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On the Sheetlet
A ₹240 sheetlet of sixteen ₹15 stamps of Pushkarini Stepwell, Hampi. The Pushkarini at Hampi, built in the fifteenth century under the Vijayanagara empire near the Mahanavami Dibba, descends in five geometric stages; it was excavated in 1980. Only 3,125 of each of the sixteen stepwell sheetlets were printed.
Stepwells of India
India Post issued sixteen stamps on stepwells on 29 December 2017: eight of ₹5 and eight of ₹15. Stepwells, called vav in Gujarat, baori or bawdi in Rajasthan and pushkarini in Karnataka, are among the finest works of Indian architecture. The stamps were issued in a sheet of all sixteen, in four mini sheets, each holding four stamps of four stepwells, and in sixteen sheetlets, each holding sixteen stamps of a single stepwell. They were designed by Brahm Prakash; Security Printing Press, Hyderabad printed 1 lakh of each of the five sheets and 3,125 of each of the sixteen sheetlets.
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