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Lot # 144 - Rare MNH Compleate sheet of 100 Stamps valued Azad Hind 1a + 1a.
Rare MNH Compleate sheet of 100 Stamps valued Azad Hind  1a + 1a.
Rare MNH Compleate sheet of 100 Stamps valued Azad Hind  1a + 1a. Rare MNH Compleate sheet of 100 Stamps valued Azad Hind  1a + 1a.
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Azad Hind, 1943, 1a + 1a, Sheet of 100 Stamps, Sikh soldier with INA insignia aiming a German MG34, printed for Provisional Government Azad Hind (for India), printed at “Reichsdruckerei”, Berlin, Imperf, Photogrsvure, minor tear in the center bottom, otherwise intact condition, MNH, Rare.

Note: The Azad Hind Stamps are a set of German propaganda stamps produced in 1943 by the Socialist Party, Berlin (Germany) for Subhash Chandra Bose's Azad Hind Indian National Army in hopes of overthrowing British rule.

All stamps were printed by photogravure in sheets of 100 at the "Reichsdruckerei", the Government Printing Bureau in Berlin, probably only 13,500 stamps were printed in three colour varieties, the Azad Hind stamps were prepared but never issued.