| Title of
the Event |
SCINDE DAWK |
| Date(s) of
the event(s) |
July 01, 1852 -
First half-Anna stamp released |
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Description |
- It refers to a very old postal system of
runners that served the Indus Valley of Sindh, in
pre-partition India.
- The term also refers to the first postage stamps
in Asia.
- Stamps were required for the prepayment of
postage, a basic feature of the new system.
- These stamps, first issued on July 1, 1852,
bore the Merchants' Mark of the British East India Company
in a design embossed on wafers of red sealing wax impressed
on paper.
- The first half anna stamp in British India was released
in Karachi on this day.
- All of these had a value of only one-half anna
each, but today they rank among the rare classics
of philately.
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