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On the Stamp
A carrier pigeon and an aircraft, on a 14 annas stamp.
Pigeon Post and Air Mail
On 1 October 1854 the East India Company issued the first postage stamps for all of India, in values of half an anna to 4 annas, lithographed in Calcutta. A hundred years later, on 1 October 1954, India marked the centenary with a set of four stamps on how the mail has travelled, from the runners of 1854 to the air mail of 1954. The 14 annas stamp, the highest value of the set, repeats the design of the 2 annas, the carrier pigeon beside the modern aircraft.
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