Friday, June 26, 2020

Queen all set to get Royal Mail audience


Royal Mail is all set to honour Queen - music band with a postage stamps. Thirteen stamps showcasing the contribution of the music band goes for public sale on July 9, 2020. Queen joins Beetles and Pink Floyd who had earlier been honoured with Postage Stamps.

Queen covers of 1974's "Queen II" and "Sheer Heart Attack," 1975's "A Night at the Opera," 1977's "News of the World," 1980's "The Game," 1981's "Greatest Hits," 1984's "The Works and 1991's Innuendo"features in eight stamps. Four of them would be from their unforgettable concerts and one of the first ever Queen Photoshoot.

Friday, June 19, 2020

Kerela Postal Circle come up with awareness cover against Covid 19



KK Shailaja, Health Minister of Kerala on June 16, 2020 unveiled the Special Cover on awareness against the spread of Covid-19. The special cover is printed with the campaign logo and its slogan – SMS, which stands for soap, mask and social distancing. The slogan highlights the need to wash hands using soap or sanitizer, wear masks and maintain social distancing. Another slogan in the cover states, "Let us continue this care."

LIST OF CANCELLATION FROM ODISHA POSTAL CIRCLE



Thursday, June 11, 2020

Inverted Jenny going for auction this July


According to the news published in mlive.com, Ronald D. Bassey, Michigan tax attorney and the proud owner of rare “Inverted Jenny” error stamp which he bought in 1977 for $36,000 is going for an auction to be conducted by Siegel Auction Galleries, a New York City-based firm, on July 1. The stamp is worth more than $200,000.

The Inverted Jenny is a 24 cent United States postage stamp first issued on May 10, 1918, in which the image of the Curtiss JN-4 airplane in the center of the design is printed upside-down; it is probably the most famous error in American philately. Only one pane of 100 of the invert stamps was ever found, making this error one of the most prized in all philately.