Ko Toe Philately: 72nd Anniversary of Independence Day

Thursday, 9 January 2020

72nd Anniversary of Independence Day

On 4th Jan 2020, Myanmar Post issued a set of three stamps for 72nd anniversary of Independence Day. This year, the stamp designs are based on the photo greeting cards produced by the Ministry of Information. The original greeting cards are distributed among the Government. All the stamps featured the national races of Myanmar and Independence Monument.

Stamp Designs

Technical Details of Stamps

Date of Issue : 4 January 2020
Printer : Security Printing Works (Myanmar)
Printing Process : Offset
Stamp Size and Format : 42 mm x 30 mm (Horizontal)
Color : 4
Perforation : 14
Denomination : K200 three designs
Sheet Composition : 50 Stamps per Sheet
Quantity : 300,000 pc per design
Stamp Designers : Zay Yar Lin

Design 1 (left) used same design of one stamp issued during 2016. The independence monument seen in design 1 and 2 (left and middle) is the monument from the Mahabandoola park near the Sule pagoda. The monument in the design 3 (right) is also known as the Pinlon Union munument, which is located at Pinlon.

Two simple commemorative postmarks were used on the first day of issue. One in Burmese and the other in English. My personal view to this is unnecessary to have two different cancellation. It will be better to include both languages in one chop (I know there was a proposal of such).

I witnessed the stamp sale on the first day at Yangon GPO. All the empty FDC at Yangon GPO are sold out within first few hours. One official empty FDC are sold at 200 Kyats to public. MPS is selling its FDC at 200 Kyats to its members, and 300 Kyats to the public for fund raising purpose. Joining MPS can save 100 Kyats for every FDC purchased.

First Day Covers