1947. AKSHARA POSTAL

First Commemorative Issue of the Kingdom of Akshara Royal Postal Service. Official languages are English and Vijay (a Sanskrit variant). On August 15, 1947, the Postal Service also issued a first day cover.

24 stamps per sheet, 5,7,7,5.
12 designs in values of 1, 2, 4, 25, 40, 50, 67, 80, 100, 200, 350, 400.

(V.2000) Images are from a postcards found in Jodhpur, India; chromolithograph prints published in Lloyd's Natural History (c. 1890) printed by Wyman & Sons Ltd.; and copper engraved prints (c 1790). Stamp sheets were direct printed with a Xerox DC12 colour laser printer onto ungummed paper. Hand perforated using Jim Felter's Rosback perforator. 2 signed, perforator's proofs given for the use of the perforation machine. Numbers 42 & 43 kept by the artist.

Sheets in Edition: 43

Price $30 per sheet.