First Stamp of India, Mail Ship, Train and Mail Coach

The first stamp of India, a mail ship and a mail coach, one of four stamps for 150 years of India Post.

Technical data Notes Condition

Date of issue October 4, 2004

Denomination Rs. 5

Quantity printed 800000

Printer Security Printing Press, Nashik

Perforation comb 14 x 13½

Watermark No Watermark

Colours Multicolor

Printing process Photogravure

Credit Sh. Sankha Samanta

Catalogue codes Michel IN 2045 Stamp Number IN 2078a Yvert et Tellier IN 1810 Stanley Gibbons IN 2224 WADP Numbering System - WNS IN031.2004

Themes Anniversaries and Jubilees, Bridges, Carriages, Postal History, Postal Services, Railways, Ships, Stamps

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About this stamp

On the Stamp

The blue half anna stamp of 1854 with the head of Queen Victoria, beside a mail ship, a train on a viaduct and a horse-drawn mail coach, with the year 1854.

150 Years of India Post

India Post issued four ₹5 stamps, printed together, and a ₹20 miniature sheet on 4 October 2004 for 150 years of the Indian postal service, 1854 to 2004, the years printed on the sheet. India Post, the Department of Posts, is today the most widely spread postal system in the world, and India has more post offices than any other country. The four stamps run from the first stamps and mail coaches of 1854 to e-post and Speed Post. India Post’s brochure for this issue is not online, so this text draws on Wikipedia and on the stamps themselves.