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  • Commemorative Stamp
  • 26 June 1995

50 Years of the United Nations: Work of UN Agencies

Food, health and education, for fifty years of the United Nations.

Date of issue June 26, 1995
Denomination Rs. 6
Quantity printed 1000000
Printer Calcutta Security Printers Ltd
Perforation comb 13 x 13½
Watermark No Watermark
Colours Multicolor
Printing process Offset Lithography
Credit Mr. Chitta Pakrashi
Catalogue codes Michel IN 1469 Stamp Number IN 1527 Yvert et Tellier IN 1271 Stanley Gibbons IN 1631

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About this stamp

On the Stamp

Three panels in green, red and blue, drawn with figures of farming, a mother and child and a child at study, under the UN’s fiftieth-anniversary emblem, with the words “50 Years of the United Nations” in Hindi and English, on a ₹6 stamp.

The Work of the UN Agencies

India Post issued two stamps on 26 June 1995 for the fiftieth anniversary of the United Nations, ₹1 and ₹6. This one shows the everyday work of the UN’s agencies: food, health and education. The United Nations came into existence on 24 October 1945, when its Charter was ratified by the five permanent members of the Security Council and a majority of the other signatories, India among the founding members. Its companion stamp shows a handshake. India Post’s brochure for this issue is not online, so this text draws on Wikipedia and on the stamp itself.

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