Life of Mahatma Gandhi through Philately: Gandhi Stamp Catalogue

This Digital First Edition of Gandhi Stamp Catalogue was created with intensive effort over many years and is meant to serve both as a world-wide stamp catalogue and as a memoir to learn more about the life of Mahatma Gandhi, the Visionary from Porbandar so we can apply his teachings in our daily lives.

The brief summary of contents are as follows:

-> Beautifully illustrated with images of all 1168 stamps on Mahatma Gandhi from all over the world

-> Covers all 146 issuers belonging to 139 territories representing present day 133 countries

-> It gives both country-wise and year-wise summary of Gandhi stamp listings

-> Classification of genuine and illegal stamps

-> Contains images of stamps, souvenir sheets, FDCs, postcards etc.

-> Meant for use as a comprehensive collector’s guide for Gandhi stamps

-> Links to websites of postal authorities / agents, where you can buy genuine stamps at face value

-> All key events in the Life of Mahatma Gandhi summarized along with a brief memoir on Visionary from Porbandar

How to use Catabooks Gandhi Stamp Catalogue?

The Catalogue lists stamps by country of issue with a brief country profile along with a brief history of stamps and a note on postal authority. The next level of structure is by date (month or year if date is not available) of issue.

The following information is made available for each stamp:

1. CGC Number - This Catabooks Gandhi stamp Catalogue (CGC) has a unique CGC number to easily identify legal stamps issued on Mahatma Gandhi using 2 letters country code as per ISO 3166-2, 3 digits stand-alone year-wise serial number for Gandhi stamps and the four digits for the year after ‘G,' a character to denote Mahatma Gandhi.

2. Image of the stamp / miniature sheet and first day cover, folder, etc. to the extent possible

3. Basic information about the stamp

4. Denomination in local currency

5. Quantity of stamps issued, if available

6. Date of Issue (wherever date is not available, the month or year is given)

7. Nature of Issue like definitive (regular issuance for postal use) or commemorative (special issuance mostly for collectors), or if meant only for air post, if available

8. Shape of Issue with dimensions, if available

9. Serrations: Perforations made to the sheet, which are printed to have a specific number of stamps, to ease their splitting also referred to as perforated (meaning stamp with cutting rows and columns of small holes). It is called imperforate where this is no separation, especially the earlier stamps.

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