My Postage Stamps Collection

This is a blog of my personal stamps and covers collection. I am an avid collector of postage stamps, miniature sheets, FDCs and covers addressed to me from across the world, an accumulator and hoarder of stamps. It is my attempt here to show you all of my collection in the posts that I'll add and update regularly. I hope to add more to the collection in the process, interact with you other collectors out there and share thoughts and information about anything and everything related.

Sunday, February 27, 2011

India 2008

2008: Some really interesting designs and shapes were released in 2008. No of commemorative stamp releases: 78. Ofcourse you can see all of these in the sheets below. I think I dont have just one, that being the birth centenary of Swami Ranganathananda Maharaj.

2nd Jan'08: Endemic Butterflies of Andaman & Nicobar Islands

Papilio Mayo (Andaman mormon) Male & Female

Pachliopta Rhodifer (Andaman Club Tail) Male & Female

18 Mar '08: 75th Birth Anniversary of Madhubala. Know her real name? Well it is, Mumtaz Begum Jahan Dahlavi

17th May'08: 30th Anniversary of the AGA KHAN Foundation
Tomb of Humayana & Facets of Social Entertainment

11th Jul'08: India-China Joint Issue, Buddhist Temples

08 Aug '08: XXIX Olympic games, Beijing China.

02 Aug '08: Aldabra Giant Tortoise of Alipore Zoo, Kolkata. Frist ever hexagonal shaped stamps released.

12th Oct'08: Third Commonwealth Youth Games, Belewadi, Pune

8th Dec'08: Merry Christmas. The first ever Indian Christmas stamp release. Got this same setenant stamp as part of my Christmas Thematic collection too.

14th Dec'08: IISC, Bangalore Centenary

Do feel free to add your thoughts, comments or suggestions

NOTE: Please click on the images for a larger view / closer look.

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

India 2004-2007

Saturday, February 12, 2011

India - Setenants Only

First, let me start with what setenant stamps are. Se-tenant stamps are printed from the same plate and sheet and adjoin one another, unsevered in a strip or block. They differ from each other by design, color, denomination or overprint. They may have a continuous design. The word "se-tenant" translates from French as meaning "joined or held together".

India to date has released a whole number of setenant stamps starting from the first below, the 1974 Mathura museum stamp commemorating the Centenary of the Mathura museum. I am posting pictures of all the setenant stamps of India released to date that I have collected so far. Some from all those issued till date I do not have (I will post them here as and when I get them). The pictures here are posted in order of the date of release.

Please note that in this post the last setenant stamp is the "1999 Unity in Diversity" setenant. 2000 onwards till date will be up on my next post of India - Setenants Only

9 October 1974

Mathura Museum