Issue
Name: |
1980 Red Cross Fair |
Thai Issue
Name: |
ชุดที่ระลึกงานกาชาด
2523 |
Issue Date: |
1980/2523-04-06 |
Cause: |
To commemorate the 1980 Red Cross Fair |
Catalogue Number: |
1980/8 |
Denomination: |
0.75 Baht + 0.25 Baht |
Size: |
27 x 45 mm (30 x 48 mm incl.
white border) |
Unused Value: |
16 Baht |
Used Value: |
16 Baht |
Thailex Collection: |
Unused stamp |
Quantity
of Stamps: |
3 million
pieces |
Printer: |
Joh.
Enschedé
Stamps, Security Printers B.V., The Netherlands |
Subject: |
Demonstration of the antivenin process, in which the
venom is milked from a
snake at
Bangkok's Red Cross
Snake
Farm, in order to produce an anti-ophidic
serum, i.e. an antidote against
a venomous snake bite. |
Related Link: |
Thai Red Cross Society,
snake
farm,
Venomous Snakes,
Red Cross - Provisional Issue (1986),
snake |