Re: India - Dr. Annie Beasant

On 2 Dec 2003 20:20:27 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dakota) wrote:

>Anybody here specialize in India?
>
>I'm trying to find out about a stamp issued honoring Dr. Annie Beasant
>- there was supposed to be an issue honoring her, but printed with the
>wrong date of death.
>
>Anybody know about this?
>
>Handshakes,
>
>Dakota

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Dakkota:

The issue you refer to is:

SG 471 , Scott 377

Stamp Issue Date : 01/October/1963  30 years from death in 1933)

Her BIRTH date is incorrectly stated aas 1837 on the stamp. 
It SHOULD have been 1847.

Postage Stamp Dinomination : 0.15 Rupees

Postage Stamp Name : MRS ANNIE BESANT 
http://www.indianpost.com/images/0471.jpg

Stamp Information : DR. ANNIE BESANT 

As one look back to the decades of India's long 
struggle for freedom, few names stand out with 
greater glory of distinction than Dr. Annie Besant's. 
For forty years, from 1893 when she first landed 
in India until the moment of her death in 1933, 
she laboured for India's advancement in every 
sphere of activity - educational, social, religious 
and political - with single minded devotion and 
rare dedication.  

Stamp Design: Designed and produced by the Directorate 
of Advertising & Visual Publicity, Ministry of I. & B., 
Govt. of India, for the D.G.P.& T. and printed by 
the General Manager, Govt. of India Press, New Delhi. 

Stamp Type : COMMEMORATIVE   Stamp Language : English 
Stamp Overall Size : 3.3 x 2.9   
Stamp Print Size : 3.3 x 2.9 cms. 
Stamps Per Sheet : 42    
Watermark: All over multiple 'Lion Capital of Ashoka' 
Indian Stamp Process : Photogravure  
Number of stamps printed : 2.5 million 
Stamp Printed At : India Security Press 
Indian Stamp's Color : Blue Green 
 
Blair




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