Digital First Edition of Life of Mahatma Gandhi through Philately - Gandhi Stamp Catalogue This 1st digital edition of the Catalogue of Gandhi Stamps was created with intensive effort over many years and is meant to serve both as a stamp catalogue and as a means to learn more about the life of Mahatma Gandhi, the Visionary from Porbandar so we can apply his teachings in our daily lives. The brief summary of contents are as follows: Beautifully illustrated with images of all 1160 stamps on Mahatma Gandhi Covers all 146 issuers belonging to 139 territories representing present day 133 countries It gives both country-wise and year-wise summary of stamp listings Classification of genuine and illegal stamps Contains images of stamps, souvenir sheets, FDCs, postcards etc. Comprehensive collector's guide for Gandhi stamps Links to websites of postal authorities / agents, where you can buy genuine stamps at face value All key events in the Life of Mahatma Gandhi summarized with a brief biography How to use Catabooks Gandhi Stamp Catalog? The Catalogue lists stamps by country of issue with a brief country profile along with its stamp history and note on postal authority. The next level of structure is by date (year if date is not available) of issue. The following information is made available for each stamp: Image of the stamp / miniature sheet and first day cover, folder, etc. to the extent possibleBasic information about the stampDenomination in local currencyQuantity of stamps issued, if availableDate of Issue (wherever date is not available, the year is given)Nature of Issue like definitive (regular issuance for postal use) or commemorative (special issuance mostly for collectors), or if meant only for air post, if availableShape of Issue with dimensions, if availableSerrations: Perforations made to the sheet, which are printed to have a specific number of stamps, to ease their splitting also referred to as perforated (meaning stamp with cutting rows and columns of small holes). It is called imperforate where this is no separation, especially the earlier stamps.WNS No.CGC No. - The Catabooks Gandhi Catalog (CGC) has a unique CGC number to easily identify legal stamps issued on Mahatma Gandhi using 2 letters country code as per ISO 3166-2, 3 digits stand-alone year-wise serial number for Gandhi stamps and the four digits for the year after 'G', a character to denote Mahatma GandhiWe wish you the very best in your stamp collecting hobby and happy reading.