June 12th, 2008 Posted in 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, Tokyo.
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