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Definitives  (Bamboo _ Rattan Handicrafts) -   Code: 768

 

Fine arts _ handicrafts are among Vietnam_s traditional professions. With their dexterity, intelligence _ creativeness, Vietnamese artisans have since long made various rattan _ bamboo articles of high aesthetics _ utility for domestic usage _ exports. These are much favored by many people because they are light, nice, durable and of diverse styles, models _ patterns.

In order to introduce several traditional bamboo _ rattan handicrafts of Vietnam, General Department of Posts _ Telecommunications (DGPT) issues the stampset " Definitives (Bamboo _ Rattan Handicrafts) " consisting of 5 values:

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- The 1st: Bamboo lamp - face value: 400 d

- The 2nd: Bamboo plate - face value: 400 d

- The 3rd: Rattan bird-shaped basket - face value: 400 d

- The 4th: Rattan stag-shaped basket - face value: 400 d

- The 5th: Oil-painted handbasket - face value: 2,000 d

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Date of issue

Designer

Stamp size

Sheet composition

Perforation

Printer

Printing process

Colour

Paper

01.01.1998

Mrs. Nguyen Thi Sam (COTEVINA)

37 x 27 (mm)

30 stamps

13

Postal Stamp Printing Enterprise (in Ho Chi Minh City) 

offset

multi-coloured

standard paper ( both gummed and ungummed)

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