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A pair of Scinde Dawks of 1852, round stamps bearing the merchant’s mark of the East India Company, with the words “ASIANA-77” and “First in Asia 1852” in Hindi and English, on a ₹1 stamp.
The Scinde Dawk
India Post issued two stamps on 19 October 1977 for ASIANA-77, the first Asian international stamp exhibition, held at Bangalore from 19 to 23 October 1977. It was organised by the Philatelic Congress of India with India Post and the Government of Karnataka, under the patronage of the Federation of Inter-Asian Philately. The Scinde District Dawk, issued in Sind on 1 July 1852 under Sir Bartle Frere, was the first postage stamp in Asia. The stamps were round and embossed: plain white, blue, or, as here, on scarlet sealing wax.
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