Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Indian Post has published the Azad-Hind stamps in a book entitled India's Freedom Struggle through India Postage Stamps. [5] In 2016, the Netaji Birth Place Museum in Cuttack published a brochure in which, among other things, the Azad Hind stamps were shown in "free interpretation". Original stamps are also displayed in the visitor rooms. [6]
Types of postal stamps. There are six types [ 4] postal stamps are in circulation in India: Commemorative stamp of Mahatma Gandhi. Commemorative stamps: A commemorative stamp is often issued on a significant date such as an anniversary, to honour or commemorate a place, event, person, or object.
The first stamp of independent India shows the new Indian Flag. It was meant for foreign correspondence. The second stamp depicts the Aśokan lions capital, the National Emblem of India, and was for domestic use. Indian postal systems for efficient military and governmental communications had developed long before the arrival of Europeans. When the Portuguese, Dutch, French, Danish and British ...
On March 18, 1980, the government of India issued a Welthy Honsinger Fisher commemorative postage stamp. She is the only American to be so honored. She became the first recipient of the Nehru Literacy Award, India; In the media. Welthy's work in India was highlighted in the 1966 Time magazine article "Education Abroad: India's Literacy Lady".
36th International Geological Congress (Set of 2 Stamps) 12 20 March 2022 Amethyst: 5.00 each 13 20 March 2022 Himalayas: 10.00 each * India and Turkmenistan - 30 Years of Partnership, (Set of 2 Stamps) 14 3 April 2022 Sankirtana: 25.00 15 3 April 2022 Kushtdepdi 25.00 16 18 April 2022 Pandurang Vaman Kane: 5.00 17 21 April 2022
A stamp of British India overprinted in 1944 for use in Oman. A surcharged British stamp issued in 1948 by the British Postal Agencies in Eastern Arabia. The first post office to open in the region was at Muscat on 1 May 1864. This was originally under the Bombay circle but it was transferred to the Sind ( Karachi) circle in April 1869 and then ...
Today there is an extensive literature on the forgers and their work, and examples from the most accomplished forgers sometimes sell for more than the original stamp. Notorious and famous stamp forgers include: The Spiro Brothers [1] Rainer Blüm. Pêra de Satanás. Clive Feigenbaum; ex-chairman of Stanley Gibbons. Sigmund Friedl.
Postal rates to 1847. Initial United States postage rates were set by Congress as part of the Postal Service Act signed into law by President George Washington on February 20, 1792. The postal rate varied according to "distance zone", the distance a letter was to be carried from the post office where it entered the mail to its final destination.