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Rare stamp

P. SOLOMON DHANRAJ

For the first time in the postal history of India, printing a set of four stamps , "Endangered Indian Water Birds" was assigned to private printers. But the poor quality of the stamps caused the Department to set them aside for destruction.

A fraction of the four million stamps printed, had already been supplied to the philatelic counters for release on November 23, 1994.

The birds featured are the Andaman teal, Eastern White Stork, Black-necked Crane and Pink-headed Duck.

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