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  • 15 April 1974

Indian Masks (Miniature Sheet)

The Indian Masks miniature sheet.

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Date of issue April 15, 1974
Denomination Rs. 3.7
Quantity printed 150000
Printer Security Printing Press, Nashik
Perforation comb 13
Watermark No Watermark
Colours Multicolor
Printing process Photogravure
Catalogue codes Michel IN BL2 Stamp Number IN 605a Yvert et Tellier IN BF2 Stanley Gibbons IN MS711
Themes Masks, Sun

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A miniature sheet with the four Indian Masks stamps: the Sun, the Moon, Narasimha and Ravana, valued together at ₹3.70.

Indian Masks

India Post issued four stamps and a miniature sheet on 15 April 1974 on Indian masks. Three of them, the Sun, the Moon and Ravana, are papier-mâché masks worn in the Ramlila at Ramnagar near Banaras at Dussehra; the fourth, Narasimha, is the wooden mask of the Bhagavata Mela of South India. This text draws on India Post’s folder for the issue.

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