Thailand

Stamps of Thailand (Siam): The First Issues (1883)

Thursday, June 26th, 2008: Asia, Classic Stamps, First Issues, Printers, Printing Processes, Siam, Stamp Profiles, Thailand, Waterlow

Thailand’s first postage stamps appeared in August 1883, Waterlow and Sons recess-printing printing different designs and using different colours to denote the values: solot (½ att), att, sio (2 atts), sik (4 atts) and salung (6 atts). Related posts:Stamps of Haiti: ...

Stamps of Thailand: UNICEF Issue (1964)

Thursday, June 12th, 2008: Asia, Printers, Printing Processes, Stamp Profiles, Thailand, Topicals or Thematics, UNICEF

The seventeenth anniversary of UNICEF was marked by 50 satangs and 2 baht stamps, issued in January 1964. The stamps reproduced the mother and child emblem of UNICEF and were designed and printed in photogravure by the Japanese Government Printing Bureau, ...