Showing posts with label Olympics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Olympics. Show all posts

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Beijing Olympics 2008 (India)

Received the FDC from Arun from http://www.myphilately.com

Date of issue: 8 August 2008
Denominations: 500p, 500p, 1500p, 1500p
Stamps Printed: 0.8 Million each
Printing Process: Photogravure
Printer: Indian Security Press, Nasik
Designer: Kamleshwar Singh
Cancellation: Alka Sharma

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Envelope Cover from Belgium


Received a cover from Holger at http://www.myphilately.com/ from Belgium with two of the stamps of the current Beijing Olympics 2008.

Saturday, August 16, 2008

Beijing Olympics 2008

Olympic Games conference site hall
Stamp size (mm): 60mm x30mm
Perforation: 12x11.5
Printing process: Gravure

Olympic Games conference site hall
Sheet size (mm): 140mm x 85mm
Stamp size (mm): Length of side 40mm
Perforation: 13
Printing process: Gravure

The webpage below shows the postage stamps of New Zealand, Vietnam, USA, Indonesia, Korea, Peru, Vanuatu, Ghana and Malta in commemoration of the 29th Olympics in Beijing 2008. A couple of stamps in the web, I could not make out of them.

http://tech-fall.com/OlympicsBeijing/OlympicStamps.html