Full sheet of 16 from Canada

Here is an awesome sheet of 16 for the IPY 2009 from Canada.

The margins have the "Ice Crystal" logo as agreed to by all issuing nation for this special closing year issue. Interesting to note is the colour symbols use to print these stamps. If you look closely you will see that they are all like the logo.

Below, I give you 2 close-up scans of the UL corner and LR corner. Here also you can see more details in the margin.

Greenland's contribution

Just received today, Greenland's contribution to the International Polar Year 2009 "Ice Crystal" logo series.

Proposal for exchange

If you are interested in this topic, please do not hesitate to communicate with me. I would like to receive correspondance from all over the world on this subject.

I can offer Canada's issues for the IPY in return. Canada has issued one souvenir sheet and 2 single stamp to commemorate this event. The souvenir sheet can be seen in a previous post and the single stamps are the ones that you can see in the souvenir sheet.

There is also a FDC which I have yet to present to you.

Lithuania's contribution to the IPY

Lithuania has issued this very representative souvenir sheet for the International Polar Year 2009, closing year. Designed by G.Luzinienė and printed by Osterreichishe Staatsdrukerei GmbH printing-house in Vienna (Austria), the sheet was issued on March 27, 2009.

Very "apropos" is the depiction of the dangers caused by pollution and high gas emissions, as represented on the left by 3 smoke stacks.

If there were no the Earth’s atmosphere, which transmits sunlight like a greenhouse but keeps the Earth surface warm, the sunlight, reflected by the Earth’s surface, would instantly fade in the space. Gases accumulated in the atmosphere trap the heat given out by the Earth and cause the so-called greenhouse effect.

Power plants generating electricity and heat, vehicles, factories, and other activities of man increase the concentration of gasses around the Earth enhancing the greenhouse effect and leading to the increase in temperature and climate change.

The melting of polar ice caps, retreat of mountain glaciers, rising sea level, storms, floods, dry years, heat waves, and shortage of drinking water can be named as the consequences of climate change.

In order to stop climate change, it is necessary to reduce the emission of gases contributing to the greenhouse effect.

A visit to a philatelic show

Yesterday, I decided to go to a stamp show which was taking place in Ottawa, Canada. The main purpose of my visit was not to buy anything but more to go and get some ideas from the winning exhibits.

Well, I was certainly not disappointed by the exhibits apart from the big question marks they created in my mind.

Originally my intention was to have this first exhibit of mine as a one-frame exhibit. For those not familiar with exhibiting a one-frame exhibit consists of a maximum of 16 pages which would fit into a single frame.

My first realisation is that, for what I want to do, one frame will not be sufficient. With the extent of this theme, there is no way I could present my idea in such a restrictive way. so now I have to decide to what extent do I want to push my presentation and what elements should be included.

It is obvious that with an event taking place this year, postal history cannot be a factor. How then can this become interesting to people from different walks of life and age groups?

Including FDC's into the presentation can be done by anybody and everybody, no big deal, and yet something interesting could be done. I intend to acquire different FDC's and have them signed by either some political figures or people involved directly with the IPY. The big question now is, will I be able to get their cooperation in signing those covers?

TIME WILL TELL...!