MPS Philatelic Show at Yangon GPO

In conjunction with the celebration of 100th anniversary of Yangon GPO building, MPS organized the philatelic show at Yangon GPO on 23 Sept 2018.  MPS members participated and exhibited.  Myanmar Post authorized the commemorative cancellation for the event.  MPS produced the event cover, used 100th anniversary GPO stamp and cancelled with the event cancellation.

The certificate of appreciation was awarded to MPS and its exhibitors by Myanmar Post.

71st Anniversary of Independence Day

Myanmar Post issued a set of three stamps for 71st anniversary of Independence Day.  As usual, three award winning entries from photo competition organized by the Ministry of Information are used as basic stamp designs.  Three designs includes Htamane making festival of the month Tabodwe, Myanmar traditional high-jump game and the nuns at the heritage monastery.

Technical Details of Stamps

Date of Issue : 4 January 2019

Printer : Security Printing Works (Myanmar)

Printing Process : Offset

Stamp Size and Format : 42 mm x 30 mm (Horizontal)

Color : 4

Perforation : 14

Denomination : K100 three designs

Sheet Composition :  50 Stamps per Sheet
Quantity : 300,000 pcs each design
Stamp Designers : Htay Lwin (Amarapura) [Htamane making festival of the month Tabodwe], Kyi Myo Thet [Myanmar traditional high-jump game], Zaw Zaw Wai (Sinbyugyun) [The nuns at the heritage monastery]

Maxicards

The nuns at the heritage monastery

Myanmar traditional high-jump game

Htamane making festival of the month Tabodwe

 Grab your copies of maxicards here at my eBay store.

First Day Cover

Official FDC by Myanmar Post

FDC produced by Myanmar Philatelic Society (800 Covers) [MPS-FDC-024]

U Mya Thaung FDC

Another unrecorded IRC

Fantails 30, 54 and 57 recorded several types of International Reply Coupons for Burma that have been seen lately for sale. Recently, yet another LONDON type has emerged; this in in the older format but for the higher amount of 62 pyas. It is stated to have been issued in March 1964.

The IRC shown above will be added to the recorded IRC as listed here.

110th Anniversary of Yangon GPO Building

Myanmar Post issued single stamp to mark the 110th anniversary of Yangon GPO building.  The building was originally built by Scottish brothers James and George Bulloch in 1908. 

Myanmar Post invited interesting parties to submit the design concept for this commemoration through MPS.  Some members showed their interests and created an artworks.  Unfortunately, Myanmar Post just used simple portrait of Yangon GPO Building, due to late submissions.  Among the artworks, the concepts created by Wai Zin Paing are outstanding.  It featured the element of Yangon GPO building such as portico,  balusters and windows.   

Myanmar Post officials also satisfied with his design works.  So, they decided to use them in other ways.  Wai Zin's designs are used in first day cancellation, official first day cover, and four official postcards.  Wai Zin also helped Myanmar Post to design official stamp presentation folder, which was sold at 500K without the stamp.  Being the member of MPS, Wai Zin contributed to MPS first day cover.  As single designer contributed in many items, their designs shared the common features.      

Two controversial issues here is the stamp sheet preparation and missing country name.  The stamp do not show the country name in Burmese and English.  It just shows "100th anniversary of Yangon GPO building" in Burmese and "AD 1908-2018" in English.  Another issue is sheet preparation.  The Burmese wording touch the frame in some stamps, and some not.  It is obvious that it is not an registration shift of black, but the design inconsistency throughout the sheet.  Close observation tells that wording placement is same for the stamps in the same column.  It is concluded the wording for the whole column of 10 is copied and paste into five.

Myanmar Alin Newspaper (13 Sep 2018)

Technical Details of Stamps

Date of Issue : 20 September 2018

Printer : Security Printing Works (Myanmar)

Printing Process : Offset

Stamp Size and Format : 42 mm x 30 mm (Horizontal)

Color : 4

Perforation : 14

Denomination :K200

Sheet Composition :  50 Stamps per Sheet
Quantity : 1,000,000 pcs
Stamp Designers : Myanmar Post

Cancellation Designer : Wai Zin Paing (MPS)

Stamps Myanmar FDC

Official FDC by Myanmar Post

FDC by Myanmar Philatelic Society

Stamp Folder (Front)

Stamp Folder (Inside)

Privately produced maxicard by Wai Zin Paing

Official Postcard 1 - GPO Building

Official Postcard 2 - Balusters of Yangon GPO

Official Postcard 3 - Windows of Yangon GPO

Official Postcard 4 - Portico of Yangon GPO

Air letter carried by first flight LH657

The air letter displayed below was carried by the Lufthansa first flight LH657 in 1974.  DC10 jet airliner made its first flight starting at Tokyo, then Anchorage – Hamburg – finally to Frankfurt.  A few copies of Burma air letter sheets were carried onboard and pictorial cachet was applied.  All copies in my hand were philatelic and cancelled at Yangon GPO on 18 Mar 1974.

 

Mandalay GPO New Counter Opening

On 2nd July 2018, Mandalay GPO has its official opening of new counters.  Myanmar officials attended the ceremony and officially launch the new counters into operation.  Myanmar Post sell the event postcard to public and provide commemorative date stamp for the event.  Collectors in Mandalay and Myanmar Post officials has an opportunity to grab them.

Front side of the postcard showing the new counters of Mandalay GPO

Rare side of the postcard, with 200K definitive attached, cancelled with commemorative date stamp

Four-nation Stamp Exhibition, 2018

Four-nation stamp exhibition aka Baliphex (2018) was held at I AM Bali 3D Interactive Museum, Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia from 7 to 8 August.  I have exhibited my five frames exhibit titled as "The Development of Letter Sheets of Burma (Later Myanmar) 1946 - 2001" under the postal stationary class.  And this exhibit hit 78 points and won the Vermeil medal and this exhibit is now qualified to be exhibited in international exhibitions.

This is the first time entry for this exhibit.  It show the various development of the letter sheets of Burma through the years from the first issue up to the year 2001.  The study of paper types, shades and colors, the different varieties, types of watermarks, their usages and new designs with postal rates.  It shows all the known air letter types of Burma through the total of 153 sheets.