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1. Name the stamp issued on July 1, 1852, by the Karachi postmaster thatis considered not only the first stamp for India butalso for Asia. SHOW ANSWER a Answer : Sande Daw 2. 1fstamps printed to honour a specific person or event and issued only in limited quantities are called commemorative stamps, then what term is used for regular-issue stamps that pay postage for everyday mail and are issued in lots of denominations? SHOW ANSWER a Answer : Definitive Stamps 3. The first postage stamp of independent India was issued on November 21,1947. Valued at 3-% annas and meant for foreign correspondence, what did it depict? SHOW ANSWER, A Answer : The National flag with the date of independence and the words ‘Jai Hind’ 4.Since the United Kingdom pioneered the use of postage stamps as we know them today, what honour has been given to it by which stamps emanating from there don’t feature something thatall other sovereign countries’ stamps have? SHOW ANSWER, a Answer : Name of the country It has the monarch’s likeness 5. India is divided into nine postal zones with one to eight reserved for the States and UTs of India. For whom is the ninth zone allotted? SHOW ANSWER Answer : To Army (APO) and Field (FPO) post offices 6.Ifa philatelist sees the name ‘Magyar Fosta’ and ‘Helvetia’ on postage stamps, then which countries have issued the same? SHOW ANSWER, a ‘Answer : Hungary and Switzerland

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