{"id":2022,"date":"2014-11-30T11:44:19","date_gmt":"2014-11-30T11:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/?p=2022"},"modified":"2014-12-12T12:40:10","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T12:40:10","slug":"k-32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/?p=2022","title":{"rendered":"Philately exhibition displaying world’s first, rare stamps draws crowd in Kochi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kochi \u00a0(ANI ):<\/strong><\/p>\n

Some unique and rare collections of stamps ranging from world’s first \u2018Penny Black’ to the oldest ones along with India’s heritage stamps were on display at a philately exhibition in Kerala.<\/p>\n

The two-day exhibition called \u2018Kochipex 2014′, which pulled sizeable crowd including school children to veteran philatelists, began on Thursday in Kochi.<\/p>\n

Stamps depicting Jesus Christ’s life (birth to resurrection) and painter-sculptor Leonardo da Vinci’s \u2018Vitrovian Man’ were also on display at the exhibition.<\/p>\n

The exhibition that started with a ceremonial function was a visual treat for the enthusiasts and stamp collectors. The exhibition also gave a chance to exhibit collection of coins and Indian rupee notes for the collectors.<\/p>\n

Stamps carrying photos of India’s former politicians and greats like Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and Mahatma Gandhi among others also attracted visitors.<\/p>\n

M Venkateswarlu, Post Master-General, central region of India Post said that such exhibitions should be organised regularly across the country to encourage the hobby of collecting stamps, especially among students.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.ibtimes.co.in\/tv\/philately-exhibition-displaying-worlds-first-rare-stamps-draws-crowd-in-kochi-27400<\/p>\n

source: http:\/\/www.ibtimes.co.in \/ International Business Times \/ Home> \u00a0IBT Video \/ ANI \/ Kochi – \u00a0November 28th, 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kochi \u00a0(ANI ): Some unique and rare collections of stamps ranging from world’s first \u2018Penny Black’ to the oldest ones along with India’s heritage stamps were on display at a philately exhibition in Kerala. The two-day exhibition called \u2018Kochipex 2014′, which pulled sizeable crowd including school children to veteran philatelists, began on Thursday in Kochi. … Continue reading Philately exhibition displaying world’s first, rare stamps draws crowd in Kochi<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artsculture-entertainment"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2022"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2101,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022\/revisions\/2101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}