Issued by Nepal

Issued on Dec 31, 1964

Type : Stamp, Postal Used

Denomination : 10 Paisa

Colour : Red & Cobalt blue

Size : 39 mm x 25 mm

Sheet : 100 Stamps

Printing process : Litho Offset

Message from His Majesty the King for the 18^th World Olympics in Japan : 

• I am glad that Nepal is participating in the XVIII olympiad to be held in Tokyo this year. I am particularly so because our first participation is going to coincide with the first ever olympics in Asia. On this first venture of our country, I wish that our team members will keep the sacred Olympic ideals in mind and make the games a grand success.

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Issued by Nepal

Issued on Dec 28, 1964

Type : Stamps, Postal Used

Denomination : 10 and 15 Paisa

Colour :
10 p – dark green
15 p – brown

Name : Birendra Bir Bikram Shah

Born on Dec 28, 1945 at Narayanhity Royal Palace, Kathmandu, Nepal

Died on Jun 1, 2001 at Narayanhity Royal Palace,Kathmandu, Nepal

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Issued by Pakistan

Issued on Dec 21, 1964

Issued for : The University is celebrating the First Convocation on the 21^st December, 1964 and the Pakistan Post Office is issuing this Stamp to commemorate the occasion.

Design : The stamp shows the front view of the Engineering University and its insignia. The words “W.P. Engineering University Lahore” appear on top white the words “First Convocation December 1964” at the bottom. The denomination 15-Paisa and the words “Pakistan” in Urdu, Bengali and English and “postage” appear towards the right hand side.

Type : Stamp, Postal Used

Denomination : 15 Paisa

Colour : Brick Red

Size of Stamp : 41 mm x 26 mm

Size of Print : 37 mm x 22.5 mm

Perforation Gauge : 14 x 12½ (c)

Quantity Printed : 15,00,000

Number of Stamps in each sheet : 50

Process of Printing : Recess

Printers : The Pakistan Security Printing Corporation Ltd., Karachi

About : 

• The West Pakistan University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore came into being as a realisation of the recommendation of the Commission on National Education to establish a Technical University in each Wing of the country. In West Pakistan, because of the initial facilities it offered, the Government College of Engineering and Technology, Lahore which was started in March, 1923 was upgraded to serve as a starting point for the proposed University. The College had been affiliated with the University of the Punjab and was awarding B.Sc. degrees in Electrical, Mechanical, Civil and Mining Engineering.
• The West Pakistan University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore on its establishment assumed the functions of holding examinations and awarding degrees. It has also introduced a number of new courses. Bachelor courses in Chemical Engineering and Architecture were started from the session 1962-63 and in Town Planning from the session 1963-64. The enrolment of students is also being increased gradually. By the end of Third Plan period the total students population is estimated to be 2,500 as against 447 in 1960.
• To meet the requirements of the new industries expected to come up during the Third Plan period post-graduate courses leading to M.Sc. degrees in Public Health Engineering, Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, Structural Engineering, Hydraulics and Irrigation Engineering, Highway Engineering, Geodetic Surveying, Automobile Engineering, Mechanics of Machines, Production Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Petroleum Engineering (Refining), Glass and Ceramics Engineering and Town Planning will be started. Courses leading to Ph.D. degrees will be started after 1970 when M.Sc. Courses would have been fully established.
• The proposed expansion of courses and increase in students enrolment have necessitated long term development. According to the proposals now under active considerations of the Government the estimated total cost of the project would work out to nearly Rs. 550 lacs to be spent during the Second and Third Plan periods on acquisition of more land adjacent to the existing Campus, construction of new buildings and purchase of equipment for infrastructure and research laboratories. The construction work has already been taken in hand. Residences for 48 teachers are nearing completion and construction of 2 hostels for 500 students is being taken up. This will be followed by construction of new Academic Blocks, Laboratories, Hostels, Student Teacher Centre and Residences for teaching and administrative staff besides Hospital, Market etc.
• The University has sent up-to-date 26 teachers for higher studies and teaching in U.K., Canada and the United States. At the time of establishment of the University in 1961 there was three Ph.D.s on the staff and now the number has increased to ten. It is proposed to send 87 more teachers for getting higher education leading to M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees during the Third Five Year Plan period.
• With the compliments of the Director-General, Pakistan Post Office, Karachi.

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Issued by Japan

Issued on Dec 15, 1964

Issued for : The mascot known as the “straw snake”, formerly sold in the precinct of Asakusa Shrine, Tokyo, has been chosen to provide the design of the five-yen New Year Stamp for 1965, popularly the year of snake.

Design : Mugiwara–hebi, native toy of Tokyo

Designer : Katsutoshi Hioki

Printing Colors : Dull blue, red, deep green and greyish black

Type : Stamp, Postal Used

Denomination : 5 Yen

Size of Impression : 22.5 x 27 mm.

Sheet Composition : 20 (4 x 5) stamps per sheet

Paper : White without watermark

Quantity Issued : 25,000,000 stamps

Printing Process : Photogravure

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Issued by India

Issued on Dec 14, 1964

Issued for : The Posts and Telegraphs Department was privileged to issue a special stamp to commemorate the convening of the International Geological Congress in India on the 14^th December, 1964.

Design : The motif adopted in the stamp portrays the Earth – the study of which is the domain of the geologist, whose basic field tool is the geological hammer, shown symbolically as the axis of the globe.

Type : Stamp, Mint Condition

Colour : Blue Green

Denomination : 0.15

Overall size : 3.3 x 2.9 cms

Printing size : 2.99 x 2.52 cms

Perforation : 13½ x 14

Watermark : All over multiple ‘Lion Capital of Asoka’

Number Printed : 1.5 million

Set : 42 stamps per issue sheet

Printing Process : Photogravure

Designed and printed at : India Security Press

About : 

• The 22^nd International Geological Congress met for the first time in Asia at New Delhi, between the 14^th and 22^nd December, 1964. Members from about 92 countries attended. It was the biggest International Scientific Congress ever held in Asia.
• The Congress was established in 1875 with the purpose of contributing to “the advancement of investigations relating to the study of the Earth, considered from theoretical and practical points of view“. The first session was held in 1878 in Paris; subsequent sessions have met every 3 or 4 years, in different cities of the world.
• In the New Delhi Congress, papers on recent advances in different aspects of geology will be discussed in sixteen sections. The meetings of various commissions and affiliated bodies of the Congress and the International Union of Geological Sciences (founded in 1960), will be held at the same time. The papers read at the meetings and the discussions arising therefrom, will be published subsequently.
• An important feature of the International Geological Congress, was the large number of excursions of geological interest, being organised all over the country, both before and after the session.

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Issued by Monaco

Issued on Dec 3, 1964

Issued for : 1964 Summer Olympic Games held at Tokyo, Japan.

Picture : Different Events at the Olympic Games : Weight Lifter, Judo, Pole vault, Archery

Colour : Multicoloured

Type : Stamps, Mint condition

Watermark : No

Denomination : 1, 2, 3 & 4 Centimes

Perforation : 13 x 13

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Issued by India

Issued on Dec 2, 1964

Issued for : The P & T Department was happy to issue the St. Thomas stamp on the occasion of the first visit of His Holiness Pope Paul VI to India to attend the 38^th International Eucharistic Congress, which was convened at Bombay.

Design : The stamp which is being issued in honour of St. Thomas is in the denomination of 15 Paise and carries a picture of his silver bust which is in the Ortona Cathedral in Italy.

Type : Stamp, Mint Condition

Colour : Red purple

Denomination : 0.15

Overall Size : 3.3 x 2.46 cms.

Printing Size : 2.99 x 2.1 cms.

Perforation : 13½ x 14

Watermark : Printed on unwatermarked paper

Number Printed : 3.5 million

Set : 54 stamps per issue sheet

Printing Process : Photogravure

Designed and printed at :India Security Press

Name : Thomas

Born on 1^st century AD at Galilee, Israel

Died on Dec 21, 72 AD at Mylapore, Tamil Nadu, India

About : 

• The Indian Posts and Telegraphs Department issued a special postage stamp in commemoration of Saint Thomas, one of the Twelve Apostles of Christ, on the 2^nd December 1964, which coincides with the arrival of His Holiness Pope Paul VI in India.
• A completely authentic historical account of life of St. Thomas Didymus, one of the Twelve Apostles of Christ, introduced Christianity into India. Experts generally agree that he took the northwestern route to India and arrived about 52 A.D. He then proceeded to the southern coast and preached the Christian faith among the people of South India. There are some ancient monuments in Southern India, which are connected with St. Thomas. Chief among these are the St. Thomas Mount where, it is said, he met his death and the San Thome Cathedral at Madras, which has been reacted on the spot where he was buried. 

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Issued by India

Issued on Nov 14, 1964

Issued for : The Indian Posts and Telegraphs Department has, since the year 1957, been bringing out special stamps to mark the observance of Children’s Day each year on the 14^th November. Various themes connected with the care and well-being of children have been depicted on them.

Type : Stamp, Postal Used

Colour : Grey

Denomination : 0.15

Overall size : 3.3 x 2.9 cms

Printing size : 2.99 x 2.52 cms

Perforation : 13½ x 14

Watermark : Printed on Un–watermarked paper

Number printed : 2 million

Set : 42 stamps per issue sheet

Printing process : Photogravure

Designed and printed at : India Security Press

About : 

• Children’s Day has acquired a special significance for us in this country as it falls on the 14^th of November, which also happens to be birth anniversary of our late Prime Minister.

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Issued by India

Issued on Nov 9, 1964

Issued for : The Posts and Telegraphs Department has pleasure in commemorating this occasion by bringing out a special postage stamp when the 6^th General Assembly of the ISO meets in New Delhi on the 9^th November 1964.

Type : Stamp, Mint Condition

Colour : Carmine Rose

Denomination : 0.15

Overall size : 3.91 x 2.90 cms.

Printing size : 3.63 x 2.62 cms.

Perforation : 13

Watermark : Printed on Un–watermarked paper

Number printed : 1.5 million

Set : 35 per issue sheet

Printing process : Photogravure

Designed & printed at : India Security Press

About : 

• ISO came in being in 1946 as the successor to the International Federation of the National Standardization Association (ISA). Its object is : 

  “to promote the development of standards in the world with a view to facilitating international exchange of goods and services and to developing mutual co-operation in the sphere of intellectual, scientific, technological and economic activity”.

• At present, 51 Standards Organizations from as many countries constitute the membership of the ISO. Its work is carried out through 108 Technical Committees and their Sub-committees and working groups.
• Considering the vital importance pf standardization in industrial developments and promotion of international trade, India has been actively participating in the work of ISO ever since its inception in 1946. Thus, the Indian Standards Institution (ISI) today takes part in 78 of the 108 technical committees of ISO and holds the secretariats of three of the ISO Technical Committees, namely, Lac, Mica and Pictorial Markings for Handling of Goods, and of 4 sub-committees and 6 working groups.
• The technical fields in which international standardization will be under consideration at the New Delhi meetings will include subjects of primary interest to India, such as agricultural food products like spices, condiments and stimulant foods, steel, rubber, vetiver oil, screw threads, bolts, nuts and, accessories, and sampling of iron and manganese ores.
• This is the first time that a meeting of the General Assembly of the ISO is being held in Asia. The previous meetings were held at Paris (1949), New York (1952), Stockholm (1955), Harrogate (1958) and Helsinki (1961).

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Issued by Pakistan

Issued on Oct 5, 1964

Design : The theme of the design is child education. A slate and a wooden slab is shown in the design and first six alphabets of Bengali appear on the slate, whereas on the wooden slab hand of a child is shown scribbling Urdu alphabets. The words ‘Universal Children Day October 5, 1964’, the denomination and the word ‘Pakistan’ in English, Urdu and Bengali also appear on the stamp.

Type : Stamp, Postal Used

Denomination : 15 Paisa

Colour : Vandyke Brown

Size of Stamp : 28.6 x 34 mm.

Size of Print : 26 x 31.5 mm.

Perforation Gauge : 13 x 13 (c)

Quantity Printed : 15,00,000

No. of stamps in each sheet : 50

Process of Printing : Intaglio

Printers : The Pakistan Security Printing Corporation Ltd., Karachi

About : 

• “Today’s children are to–morrow’s citizens”. Children are admittedly a delicate, sensitive but a virtually important section of national life demanding tremendous effort, loving thought and immense care. Conscious of its responsibilities towards children, Pakistan along with a number of other nations, observes the first Monday in October every year as the “Universal Children Day”. This year the day falls on the 5^th October, 1964.
• The purpose of celebrating Universal Children Day is to remind ourselves of our duties towards children, as parents, as teachers and as citizens. The programme also aims at inculcating in children a sense of responsibility towards others and of encouraging them to develop to the fullest, their inherent faculties.
• In Pakistan the Day is sponsored by the Pakistan Council for Child Welfare in co-operation with the Central and Provincial Governments, the social welfare agencies, educational and other civic agencies of the country. The Council is the watchdog for the child. It studies and points out the weaknesses in the social structure and is constantly drawing the attention of the Government, the public and the parents to the special need of children. This is being done through the celebration of the Universal Children Day, through conferences, through studies and recommendations, through publications and press and radio publicity. The council takes a keen interest in promoting talent in children. It also organises periodical exhibitions of their paintings and hand work.
• The council is also running two pilot services in Karachi. These services are provided through the “Ashiana” and the “Nasheman”. The East–Pakistan Council of Child Welfare has now set up the first rehabilitation centre for disabled children in Dacca. “Nasheman” is a home for girls who are in need of care and protection. Here the girls are given education and training in home-crafts according to their special needs and problems. In “Ashiana” residential care is given to foundling babies and also to babies whose parents are temporarily unable to adequate arrangements for them due to some emergency such as the sickness or death of the mother.
• It is most encouraging to see how happy and thriving are all the babies who have been placed in families.
• With the compliments of the Director-General, Pakistan Post Office, Karachi.

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