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The Collector Princess (2023)

 

   

 

 Issue Name: The Collector Princess
 Thai Issue Name:

เจ้าฟ้านักสะสม

 Issue Date:

2023/2556-12-18

 Cause:

To publicize stamp collecting

 Catalogue Number:

2023/49-50

 Denomination:

10 Baht, 10 Baht

 Unused Value:

10 Baht, 10 Baht

 Complete Set:

20 Baht (unused), 2 Baht (used)

 Thailex Collection:

n/a

 Size:

65 x 35 mm

 Quantity of Stamps:

300,000 pieces

 Printer:

T.K.S. Technologies Public Company Limited, Thailand

 Subject: Portraits of Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, who is a fervent stamp collector and the president of the Philatelists Association of Thailand: 1. In the first picture, made at the Chitrada post office in 1991, the Princess poses next to a cylindrical postbox, a model introduced in 1911 and the second type since the establishment of the nation's postal services, and that bears the logo of the Post and Telegraph Department, i.e. a Garuda over a post horn (fig.); 2. In the second picture, taken at the 125th Anniversary of Thai Postal Services Exhibition in 2008, the Princess is standing next to the very first type of a letter posting box ever used in Thailand, i.e. between 1883 and 1911, at the onset of the nation's postal services, when the country was still named Siam. This model is over 130 years old and in Victorian style. In the top left corner is the Princess' royal cypher, which consists of her initials (s) and (t) surmounted by a chadah-style crown.
 Related Links: Maha, Chakri, Sirindhorn, Philatelists Association of Thailand, Thaipex '89 - Postboxes, Garuda, chadah