Philately News

All philately exhibitions brings special covers, booklets and other postal stationary with them. Any philately exhibition is incomplete without special issues. During Stampmania 2009 a souvenir, a carried cover and four special covers, one for each day, were issued.

A souvenir was released containing messages from President of India, Chief minister of Gujarat, Chief postmaster General of Gujarat as well as some great articles by various philatelists.

Vadodara also have two permanent pictorial cancellation – Chamar Dharani (H.O) and Maharaja Sayajirao (Fategunj).
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My visit to Stampmania 2009 was an amazing experience. I would like to share my experience and images of visit to exhibition. There were large no of participants exhibiting their collection on various themes like Gandhiji, Climate change, reptiles, sports, olympic, Taj Mahal, etc.
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The first day of Stampmania 2009 was amazing. A bullock tram and cultural dance in the heritage walk were worth watching. There was a grand opening of stampmania by Ms. Karuna Pillai, a chief postmaster general of Gujarat circle.

Here is a photo gallery of Day 1 event. hope you will like it. your comments are expected.
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Inauguration ceremony of STAMPMANIA 2009 was held at Shree Saurashtra Leuva Patel Samaj Building, at 5:30 pm. Everyone is assemble in the hall for the opening ceremony, the guests are here, the cover carried on Bullock tram has also arrived.

The dignitaries on the dias, from left Shri Timir Shah, Dr. Alok Pande, Shri A. k. Srivastava, Ms. Karuna Pillai, Shri Prashant Pandya, Shri A K A Joshi, Dr. Yogesh Chandrana.
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