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  • Definitive Stamp
  • 26 January 1955

Definitive Series II: Five Year Plan

Five Year Plan – Cape Comorin (1955)

Cape Comorin, on a 1 rupee 2 annas definitive.

Date of issue January 26, 1955
Denomination 1 rupee 2 annas
Printer Security Printing Press, Nashik
Perforation comb 15 x 14
Watermark Star of India Multiple [Up]
Colours Grey
Printing process Photogravure
Catalogue codes Michel IN 251 Stamp Number IN 267 Yvert et Tellier IN PA5 Stanley Gibbons IN 367

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An aircraft flying over the coast at Cape Comorin, the southern tip of India, on a 1 rupee 2 annas stamp.

Cape Comorin

On Republic Day, 26 January 1955, India issued a new series of eighteen definitive stamps, from 3 pies to 10 rupees, on the theme of the First Five Year Plan: the farms, dams, crafts, industries and landscapes of the new republic. They were printed by photogravure at the Security Printing Press, Nashik, on paper watermarked with stars. The four values from 10 annas to 1 rupee 8 annas, which paid the air mail rates, each show an aircraft flying over an Indian scene. The 1 rupee 2 annas stamp shows an aircraft over Cape Comorin, now Kanniyakumari, where the Arabian Sea, the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean meet.

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