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16th International Cancer Congress, New Delhi, 1994 stamp

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Commemorative Stamp
30 October 1994

16th International Cancer Congress, New Delhi

A globe and microscope, for the Cancer Congress in New Delhi.

Technical data Notes Condition

Date of issue October 30, 1994

Denomination Rs. 6

Quantity printed 1000000

Printer Security Printing Press, Nashik

Perforation comb 13 x 13½

Watermark No Watermark

Colours Multicolor

Printing process Photogravure

Credit Smt. Alka Sharma

Catalogue codes Michel IN 1435 Stamp Number IN 1495 Yvert et Tellier IN 1231 Stanley Gibbons IN 1598

Themes Cancer (Disease), Conferences, Globes, Healthcare, Microscopes, Stylized Objects, Symbols

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On the Stamp

A globe bearing two diamonds with flame symbols, and a microscope with a magnified cell, printed in blue and red, with the words “XVI International Cancer Congress” in Hindi and English, on a ₹6 stamp.

The 16th International Cancer Congress

India Post issued this ₹6 stamp on 30 October 1994 for the sixteenth International Cancer Congress, held in New Delhi. The first congress met at Madrid in 1933, and from it came the Union for International Cancer Control, founded in Paris the same year and now based in Geneva. The congress later became the World Cancer Congress. India Post’s brochure for this issue is not online, so this text draws on Wikipedia and on the stamp itself.