The Department of Posts, India, recently, presented 20 stamps representing history of transportation in India. This special series of commemorative stamps tagged “Means of Transport through the Ages” was presented at India’s only transport museum the Heritage Transport Museum. The stamps were presented by Ms Kalpana Rajsinghot, Postmaster General, Gurgaon Region, Haryana Circle, Department of Posts in the presence of Tarun Thakral, Founder & Managing Trustee, Heritage Transportation Trust.
The special series stamps are in the form of miniature sheets in a prestige booklet issued for the first time. The stamps have beautiful motifs of palanquins, animal driven carriages and carts, rickshaws, vintage cars, buses, metro rail and even trams.
The stamps are already getting high praises from the masses. The Heritage Transport Museum have played a key role in the making of these stamps as fifteen out of the twenty stamps have images of vehicles that are present at the museum. So if you are a stamp connoisseur and love automobiles then these commemorative stamps will surely add extra flare to your collection.
