150 Years of Gandhiji's Birth Anniversary Philatelic Materials collection

Not only in India but all around the world many countries are celebrating the "150th Birth Anniversary of Gandhiji".  Below is my collection of the 150th Birth Anniversary of Father of our nation's philatelic issue collection from around the world. 

If your country has issued one and it is not in my below collection, please help with a swap.

Armenia

Benin

Brazil

Bulgaria

Czech Republic

France

Iraq

Lebanon

Portugal

Russia

Slovenia 

Sri Lanka

Turkey

Uzbekistan 

150th Gandhi Birth Anniversary issues I am still looking for...

1 Argentina

2 Armenia - Got it

3 Azerbaijan

4 Bhutan 

5 Bosnia & Herzegovina 

6 Brazil - Got it

7 Bulgaria - Got it

8 Costa Rica

9 Cuba

10 Cyprus (Turkish)

11 Czech Republic - Got it

12 Dominican Republic 

13 Egypt

14 Fiji

15 France - Got it

16 Hungary

17 Indonesia

18 Iran

19 Iraq - Got it

20 Lebanon - Got it

21 Malta - Got 1, looking for other stamps

22 Mauritius

23 Moldova

24 Monaco

25 Mongolia

26 Myanmar

27 Namibia

28 Palestine

29 Paraguay 

30 Poland

31 Portugal - Got it

32 Qatar

33 Russia - Got it

34 Serbia

35 Seychelles

36 Slovenia  - Got it

37 South Africa 

38 Spain 

39 SriLanka  - Got it

40 Sudan

41 Suriname

42 Tunisia

43 Turkey - Got it

44 UAE 

45 United Nations

46 Uruguay

47 Uzbekistan  - Got it

48 Vietnam

International Reply Coupons

IRC

I have recently hooked into International Reply Coupons collection.

France

Mauritius

150 Years of Government Post Cards

The whole world is celebrating 150 Years of birth of Post cards.  The first Government Postcard was born on October 1st 1869 in Austria.  Cheap and effective way to express messages and advertise.

Photo taken from Wikepedia

Postcrossers, members of  Postcrossing community, the largest forum for exchanging Post cards is also celebrating around the world with special postcards designed for the event.  Below you can see the Indian postcrosser's version of the card.

Shantipex 2019

India and various countries are celebrating 150th Anniversary of Birth of Mahatma Gandhi, from 2018 October 2nd to 2019 October 2nd.  India Post has issued a Miniature sheets and stamps to commemorate the event and conducting various philatelic exhibitions and issuing philatelic materials to honour Father of our Nation "Gandhiji".  One such celebrations happened at Coimbatore, the Manchester of Southern India.  During the Shantipex Philatelic exhibition, India post Coimbatore PB had issued Postcrossing Meetup cards in 4 designs.A Postcrossing meetup was also held at the Exhibition venue.

India China Meetup Card

World Coconut Day - 2nd September

The APCC is the Asian Pacific Coconut Community, having headquarters in Jakarta, Indonesia.  It was founded on 2nd September 1969 and on 6th, September Indonesia, India, and the Philippines signed up. They designated September 2, the formation day as World Coconut Day to create awareness about farming coconut trees, its benefits and the latest technology related to it, and export opportunities.  Now there are about eighteen coconut-producing member countries from the Asia and Pacific region including two associate Members of Kenya and Jamaica in APCC.

The coconut tree's various parts are useful in many ways.  The veins of the leaves are used to produce brooms, the branches are used to make hut tops, and fans, coconut fibers are used to make ropes and mats, and oil is used in cooking,  cosmetics, and medicines.  Its fibrous husk, when burned, repels mosquitoes.

Marco Polo encountered the coconut on his travels to Sumatra and refers to it in his writing as "nux indica," or "Indian nut". In 2000 Coconut Water has become a popular drink in the west.

Below MS was issued by India Post on 8th January 2018

30th July - World Embroidery Day

Embroidery is an art with needle and thread on fabric.  In Sweden, a group of local Embroidery grid from Broderiakademin came with an idea of keeping a special day for Embroidery.  On 2011, July 30th in Vismarlov - Swedish Embroidery guild people celebrated their first World Embroidery Day.  Since then it is celebrated every year on 30th July.  Though the machine Embroidery is spoiling the art, the hand Embroidery has its own unique place all around the world. 

 The art of Embroidery in Sweden dates back to roughly 300 to 700 AD.  In India, Kashmir is famous for its rich and vibrant Embroidery work.

Though Switzerland issued the world's first Embroidery stamp, Austria has issued more of these  than any other country.

4th July - USA's Independence Day

America celebrates its Independence Day on the Fourth of July every year.  In 1776, the USA got its Independence from the British.  Though the Continental Congress voted to declare Independence on the 2nd of July,  they approved the final wording of the Declaration of Independence on July Fourth, 1776. They'd been working on it for a couple of days after the draft was submitted on July 2nd.  So, July fourth, 1776, is a day that represents the Declaration of Independence and the birth of the United States of America as an independent nation. 

Initial years Americans were busy with other things and celebrations didn't take place.  But celebrations of the 4th of July became more common as the years went on and in 1870, almost a hundred years after the Declaration was written, Congress first declared July 4 to be a national holiday as part of a bill to officially recognize several holidays,  including Christmas.   

This important day for the Americans is marked with grand celebrations - bursting of fireworks, parties, basketball games, family reunions, etc. The Bristol, July Fourth Parade in Rhode Island is the oldest continuous Independence Day celebration in the US.

The below Forever USA definitive stamp issued in the year 2016 depicts the beautiful American flag.