The stamp that put a kingdom’s stamp inside its own
A 1986 Indian stamp for a stamp exhibition in Jaipur that framed the city’s own past — the Hawa Mahal in red, and a former kingdom’s Sun’s Chariot stamp tucked in the corner.
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India celebrated 125 years of a police system born after 1857
A 1986 stamp counts 125 years of Indian policing back to 1861 — the colonial law, written in the wake of 1857, that independent India never stopped using.
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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.
