Centenary of the UPU – Birds and Nest, Madhubani Style

Madhubani birds and nest, for the UPU.

Technical data Notes Condition

Date of issue October 3, 1974

Denomination Rs. 1

Quantity printed 2000000

Printer Security Printing Press, Nashik

Perforation comb 13

Watermark No Watermark

Colours Multicolor

Printing process Photogravure

Credit A. Ramachandran

Catalogue codes Michel IN 604 Stamp Number IN 635 Yvert et Tellier IN 406 Stanley Gibbons IN 741

Themes Anniversaries and Jubilees, Stylized Animals, U.N.O., U.P.U.

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On the Stamp

Birds and a nest, painted in the Madhubani style of Bihar, on a ₹1 stamp.

Birds and Nest

India Post issued three stamps and a miniature sheet on 3 October 1974 for the centenary of the Universal Postal Union. Founded at Berne in 1874 as the General Postal Union, with twenty-two members, it made the world a single postal territory, with common rules and rates for international mail; by 1974 it had about 150 members. The ₹1 stamp shows birds about their nest in the folk painting style of Madhubani in Bihar.