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The materials on the subject including Mint or unused stamps will be sent regularly for the value of the deposited amount. An initial amount of Rs. 200/- can be deposited. The Mint Stamp has an ascending price over a period of time, since commemorative stamps are never reprinted, for instance the one rupee stamp of Rajiv Gandhi, was recently sold by a stamp dealer for Rs. 500/-. Collection of Mint Stamps is thus a good way of investment, no wealth tax is ever imposed on any Philatelist whose collection is even over a lakh.
Philately is the best way to teach oneself to be methodical, observant, alert, patient and perseverant, apart from getting an on-the-spot feeling of pleasure and relaxation. One can avoid boredom if he/she is a Philatelist. To improve the value education among the youth in the country, the Government of India through the department of Posts, has launched Philately as a Systematic and Scientific mode of imparting knowledge, and for the all round development of the young. Children are involved with the themes and designs of postage stamps, through painting/drawing and essay/letter writing competitions. The best entries are brought out as the theme stamps on the 14th of November each year as a part of celebrating Children’s Day.
In the State Philatelic exhibition of Andhra Pradesh in 2000, a young boy of 3 years 9 months, was declared the youngest stamp collector, and map reader in the world. He was awarded by the Chief Minister of Andhra for his amazing knowledge, which he gained at a very young age due to his interest in stamps.
India is the first country in the world to start the Airmail service in 1911, from Allahabad to Naini, and is again the first country in the world to issue the first ‘Airmail Stamps’ for mail to be carried by air.
To the renowned Physicist Hanse Bathe, also a Philatelist who won the Nobel Prize in 1967, Philately, has a special meaning in world peace. He wrote ‘stamp collecting is a orderly hobby, and my album is the only place I know at the moment where the nations of the world stick together peaceably”.
Philately is the best way to teach oneself to be methodical, observant, alert, patient and perseverant, apart from getting an on-the-spot feeling of pleasure and relaxation. One can avoid boredom if he/she is a Philatelist. To improve the value education among the youth in the country, the Government of India through the department of Posts, has launched Philately as a Systematic and Scientific mode of imparting knowledge, and for the all round development of the young. Children are involved with the themes and designs of postage stamps, through painting/drawing and essay/letter writing competitions. The best entries are brought out as the theme stamps on the 14th of November each year as a part of celebrating Children’s Day.
In the State Philatelic exhibition of Andhra Pradesh in 2000, a young boy of 3 years 9 months, was declared the youngest stamp collector, and map reader in the world. He was awarded by the Chief Minister of Andhra for his amazing knowledge, which he gained at a very young age due to his interest in stamps.
India is the first country in the world to start the Airmail service in 1911, from Allahabad to Naini, and is again the first country in the world to issue the first ‘Airmail Stamps’ for mail to be carried by air.
To the renowned Physicist Hanse Bathe, also a Philatelist who won the Nobel Prize in 1967, Philately, has a special meaning in world peace. He wrote ‘stamp collecting is a orderly hobby, and my album is the only place I know at the moment where the nations of the world stick together peaceably”.
