dalai lama on postage stamps

ELVIS PRESLEY

jassi jaisi koi nahin

BOB MARLY

Precious collections. keep it up. when were the Dalai Lama stamps released?

the one if from Guyana but the next set of four has a story. since Tibet does not issue separate stamp so those set was released in Dharamsala in 2002. i find Sikkim has no takers for stamp collection.

NARAYAN GOPAL

stamp exhibition was first held in sikkim in 1982

Where do you buy these, and what do yo udo with them afterwards?

Some Of Them I Exchange With Other Philatelist While Few I Buy For It. Its My Hobby I Enjoy It So Collect It And I Have Dream To Set Up A Small Museum At Singtam In Coming Years So I Will Have One Segments On Stamp Collections That Will Be An Encyclopedia For People Especially Children To Understand The Beauty Of Education Other Than What They Learn In Schools.

[[Why are you capitalising every word lol?]]

How many stamps have you collected all together? I think stamp collecting is a very popular hobby, do you guys have conventions and things?

i am sorry for capital words. actually in philately quantity of stamps does not matter, it is the fact that how you display it in the exhibition it matters. i am in this hobby since 2002. i have so far participated and represented Sikkim in few exhibitions in places like Jalpaiguri, Berhampore and Kolkata. I have stood first in senior category at 2005 Palbheu philately exhibition at TNA School, Gangtok. i am still learning in this field. right now i am working on the postal history of Sikkim. it is strange that there is no postal history of Sikkim recorded. it was in this state a rocketmail experiment was held where postal items were send through small rockets during 1935 in the places of Gangtok, Samrumsa, Ray, Singtam and Rangpo. but no one knows about it. i wrote a article on Sikkim Rocketmail in Weekend Review newspaper published in Gangtok and since then it has been my interest to get it further.

Mt Everest

Sikkim Rocket mail experiment turns 70 goes unnoticed

It was a red letter day on April 7, 1935 at Gangtok, the then capital of the small Himalayan kingdom of Sikkim when the first Sikkim Rocketmail experiment, an unique experiment in mail delivery was flown. Today on April 7, 2005, the pioneer experiment that took the postal world with storm celebrates the completion of 70 years but somehow got unnoticed. In fact Sikkim was one of the first countries in the world during the rein of the Chogyal to perform this ambitious achievement. The parcels along with letters and other items were send from the rockets to the confined destinations.
Sikkim is also the first country in the world to successfully dispatch by means of a rocket, a parcel containing small quantities of such useful articles as medicine, tobacco, tea, sugar, etc. Those people who helped Sikkim Rocket experiment succeed included Chogyal Tashi Namgyal, CE Dudley, General Secretary to the Chogyal, Tashi Dadul Densapa, Private Secretary, Rai Sahib Faqir Chand Jali, the state engineer and F Williamson, British Political Officer. Stephen Hector Smith a pioneer in Indian Rocket mail history chooses Sikkim for his experiment because of its geographical features and mountains.
Prior to the first experiment at Gangtok four tests was done where of the four two was ragged and busted. The first official rocket mail was done from the Gangtok Post Office compound to the Durbar High School where 200 items was carried. It was at 10.30 am and 10.35 am. The envelopes were franked with the special two rupees rocket stamp in blue and yellow. The letters were then posted and have the postmark “Gangtok 7 th April 1935.” Two launches were made with over 50 yards that was successful.
Second firing was done at Chogyal Tashi Namgyal Field towards Post Office in presence of the Chogyal and the His Highness signing his name in three of the six covers. The covers scripted “Tashi Namgyal Field 8/4/35.” Six covers and 410 cards were flown by the Maharajah with one pound of mail as the weight carried by the rocket.
An evening of April 8 witnessed an interesting firing being fired vertical. The rocket carried 388 gold cards and had raised 1000ft and the weight included 2lbs. This was the first vertical firing east of Europe. The Chogyal autographed two cards for the experimenter and granted him permission to have a block made of his signature to impress all rocket mail items dispatched by him.
Fourth firing saw 175 covers being dispatched by F Williamson from Dak Bungalow towards the Post Offices. The rocket failed to its target and struck to the rock and was smashed. World’s first parcel dispatch over the river was done on April 10 over River Rani khola that is written as Ranikhali on the covers at 3.30 pm. CE Dudley discharged the mail rocket.
The sixth firing on April 10 at 3.35 pm established a new world record when for the first time a parcel was carried by means of a rocket. The parcel included 12 items that had packet of tea, sugars, spoon, hanger chief, toothbrush, cigarettes, and others. Dudley fired the parcel rocket over the river Rani khola from Surumsa to Ray. On the parcel reaching destination the river was crossed and Smith opened the parcel. All the articles were perfectly intact. In the missives of word “mail” was cancelled by hand and the word “Parcel’ written instead.
Firing was again done over River Rani khola but from opposite bank i.e. from Ray to Suramsa. Tashi Dadul Densapa fired the 186-cover flight. Dudley handed over a certificate to Smith quoting that this experiment as a means of transport during floods or landslips. Another experiment was held on the same day at opposite White Memorial Hall, Gangtok. The test was to observe the strength of the rocket against the gale.
Smith fired eight firing over Singtam River in Singtam on April 13 with 118 covers flown. The distance covered by the rocket was 550 yards. The last and the ninth firing in Sikkim were made over Rungpo River in Rungpo. There were 100 covers flown.

good collection of stamps but some don't seem like original ones

there are basically two types of stamps commonly used, one of its kind is the types of stamp the indian postage use and other use CTO stamps. it varies from country to country so u feel its not real.

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