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Inauguration Bangkok Mail Centre (1985)

 

 

 Issue Name:

Inauguration Bangkok Mail Centre

 Thai Issue Name:

เปิดที่ทำการศูนย์ไปรษณีย์กรุงเทพฯ

 Issue Date:

1985/2528-02-25

 Cause:

To commemorate the opening ceremony of the Bangkok Mail Centre

 Catalogue Number:

1985/3

 Denomination:

1.50 Baht

 Unused Value:

8 Baht

 Used Value:

4 Baht

 Thailex Collection:

Unused stamp

 Size:

27 x 45 mm

 Quantity of Stamps:

6,000,000 pieces

 Printer:

Société Nouvelle Cartor Starl, France

 Subject:

The Bangkok Mail Centre located alongside the tracks of Hua Lampohng Train Station (fig.), a mail-train with blue and greyish-white railcars, and an Alsthom Electric Engine in yellow, orange, red and grey colours (fig.), as well as the emblem of the Communications Authority of Thailand, i.e. a chadah-style royal crown, that radiates beams from its tip and has a yan-sign at its centre, and is placed over an old postal horn.

 Related Link:

Praisanih Thai, chadah, yan, Bangkok, 80th Anniversary of the State Railway of Thailand - 1st Series, Laksi Mail Centre