The recent stamps to be issued on winter sports are from Switzerland and Czech Republic . The first one shown above will be issued by Switzerland on 5 March 2009 . The other shown below was issued by Czech Repb. on 11 February 2009.
Nordic World Ski Championship - LIBEREC 2009
From February 18 till March 1, 2009 Liberec is the host city of the Nordic world ski championships. The sport events will be ski jumping, cross country skiing and nordic combined. These three events are further classified in several disciplines. The postage stamp features a ski jumper. The place of origin of ski jumping is Norway. The first four-day course in ski jumping in the Czech lands, headed by the Norwegian Steffens, took place in 1896 in Dolní Štěpanice near Jilemnice. In the 1923-33 Czechoslovakia ski jumping was already a very popular sport. With the continuing development in jumping technique the jump length have grown. At the beginning the jumper used to hold his body almost erect until it reached an almost level position with the skis held side by side. Today the so-called V-style is used. World championships organizers use normal hills where the longest jumps can reach up to 110 m and large hills where the longest jumps can reach up to 130 m. The ski jumping events of the World Championships Liberec 2009 will take place mainly in the evening time.
Club News
MOBILE PHILATELY
Mobile Philately is now on its way to take this SMS service on all India level after its official release function held at Festival of Stamps at Ahmedabad. On the second day evening of this festival a function was organized by Gujarat Philatelists Association (GPA) in which the Logo, Posters were released and Website was launched. Mr.Mainak Kathiara, President of GPA introduced the concept of Mobile Philately to all the stamp enthusiasts present at the function.
http://mobilephilately.webs.com/apps/photos/photo.jsp?photoID=25152381&prev=1
Mr. Anand Shankar Mittal, Jaipur who was honored by Life Time Achievement Award for serving the Indian philately by being a stamp dealer and auctioneer for 60 years released the logo of Mobile Philately.
http://mobilephilately.webs.com/apps/photos/photo.jsp?photoID=24533770
Mr.Madhukar Jhingan, New Delhi who was honored by Life Time Achievement Award for serving the Indian philately by maintaining a website and publishing a digital weekly magazine since 2000 released the poster type I of Mobile Philately.
http://mobilephilately.webs.com/apps/photos/photo.jsp?photoID=24533771
Mr.P.G.Bhargave, Nashik who is working on a book of Early Indian Cancellations released the poster type II of Mobile Philately. Soon this posters will be sent to all the philatelic bureaus and philatelic societies in India
http://mobilephilately.webs.com/apps/photos/photo.jsp?photoID=24533772
Mr.Prakash Jambudi of Gujarat Philatelist Association Launched the web site of Mobile Philately.
http://mobilephilately.webs.com/apps/photos/photo.jsp?photoID=24533769
The promoter of Mobile Philately Mr. Deepak Modi explained the concept of this mobile messaging system and put forth the development plan that will be carried out to take this unique service to each and every stamp collector in India.
http://mobilephilately.webs.com/apps/photos/photo.jsp?photoID=24533773
Mr.Vijay Navlakha was hosting the function.
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