Question

Explain the type of information that can be collected through a postal stamp.

Answer 1

Instructions: This answer for this question can be broken down into three parts.

• First, talk about what kind of a historical source a postage stamp is.
• Second, talk about an example.
• Talk about the information they carry.

Solution:

Postage Stamps are an important written source of history. Common themes of these stamps include political leaders, flowers, an event, or the silver, golden, diamond jubilees etc. For example, ‘Jal Cooper’ stamp was a stamp issued in honour of Jal Cooper who was a philatelist. This stamp is extremely informative to people who don’t know him. He was born in a Parsi household in Mumbai. He started his career as a postage stamp collector. He edited ‘India’s Stamp Journal’. He was the founder of the first Philatelic Bureau in India and the ‘Empire of India Philatelic Society’. He took the study of Indian postage stamps to the international level.