romantic picture

romantic picture
 There are quite large number of romantic picture for elegance of  art and artistic pleasure.One such picture is with me. I got this as a share from my father after him.

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King George VI .When he ruled Great Britain ,many countries under their colonization issued stamps of King George VI.. In India such stamps had been issued for various postage requirements.
I have many such stamps in my collection.  The first list of such stamps is shown below.

Bodhisattva stamp

  

A person who has attained  Enlightenment, but who postpones Nirvana in order to 

help others to attain Enlightenment: individual Bodhisattvas are the subjects of devotion in certain sects and are often represented in painting and sculpture.

   
1-anna stamp depicts the Bodhisattva statuem but the image is reverse left-right. A corrected version of the stamp was issued in 1950.

I have few such stamps in my collection. It is shown below:

Royal pictures

Royal pictures

I don’t know anything about the pictures that adorned the personal room of my father .They may be royal communities.  I got two such pictures in my share during dividing the belongings of my parent after them. If anybody interested to buy these pictures, they may contact me through this e-mail: meydhanam@gmail.com

Date of Issue:18/02/1973
Postage Stamp Dinomination:0.20 ps
Postal Stamp Name: Sri Ramkrishna Paramhamsa
A great spiritual luminary of India of the 19th century, Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa was born of poor but pious parents at Kamarpukur in Wext Bengal on the 18th February, 1936. From a very early age, he showed signs of a spiritual bent of mind. The first experience of 'Samadhi' came to him when he was about ten years old- it was inspired by the sight of a flight of cranes under a dark-blue cloud. He spent major part of his life in the temple of Kali at Dakshineshwar, a suburb of Calcutta. . Kali became a living companion to this young man who, to all appearance, was mad. In his 23rd year he was married to a young girl, Sarada, but their life remained free from physical pleasures. Sri Sarada Devi affectionately known as the Holy Mother, accepted him as her Guru and carried on the work as laid down by him. Having successfully practised the discipline of the various religious cults of India and proved the efficacy of different paths in realising God, his attention was turned to the faiths of Islam and Christianity.His efforts were rewarded with the realisation of the Divine.  Narendranath  who later became the world-famous Swami Vivekanand, was one of the most important disciples of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and after the Master's passing away on 16th August, 1886, he founded the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission. Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa symbolised the efflorescence of the Indian spiritual life. The unity in diversity still alive in India because of the spreading of social moral linked with faith on god by Ramkrishna Math.The P & T Department feels honoured to bring out a commemorative stamp of this prophet of New India.
Stamp Type:Commemorative
Stamp Overall Size;3.91x2.90 cms
Postal Stamp Print Size:3.56x2.5 cms
Indian Stamp's Color: Brown

Queen stamps

                

Estimated value: US$488,900

Canada's 12 Pence Black was issued in 1851 and features a portrait of the youthful Queen Victoria. It is one of the most famous stamps in the world.

Altogether, 51,000 copies of the 12 Pence Black were printed, but due to its high denomination, only 1,450 copies were sold. The remaining unsold 49,550 copies of the stamp were taken off the market and destroyed in 1857. It is believed that about 100-150 pieces of this stamp exist today, but this is mere speculation.

In 2011, a brand new copy of the 12 Pence Black was auctioned off for US$488,900 in New York, USA.

Estimated value: US$5 million

The UK's 1840 issued Penny Black is the first stamp in the world. It was designed by Rowland Hill, who proposed the reform of the British postal system. He was called the Father of the Postage Stamp.

Before the Penny Black was issued, post offices had to take payments for mail delivery in cash. People had to wait in line to deliver every piece of mail. Postage was charged by the number of letter papers and the amount of distance traveled. Following Rowland Hill's suggestion, a letter was wrapped in an extra piece of paper (envelope) and an adhesive stamp was attached to indicate the prepayment of postage. The stamp was the Penny Black.

The picture in the stamp shows Queen Victoria, based on a sketch of her by William Wyon when she visited London in 1837. The Penny Black Stamp was only used for one year because the red cancellation mark was hard to spot on its black background. As a result of this, nine months later, the stamp was reprinted as a red stamp so that the black cancellation marks were easier to see and harder to remove.

The Penny Black was scheduled to be issued on May 6. However, in some cities, a number of the copies were issued on May 2. Only two pieces of the early issue can be found now and these are regarded as real treasures. A few years ago, a rich businessman bought a copy from a US auction house at the price of US$5 million.

The rarity and error in prints of the old and rare stamps determine its price In the entire stamp world British queen stamps are quite large in mumber,since many countries issued such stamps when they were under their colonization.Very fast progress in civilization  and scientific approach for their defence and offence helped them to conquer many nations and organized colonization worldover. The concept of ‘the survival of the fittest’  was pointed out by them to all the people..

The queen stamps are so beauty to look at.Some of the queen  stamps that I have are shown below. 

More than 100 year old Raja Ravi Varma pictures
I have few such pictures that are shown below . Those who are interested to buy may contact me through this e-mail:meydhanam@gmail.com.
People are very fond of buying unworthy articles by paying heavy price and they often be proud to say the price they gave.When GD Naidu came forwarded to give some papaya seeds at free of cost.nobodies were willing to buy and try with it.If we are unable to justify the worth of the article before to buy ,we will fail every time of buying.