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A postman on a bicycle, a train, a ship and an aircraft, on a 4 annas stamp.
Mail Transport in 1954
On 1 October 1854 the East India Company issued the first postage stamps for all of India, in values of half an anna to 4 annas, lithographed in Calcutta. A hundred years later, on 1 October 1954, India marked the centenary with a set of four stamps on how the mail has travelled, from the runners of 1854 to the air mail of 1954. The 4 annas stamp answers the 1 anna: the mail of 1954 travels by bicycle, rail, sea and air.
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