Michael wants more KGV, Michael gets more KGV!
:-)
The only trouble is I do not have much KGV, so here's just a little bit more on Georgian India, which yielded some very nice stamps. I've already shown you the high values from the definitive set, but the low values were very nice as well, depicting the King-Emperor in imperial robes, placed in different frames.
There was basically only the one set, but different printers makes it still worth while specializing a bit.Apart from the definitives, there weren't that many stamps issued back then. Bliss! But the period did see the first airmail stamps issued in the British Commonwealth.
They're not my favourites but hey, it's for Michael, and he'll be happy to see another plane on a stamp, this being the De Havilland Hercules if I'm not mistaken.I'm more enamoured with the 1931 set to mark the inauguration of the new capital New Delhi. A lovely set of six stamps with various images from New Delhi.
I just love the frame they're placed in; nice and old fashioned and busy and curly. very imperial!The final set in the Georgian reign was issued in 1935 to mark his silver jubilee.
Same idea as the 1931 set but this time with images from all over India, and with yet another sumptuous frame, although I'm not quite sure about the palm trees...:-)
Adrian
Today I'm showing you what I think is one of the most beautiful stamp designs of his reign: The rupee values of India.
There are in total six values, from 1 rupee to 25 rupees, but I have only four of them in some form or other. The top value, the 25 rupee with orange centre and blue frame, still deludes me.
The stamps were not only used for postage by ordinary folk, but also for official mail. Those stamps were overpinted SERVICE.
And of course, the design was also use in many Indian Convention States, such as Nabha.
I have only just joined the very active 
(image courtesy of Markand Dave)
The first one deals with Philips' LED lighting, patented in 2007. Now, to be honest, I thought LED had been around for a while, so what exactly has been patented here, I'm not sure, and a short search on the internet hasn't made things clearer for me, so I think I'll quickly move on to the next one.
The final stamp looks rather futuristic, but apparently the future is here. It is a solar car, which (no points for this) runs on solar energy, patented last year by the Solar Team Twente. I'm getting all sorts of cartoon images here, and I can't help feeling that these will one day fly above the motorway, rather than just on them.
First up is "Handwriting recognition", patented by TNT in 1980. This for me is one of the many wonders of the new age; the ability of computers to recognize handwritten input. It's completely beyond me, but that ain't saying that much.
Closer to my own little world of comprehension is the VacuVin, patented in 1987 by Bernd Schneider. Now here's a handy invention; a vacuum wine saver, a device to preserve opened botles of wine! Very surprised to see it being a Dutch invention though. One would image that it would have been a Frenchman who would have thought of something like this, but then again, they may be more apt to finish their bottles of wine in one go!
Staying in 1987, we have the final stamp for the eighties, dedicated to the milking robot, patented by Van der Lely, designed to relieve manual work for the farmer.
I cannot seem to find all the symbols here in this programme so forgive me for just saying that there should be an R in a circle following every mention of the word Dyneema. And Dyneema is the subject of our 1979 patent stamp. It is a super strong fibre, which apparently is even stronger than steel! Dyneema is often used in ropes, cables and fishing nets. It is invented by the Dutch company DSM, the current version of what used to be the Dutch State Mines in the early 1900s.
She has not been remembered kindly in our virtual world, even though she is responsible for a very handy invention: the chain guard, patented in 1974! Hardly any mention of her chain guard when you start googling. Just as well she has been given a prominent place among the patent stamps!
Willem Kolff uses material such as cellophane and empty food tins to build the world's first artificial kidney. His invention marks the beginning of an era where body parts can be replaced by artificial organs, and is still seen as one of the major inventions in medicine.
The stamp marks the invention of the first submarine by Cornelis Drebbel in 1620. When working for the English Royal Navy, he invented a submarine, made of a leather-covered wooden frame, with four oars. It is thought he produced oxygen for the passengers by arming nitre, which produces oxygen.
First up is the stamp dedicated to Hans Lipperhey, who applied for a patent on his binocular telescope ( = two small prismatic telescopes joined together) in 1608. He may not necessarily have been the first to make one, but he is credited with making the device widely known. According to the designer of the stamp, the original binocular telescope no longer exist, so the illustration is that of a replica.
The only other interesting cover I found is also from Switzerland.
It is an interesting cover in itself, what with its fieldpost postmark, and travelling post office postmark. But when dealing with combi-mail it is the cachet in the bottom right corner that does the trick. The cachet states that the postal service was suspended (we're talking 1942 here) and that the mail is returned to sender.
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