Date of Issue - 18 January 2010
Hi ! Children's Books is the common theme of this year's EUROPA stamps . Here are some nice stamps issued recently. These lovely stamps taking me back to my childhoodays when reading books used to be my favourite pastime besides collecting stamps...but now we hardly get time to read the books as lot of time is spent on Computer.....Well this year's Europa theme is my favorite theme and would love to collect all the issues of 2010 Europa theme.. & Would like to send nice Indian stamps to collectors in exchange of EUROPA 2010 Stamps..This is all for Today....Till Next Post.....Have a Great Time !
On 9 February 2010, Jersey Post issued its Europa 2010 stamp issue – Children's Books – and interprets PostEurop's theme by featuring a set of stamps depicting characters from some well-known children's books and tales written by Hugh Lofting, Rudyard Kipling, Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear.
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INDIA 1852 - 1946 on EXPONET: 32 frames (4 x 4 pages)!!
AUKTIONSHAUS CHRISTOPH GÄRTNER GmbH & Co. KG, GERMANY
A lifetime collection of British India and India Used Abroad assembled over a span of 50+ years by a very discerning specialist who has a great \eye for the unusual & extraordinary items.
A very neaty written up on album pages housed in 12 albums. Starting with 1852 white and blue Scinde Dawks, 1854 Lion & Palm essays, Queen Victoria Gothic heads, 1854 essays of the 1/2a., 1a., 2a., 4a. & 8a. (incl. Die proofs), the unissued 9 1/2 arches, detailed studies of the ithographed stamps of 1854 showing the different Dies, stones, flaws & retouches, shades, multiples (f.e. blocks of 16 with inscribed sheet margins), 1854 4a. including 15 cut-square copies (2 from 3rd printing), pairs, strip of three and a pair (2nd printing) together with pair of 1/2a. on cover. Also
a very special study of more than 200 reprints between 1855 and 1894 (f.e. 4a. in pair with inverted head). QUEEN VICTORIA 1855-1900: special study of all the different stamps with many important items, like 4a. bisected on cover used 1859 in Singapore (Cert. BPA) or the unissued 1856 2a. yellow-green in pair used postally with ''B-1'' octogon cancel, a lot of proofs as Die proofs of 1r. 1874, plate proofs, essays or colour trials of the 1894 Rupee values and SPECIMEN also, add. some major varieties as double prints and more. KEVII. issues to 25r. with 'CANCELLED' ovpt, essays of the 1925 provisional surcharges on the Rupee values, or three different booklets from 1906-07. KGV. and KGVI. with multiples (incl. corner marginal block of 10 of 4a with ''STAR'' sheet wmk, several booklets (1911-1926), multiples ovpt 'CANCELLED', special study of the 'NINE PIES' ovpt (incl. scarce essays, the 'NINE NINE' and 'PIES PIES' errors or double ovpt), rare proof of the 1925 1r. Delhi SPECIMEN, varieties like misperforations or double (kiss) prints, and the red booklet KGVI. containing the 1937 issue to 1 Rupee. The next part of this unbelievable collection contains the OFFICIALS, from the 1866 no wmk stamps with varieties like different 'no stops', a wonderful 1884 'Government reprint' of a COMPLETE 1966 2a. Foreign Bill ovptd ''SERVICE'' (Cert. BPA), multiples, SPECIMEN, imperfd marginal pair of 1a. chocolate (1922), strips optd ''CANCELLED'', and surcharge varieties as double, inverted or on back. Further parts containing extended studies C.E.F. and I.E.F. with scarce varieties and covers, Telegraph stamps (with the complete 1a. and 2a. of 1881), Field post and P.O.W. mail, Airmail with the lovely 1911 Allahabad cancel in red, f.e., Rocket mail, and some
special items like pigeon messages, war fund labels, Chalo Delhi stamps or a Azad Hind study. Last but not least a main part India Used Abroad in four albums, from ADEN (f.e. with ''124'' numeral on cut-square copy of 1854 4a., a phantastic telegram or rare cancels like 'PAQUEBOT ADEN',PERIM and negative seal of Bogus type) to ZANZIBAR, also with SINGAPORE, DUBAI, BAHRAIN, BAGDAD, TIBET and most of the other known cancelations. A wonderful and extraordinary lifetime collection with rarities and unique items - so it will be doubtless impossible to assemble a similar collection today.
A lifetime collection of British India and India Used Abroad assembled over a span of 50+ years by a very discerning specialist who has a great \eye for the unusual & extraordinary items.
A very neaty written up on album pages housed in 12 albums. Starting with 1852 white and blue Scinde Dawks, 1854 Lion & Palm essays, Queen Victoria Gothic heads, 1854 essays of the 1/2a., 1a., 2a., 4a. & 8a. (incl. Die proofs), the unissued 9 1/2 arches, detailed studies of the ithographed stamps of 1854 showing the different Dies, stones, flaws & retouches, shades, multiples (f.e. blocks of 16 with inscribed sheet margins), 1854 4a. including 15 cut-square copies (2 from 3rd printing), pairs, strip of three and a pair (2nd printing) together with pair of 1/2a. on cover. Also
a very special study of more than 200 reprints between 1855 and 1894 (f.e. 4a. in pair with inverted head). QUEEN VICTORIA 1855-1900: special study of all the different stamps with many important items, like 4a. bisected on cover used 1859 in Singapore (Cert. BPA) or the unissued 1856 2a. yellow-green in pair used postally with ''B-1'' octogon cancel, a lot of proofs as Die proofs of 1r. 1874, plate proofs, essays or colour trials of the 1894 Rupee values and SPECIMEN also, add. some major varieties as double prints and more. KEVII. issues to 25r. with 'CANCELLED' ovpt, essays of the 1925 provisional surcharges on the Rupee values, or three different booklets from 1906-07. KGV. and KGVI. with multiples (incl. corner marginal block of 10 of 4a with ''STAR'' sheet wmk, several booklets (1911-1926), multiples ovpt 'CANCELLED', special study of the 'NINE PIES' ovpt (incl. scarce essays, the 'NINE NINE' and 'PIES PIES' errors or double ovpt), rare proof of the 1925 1r. Delhi SPECIMEN, varieties like misperforations or double (kiss) prints, and the red booklet KGVI. containing the 1937 issue to 1 Rupee. The next part of this unbelievable collection contains the OFFICIALS, from the 1866 no wmk stamps with varieties like different 'no stops', a wonderful 1884 'Government reprint' of a COMPLETE 1966 2a. Foreign Bill ovptd ''SERVICE'' (Cert. BPA), multiples, SPECIMEN, imperfd marginal pair of 1a. chocolate (1922), strips optd ''CANCELLED'', and surcharge varieties as double, inverted or on back. Further parts containing extended studies C.E.F. and I.E.F. with scarce varieties and covers, Telegraph stamps (with the complete 1a. and 2a. of 1881), Field post and P.O.W. mail, Airmail with the lovely 1911 Allahabad cancel in red, f.e., Rocket mail, and some
special items like pigeon messages, war fund labels, Chalo Delhi stamps or a Azad Hind study. Last but not least a main part India Used Abroad in four albums, from ADEN (f.e. with ''124'' numeral on cut-square copy of 1854 4a., a phantastic telegram or rare cancels like 'PAQUEBOT ADEN',PERIM and negative seal of Bogus type) to ZANZIBAR, also with SINGAPORE, DUBAI, BAHRAIN, BAGDAD, TIBET and most of the other known cancelations. A wonderful and extraordinary lifetime collection with rarities and unique items - so it will be doubtless impossible to assemble a similar collection today.
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