, how his family members sell. Do sell in your lifetime.  I have been left with a gold-winning environmental collection. 

Recent Indian Issues




12 September 2023 : Dada JP Vaswani -Rs 5

 5 October 2023 : 500th Birth Anniversary of Rani Durgawati - Rs 5

7 October 2023 : Hemachandra Vikramaditya – Rs. 5

16 October 2023 : India – Vietnam Joint issue : - Rs 5 + Rs 25  MS

21 October 2023 : 125th Anniversary of Scindia School – Rs 5

27 October 2023 : Arvind N. Mafatlal – Rs 20


New Special Covers / Cancellations / PPC

 

Special Covers issued by Gujarat Postal Circle

Siddi Sayyed Ki Jali : 11 October 2023 : Ahmedabad



Groundnut : 11 October 2023 : Ahmedabad




Millets : 12 October 2023 : Ahmedabad




Faffda – Jalebi- Ganthiya-Khaman – 

Khandvi-Thepla-Undhiyue: 12 October 2023 : Ahmedabad


Chabutra : 13 October 2023 : Ahmedabad




Special Cancellation: National Unity Day




 4 PPC from Chattisgarh Postal Circle



Special Cancellation on Dussehra by Karnataka Postal Circle

 



In the News


Thailand 2023





Commissioner for THAILAND 2023 Specialised World Stamp Championship

THAILAND 2023 Specialised World Stamp Championship - Thailand 2023 to be held in Bangkok, Thailand from November 27, 2023 to December 2, 2023.

Thailand 2023 will be held in Bangkok, Thailand from November 27, 2023, to December 2, 2023, at Grand Postal Building, Bangkok, Thailand.. The Exhibition will include competitive classes viz. World Stamp Championship Class, Traditional Philately, Postal History, Postal Stationery, Aerophilately, Thematic Philately, Revenue, Open Philately, Modern Philately, Picture Postcards, One Frame, Philatelic Literature and Youth Philately.

Commissioner & Apprentice Commissioner appointed by PCI

1. Mr. Pragya Kothari Jain – National Commissioner
33-34, Prakash Kunj Apartment, Kavi Raman Path,
East Boring Road Patna – 800001, India

Phone: +919709638790
Email : 
philapragya@gmail.com

2. Mr. Pratisad Vijay Neurgaonkar – Apprentice Commissioner
884, Bhandarkar Road, 14 Patil Terraces. Pune 411004, India

Phone: +919766310553
Email: 
pratisadn@gmail.com

EFIRO 2024, Bucharest

Commissioner for EFIRO 2024 FIP Specialised World Exhibition

 



EFIRO 2024 INTERNATIONAL STAMP EXHIBITION, EFIRO 2024 with a capacity of 2000 display frames, is organized by the Romanian Philatelic Federation under the Patronage of FIP from Apr 16 to 19, 2024 at the National Library of Romania, Bucharest, Romania.


Classes available for participation are : Traditional, Postal History, Postal Stationery, Aerophilately, Astrophilately, Thematic, Maximaphily, Revenues, Open Philately, Picture Postcards, One Frame, and Philatelic Literature. Plus, a new Experimental, Class 12 -II, for 2 or 3 Frames exhibits.

Detailed rules of exhibition (IREX) and Exhibit Application Forms are available for download at https://www.efiro.ro/rules.php

The Philatelic Congress of India has appointed : 1. Mrs Savita Jhingan , as the National Commissioner and 2. Mr. Kapil Gogri as Apprentice Commissioner for the EFIRO 2024 FIP Specialised World Exhibition. Their contact details are given below:

1. Mrs Savita Jhingan  - National Commissioner
16 Park Drive, First Floor,
Malibu Towne, Sector 47
Gurugram 122018, India

Telephone +91-9811160884
Email: 
sj@stampsofindia.com

2. Mr. Kapil Gogri – Apprentice Commissioner
15 Ashish, Andheri Coop Society, VP Road,
Behind Fidai Baug,
Andheri West,
Mumbai 400058, India.

Mob : +919821111140
Email : 
kapilg25@hotmail.com



Heartiest Congratulations !


Noted philatelist Mr. Sandeep Jaiswal’s exhibit "British India King George VI postal stationery was one of only three exhibits in Bangladesh that was awarded a Large Gold medal + Special prize.

Mr. Sandeep held a workshop titled "How to Increase the Medal Level of your Postal Stationery Exhibit" for both Stockholmia and Bangladesh 2023. He has 22 different philatelic exhibits that have won at least a Gold or Large Gold medal at the National or International level.

 Below is a list of the exhibits that have been awarded Gold or Large Gold medals:

 Dhar Postal Stationery

Jaipur 1911 Jail Print postcard

Indian Postal Stationery for the China Expeditionary Force

India KEVII UPU postcards

British India King George VI postal stationery

India Queen Victoria Letter-sheets

British India - Victorian UPU postcards

Bahawalpur during its 50-day period as a sovereign nation

The 1st Issue of Bundi

The Numerals issue of Cochin

Dhar Philately

The 1st Issue of Dungarpur

The portrait issue of Dungarpur

Indore philately

Jammu & Kashmir Telegraphs

The 1st issue of Jaipur

Kotah - 19th-century Dual postal system

Rajpipla State

Shahpura - A newly discovered stamp-issuing Indian Princely State

India - King George VI Postal Stationery

Indian Airgraphs 

The First Issue of Dhar


KRISHNAPEX 2023




·       District Level Philatelic Exhibition, Thalassery-Kannur proposed date 24th-25th November 2023 

·       District Level Philatelic Exhibition Almorah, Uttrakhand  proposed date 3rd-4th November 2023




News from Philatelic Societies, Clubs and Philatelists



ALPEX-2023

Distt. Level Philatelic Exhibition, Aligarh 3-5 November 2023


Special Cancellation




Special Cover




--Atul Agrawal, Aligarh


Logo for KARNAPEX 2024



Jaagruthi a young philatelist from Bangalore,  participated in the 'Design a Logo and Coining a Tagline' contest organized by Karnataka Postal Circle for the forthcoming State level Philatelic Exhibition and was selected as the official logo of the state-level exhibition KARNAPEX 2024 in January 2024

"Anjal Attakasam"

 



"Anjal Attakasam" - India Post - theme Golu for Navratri at Tiruchirappalli H.O.




Golu exhibiting DoP products & services exhibited with cultural heritage & creativity by various Divisions of Central Region, Tamil Nadu Circle was inaugurated by Smt T.Nirmala Devi, PMG CR, Trichy on Oct 16, 2023 in the presence of Divisional Heads. - Courtesy: X (formerly Twitter) handle of Trichy Postal Region. The display is available for public view till Oct 24, 2023, at the H.O. premises. 

Golu is the festive display of dolls and figurines in South India during the autumn festive season, particularly around the multi-day Navaratri festival of Hinduism. These displays are typically thematic, narrating a legend from a Hindu text to court life, weddings, everyday scenes, and miniature kitchen utensils. India Post Central Region has taken this opportunity to display postal schemes and services in Golu format.


-Kasinath R. Thanjavur, Tamilnadu


World Postcard Day Celebrated  at Dehradun






In Dehradun  World Postcard Day was celebrated at Dehradun GPO on 1st Oct 2023.It was attended by Sh Ansuya Prasad Chamola, DPS Dehra Dun, Sr. Post Master, postal officials, eminent philatelists, and deltiologists of Dehra Dun. Tripti Gupta designed a postcard (privately printed) which was subsequently canceled by Dehradun Philatelic Bureau PPC.  

Mr Abhai Mishra, a noted philatelist of Dehradun addressed the audience, sharing anecdotes from the 200 years of Mussoorie's journey as a hill station. He even showcased his impressive album featuring rare postcards of Mussoorie. 

This meeting was also a Postcrossing Meetup wherein several postcrossers exchanged and sent postcards to friends, family, and fellow post-crossers across the world.

- Tripti Gupta, Dehradun

 

 Stories Behind Stamps




The Whole Country is Red - China

 



The stamp that goes by the name of The Whole Country is Red, issued in 1968 during the Cultural Revolution, is a famous stamp with error printing. The stamp features a red map of China imprinted with the golden words "The Whole Country is Red", plus a picture of a worker, a farmer and a soldier holding the "Selected Works of Chairman Mao." The face value of the stamp is 8 fen (1 US cent).

The stamp was only issued for less than half day. An editor of Sino Maps Press found that the map on the stamp was not accurate and reported it to the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications. As a result, all Chinese post offices had to stop selling the stamp and return all the copies. Only a small quantity of the stamp went to private collections.

A large version of the stamp, two times bigger than the original one, was auctioned off for 3.68 million HK dollars (US$474,197) in Hong Kong in 2009, setting a new record for the price of a single stamp auctioned off in China. On the same occasion, 6 normal pieces of the stamp were auctioned off for a total of 2.93 million HK dollars (US$377,482). Estimated value of the stamp : US$ 474,197

Stamp Image: https://philaindia.info/china-the-whole-country-is-red-stamp/

Article Text: http://www.china.org.cn/top10/2012-04/27/content_25224963_6.htm

Mr. Nisarg Sutaria is a philatelist from Ahmedabad. He is BE Mechanical Engineering from Nirma Institute of Technology, and MS Manufacturing Engineering from Western Michigan University, USA.  He is an expert in the fields of Strategy, Branding and Marketing with Digital Media mainly in SEO & SMM. Philately is one of his hobbies, while Horology (the study of the measurement of time) is another of his passions. Email: nisargsutaria78@gmail.com Mobile and WhatsApp Phone Number: +91-9924248850.


Specialized Section 

Due to the non-availability of good and authentic articles, I am sharing articles from other sources for the Readers.  Here are articles on ‘Pigeon Mail from different sources. – Editor

 

Pigeon Post in different parts of the world




Pigeon post is the use of homing pigeons to carry messages. Pigeons are effective as messengers due to their natural homing abilities. The pigeons are transported to a destination in cages, where they are attached with messages, then the pigeon naturally flies back to its home where the recipient could read the message. They have been used in many places around the world. Pigeons have also been used to great effect in military situations, and are in this case referred to as war pigeons.

 

As a method of communication, it is likely as old as the ancient Persians, from whom the art of training the birds probably came. The Romans used pigeon messengers to aid their military over 2000 years ago. Frontinus said that Julius Caesar used pigeons as messengers in his conquest of Gaul. The Greeks conveyed the names of the victors at the Olympic Games to their various cities by this means.

Naval chaplain Henry Teonge (c. 1620–1690) describes in his diary a regular pigeon postal service being used by merchants between İskenderun and Aleppo in the Levant. The Mughals also used messenger pigeons.

Before the telegraph, this method of communication was used extensively by stockbrokers and financiers. The Dutch government established a civil and military system in Java and Sumatra early in the 19th century, the birds being obtained from Baghdad. In 1851, the German-born Paul Julius Reuter opened an office in the City of London which transmitted stock market quotations between London and Paris via the new Calais to Dover cable. Reuter had previously used pigeons to fly stock prices between Aachen and Brussels, a service that operated for a year until a gap in the telegraph link was closed.

Details of the employment of pigeons during the siege of Paris in 1870–71 led to a revival in the training of pigeons for military purposes. Numerous societies were established for keeping pigeons of this class in all important European countries; and, in time, various governments established systems of communication for military purposes by pigeon post. After pigeon post between military fortresses had been thoroughly tested, attention was turned to its use for naval purposes, to send messages to ships in nearby waters. It was also used by news agencies and private individuals at various times. Governments in several countries established lofts of their own. Laws were passed making the destruction of such pigeons a serious offense; premiums to stimulate efficiency were offered to private societies, and rewards given for destruction of birds of prey. Before the advent of radio, pigeons were used by newspapers to report yacht races, and some yachts were actually fitted with lofts.

During the establishment of formal pigeon post services, the registration of all birds was introduced. At the same time, in order to hinder the efficiency of the systems of foreign countries, difficulties were placed in the way of the importation of their birds for training, and in a few cases falcons were specially trained to interrupt the service during war, the Germans having set the example by employing hawks against the Paris pigeons in 1870–71. No satisfactory method of protecting the weaker birds seems to have been developed, though the Chinese formerly provided their pigeons with whistles and bells to scare away birds of prey.

As radio telegraphy and telephony were developed, the use of pigeons became limited to fortress warfare by the 1910s. Although the British Admiralty had attained a very high standard of efficiency, it discontinued its pigeon service in the early 20th century. In contrast, large numbers of birds were still kept by France, Germany and Russia at the outbreak of the First World War.

In modern days, a rafting photographer still uses pigeons as a sneakernet to transport digital photos on flash media from the camera to the tour operator.

Paris



Siege of Paris 1870–1871, pigeon post medal by the artist Charles Degeorge.

 

The pigeon post that was in operation while Paris was besieged during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871 is probably the most famous. Barely six weeks after the outbreak of hostilities, the Emperor Napoleon III and the French Army of Châlons surrendered at Sedan on 2 September 1870. There were two immediate consequences: the fall of the Second Empire and the swift Prussian advance on Paris. As had been expected, the normal channels of communication into and out of Paris were interrupted during the four-and-a-half months of the siege, and, indeed, it was not until the middle of February 1871 that the Prussians relaxed their control of the postal and telegraph services. With the encirclement of the city on 18 September, the last overhead telegraph wires were cut on the morning of 19 September, and the secret telegraph cable in the bed of the Seine was located and cut on 27 September. Although a number of postmen succeeded in passing through the Prussian lines in the earliest days of the siege, others were captured and shot, and there is no proof of any post, certainly after October, reaching Paris from the outside, apart from private letters carried by unofficial individuals. For an assured communication into Paris, the only successful method was by the time-honoured carrier-pigeon, and thousands of messages, official and private, were thus taken into the besieged city.


Cover that contained mail to be sent by pigeon post


During the course of the siege, pigeons were regularly taken out of Paris by balloon. Initially, one of the pigeons carried by a balloon was released as soon as the balloon landed so that Paris could be apprised of its safe passage over the Prussian lines. Soon a regular service was in operation, based first at Tours and later at Poitiers. The pigeons were taken to their base after their arrival from Paris and when they had preened themselves, been fed, and rested, they were ready for the return journey. Tours lie some 200 km (100 miles) from Paris and Poitiers some 300 km (200 miles); to reduce the flight distance the pigeons were taken by train as far forward towards Paris as was safe from Prussian intervention. Before release, they were loaded with their despatches. The first despatch was dated 27 September and reached Paris on 1 October, but it was only from 16 October, when an official control was introduced, that a complete record was kept.


The pigeons carried two kinds of despatch: official and private, both of which are later described in detail. The service was put into operation for the transmission of information from the Delegation to Paris and was opened to the public in early November. The private despatches were sent only when an official despatch was being sent, since the latter would have absolute priority. However, the introduction of the Dagron microfilms eased any problems there might have been in claims for transport since their volumetric requirements were very small. For example: one tube sent during January contained 21 microfilms, of which 6 were official despatches and 15 were private, while a later tube contained 16 private despatches and 2 official ones. In order to improve the chances of the despatches successfully reaching Paris, the same despatch was sent by several pigeons, one official despatch being repeated 35 times and the later private despatches were repeated on average 22 times. The records show that from 7 January to the end, 61 tubes were sent off, containing 246 official and 671 private despatches. The practice was to send off the despatches not only by pigeons of the same release but also of successive releases until Paris signalled the arrival of those despatches. When the pigeon reached its particular loft in Paris, its arrival was announced by a bell in the trap in the loft. Immediately, a watchman relieved it of its tube which was taken to the Central Telegraph Office where the content was carefully unpacked and placed between two thin sheets of glass. The photographs are said to have been projected by magic lantern onto a screen where the enlargement could be easily read and written down by a team of clerks. This would certainly be true for the microfilms, but the earlier despatches on photographic paper were read through microscopes. The transcribed messages were written out on forms (telegraph forms for private messages, with or without the special annotation "pigeon") and so delivered. The interval between sending a private message and its receipt by the addressee depended on many factors: the density of telegraphic traffic to and from the sender's town, the time taken to register the message, to pass it to the printers where it was assembled with its 3000 companions into a single page, and then to assemble the pages into nines or twelves or sixteens. During the four months of the siege, 150,000 official and 1 million private communications were carried into Paris by this method.

The service was formally terminated on 1 February 1871. In fact, the last pigeons were released on 1 and 3 February. The pigeons that were still alive were now official property and were sold at the Depot du Mobilier de l'Etat. Their value as racing pigeons was reflected by the average price of only 1 franc 50 centimes, but two pigeons, reported to have made three journeys, were purchased by an enthusiast for 26 francs.

The success of the pigeon post, both for official and for private messages, did not pass unnoticed by the military forces of the European powers, and in the years that followed the Franco-Prussian War pigeon sections were established in their armies. The advent of wireless communication led to rising pigeon unemployment, although in certain particular applications, pigeons provided the only method of communication. But never again were pigeons called upon to perform such a tremendous public service as that which they had maintained during the siege of Paris and Italy.

Canada

Major-General Donald Roderick Cameron, then Commandant of the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario recommended an international pigeon service for marine search and rescue and military service in a paper entitled "Messenger Pigeons, a National Question". Sir Charles Hibbert Tupper, then Minister of Marine and Fisheries supported the pigeon policy. Colonel Goldie, Assistant Adjutant General and Major Waldron of the Royal Artillery, and Captain Dopping-Hepenstal of the Royal Engineers carried through the plan. The pigeon post between look-out stations at lighthouses on islands and the mainland at the citadel in Halifax, Nova Scotia provided a messenger service from 1891 until it was discontinued in 1895. The pigeon post faced a heavy mortality among the pigeons as many were lost during the operations. The flight from the Citadel in Halifax, Nova Scotia to Sable Island, for example, was difficult for the pigeons to complete.

Catalina Island

From 1894 to 1898 pigeons carried mail from Avalon across the Santa Barbara Channel to Los Angeles. Two pigeon fanciers, brothers Otto J. and O. F. Zahn, reached an agreement with Western Union where it would not build a telegraph line to the isolated island so long as the pigeons did not compete with it on the mainland. Fifty birds were trained, carrying three copies of each message because of the danger of hunters and predators. They made the 48-mile passage in about one hour, bringing letters, news clippings from the Los Angeles Times, and emergency summons for doctors. In three seasons of operation only two letters failed to come through, but at $.50 to $1.00 per message the service was not profitable, and in 1898 the Zahn brothers ended the post.


Great Barrier Island ( New Zealand)

  

 


Stamp for early Pigeon-Gram service on Great Barrier Island


Before the pigeon post service was established the only regular connection between the community on Great Barrier Island (90 kilometers northeast of Auckland) and the mainland was provided by a weekly coastal steamer. The island's isolation was highlighted when the ship SS Wairarapa was wrecked off its coast in 1894, with the loss of 121 lives, and the news took several days to reach the mainland.

The pigeon post service began between the island and Auckland in 1897. Soon there were two rival pigeongram companies, both of which issued distinctive and attractive stamps. The stamps have been eagerly collected for their novelty value, and some have become extremely rare.

Initially, the service operated only from Great Barrier Island to Auckland, the reverse route being considered uneconomic. On the island, pigeongram agencies were established at Port Fitzroy, Okupu, and Whangaparara. Birds were sent over to the island on the weekly steamer and flew back to Auckland with up to five messages per bird written on lightweight writing stock and attached to their legs. Great Barrier Island's pigeongram service ended when the first telegraph cable was laid between the island and the mainland in 1908.

India

The Orissa police in India have established regular pigeon posts at Cuttack, Chatrapur, Kendrapara, Sambalpur and Denkanal and these pigeons rose to the occasion in times of emergencies and natural calamities. During the centenary celebrations of the Indian postal service in 1954, the Orissa police pigeons demonstrated their capacity by conveying the message of inauguration from the President of India to the Prime Minister. The last of the pigeon post services in the world (the one in Cuttack, India) was closed in 2008, although about 150 pigeons continue to be maintained for ceremonial purposes in Cuttack and at the Police Training College in Angul.

War Pigeon


Homing pigeons have long played an important role in war. Due to their homing ability, speed, and altitude, they were often used as military messengers. Carrier pigeons of the Racing Homer breed were used to carry messages in World War I and World War II, and 32 such pigeons were presented with the Dickin Medal. Medals such as the Croix de Guerre, awarded to Cher Ami, and the Dickin Medal awarded to the pigeons G.I. Joe and Paddy, amongst 32 others, have been awarded to pigeons for their services in saving human lives.

During World War I and World War II, carrier pigeons were used to transport messages back to their home coop behind the lines. When they landed, wires in the coop would sound a bell or buzzer and a soldier of the Signal Corps would know a message had arrived. The soldier would go to the coop, remove the message from the canister, and send it to its destination by telegraph, field phone, or personal messenger.

A carrier pigeon's job was dangerous. Nearby, enemy soldiers often tried to shoot down pigeons, knowing that released birds were carrying important messages. Some of these pigeons became quite famous amongst the infantrymen for whom they worked. One pigeon, named “Spike”, flew 52 missions without receiving a single wound.  Another, named Cher Ami, lost his foot and one eye, but his message got through, saving a large group of surrounded American infantrymen.

Before the advent of radio, carrier pigeons were frequently used on the battlefield as a means for a mobile force to communicate with a stationary headquarters. In the sixth century BC, Cyrus, king of Persia, used carrier pigeons to communicate with various parts of his empire. In Ancient Rome, Julius Caesar used pigeons to send messages to the territory of Gaul.

During the 19th-century (1870–71) Franco-Prussian War, besieged Parisians used carrier pigeons to transmit messages outside the city; in response, the besieging Prussian Army employed hawks to hunt the pigeons. The French military used balloons to transport homing pigeons past enemy lines Microfilm images containing hundreds of messages allowed letters to be carried into Paris by pigeon from as far away as London. More than one million different messages travelled this way during the four-month siege. They were then discovered to be very useful, and carrier pigeons were well-considered in military theory leading up to World War I.

 

 


Dispatching of a message by carrier pigeon within the Swiss Army during World War I


World War I

Homing pigeons were used extensively during World War I. In 1914, during the First Battle of the Marne, the French army advanced 72 pigeon lofts with the troops. The US Army Signal Corps used 600 pigeons in France alone.

One of their homing pigeons, a Blue Check cock named Cher Ami, was awarded the French "Croix de Guerre with Palm” for heroic service delivering 12 important messages during the Battle of Verdun. On his final mission in October 1918, he delivered a message despite having been shot through the breast or wing. The crucial message, found in the capsule hanging from a ligament of his shattered leg, saved 194 US soldiers of the 77th Infantry Division's “Lost Battalion.

United States Navy aviators maintained 12 pigeon stations in France, with a total inventory of 1,508 pigeons when the war ended. Pigeons were carried in airplanes to rapidly return messages to these stations, and 829 birds flew in 10,995 wartime aircraft patrols. Airmen of the 230 patrols with messages entrusted to pigeons threw the message-carrying pigeon either up or down, depending on the type of aircraft, to keep the pigeon out of the propeller and away from airflow toward the aircraft wings and struts. Eleven of the thrown pigeons went missing in action, but the remaining 219 messages were delivered successfully.



Leg canister for a war pigeon, U.S. Army Signal Corps, World War I. 1.0 x 2.9 cm, 1.7 gm

 

 

Pigeons were considered an essential element of naval aviation communication when the first United States aircraft carrier USS Langley was commissioned on 20 March 1922, so the ship included a pigeon house on the stern. The pigeons were trained at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard while Langley was undergoing conversion. As long as the pigeons were released a few at a time for exercise, they returned to the ship; but when the whole flock was released while Langley was anchored off Tangier Island, the pigeons flew south and roosted in the cranes of the Norfolk shipyard. The pigeons never went to sea again.


World War II and later deployments

During World War II, the United Kingdom used about 250,000 homing pigeons for many purposes, including communicating with those behind enemy lines such as Belgian spy Jozef Raskin. The Dickin Medal, the highest possible decoration for valor given to animals, was awarded to 32 pigeons, including the United States Army Pigeon Service's G.I. Joe and the Irish pigeon Paddy.


The UK maintained the Air Ministry Pigeon Section during World War II and for a while thereafter. A Pigeon Policy Committee made decisions about the uses of pigeons in military contexts. The head of the section, Lea Rayner, reported in 1945 that pigeons could be trained to deliver small explosives or bioweapons to precise targets. The ideas were not taken up by the committee, and in 1948 the UK military stated that pigeons were of no further use. During the war, messenger pigeons could draw a special allowance of corn and seed, but as soon as the war ended this had been cancelled and anyone keeping pigeons would have to draw on their own personal rationed corn and seed to also feed the pigeons. However, the UK security service MI5 was still concerned about the use of pigeons by enemy forces. Until 1950, they arranged for 100 birds to be maintained by a civilian pigeon fancier in order to prepare for any eventuality. The Swiss army disbanded its Pigeon section in 1996.

Source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeon_post

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Beginners’ Section


International Red Cross Establishes Goals


US #1016 was the first bi-colored US postage stamp ever produced on the rotary press.

 

On October 29, 1863, representatives from around the world joined together to establish the International Red Cross.

While on a business trip to Italy in 1859, Swiss humanitarian Jean Henri Dunant witnessed the aftermath of the Battle of Solferino (part of the Second Italian War of Independence) in which nearly 40,000 soldiers were killed or wounded. Shocked by the lack of medical care, Dunant put his business aside and began tending to the wounded. He convinced locals to help without discrimination.


US #1239 pictures the freighter SS Morning Light, which was one of the mercy ships that returned refugees from Cuba during the Cuban prisoner exchange in 1963.

Dunant proposed that all civilized countries establish “…permanent societies of volunteers who in time of war would give help to the wounded without regard to their nationality.” In February 1863, Dunant and four other Geneva leaders founded the Committee of Five to see if his idea was possible. They renamed their organization the International Committee for Relief to the Wounded and began preparing for a meeting with other nations.

Item #MP1118 – collection of 50 Red Coss stamps from around the world

 


US #702 commemorates the 50th anniversary of the founding of the American Red Cross.

The meeting was held from October 26th to 29th in 1863. There were 36 people in attendance – 18 delegates from national governments, six from non-governmental organizations, seven unofficial foreign delegates, and the five members from the Geneva meeting. They discussed the goals of this new organization and adopted a set of resolutions on October 29th. These included the creation of national relief groups for wounded soldiers, protection for the wounded and their rescuers on the battlefield, and the adoption of the red cross on white background as their flag and armlet. The group continued to meet and expand on their goals, changing their name to the International Committee of the Red Cross in 1876.


US #1910 was issued for the 100th anniversary of the American Red Cross.

 

Clara Barton, the “Angel of the Battlefield,” served as a nurse during the American Civil War. She founded the American Red Cross in 1881 after assisting the International Red Cross in Europe during the Franco-Prussian War. Today, the International Red Cross is an organization of over 135 nations. These nations provide various forms of assistance to victims of wars and other disasters. Most also provide various medical and health programs as well as youth activities and junior divisions.

There are over 600 Red Cross chapters in the United States alone, run by around a half a million volunteers. Many have just one paid worker. To date, the International Red Cross has earned three Nobel Peace Prices – in 1917, 1944, and 1963.

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Birth of Pablo Picasso

 


Burundi #950 was issued for Picasso’s 130th birthday.

 Pablo Ruiz Picasso was born on October 25, 1881, in Málaga, Spain. The son of a painter, Picasso showed a talent for art from an early age.  When he was seven, his father gave him formal drawing and painting lessons.  Soon, Picasso was so occupied with his art, it distracted him from his schoolwork.

Korea #2150 was issued for Picasso’s 100th birthday.

In 1895, Picasso’s family moved to Barcelona where his father took a job at the School of Fine Arts.  His father convinced the school to allow him to take an entrance exam for the advanced class.  While it normally took a month to complete, Picasso completed it in a week and he was admitted at the age of 13.

When he was 16, Picasso briefly attended the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid, but didn’t like the formal style and left shortly after arriving.  However, he greatly enjoyed Madrid and the opportunity to see the works of Diego Velázquez, Francisco Goya, Francisco Zurbarán, and El Greco.

Maldive Islands #489 was issued the year after Picasso died.

Picasso first went to Paris in 1900.  There he lived with a roommate and often burned his works to warm their apartment.  In 1901, Picasso embarked on his Blue Period, painting scenes that were almost entirely green and blue with only occasional warm colors.  Many pictured gaunt mothers and children and beggars.  After this, he entered his Rose Period from 1904 to 1906.  Many of these paintings used orange and pink and pictured circus people, acrobats, and harlequins.  During this time he also met Gertrude Stein, who was one of his greatest supporters and collected many of his works.

United Nations #UNG21 – This painting was included on this stamp with Picasso’s permission in 1971.

From 1907 to 1909, Picasso explored African Art and primitivism.  The ideas he explored during this period led Picasso to develop analytic cubism with Georges Braque.  In this practice, Picasso would take apart objects and analyze their shapes.  In turn, this led him to synthetic cubism from 1912 to 1919.  In producing these works, he would often include pieces of wallpaper or newspaper in his paintings, in some of the earliest examples of collage in fine art.

During World War I, Picasso remained in Paris and continued to paint, though his works had a somber tone.  After the war, he befriended a rich art dealer, who introduced him to the rich social life of 1920s Paris.  During this time Picasso also helped Igor Stravinsky create the ballet Pulcinella.


United Nations #UNG234-35 – The left stamp pictures Picasso’s Three Musicians.

 

Throughout the 1920s, Picasso, like many other European artists of the time, began producing neoclassical works, in what some called a “return to order.”  Many of these works rejected extreme avant-garde styles and instead took their inspiration from traditional art.  Later in this period, Picasso began to explore surrealism, renewing his interest in primitivism.

Up until the 1930s, the Harlequin was a common symbol in Picasso’s work.  As he started to associate with surrealists, however, he started using the Minotaur, a symbol common in their works.  The Minotaur appears in one of his most famous works, Guernica.  Picasso was commissioned by Spanish rulers of the time to create a mural for the Spanish display at the Paris International Exposition at the 1937 World’s Fair.  Guernica depicts the German Luftwaffe bombing of the town of Guernica that claimed 1,650 civilian lives.


Item #M12145 pictures Guernica and the German planes that attacked the town.

 

In 1939, Picasso’s work was displayed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, which helped to make him better known in America.  During World War II, he remained in Paris while it was under German control.  He continued to paint and also wrote poetry.

Item #M12146 was issued for the 75th anniversary of Guernica.

 

By the 1950s, Picasso was an international celebrity.  He appeared in a few films and continued to paint and sculpt.  In 1967, he produced a 50-foot sculpture, Chicago Picasso, which stands in downtown Chicago.  He refused to be paid for it and donated it to the people of the city.  Picasso continued to work up until his death on April 8, 1973.

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New issues from other countries

Aland

20 October 2023 :  Christmas Peace Dove & Christmas Angel



Gutter Pair Strips





Andorra ( Spain)

26 October 2023 : Popular Culture, Giants of Sant Julià de Lòria




Austria

10 October 2023 : Crypto Stamp




Australia

Christmas 2023


Belgium

23 October 2023 : Insulin - Medical Revolution

 

In 1923, the Nobel Prize in Medicine is awarded to the discoverers of insulin. This issue takes a closer look at the importance of this medical discovery.




Finland

6 September 2023 : Finland in NATO



6 September 2023 : 100 Years of FINNAIR

Finnair 100 Years

Familiar shades of blue and white on Finnair’s 100th anniversary stamp.Founded in 1923, Finnair is one of the oldest operating airlines in the world. Today, it is a network airline with extensive flight connections to Europe, North America and Asia.

Throughout its history, Finnair has served as a gateway to the world for Finns. “Posti has played an important role in Finnair’s history, as our first flight carried mail from Katajanokka, Helsinki to Tallinn, and we still transport a lot of mail on our flights,” says Päivyt Tallqvist, Senior Vice President, Communications at Finnair.

Finnair’s stamp features beautiful movement and the familiar blue and white color scheme. “The harmonious stamp represents timelessness and simplicity, which Finnair’s brand is also associated with. The stamp is a great addition to our anniversary, which has been visible on our planes, campaigns and social media channels throughout the year,” Tallqvist says.


Great Britain

2 November 2023 : Christmas



Portugal


23 October 2023: World Figures from History and Culture

 


 


Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)

Born in Clermont-Ferrand on 19 June 1623, Blaise Pascal from a very early age revealed extraordinary intellectual abilities. Before he was even 20, he had made highly significant mathematical and physical discoveries and invented a mechanical calculating machine. From the mid-1640s, he devoted himself largely to studying the properties of gases and liquids, atmospheric pressure, and vacuum. Combining the results of ingenious experiments with precise mathematical demonstrations, Pascal established the modern principles of hydrostatics. But his scientific creativity was truly prodigious, leading to discoveries in areas as disparate as probability theory, combinatorial analysis, the study of curves, or mathematical analysis, and establishing results that are still fundamental in these fields today. In the “century of geniuses”, Blaise Pascal was one of the most versatile, most creative, and most influential figures in all of Europe.

Adam Smith (1723–1790)

Adam Smith was one of the most influential economists in history, having contributed significantly to the development of modern economic thought. His best-known work, “The Wealth of Nations”, presented new ideas and concepts that shaped the way economics is studied and practiced today. Smith’s invisible hand theory, his most famous idea, describes the idea that when individuals act within a market according to their own interests, the result, surprisingly, tends to be an efficient distribution of resources and the general well-being of society. This theory is frequently cited as justification for the promotion of the free market and free competition, as well as for minimizing State intervention in the economy.

Furthermore, Smith was also a pioneer in the analysis of the division of labour, through which the specialisation and separation of tasks allow workers to produce more goods in less time, which, in turn, increases output and reduces production costs. This idea is crucial to understanding how the organisation and management of work are fundamental to increasing the efficiency and profitability of companies.


Slovakia


26 October 2023 :

1.    The Gothic Route - The Wall Painting in the Church of the Holy Trinity in Rakos

2.    The Gothic Route - The Altar in the Church of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary in Chyzne




Switzerland


7 September 2023: Metascape




Welcome to the Metascape, a virtual landscape created by students at ECAL, the cantonal university of art and design in Lausanne. One can scan the QR code on the miniature sheet to embark on a virtual video journey on Instagram.

Strange, and yet somehow familiar. That’s the impression created by the elements on this miniature sheet’s design. While familiar features of landscapes can be discerned, such as rocks, bodies of water and vague outlines of vegetation, the overall picture is of a surreal world – named the Metascape. To immerse your- self in this imaginary domain, you can simply scan the QR code. Augmented reality technology will then open up to visitors a fantasy world created by artificial intelligence.

The genesis of the design dates back to the Swiss Post Philately department’s visit to ECAL (Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne). Impressed by the students’ artistic work, the team quickly decided to offer the young talents a platform – in the form of a stamp. With the exception of the overall theme of “destination”, the students were given absolute creative freedom, resulting in a total of 14 projects developed in working groups. A handful were then shortlisted. The winning project won the vote of a jury made up of members representing ECAL, Swiss Post and the Stamp Commission. And so, when the stamp was created, fantasy became reality.

United Nations


10 October 2023 World Mental Health Day

The United Nations recognizes World Mental Health Day each year on 10 October, to raise awareness about the importance of mental health and to support those living with mental health conditions. The theme for 2023 is “Mental Health is a Universal Human Right”.

Mental health is an integral part of our general health and well-being, as well as a basic human right. Having good mental health means we are better able to connect, function, cope, and thrive. However, people living with mental health conditions often experience human rights violations, discrimination, and stigma. The result is that millions of people around the world suffer in silence and are greatly affected in their daily lives.

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 1 in 8 people across the world live with a mental health condition. Despite being prevalent in countries around the world, most societies neglect mental health and do not provide the care and support people need and deserve. While mental health conditions can be effectively treated at a relatively low cost, the gap between people needing care and those with access to care remains substantial, and effective treatment coverage remains extremely low.




World Mental Health Day is an opportunity to strengthen our shared commitment in making mental health a priority. We work towards making everyone able to exercise their human rights and access affordable, quality mental health care and where people can participate fully in society, free from stigma and discrimination.

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-Ananthpuri Stamp Bulletin - Monthly e -stamp bulletin of Anathapuri Philatelic Association,
 Thiruvananthapuram 

-Journal of the Army Philatelic Society

-India Post – Quarterly Journal of the India Study Circle publishes original articles submitted by members of ISC. 

-Deccan Philatelist edited by Dr Anjali Dutta email :
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-The Hyderabad Philatelist from Hyderabad Philatelic and Hobbies Society Editor – Shri Prakash Agrawal 

-SIPA Bulletin issued by South India Philatelists’ Association
 


Acknowledgment

- Ananthapuri Stamp Bulletin November 2023 issue edited by Mohanachandran Nair:  email : apa.tvpm@gmail.com

- Judaica Thematic Society, UK .  Society Newsletter November 2023 edited by Gary Goodman email :  judaicathematicsociety@talktalk.net 


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