Tiny Treasures : The Science  and History Behind the World of Stamps - Dr M R Ramesh Kumar

Tiny Treasures

The Science and History Behind the World of Stamps

By: Dr M R Ramesh Kumar

Paperback | 2 January 2025

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Stamp Collecting 

The stamps are an excellent educational tool, as they tell a story of the country, its culture, history and heritage in a vivid fashion. This book provides a brief introduction to stamps and further provides a wide variety of themes and topics such as Environment, India's Rich Culture and heritage, Sports & Games, Scientists & Scientific Institutions in India, Magic of the Indian Cinema. It starts with briefly introducing the topic of Philately by introducing various philatelic terms, and some of the famous philatelists. It also provides hundreds of images of stamps both in black and color too. It also provides vital information such as Countries names as they appear in the stamps, also a helpful glossary of terminology. Further a set Philatelic Quiz questions also appear towards the end as an Appendix. 

 

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