Philately Abound

A delightful hobby, a satiation for aesthetics, an opportunity to learn about culture, science and technology and meticulous attention to detail. Amalgamate these and you get Philately! It is a hobby engaging one with the sapience of some of the major turning points in history. You go through a tentative journey exploring stamps with historical artifacts, You never know when the sherlock holmes in you could unfold a historic mystery through stamps.Its a whole new engaging world out there with stamps.You can easily escape the cares of the world and entre into a world of keen observation, using your mind and then slowly having the power to understand the world that once was. If you are a philatelist, you can satiate your appetance for stamps. You just want more! The sense of action and progression is like resembling to art and you experience another sunlit world.There is good news for pilatelists. On a solitary pursuit, you could just find the rarest of stamp collections at the 23rd Asian International Stamp Exhibition.You will see stamps coming from across boundaries, preserved from large, clumsy and possibly greasy hands. At the commencement of the Exhibition, a stamp sheetlet will be issued to embark the occasion. Using the apparent dissection fallacy, yes, the Tangram as the design theme, the stampsheet will be novel and distinctive, with the adoption of special printing which has the ability to show the effect of an interactive game! By placing and slightly moving the enclosed screener, one can see surprising pattern and words on the stamp. The "Hong Kong Museums Collection" will be issued on 16th May  by the Hong Kong Post which would include a set of special stamps which would portray six prized artworks on Chinese Calligraphy and Paintings created in 1911 or earlier.Starting from May 14th – 17th, the theme is “Youth Philately”.I think it’s going to be an interesting event for stamp enthusiasts across the world.If you find yourself interested, well, welcome to a wonderful new hobby!