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  General Post Office stucco of stamp Rama V

 

Thailand

A stucco inside the General Post Office in Bangkok (fig.), depicting a Thai postage stamp of King Chulalongkorn (fig.), with a face value of 2 At and of which 1,310,000 pieces were issued in December 1905, as part of a set of fourteen stamps, known as the Rama V (4th Series), titled Wat Jaeng, the former name of Wat Arun, i.e. the Temple of Dawn (fig.), which is visible underneath the image of King Rama V.

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