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  • Commemorative Stamp
  • 14 November 1977

Children’s Day – “Cats” (Nikur Dilipbhai Mody)

A child’s painting, “Cats”.

Date of issue November 14, 1977
Denomination 25 p
Quantity printed 3000000
Printer Security Printing Press, Nashik
Perforation comb 13
Watermark No Watermark
Colours Multicolor
Printing process Photogravure
Catalogue codes Michel IN 740 Stamp Number IN 777 Yvert et Tellier IN 536 Stanley Gibbons IN 867 Phila-India IN 741

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A child’s painting of two big cats in blue and purple on a yellow ground, with the words “Children’s Day” in Hindi and English, on a 25 paise stamp.

“Cats”

India Post issued two stamps on 14 November 1977 for Children’s Day, kept in India on Jawaharlal Nehru’s birthday. Both reproduce paintings by children from Ahmedabad, from Shankar’s International Children’s Competition of 1976. The 25 paise stamp shows “Cats”, painted by Nikur Dilipbhai Mody at the age of five.

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