National Children's Day 2008 Commemorative Stamps

Stamp Name : National Children's Day 2008 Commemorative Stamps
Country : Thailand
Date of Issue : 12 January 2008
Denomination : 3.00 Baht (5 designs)
Quantity : 900,000 pieces per design
Size : 48 x 30 mm. (Horizontal-measured from perforation to perforation)
Designer :
3.00 Baht Design 1 - Kemtis Kumsrijan
3.00 Baht Design 2 - Natapol Saelim
3.00 Baht Design 3 - Sirada Chokeyangkul
3.00 Baht Design 4 - Salinthip Narongpun
3.00 Baht Design 5 - Amornthep Jitnak
Printer : Thai British Security Printing PCL.
Printing Process : Lithography
Colour : Milti-colour
Sheet Composition : 20 stamps per sheet (4 strips of 5)
First Day Cover : 25.00 Baht
Designer : Thaneth Ponchaiwong (Thailand Post Co., Ltd.)

Story of the National Children's Day 2008 Commemorative Thai Stamps

To Preserve Fine Art and Thai Tradition

The Postage Stamp of Children's Day of Year 2008 for 5 selections which are awarded in the 20th Asian International Stamp Exhibition (BANGKOK 2007) Postage Stamp Painting Competition. Fine Art Filling for Thailand Project by Mr.Chalermchai Kosipipat, the first visual arts honoree for the inaugural Silpathorn Award, and Mr.Apichai Piromrak, a Sculpture and lothography artist, Silpakorn University to be honorable commitee for this competition.

Walk on high stilts or Kok-kek is a toy in suburb, Kok-kek is made of 2 stilts. The player has to balance his stand on a cock's spur of each stilt, to use hands to hold each stilt, and ready for step by step for left and right. This has use the walking and running for the competition.

Kiting flying - Thai person know how to flying kite since an old time. Kiting flying is th egame which needs the competent, astuteness in order to compete the wind flowing or so called "dtit lom bon" (to be floated on the upper wind). This game is for entertainment and also for competition.

A Puppet show (or Hun Krabok) is one of the fine art shows which have people to raise the made puppet. The head till neck is made the sculptured wood in order to imitate the real person. The body of the puppet is made from bamboo and to be worn with the cylinder shirt with no sleeves that embroider with silver thread, golden thread, and sequins braided, similar to Kohn.

Candel Buddhish Lent (or Thien Phansa) has been starting since the buddisht ancient time. The buddist will bring the big and loger candle to provide to the Buddhist priest for lighting the Buddhist Lent period. At the beginning by bringing a lot of small candles and binding together to be the stem and attached on the base. Later it developoed to mold all the small candles to be one and had the beautifyl sculpture on it.

The mysterious principle (or Kwan Khao). Thai people believe that in the rice plant has the soul called "mae Phosop" or Mae Kwan Khao. So they have the rite in order to please Mae Phosop and also to convey the gratefulness to rice. This will have 4 times rite: the plowing and the rice planning time, setting up an ear of paddy time, harvest and rice carrying time, and carrying to barn.

Source: Thai Stamp Bulletin, Issue 1, Vol. 2008, Page 6-7.