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Children's Day (1961)

 

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 Issue Name:

National Children's Day 1961

 Thai Issue Name:

วันเด็ก ปี 2504

 Issue Date:

1961/2504-10-02

 Cause:

Annual Commemorative Stamps to mark the National Children's Day

 Catalogue Number:

1961/1-2

 Denomination:

0.20 Baht, 2.00 Baht

 Unused Value:

40 Baht, 140 Baht

 Complete Set: 

180 Baht (unused), 44 Baht (used)

 Thailex Collection:

Unused set

 Size:

21 x 27 mm

 Quantity of Stamps:

1 million pieces for the first design, 500,000 for the second

 Printer:

Government Printing Bureau, Ministry of Finance, Japan

 Subject:

Two children in a garden, wearing traditional dress and a topknot called juk or molih. The girl (on the right) is holding a basket, while the boy (on the left) is playing mah kahn kluay, a traditional children's game from the past, in which a banana stem is carried over the shoulder with a string and held between the legs, as if straddling an imaginary horse.

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