The Building on the Indian Military Academy Stamp Has a British Name
A 1982 golden-jubilee stamp shows the Academy’s most famous building. It leaves out the founder, the motto carved inside, and the two armies that came from one class.
-
-
The Wild Tree and the Bred Palm – Two Indian Stamps, One Cancellation
Two Indian tree stamps ended up on the same scrap of mail, tied by one postmark. One tree seeds itself across dry India. The other was reshaped by a research station.
-
The Year a Health Campaign Became a Programme — Hungary’s World Rheumatism Year Stamp
A 1 forint Hungarian stamp turns a public-health campaign into an unexpected story about the year awareness quietly became action.
-
“Ramanujan and Tilak — Paired by Postage, Not by History”
Two of India’s minds ended up on the same envelope corner. Not one person chose the pairing – four rupees plus one rupee did.
-
The Quit India Stamp That Was Really the First Page of a Fourteen-Year Plan
India Post’s 1983 Quit India Resolution stamp wasn’t marking an anniversary — it was launching a fourteen-year plan to rewrite the freedom story in gummed paper.
-
A European Owl on an African Stamp
THROUGH THE LENS A European Owl on an African Stamp This Equatorial Guinea owl stamp carries the words protección de la naturaleza — protection of nature. Read the fine print, though, and it names its own bird European. The creature it honours belongs to another continent. Zooming Into the Equatorial Guinea Owl Stamp Details 1…
-
Stamp Collecting 1989 – The Stamp That Collected Itself
India’s 60-paise Stamp Collecting stamp shows a child sorting a collection – a hobby whose own name, the design note admits, means “fond of the tax-exempt.”
-
What Three Children’s Day Stamps Reveal Together
Three years running, India Post handed a stamp to a child. Each time the child painted something the occasion never asked for.
-
The Girl on the Rock Has a Name. The 1986 Children’s Day Stamp Does Not Print It.
Two ropes cross this stamp and neither is tied to anything. The catalogue calls the picture “Girl Rock Climber.” The stamp never says so.
-
Once a Year an Indian Stamp Is Designed by a Child. In 1983 the Child Painted an Adult.
Once a year India hands a stamp over to a child. In 1983 the child filled it with a grown-up, and put the only child in the picture at half her height.
