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  • Commemorative Stamp
  • 28 October 2003

Greetings: Butterflies

A butterfly, one of the four Greetings stamps of 2003.

Date of issue October 28, 2003
Denomination Rs. 5
Quantity printed 800000
Printer Calcutta Security Printers Ltd
Perforation comb 13½ x 13
Watermark No Watermark
Colours Multicolor
Printing process Offset Lithography
Credit Shri Kamleshwar Singh
Catalogue codes Michel IN 1988 Stamp Number IN 2029d Yvert et Tellier IN 1753 Stanley Gibbons IN 2162 WADP Numbering System - WNS IN045.2003

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About this stamp

On the Stamp

A large blue butterfly among daisies and smaller pink and orange butterflies, on a ₹5 stamp.

Greetings 2003

India Post issued four Greetings stamps on 28 October 2003, two at ₹4 and two at ₹5, with fish, birds, butterflies and squirrels; Colnect notes that they were printed together in strips of four. They were designed by Kamleshwar Singh and printed by offset lithography at Calcutta Security Printers. India Post’s brochure for this issue is not online and Wikipedia has no page on it, so this text keeps to the stamps and the catalogues.

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