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  • 3 September 2013

Wild Flowers of India: Miniature Sheet 1

Wild flowers of India, miniature sheet 1: the Himalayan mini sunflower, rhododendron, globe thistle and blue poppy.

Date of issue September 3, 2013
Denomination Rs. 20
Quantity printed 810000
Printer India Security Press, Nashik
Perforation 13
Watermark No Watermark
Colours Multicolor
Printing process Offset Lithography
Credit Smt. Alka Sharma
Catalogue codes Michel IN BL115 Yvert et Tellier IN BF111 Stanley Gibbons IN MS2961

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Miniature sheet 1 of 3, ₹20, with four ₹5 stamps: the Himalayan mini sunflower, rhododendron, globe thistle and blue poppy. The margin shows Himalayan scenery and names the Asian Pacific Postal Union Congress, New Delhi.

Wild Flowers of India

India Post issued twelve ₹5 stamps of wild flowers of India on 3 September 2013, in three miniature sheets of four and a sheetlet of all twelve, for the Asian Pacific Postal Union Congress held in New Delhi, which the sheets name in their margins. The flowers, most of them from the Himalayas, are the Himalayan mini sunflower, rhododendron, globe thistle and blue poppy (sheet 1), the roundleaf asiabell, Himalayan iris, Himalayan bellflower and Himalayan lantern (sheet 2), and the Kashmir mallow, cobra lily, bladder campion and Dibang chirita (sheet 3).

India Post’s brochure for this issue is not online, so this text draws on the stamps themselves.

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