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An aircraft flying past the snows of Kanchenjunga, on a 1 rupee 8 annas stamp.
Kanchenjunga
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 8 annas stamp shows an aircraft before Kanchenjunga, at 8,586 metres the third-highest mountain in the world, on the border of Sikkim and Nepal.
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