Guru Amar Das / World Environment Day 1980
First Day Cover from India's World Environment Day observance on June 5, 1980, featuring a 30 paisa stamp commemorating Guru Amar Das (1479-1574) and the Golden Temple. The cover includes a two-color environmental cachet depicting a person with a dog in a natural landscape, and a distinctive pictorial machine cancellation from New Delhi featuring a penguin with 'Conservation for Sustainable Development' text in Hindi and English.
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The cachet features a two-color (blue and green) artwork depicting a person standing with a dog in a natural landscape with mountains, trees, sun, and a body of water, representing environmental themes. The stamp (30 paisa, India) depicts the Golden Temple gateway associated with Guru Amar Das (1479-1574). The cancellation is a pictorial machine cancel featuring a penguin illustration with text in both Hindi and English reading 'World Environment Day 1980 / Conservation for Sustainable Development,' dated 5-6-1980, from Parliament Street, New Delhi.
This First Day Cover features a two-color green and blue cachet depicting a serene natural landscape with mountains, trees, a body of water, and a human figure accompanied by an animal (likely a dog) standing on the shore. The stamp, valued at 30 paisa, depicts the Golden Temple and commemorates Guru Amar Das (1479-1574). The postmark is a pictorial machine cancellation with an image of a penguin and text in Hindi and English promoting 'Conservation for Sustainable Development.' The cover is in excellent condition.
(The automatic summaries sometimes misidentify the postmark as part of the cachet artwork.)