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The domes and spires of the Victoria Terminus in Bombay, with the words “100 Years of the Victoria Terminus, Bombay” in Hindi and English, on a ₹1 stamp.
The Victoria Terminus
India Post issued this ₹1 stamp on 30 May 1988. The Great Indian Peninsula Railway completed the building in 1888, after ten years of work, under the consulting architect F. W. Stevens. It was named to mark Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee, in a late Italian medieval Gothic style. Its central dome, which India Post’s folder calls the first octagonal ribbed masonry dome on such a building, carries a figure nearly seventeen feet high holding a flaming torch and a spoked wheel, standing for Progress.
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