About this stamp
On the Sheet
A miniature sheet of four ₹5 stamps set on a photograph of a green Himalayan valley with a river and snow-streaked peaks: Saussurea simpsoniana, the markhor, the blood pheasant and Meconopsis horridula, under the words “Himalayan Ecology” in Hindi and English. The sheet is marked “Rs. 30/-”.
Himalayan Ecology
India Post issued the sheet on 10 May 1996, together with the same four stamps sold singly. It was sold at ₹30, above the ₹20 face value of its stamps, and 50,000 were printed. The pink-flowered Saussurea and the blue poppy grow near the snowline, while the markhor is a wild goat of the western mountains; each of the four has a page of its own here. Catalogues note that the sheet exists with either blue or white gum. India Post’s brochure for this issue is not online, so this text draws on the catalogues and on the sheet itself.
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