Specialized Section. "Philatelic Elelments that could upgrade your exhibit..." Dr.Satyendra Kumar Agrawal. Postogram

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1 Specialized Section "Philatelic Elelments that could upgrade your exhibit..." Dr.Satyendra Kumar Agrawal Exhibit that reached the level of vermeil or gold award contains a broad range of philatelic elements (postal stationery, covers, cancellations, postmarks, meter stamps, booklets, etc.).one may add following less known elements also to upgrade his collection if available for their themes. 1. Postogram of Belgium When telegrams lost the popularity in Belgium, with the public, they got abolished in 1984 and as a replacement the Post Office designed an illustrated post card: named Postogram, distributed for the first time on 1 April Postogram The intention of the Postogram is that the user fills in the date when the Postogram had to be delivered to the addressee on the front lower left side of the envelope. It was priced 50 BEF. and no postage on the envelope. The illustration cannot be sent without the envelope.

2 Postogram cannot be sent without this envelope. Looking at its popularity, a new extra edition came out, the Youth Postogram introduced on 2 October 1989.Motifs chosen were from popular comic strips including Disney and between-page dozens of preprinted texts for Happy Birthdays, Valentine Day etc. may be found. Comic Strips including Disney can be found Happy Birthdays, Valentine Day etc.pre-printed massages

3 2. Astrogram of Belgium A type of Postogram devoted to Astrology signs: Aries, Gemini, Leo, Taurus, Cancer, Sagittarius, Virgo, Scorpio, Aquarius, Capricorn, and Pisces with 12 special between-pages for these signs called Astrogram. 3. Souvenir Leaf of Israel Astrogram with pre-printed Zodiac details The Israel Philatelic Service introduced a new Philatelic element Souvenir Leafs in 1988 which gained popularity from its beginning and few became rarer too, especially those issued by the Defense Ministry being almost impossible to acquire. Souvenir Leafs They are divided into two categories; those that are produced and sold directly by the Israel Philatelic Services, generally in quantities ranging up to 50,000, and those commissioned by official bodies, and institutions in limited quantities ranging up to 1000 with few exceptions.

4 4. New Year Lottery Postal Card of China Few even released in small quantity of 1000 only China Post started issuing beautiful Pre-stamped New Year Greeting postcard in 1981 for the Year of 1982 but not lottery cards. The First Postcard with lottery number issued in 1991and it was a set of 12 prepaid postal cards for the year 1992, The Year of Monkey. Imprinted 15 Fen stamps these cards were sold for 38 Fen with special cancellation in red colour, by hand, with city name. The Year of Monkey, Lottery Postal Card, 1992 It continued and for Year of Rooster (1993), postage was 15 Fen but sold for 50 Fen. Though the set of cards issued for the Yea of OX (1997) were imprinted with 15 Fen stamp but due to increase in domestic postage rate, each postcard were cancelled in blue by hands including information of sold price 1 Yuan and postage 40 Fen, instead 15 Fen.

5 15 Fen card sold for 50 Fen (Year of Rooster) and of (Year of Ox) sold for 1 Yuan Till 1999, these postcards were issued by China Post & Telecommunications (PTT), but for the Year of Dragon (2000), State of Postal Bureau issued this set of cards. Year of Dragon card One more change was reported in 2010-(Year of Tiger), this set of Lottery Greeting Cards was issued with CHINA POST logo. In all previous years issues indicum depicted Zodiac animals. From 2010 cards were printed with CHINA POST Logo instead of Zodiac sign The specialty of these cards is their thematic appeal. It is rare that you imagine a topic and do not find imprinted on such cards. In recent years, a lot of personalized cards or local editions are also available which is distinguishable by absent of Nos., printed price and bar code appearing on National editions. These Lottery cards give opportunity to win 5000 Yuan cash as 1 st prize if luck favours.

6 5. PAP Stationery Envelope of France In 1994, France introduced nationally, an entirely new type of postal stationery that complicates things tremendously both in terms of number of issues and lack of information about them. These are called "PAP = PRET-A-POSTER = Ready to Mail" (i.e. pre-stamped, post-paid) envelopes. PAP Stationery Envelope From 1996 they were also issued with locally-chosen added designs, and these can be bought only in the Post Office of the town of issue. It works much like meters: any town administration or tourist office can ask the Post Office to add their design to some prepaid covers, and can be purchased inside that post office in packets of 10 until they are sold out. Locally chosen added design PAP Usually these envelopes cost a few cents more than buying stamp + cover individually. Some are reprinted when they are sold out, and one can find different versions (same illustration but different stamp). French Post also announced that this PAP will replace the local pictorial postmarks.they are gaining popularity within Topical philatelist due to their variety in illustrated themes.

7 PAP may replace local pictorial postmarks 6. Meghdoot Card of India Meghdoot, meaning the cloud-messenger is the title of a Sanskrit play written by Kalidasa a few millenniums earlier and also the name of an award given annually to postal employees for their meritorious services by India Post. To make cheaper communication, India Post introduced a Post Card in the year 2002 priced 25 paisa that is half the cost of the regular post card, named Meghdoot Post Card. Meghdoot Card 2002 To cover the actual postage, writing space available on the address side of the regular post card is made available for advertising in Rs.2 per card with a minimum order for print of 100,000 cards. It is printed by Security Printing Press at Hyderabad but its area of distribution is determined by the advertiser, as its design and copy. In addition to the post offices in the area of its distribution the Meghdoot card is also made available in limited quantity of 2000 cards at select 8 philatelic bureaus within India. From 2003 its printing is decentralized enabling India Post s 23 postal circles to directly place their order on the press. Meghdoot Card 2003

8 7. Publibel of Belgium These are Postal Cards with single or multicoloured advertisement (products or touristic), printed on the left hand side of the front. The advertisement is printed by the Belgium Agency of Post advertisement: "Publibel", exclusive concessionaire, on the cardboard sheets delivered by the Stamp workroom of Mechelen. Later the stamp and the head were printed in the workroom. At first the profit from the publicity was for the unemployed employees and later for the Social Service of the Postal Service. There are more than 3000 different publibels in existence which all have a specific advertisement. 8. Echo Card of Japan Advertising Publibel Also known as "Eko hagaki" is similar to Publibel of Belgium and Meghdoot cards of India. All three are Postal cards with imprinted advertisements. The only difference is that Publibel is sold at normal rate of potage and income from advertisements is used for social services whereas,for Mehdoot and Echo cards it is used to sell them at subsidized rate. 9. Moving Card of Belgium Echo Card They are also known as Change of address cards, more recently Muta postal cards, introduced for the first time in When house number or street name changes taken place due to administrative alteration,

9 they can be obtained at the Post Office, free of charge otherwise can be purchased on the printing tariff to inform such changes by other means. These cards are pre-printed on the back and one can fill in his name, the old address and the new address to inform his correspondent. 10. Postal Savings Card of Japan Change of Address Card In Japan, Postal savings cards with their small fixed maximum amount and lots of pictures/slogans and the like were intended to encourage general public even to poorer to save. When the client wanted to cash the cards value, he did this at the counter of a local Post Office where the card was cancelled by circular date stamps and the amount duly paid. It all started in 1900 and with imprinted postage stamp in It was temporarily suspended after the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1st September The dependencies outside the Japanese mainland (Taiwan, Korea etc.) continued the usage of postal savings cards with stamps affixed though until at least the 1930s. In 1941, the mentioned card 10s red normal postage stamps was issued in Japan, but the service again terminated by 7 September1943. The imprint was admitted as postage stamp on ordinary mails if cut out. Postal Savings Card The topical interest boarders of this card prove its importance in thematic collections.

10 Postal Savings Card depicting Roses Dr Satyendra Kumar Agarwal may be contacted at rosephila@hotmail.com New Issues from other countries New stamps on London Olympis 2012 Australia : 17 July 2012