Issued by Nepal

Issued on Dec 14, 1956

Type : Stamp, Postal Used

Denomination : 12 Paisa

Colour : Ultra and orange

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Issued by Romania

Issued on 1956

Issued for : Some of the Great Personalities of the World

Picture : 20 b – Benjamin Franklin, 35 b – Sesshu (Toyo Oda), 40 b – G. B. Shaw, 50 b – Ivan Franco, 55 b – Pierre Curie, 1 l – Henrik Ibsen, 1.55 l – Fedor Dostoevski, 1.75 l – Heinrich Heine, 2.55 l – Mozart and 3.25 l – Rembrandt.

Colour : 20 b – Violet Blue, 35 b – Rose Lake, 40 b – Chocolate, 50 b – Brown Black, 55 b – Dark Olive, 1 l – Dark Blue Green, 1.55 l – Deep Purple, 1.75 l – Bright Blue, 2.55 l – Rose Violet and 3.25 l – Dark Blue.

Type : Stamps, Postal Used

Watermark : No

Denomination : 20, 35, 40, 50 & 55 Bani and 1, 1.55, 1.75, 2.55 & 3.25 Lei

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Issued by Romania

Issued on Oct 25, 1956

Issued for : The 16^th Olympic Games held at Melbourne, Australia on November 22 to December 8, 1956.

Picture : Different Motives from the 16^th Olympic Games 1956 :- 20 b – Olympic Rings and Torch, 55 b – Water Polo, 1 l – Gymnastics, 1.55 l – Canoeing and 1.75 l – High Jump.

Colour : 20 b – Vermilion, 55 b – Ultra, 1 l – Lilac Rose, 1.55 l – Light Blue Green and 1.75 l – Deep Purple.

Type : Stamps, Postal Used

Denomination : 20 & 55 Bani and 1, 1.55 & 1.75 Lei

Perforation : 13½ x 14

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Issued by Hungary

Issued on Sep 25, 1956

Issued for : The 16^th Olympic Games held at Melbourne, Australia on Nov 22 to Dec 8, 1956.

Picture : Different Events from the 16^th Olympic Games 1956 :- 20 f – Kayak Racer, 30 f – Horse Jumping Hurdle, 40 f – Fencing, 60 f – Women Hurdlers, 1 Ft – Soccer, 1.50 Ft – Weight Lifting, 2 Ft – Gymnastics and 3 Ft – Basketball.

Colour : Figures in Brown Olive. 20 f – Light Blue, 30 f – Light Olive Green, 40 f – Deep Orange, 60 f – Bluish Green, 1 Ft – Vermilion, 1.50 Ft – Blue Violet, 2 Ft – Emerald and 3 Ft – Rose Lilac.

Type : Stamps, Mint Condition

Watermark : Yes [Multiple Star]

Denomination : 20, 30, 40 & 60 Filler and 1, 1.50, 2 & 3 Forint

Perforation : 11

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Issued by Bulgaria

Issued on Aug 29, 1956

Issued for : The 16^th Olympic Games held at Melbourne, Australia on November 22 to December 8, 1956.

Picture : Different Events from the 16^th Olympic Games 1956 :- 4 s – Gymnastics, 12 s – Discus throw, 16 s – Pole Vaulting, 44 s – Soccer, 80 s – Basketball & 1 l – Boxing. [Latin lettering on 44s, 80s & 1l]

Colour : 4 s – Bright Ultra, 12 s – Brick Red, 16 s – Yellow Brown, 44 s – Dark Green, 80 s – Dark red Brown and 1 l – Deep Magenta.

Type : Stamps, Mint Condition

Denomination : 4, 12, 16, 44 & 80 Stotinki and 1 Lev

Perforation : 11 x 10½, 10½ x 11

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Issued by Russia

Issued on Aug 5, 1956

Issued for : The All-Union Spartacist Games held at Moscow on August 5 to August 16, 1956.

Picture : Different Events from the Games :- 10 k – Relay Race, 25 k – Volleyball, 25 k – Rowing, 25 k – Swimming, 40 k – Medal with heads of man and woman, 40 k – Tennis, 40 k – Soccer, 40 k – Fencing, 40 k – Bicycle race, 40 k – Stadium and flag, 40 k – Diving, 60 k – Boxing, 60 k – Gymnast and 1 r – Basketball.

Colour : 10 k – Carmine Rose, 25 k – Dark Orange Brown, 25 k – Bright Greenish Blue, 25 k – Green, Blue & Light Brown, 40 k – Orange, Pink, Bistre & Yellow, 40 k – Orange Brown, 40 k – Bright Yellow Green & Dark Brown, 40 k – Green, Bright Green & Dark Brown, 40 k – Blue Green, 40 k – Bright Yellow Green & Red, 40 k – Greenish Blue, 60 k – Violet, 60 k – Bright Violet and 1 r – Red Brown.

Type : Stamps, Postal Used

Denomination : 10, 25, 25, 25, 40, 40, 40, 40, 40, 40, 40, 60 & 60 Kopecks and 1 Ruble

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Issued by India

Issued on Jul 23, 1956

Type : Stamp, Postal Used

Colour : Chestnut

Denomination : 2 Anna

Name : Keshav Gangadhar Tilak

Born on Jul 23, 1856 at Chikhali, Ratnagiri district, Bombay State, British India [now in Maharashtra]

Died on Aug 1, 1920 at Mumbai, British India [now in Maharashtra]

About : 

• Bal Gangadhar Tilak was for over a quarter of a century the ideal of his followers, the idol of the masses and the dread of his opponents. Born one year before the Great Revolt of 1857, he was the most outstanding among the pioneers of India‘s freedom struggle, and one who did not rest or let the alien Government rest till it was won. Finishing his studies in 1879, he spurned the security of government employment and took instead to public service. He founded the Kesari and the Mahratta, outstanding examples of his virile journalism in the vernacular. As he made Marathi an apt vehicle of his sagacity and subtlety, so he imparted to polemics in Western India the bold sweep, exalted aspirations and unflinching and unalloyed directness, which were his own characteristics in public life. Trained in a hardy school and master of the art of controversy, Tilak soon became the focal point of national resistance. No wonder that he was marked down for the special attention of the British Government of the time. Surendranath Banerjee‘s description of him as ‘India’s Man of Sorrows‘ fitted him well.
  
• In 1897, he was tried for sedition and sentenced to eighteen months’ imprisonment. That orientalists and scholars of the eminence of Max Muller and Weber carried on a campaign for his release was but a proof of the esteem and admiration which Tilak had won among the scholars of the world by his researches into the Vedas and by his books : the Orion and the Arctic Home of the Vedas. Again in 1908 he was awarded six years transportation in far-off Mandalay. His intellectual alertness, born of a fine restlessness of the soul, gave him no idle leisure even in confinement and he produced in jail the magnificent Gita Rahasya which reached the excellence and high water-mark of scholarship in a difficult field. On his release, Tilak again threw himself, heart and soul, into the freedom struggle and organised the Home Rule Movement in collaboration with Dr. Annie Besant. It was at this time that he gave the nation his slogan : SWARAJ IS MY BIRTH-RIGHT AND I WILL HAVE IT.
  
• This great son of India strode the critical political scene of his day like a Colossus, inspiring great devotion among his countrymen and awe among his opponents. He served the country manfully to the day of his death, even to the point of virtual martyrdom.
  
• There can be no better measure of Tilak‘s claim to the grateful homage of his countrymen in a free India than what Mahatma Gandhi, the Father of the Nation, had to say of him soon after his death :
  “My strongest bulwark is gone…. A giant among men has fallen. The voice of the lion is hushed…. No man preached the gospel of Swaraj with the consistency and the insistence of Lokamanya…. In the battle for freedom he gave no quarter and asked for none…. He will go down to the generations yet unborn as a maker of modern India.”

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Issued by Indonesia

Issued on 1956

Picture : Different Animals from Indonesia. 5 s, 10 s, 15 s – Lesser Malay chevrotain (Kantjil), 20, 25 s – Otter (Ungsang), 35 s – Malayan pangolin (Trenggiling), 50 s – Banteng and 75 s – Asiatic two-horned rhinoceros (Badak).

Colour : 5 s – Deep Ultra, 10 s – Yellow Brown, 15 s – Rose Violet, 20 s – Dull Green, 25 s – Deep Claret, 35 s – Bright Violet Blue, 50 s – Brown and 75 s – Dark Brown.

Type : Stamps, Mint Condition

Watermark : No

Denomination : 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 35, 50 & 75 Sen

Perforation : 12½ x 13½

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Issued by India

Issued on May 24, 1956

Design :
2 anna – Artist’s representation of the asvattha tree (ficus religiosa) at Bodh Gaya, seated under which Gautama attained enlightenment. In Buddhist art, this tree symbolizes the supreme moment in Gautama’s life when he became the Buddha.

14 anna – The round figure on the left is a replica of the umbrella which once surmounted a colossal Bodhisattva statue at Sarnath, carved in the reign of the Kushan king Kanishka (first-second century A.D.). The umbrella is 10 ft. in diameter and is adorned with concentric decorative bands. The pierced projecting portion at the centre has the shape of a lotus. The ring beyond the lotus-petals contains a row of twelve mythical animals. The next band has eleven symbols besides one broken, viz., the three jewels, a pair of fish, a fleur-de-lis, a vase with foliage, a conch, a swastika, a vase with fruits (or sweets), a cup of leaves and three honeysuckles. The outermost band is made of lotus-petals bordering the umbrella. On the right is shown a representation of the Bodhi tree.

Type : Stamps, Postal Used

Denomination : 2 & 14 anna

Colour :
2 anna – Sepia and
14 anna – Vermilion

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Issued by United States of America

Issued on Apr 28, 1956

Issued for : This Special Collector stamp sheet honoring the Fifth International Philatelic Exhibition (FIPEX) was issued April 28, 1956 in New York, New York. The date marked the opening of the exhibition, which ran through May 6 in the New York Coliseum. Featured on the sheet are enlarged versions of the 3¢ and 8¢ Statue of Liberty stamps.

Type : Souvenir Sheet, Mint condition

Denomination : 3 & 8 cents

Colour : Multi Colour

About : 

• The Statue of Liberty has become known as the foremost symbol of American freedom and democracy. A gift to the American people from the people of France, the monument celebrates the friendship between the two nations. It was formally presented to an ambassador to the United States in Paris on July 4, 1884.
• Officially named “Liberty Enlightening the World”, the statue towers 305 feet above Liberty Island at the entrance to New York Harbor. It is constructed of copper sheets and depicts a woman dressed in loose robes raising the torch of liberty in her right hand. Her left hand holds a tablet on which the date July 4, 1776 is inscribed.
• French historian Edouard de Laboulaye, a great admirer of American political institutions, proposed the building of the statue. It was designed by Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, who also selected the site on which it stands. Construction costs of about $250,000 were funded by the French people, and Americans contributed a similar amount for the building of the pedestal.
• After the official unveiling in 1884, the Statue of Liberty was disassembled, packed into 214 cases, and shipped to the United States. Reconstruction at its permanent home took more than a year. The last rivet was driven on October 28, 1886, the day the monument was formally dedicated by President Grover Cleveland.
• In 1903, Emma Lazarus’ poem, “The New Colossus”, was inscribed on a tablet in the pedestal. Lights were added at the base in 1924, and a massive reconstruction project was completed in 1986 in time for the Statue of Liberty’s 100^th birthday celebration.
• The original stamps comprising the brilliantly colored stamp sheet were issued as part of the Liberty Series. The 3¢ Statue of Liberty stamp was issued June 24, 1954 in Albany, New York and the 8¢ stamp was issued April 9, 1954 in Washington, D.C. Taken together with the background, these stamps make this one of the most dramatic Special Collector stamp sheets produced.

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