Tuesday 29 June 2021

Ne Win on stamp for the first time

Bangladesh Post issued 100 stamps contained in 17 miniature sheets to commemorate the life of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of the country, on his birth centenary.  The sheets are contained in a commemorative stamp booklets.  Only 2000 booklets are produced.  Theses were scheduled to release on 17 Mar 2020, but actually released on 4 Apr 2021.

One of the stamp include the portrait of notorious Ne Win, was President of Myanmar, sitting with Sheikh Mujibur Rahman during one of the official meeting on 28 Apr 1974.  The denomination is Tk. 10.  It is 69th stamp out of 100.  Ne Win was never seen on world stamps before and this is the first time seeing this.  But his name appeared on some commemorative postmarks of Pakistan during his visits.  Together with this stamp, other five in sheet features USA President Gerald Ford, Senegal President Leopold Sedar Senghor, France Intellectual Andre Malroux, Saudi Arabia King Faisal,  U.A.E King Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan.


These stamps of are printed from The Security Printing Corporation (Bangladesh) Ltd., Gazipur, in four color offset printing with 12.5 perf while the size is 55 mm x 70 mm.

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