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  • Definitive Stamp
  • 26 January 1955

Definitive Series II: Five Year Plan

Five Year Plan – Tractor (1955)

A tractor, on a 3 pies definitive.

Date of issue January 26, 1955
Denomination 3 pies
Printer Security Printing Press, Nashik
Perforation comb 14 x 15
Watermark Star of India Multiple [SL]
Colours Bright purple
Printing process Photogravure
Catalogue codes Michel IN 238 Stamp Number IN 254 Yvert et Tellier IN 54 Stanley Gibbons IN 354

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A farmer driving a tractor across a field, on a 3 pies stamp.

The Tractor

On Republic Day, 26 January 1955, India issued a new series of eighteen definitive stamps, from 3 pies to 10 rupees, on the theme of the First Five Year Plan: the farms, dams, crafts, industries and landscapes of the new republic. They were printed by photogravure at the Security Printing Press, Nashik, on paper watermarked with stars. The 3 pies stamp, the lowest value, shows a tractor at work, a sign of the mechanised farming the Plan hoped to bring to Indian fields.

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