Philatelic news from London Olympics 2012…

 

Gold Medal heroes on stamps

 

Australia

Tom Slingsby becomes first individual medalist to feature on 2012 Australian Gold Medallist stamp

After winning Australia's first individual gold medal of the London 2012 Olympic Games, sailing superstar and five time world champion, Tom Slingsby, will become Australia's first individual gold medalist to feature on a 2012 Australian Gold Medalist Stamp.

Stamps featuring an image of Slingsby from the gold medal dais in London will be available in participating Australia Post retail outlets from Thursday, 9 August while stocks last.

Australia Post is producing stamps for every Australian gold medalist from the London 2012 Olympic Games, and they are expected to be available in metropolitan Australia Post outlets within 48 hours of each gold medal presentation.

 

 

Women's 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay Team features on first 2012 Australian Gold Medallist Stamp

After their gold medal-winning performance in the Women's 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay on Saturday 28 July, Alicia Coutts, Cate Campbell, Brittany Elmslie and Melanie Schlanger will be the first Australian athletes to feature on the Australian Gold Medallist Stamps for the London 2012 Olympic Games.

Some best designed  Stamps on London Olympics 2012

 

Most beautiful stamp issued for LONDON 2012 !!

Slovakia

During these Olympic Games, 10,500 athletes from 204 countries are struggling for 302 collections of medals in 26 Olympic sports.

The first Paralympic Games for physically handicapped sportsmen, mostly British soldiers - disabled people from WWII, were held on 29th July1948. It took place on the same day as the Opening Ceremony of the XIV Olympic Games. The Paralympic Games are coming back to its cradle with a wide-ranging schedule for more than 4,000 contestants from 166 countries who are participating in 21 disciplines.

Besides the traditional Olympic disciplines (light athletics, swimming, weightlifting, fencing, equestrian disciplines, cycling, rowing, yachting) or games (football, volleyball, basketball, rugby, tennis, table tennis),an extremely popular game of boccia or goalball has also been introduced.. It was devised after WWII as a ball game for visually impaired soldiers. It is played in silence and players try to throw a ball that has bells embedded in it into the opponent's goal. The players do not see the ball; they only hear it. But after the goal, the applause is a legitimate doping!

Costa Rica

Portugal

Date of Issue : 19 June 2012

 

From our Readers…..

Stamps on ‘WORLD HERITAGE’

- Pradip Kumar Malik

HIGH COAST (SWEDEN)

The High Coast is located on the west shore of the Gulf of Bothnia, a northern extension of the Baltic Sea. The area covers 142,500 ha including a marine component of 80,000 ha, which includes a number of offshore islands. UNESCO designated High Coast as World Heritage property in 2000 for being an outstanding example representing major stages of Earth’s history.

Sweden 2005

Se-tenant set of four stamps, with views of the High Coast. In the lower selvedge, stamps are inscribed in Swedish "Världsarvet Höga Kusten" (World Heritage High Coast). The stamps are from a booklet pane of eight stamps, and are perforated on three sides.

The irregular topography of the region - a series of lakes, inlets and flat hills rising to 350 m - has been largely shaped by the combined processes of glaciations, glacial retreat and the emergence of new land from the sea. Since the last retreat of the ice from the High Coast 9,600 years ago, the uplift has been in the order of 285 m which is the highest known 'rebound'.

The High Coast site affords outstanding opportunities for the understanding of the important processes that formed the glaciated and land uplift areas of the Earth's surface. The site is one of the places in the world that is experiencing isostatic uplift as a result of deglaciation. Isostatic rebound is well-illustrated and the distinctiveness of the site is the extent of the total isostatic uplift which, at 294m, exceeds others.

Mr Pradeep Kumar Malik may be contacted at email : mallikphila@gmail.com

Stamps on London Olympics…

 

Poland

Romania

HI! In this post view some most beautiful stamps issued for London Olympics !! For more stamps on Olympics view Ganesh’s Blog :  My Olympic Philately and Jagannath Mani’s Blog :  http://olympicgamesphilately.blogspot.in/  .

 

Ukraine

Bulgaria

Serbia

 

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UNESCO – World Heritage  Sites

(Part – 5)

Check List for the Stamps issued worldwide in 2011 related to the theme of ‘UNESCO - World Heritage

 : Pradeep Kumar Malik

Belarus – Iran Joint issue: A souvenir sheet with two stamps of ‘Priority Letter’ rate was issued as Belarus – Iran joint issue. Mir Castle, a world Heritage monument, is depicted on one of the stamp of this souvenir sheet.

Cape Floral Region (South Africa): South Africa issued a sheetlet with ten different self-adhesive stamps of ‘B5 size Cover’ rate on the flora and fauna of ‘Cape Floral Region’, a World Natural Heritage site.

Grand Place at Brussels (Belgium): Belgium released a Souvenir Sheet with five stamps of ‘1st Level Standard letter (up to 50 grams)’ rate with picture of the buildings at Grand Place at Brussels, a World Heritage site.

 

Romania – Germany Joint issue: The fortified Church of Biertan, World Heritage monument was depicted over the stamp issued as Romania – Germany Joint issue.

Old City of Luxembourg: As SEPAC (Small European Postal Administrations Corporation) 2011 stamp, Luxembourg issued a stamp showing the landscape of the ‘Old City of Luxembourg’, a World Heritage Site.

Mr Pradeep Kumar Malik may be contacted at email : mallikphila@gmail.com

To be contd….

Red British mailboxes painted gold for Olympians….

 

A post box is painted gold in Penzance, England, Thursday, Aug. 2, 2012. The Royal Mail celebrated the Olympic gold medal of British rower Helen Glover by painting an iconic red post box gold in her home town of Penzance. (AP Photo/The Royal Mail Press Office, Phil Monckton)

LONDON (AP) — Britain is turning red into gold

Some of the country's iconic red mailboxes were painted gold Thursday, to celebrate gold medals won by British Olympians.

In this photo  a post box is painted gold in Penzance, England, Thursday, Aug. 2, 2012. The Royal Mail celebrated the Olympic gold medal of British rower Helen Glover by painting an iconic red post box gold in her home town of Penzance. (AP Photo/The Royal Mail Press Office, Phil Monckton)

Champion cyclist Bradley Wiggins and rowers Helen Glover and Heather Stanning were honored with a gold mailbox in each of their hometowns, Royal Mail said.

It's the first time the mail service has changed the color of its mailboxes in more than a century. The boxes have been red since 1874.

The Royal Mail plans to paint another mail box gold every time a British Olympic or Paralympic athlete wins a gold medal during the London games. The pillar boxes will remain in use, and will stay gold for some time. The mail service did not specify when they will be repainted red.

It is also selling special gold medal stamps to celebrate all of the nation's champions. Stamps commemorating Wiggins, Glover and Stanning went on sale Thursday.

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Sp Cover on Olympic Games from Bangalore

Due to non available of new stamps till date we only used old stamps for 200 covers and still waiting for new stamps and for your kind information all ready 400 covers have been booked the cover cost @ Rs 30/-  each and the postage charge up to two covers 25/- and 3 to 9 covers Rs 50/- and more than ten covers postage free of charge.

we have created a page to book the special cover, link for the same is

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http://www.numispoint.com/olymphilexindia-2012/form/3-book-olymphilexindia-2012-special-cover.html

Bank details is as below 
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Royal Mail honours First GB Gold Olympic winners…

 

 

Britain has won Olympic gold in the men's team sprint cycling as Chris Hoy, Philip Hindes, Jason Kenny blew away the London 2012 velodrome in their race against France. And Peter Robert Russell Wilson has won a Gold Medal for Team GB in the Men's Double Trap Shooting and Tim Baillie and Etienne Stott follow this up with Gold in Men's Canoe Double. Royal Mail will issue next day stamps to commemorate these wins.  

Gold medal stamps honour Team GB 2012 Olympics winners

 

 

 Etienne Stott and Tim Baillie took the gold in the men's canoe slalom at the Lee Valley Water Centre

Stamps featuring Great Britain's gold medal winners from day six of the Olympic Games have gone into print. The Royal Mail stamps honour Etienne Stott and Tim Baillie's victory in the men's canoe slalom and Peter Wilson's double trap shooting triumph.

Another features cyclist Philip Hindes, Jason Kenny and Sir Chris Hoy, who took the men's team sprint cycling gold.

Royal Mail has pledged to issue a stamp for each Team GB gold during the Games.

 

Gold post boxes

Royal Mail will also paint a postbox gold in each of those towns in celebration.

These will be in Westhill Drive, Aberdeenshire, for Tim Baillie; St Paul's Square, Bedford, for Etienne Stott; Cheap Street, Sherborne in Dorset, for Peter Wilson; Princes Street/Hanover Street, Edinburgh, for Sir Chris Hoy; Lloyd Street/Albert Square in Manchester for Philip Hindes and Churchgate in Bolton for Jason Kenny.

On stand-by to collect the completed printed sheets of stamps is a fleet of 90 Royal Mail vehicles poised to deliver to the outlets across the UK. A further 4,700 post offices will receive the gold medal stamps within a week.

Philip Hindes, Jason Kenny and Sir Chris Hoy smashed their own world record to beat France

Britain claimed two golds and a silver within the space of five minutes in the men's canoe slalom and the men's double trap shooting on Thursday. Canoeists Baillie and Stott triumphed in mid-afternoon at the Lee Valley Water Centre, giving Britain their first ever Olympic gold in the canoe slalom.

Moments later, shooter Wilson won at the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich - taking the host nation's gold tally to five.Britain's men's cycling team sprint trio smashed their own world record to beat France to the gold medal at the Olympic Velodrome.

The team clocked 42.600 seconds, beating the mark they set in the previous round and taking Sir Chris to the fifth Olympic gold of his career.

 

Shooter Peter Wilson won gold in the double trap

On Thursday, Team GB's first gold medal winners of the London 2012 Olympics were honoured with the special stamps which were rushed out by lunchtime.

Helen Glover and Heather Stanning rowed to a stunning win in the women's pairs on Wednesday, becoming the first British women ever to win rowing gold. Gold medal winning cyclist Bradley Wiggins was also honoured with his own stamp after finishing first in the men's time trial road race. The stamps cost the normal first class price of 60p.

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Hi !

I have just posted August Issue of Rainbow Stamp News on Blog.  This is a very Special Olympic Issue with articles related to Olympics. It can be viewed at following link :

http://rainbowstampnews.blogspot.in/

 

 

Olympic Festival at Lucknow for kids

We are pleased to inform you that we are organizing an Olympic Festival in our school from 27 – 7 – 2012 to 11 – 8 – 2012.

The purpose of this festival is to educate our students, teachers and all the concerned people. We are the only school in India to organize such festival to celebrate world’s best and biggest sporting event. Following events will take place during the festival:

1. Inauguration of festival 27 – 7 – 2012

2. Exhibition of – 5-8-12 to 11-8-12

a) Olympic Games in Art and Craft

b) Collectables – Philatelic, Numismatic and Memoribillia

c) History of Olympic Games

d) Medals won at Olympics by our CEO

3. Tricycle Race: Pre – school, Nursery & K.G. Classes 1-8-12

4. Face Painting: Pre – school, Nursery & K.G. Classes 3-8-12

5. Poster making: Pre – school, Nursery & K.G. Classes and Primary section 27-7-12 to 11-8-12

6. Athletics: Pre – school, Nursery & K.G. Classes 7-8-12

Primary section 28-7-12

7. Olympic Film Show: 27-7-12, 3-8-12,11-8-12

	Venue: BIS KIDS WORLD C-1/469, Jankipuram, Sector – G, LUCKNOW Time : 9 AM                     Phone :9335200728 : Organizers – BIS KIDS World School

Heroes of London Olympics on stamp…

 

Each Australian gold medalist at the London Games gets to be on an Australia Post stamp and receives A$20,000 ($20,900) for their image rights. They also get an upgrade when the team flies home."I think this was the thing I was most excited about it," the 20-year-old Campbell told a news conference in a fit of giggles on Sunday."It was the first thing that went through my head when we touched the wall, I'm going to be on a stamp and I get to fly back business class.

Alicia Coutts, Cate Campbell, Brittany Elmslie and Melanie Schlanger are the first Australian athletes to feature on the Australian Gold Medallist stamps for the London 2012 Olympic Games, after their gold-medal-winning performance in the women's 4 x 100m freestyle relay on Saturday 28 July.

The name of all four winners are given on the sheetlet !!

In an inspired performance Coutts (53.90), Campbell (53.19), Elmslie (53.41) and Schlanger (52.65) set an Olympic record time of 3:33.15. They beat the 2008 gold medallists, the Netherlands, and the USA to earn them Australia's summer Olympic gold medal number 136.

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London Olympics 2012 begin today…..

 

The Games of the XXX Olympiad will be held in London from July 27 to August 12, 2012. The English city will be the first to host the modern Olympic Games three times (1908, 1948 and 2012). After the Games the Olympic Park will be constructed and will become the largest urban park created in Europe for over 150 years.

Opening Ceremony London 2012: World ready for Olympics opening extravaganza

London: The stage is set and the athletes are primed as the seven-year countdown to the London 2012 Olympics reaches its finale with Friday's much-anticipated opening ceremony.

The three-hour spectacle, expected to be watched by a global television audience of up to one billion, will mark the beginning of 17 days of athletic endeavour which will create heroes, shatter dreams and fire national pride.

Malta

Today Malta Post  issued a set of two stamps commemorating the 2012 London Olympic Games. The stamps, valued at ˆ0.37 and ˆ2.11, depict the 2012 Olympic Games logo and Wenlock, one of the Games' mascots.

The logo is a representation of the number 2012, with the Olympic Rings embedded within the zero. It was designed to have a flexible colour palate so as to enable corporate sponsors to integrate their own colours, but the standard hues are green, magenta, orange and blue.

 

Vietnam

The 30th Summer Olympics is bringing together nearly 10,500 athletes from over 200 countries, involving in 302 contents of 26 games, with the goal of building a peaceful and better world, through education for young people in sport irrespective of caste, rich and poor in the spirit of friendship and solidarity.

Vietnam sports delegation will participate in 10 sports competition in Olympic Games, such as weight lifting, gymnastics, fencing, taekwondo, swimming, athletics, badminton, shooting, etc.

Hungary

Slovenia

These special multi-colour Olympic stamps by Slovenia show motifs of swimming, judo, sailing and basketball. The new Olympic stamps, with a nominal value of EUR 0.77 and 0.92, are as always printed in sheetlets of six stamps each. The left and right margins depict the Olympic rings, the logo of London 2012 and stamps of the Olympic Committee of Slovenia.

Special Cover on LONDON 2012 released today at Bangalore

OlymphilexINDIA – 2012, Bangalore -  27 July 2012

: Jagannath Mani - Bangalore

New special covers..

 

New Special Cover on London Olympics 2012

 

On the occasion of the Games of the XXXth Olympiad London 2012, “OLYMPHILEXINDIA 2012” Olympic and Sports Philately Exhibition will be held in Bangalore at the GPO Philately Museum from 27 July to 5 August, 2012. About 50 frames are being displayed by five Olympic Philatelists and a few sport philatelists.

Their will be release of a special cover with a special cancellation approved by the CPMG Karnataka Circle on 27th July, the inaugural day of the Exhibition and summer Olympics, the inauguration ceremony is at Megahdoot Auditorium, Bangalore GPO, all are invited to the “OLYMPHILEXINDIA 2012” and make the event the grand success

The function will be at 10.00 hrs on the Inaugural day and regular days the exhibition will open from 10.00 hrs to 16.hours (excluding Sundays and Public Holidays)

: Jagannath Mani - Bangalore

Special Cover on Biodiversity

Ministry of Environment & Forests  and Department of Science & Technology is running a train called Science Express Biodiversity special.   To commemorate the occasion, The South Odisha Philatelist's Association (SOPHIA), Berhampur, Ganjam, Odisha is going to release a special cover on Biodiversity today  28th July 2012. The cover will be release by Sh. S.P. Rajlingam, PMG, Bderhampur Region in the Science Express(Biodiversity) which will arrive at Berhampur today on 28 July 2012.

- K Venkat Rao – Berhampur ; Ajit Dash - Bhubaneshwar

Private Special cover

: Pradip Jain Patna