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There are two Security printing presses of SPMCIL, namely the India Security Press (ISP) at Nashik and the Security Printing Press (SPP) at Hyderabad. These presses print the 100% requirement of passports and other travel documents, non-judicial stamp papers, cheques, bonds, warrants, postal stamps, postal stationery, and other security products.
The stamps of the convention states all became invalid on 1 January 1951, when they were replaced by the stamps of the independent Republic of India, valid from 1 Jan 1950. [ 4 ] Both Faridkot and Jind, as feudatory states, had issued their own stamps before they joined the Postal Convention.
The Indian Stamp Act of 1899 (2 of 1899), is an in-force Act of the Government of India for the charging of stamp duty on instruments recording transactions. [ 1 ] A India Rs. 2 stamped paper charged under the act in 1952
The Bank of Punjab was founded in October 1989, pursuant to the Bank of Punjab Act 1989, by the provincial government of Punjab under the leadership of then-Chief Minister Nawaz Sharif. [2] The initiative was part of the provincial government's efforts to utilize its financial resources to support local policy objectives during the resurgence ...
The first stamps valid for postage throughout India were placed on sale in October 1854 with four values: 1/2 anna, 1 anna, 2 annas, and 4 annas. [15] Featuring a youthful profile of Queen Victoria aet. 15 years, all four values were designed and printed in Calcutta, and issued without perforations or gum.
When the paper of the stamp is described, stamp catalogs often use words that are relative, such as thick and thin. This is done to describe the variations of the stamp's paper in a particular issue. Thick may be as much as 0.005 inches and thin as little as 0.001 inches, with medium somewhere in between.
Siddiqui Stamps Catalogue - Collect Pakistan Postage Stamps 2011 Edition available at www.pakistanphilately.com Editor: Akhtar ul Islam Siddiqui; Ron Doubleday and Usman Ali Isani, Pakistan Overprints on Indian Stamps and Postal Stationery 1947–1949, Karachi (1993).
The main e-stamping facility was opened on 3 July 2008 in New Delhi, India and was inaugurated by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit.The goal of the e-stamp was to "prevent paper and process-related fraudulent practices" according to the SHICL chairman and managing director at that time, RC Razdan.