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Centennial of Thai Teachers Training (1993)

 

phaan phum, i.e. the offering used to pay respect to teachers on Wan Kruh

 

 Issue Name:

Centennial of Thai Teachers Training

 Thai Issue Name:

100 ปี การฝึกหัดครูไทย

 Issue Date:

1993/2536-01-16

 Cause:

To mark the annual Day of the Teacher, known in Thai as Wan Kruh, as well as to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the training of Thai teachers.

 Catalogue Number:

1993/8

 Denomination:

2 Baht

 Unused Value:

8 Baht

 Used Value:

3 Baht

 Thailex Collection:

n/a

 Size:

26 x 21 mm

 Quantity of Stamps:

3 million pieces

 Printer:

Joh. Enschedé Stamps, Security Printers B.V., The Netherlands

 Subject:

Emblem designed by Mr. Sawaat Phunsawat (นายสวาสติ์ พูลสวัสติ์), which was the winning design of a drawing competition organized for the occasion, and which consists of a stylized phaan phum, i.e. the offering normally used to pay respect to teachers on Wan Kruh and which is here depicted as a tray with the Thai number 100 (๑๐๐) shaped in the form of −and underneath a larger phum, which pear-shaped outline is in turn derived from that of a lotus bud, one of the flowers offered to teachers on Wan Kruh Haeng Chaht.

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