Dear Comrades,
The President, Pratibha Devisingh Patil, on Saturday, opened the India Post organized INDIPEX 2011,a World Philatelic Exhibition at Pragati Maidan here.
The week-long event will be from February 12 to February 18. The exhibition has been organized in collaboration with the Philatelic Congress of India under the auspices of the Federation Internationale de Philatelie and the Federation of Inter-Asian Philately.
India first held such an exhibition in 1954 and the last one in 1997. This is the sixth time that such an exhibition is being held in India. The aim of the exhibition is to promote philately and provide a forum for interaction between philatelic stakeholder's viz. collectors, dealers, stamp designers and printers and postal administrations.
The exhibition will showcase some of the best collection of stamps, stationary and philatelic literature from all over the world in different categories. There are 595 collectors from 70 countries who will be participating in the exhibition apart from 28 philatelic dealers and 31 postal administrations.
Among the rare stamps on display will be the most expensive Indian stamp, the "Inverted Head Four Annas" issued in 1854.The other attractions in the Court of Honour and in the Invitee class are as follows:
The Court of Honour
1. Dr. Mrs. Sita Bhateja, India - Indian Classics
2. Mr. Pradip Jain, India- Indian Air Mails (Development and Operations)
3. Mrs. Damyanti M. Pittie, India - Handstruck Postage Stamps of ritish India
4. Mr. Ajeet Raj Singhee, India - Indian Feudatory States ostal Stationery
5. Mr. David Feldman S. A, Switzerland - Gems of Philately
6. Dr. Hugo Goeggel, Colombia - Colombian Air Mail
7. Mr. Tay Peng Hian, Singapore - The 1864 First stamp of etherlands East Indies.
8. Mr. Surajit Gongvatana, Thailand - British Post Office in angkok.
9. Mr. Vojtech Jankovic, Slovak Republic - My Life As A Bicycle
10. Mr. Hasse Brockenhuus von Lowenhielm, Sweden - Jaipur State.
