Hi ! Here is a beautiful stamp which will certainly make you sentimental as it has been issued by Royal Mail as a tribute to great soldiers who sacrificed their lives fighting in war. If you see it closely you will find image of a fallen soldier stares out from this new 1st Class Poppy stamp commemorating the 90th anniversary of the end of the First World War. The design of the stamp is really very good and thought provoking.In the second part a Miniature Sheet of Festival of India,sent by Mr. Suraj Jaitly from Ludhiana in which some colors are missing and these are clearly visible. A good variety for the collectors looking for new errors and varities on stamps. Tomorrow is Children's Day. Here is a News Clipping published in Dainik Bhaskar yesterday. In our regular series some nice FDCs of se-tenant stamps from the album of Mr. Shrikant Parikh. This is all for Today...Till Next Post ..... Have a wonderful time !...
Lest We Forget
The third and final Sheet in the 'Lest We Forget' series has recently been issued by Royal Mail.The 'Lest We Forget' series commemorates the 90th anniversary of the Armistice that ended the First World War and once again a single poppy features on the commemorative stamp flanked by country definitives; paying tribute the soldiers of England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. After four long years of savage fighting, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, the guns fell silent over the blasted battlefields and trenches of the Western Front, signalling the end of the bloodiest conflict the world had ever seen.Fighting had raged across the globe, from the mud and blood of the Western Front to deserts of the Middle East; from the Great Lakes of Africa and the icy seas of the Falkland Islands. More than eight million soldiers had died, bombs had been dropped on cities and thousands of tonnes of shipping had been sent to the bottom of the ocean.The haunting image of a fallen soldier stares out from a new 1st Class Poppy stamp commemorating the 90th anniversary of the end of the First World War.The stamps are available as a miniature sheet, and for the first time, a Se-tenant sheet which features the new poppy stamp, together with the 2006 and 2007 stamps, and stamp cards.
The third and final Sheet in the 'Lest We Forget' series has recently been issued by Royal Mail.The 'Lest We Forget' series commemorates the 90th anniversary of the Armistice that ended the First World War and once again a single poppy features on the commemorative stamp flanked by country definitives; paying tribute the soldiers of England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. After four long years of savage fighting, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, the guns fell silent over the blasted battlefields and trenches of the Western Front, signalling the end of the bloodiest conflict the world had ever seen.Fighting had raged across the globe, from the mud and blood of the Western Front to deserts of the Middle East; from the Great Lakes of Africa and the icy seas of the Falkland Islands. More than eight million soldiers had died, bombs had been dropped on cities and thousands of tonnes of shipping had been sent to the bottom of the ocean.The haunting image of a fallen soldier stares out from a new 1st Class Poppy stamp commemorating the 90th anniversary of the end of the First World War.The stamps are available as a miniature sheet, and for the first time, a Se-tenant sheet which features the new poppy stamp, together with the 2006 and 2007 stamps, and stamp cards.
Courtesy- Hellmail
A variety with many colors missing
Dainik Bhaskar - 12 November 2008
A Journey to Indian Stamps - FDCs of se-tenant stamps
From Collection of Shrikant Parikh
Greetings - 30 October 2003
India-France Joint Issue - 29 November 2003
India-Korea Joint Issue - 10 December 2003
