India – Stamp news

FindYourStampsValue.com keeps our readers updated and hurries to shares the latest auction news with all philately enthusiasts. This piece of info concerns a set of 1948 stamps picturing Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi that has been sold for a record price of half a million pounds (US$650,000). The “unique” strip of four ten-rupee stamps is considered the most important and desirable item of post-Ind ...

Lovers of espresso and stamps, rejoice. FindYourStampsValue.com hurries to let our readers know that India Post has launched new espresso scented stamps. Videos and pictures tweeted by the Coffee Board of India on Twitter present Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. Earlier in the day, she stressed on the need for branding Indian Coffee and said the Coffee Board now has to be on its toes in this ...

A long-awaited stamp issue has been finally released by Indian Post! These are ten commemorative stamps dedicated to the most outstanding Indian singers who are Talat Mahmood, Manna Dey, Mohammed Rafi, Kishore Kumar, Mukesh, Hemant Kumar, Bhupen Hazarika, Geeta Dutt, T. M. Soundarajrajan and Shamshad Begum. Let’s appreciate these bright items together! Talat Mahmood (February 1924 – 9 May 1998) is ...

FindYourStampsValue.com is glad to introduce to collectors' attention the latest auction news from the world of philately: 1854 Indian 4 annas invert error stampis expected to reach US$174,500 at Robert A Siegel in New York. The stamp displays an inverted head and is one of only 28 such specimens recorded. All are used and vary in how the margins have been cut. The 1854 issue was India's first na ...

The 2016 Summer Olympics officially known as the Games of the XXXI Olympiad, and commonly known as Rio 2016, is a major international multi-sport event in the tradition of the Olympic Games as governed by the International Olympic Committee, being held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. To commemorate this great sporting event India Post joins other Postal Services and issues four special stamps depicting ...

Yoga Indian stamps are very popular in the world of philately. That is the reason why India Post has issued a second stamp issue picturing Yoga. These are Surya Namaskar Stamps that aim to commemorate 2nd International Day of Yoga, celebrated annually on June 21 since its inception in 2015. FindYourStampsValue.com encourages our readers to enrich their collections with this special edition of twel ...

Gender inequality is one of the most persistent human rights violations of our time. Despite many years of promoting gender equality, inequalities among women/girls and men/boys continue to manifest in egregious ways around the world. FindYourStampsValue.com is glad to inform our readers the United Nations Postal Administration and India Post are participating in a joint issue for International Wo ...

FindYourStampsValue.com is glad to inform our readers about the latest stamp auction news: a series of nine essays for the 1855 Indian issue will cross the block at an upcoming postage stamp sale at Spink. The lot will headline the India, 1855-1902 De La Rue Issues auction in London on February 24. The ink and pencil drawings, valued at £15,000-18,000 (US$21,800-26,200), were created in 1854 and s ...

FindYourStampsValue.com is glad to inform that India Post released commemorative stamp on Samrat Ashok at a function held at Vidyapati Bhavan in Patna on 24th August 2015. The issue was put into circulation and is available for purchasing. Ashoka Maurya, commonly known as Ashoka or Ashoka the Great, was an emperor of the Maurya Dynasty who ruled almost the entire Indian subcontinent from circa 269 ...

FindYourStampsValue.com hurries to inform our readers that on the eve of Nabakalebara Rath Yatra 2015 a commemorative stamp on Nabakalebara 2015 was released by The Indian Post. This event happened on 17th July, 2015. According to 'Nabakalebara Bidhanm' God himself has told – 'even though I am Purnabrahma, free from birth and re-birth, I am your God, I am not separate from you, it is a fact, as i ...