Alexander Graham Bell Commemorative, India 1976
Indian First Day Cover from March 10, 1976, featuring a 25-paisa stamp honoring inventor Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922). The cachet displays a brown line-art illustration of Bell's original telephone equipment. The cover bears a bilingual pictorial cancellation from New Delhi reading 'Alexander Graham Bell' in both Hindi and English.
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The cachet features a brown line-art illustration of an early telephone handset with a tall rectangular apparatus behind it, likely depicting Bell's original telephone equipment. The stamp is a yellow-toned 25-paisa Indian stamp depicting Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922) as a portrait in dark ink, issued in 1976. The circular pictorial cancellation reads 'Alexander Graham Bell / New Delhi / 10-3-76' in both Hindi and English. The envelope is cream/beige colored and in good condition with minor toning.
The cachet artwork features a detailed brown line-art illustration of Alexander Graham Bell's original telephone equipment, including the transmitter and receiver. The stamp is a 25-paisa denomination with a yellow background and a black portrait of Alexander Graham Bell, along with his name, birth and death years (1847–1922), and the text 'Inventor of Telephone.' The postmark is a circular, pictorial cancellation with the text 'Alexander Graham Bell' in both Hindi and English, dated March 10, 1976, from New Delhi. The cover is in good condition with slight aging visible on the envelope.
(The automatic summaries sometimes misidentify the postmark as part of the cachet artwork.)