Date of Issue – 23 April 2010
Hi ! Here is the latest issue from Latvia being released today to commemorate one of the world’s biggest fairs, EXPO 2010 going to be held in Shanghai from May 1. It’s a Rainbow color beautiful stamp showing the various colors of this show. In Club News read about the latest book by renowned autograph collector and philatelist of Ahmedabad, Mr Praful Thakkar. The book on FDCs and Folders of India will be released today in Mumbai.This is all for today…Till Next Post….Have a Great Time !
World Expo 2010
Expo 2010, will be held in the city of Shanghai, China from May 1 to October 31, 2010 and is a scheduled World Expo in the tradition of international fairs and expositions. The theme of the exposition will be "Better City – Better Life" and signifies Shanghai's new status in the 21st century as a major economic and cultural center. It is expected to generate the largest number of visitors in the history of the world's fairs. The expo Logo features the Chinese character 世 ('world', Chinese "shì") modified to represent three people together with the 2010 date. It is also the largest World's Fair ever in terms of area.
More than 190 countries and more than 50 international organizations have registered to participate in the Shanghai World Expo, the largest ever. China expects to receive almost 100 foreign leaders and millions of people from across the world to come and visit the World Expo. More than 70-100 million visitors are expected to visit the expo, the largest in history.
New Book on FDCs & Folders of India
A new book on First Day Covers & Folders of early period by noted philatelist and Autograph collector Mr Praful Thakkar is being released today (23rd April 2010) in Mumbai during the Hobby-Festival organized by Todywallas commemorating Shukla Day Show. The book will be a big source of information on Indian FDCs and Folders for all philatelists.
This early period of Indian Philately is highly fascinating and attracting because of variety of First Day Covers/Private FDCs with various sizes, color shades, cancellation marks, legends and creative designs which are appropriate to the theme of respective stamps.
It illustrates coloured photos of more than 400 FDCs (including about 250 Private FDCs), Folders, Presentation folders & Souvenir Albums along with FDCs of Indian Army Postal Service and Overprinted Military Postage stamps. It has coloured photos of 24 FDCs of Gandhi mourning issue of 1948. The book is of 116 coloured pages. The size is 11"x8.5".Price is Rs 450.
People can put order at Orders@stampsofindia.com
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