First Day Covers

First Day Covers are specially designed envelopes with an illustration, containing one or more stamps and the First Day Cancellation, all thematically related to the subject of the stamp.

Monday 26 August 2013

Kites


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The kite is a toy that flied and tied by yarn. The kite may be flied because aerodynamic forces the generated by its relative movement toward wind.The tradition of playing the kites can be divided in two categories, for fight and beauties.

PT. Pos Indonesia has issued the stamp series feature kites, consist of  5(five) stamps and one souvenir sheet which consist of 1 (one) stamp on July 15, 2002.  Alongside this issuance, two kind of FDC  issued, one FDC  attached with  full set stamps and one FDC  attached with souvenir sheet.

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The kites for fight generally in trapezium form. The kites for beauty have various forms such as bird, fish , snake, fog, etc.  In Indonesia, the playing of kites was distributed in most region related to their many tradition. The Balinese have tradition to use kites as a part of their spiritual life. The playing of kite is a part of their manner to thanks to Gog of fertility that give them abundance life.

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