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Visit Thailand Year (1987)
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Issue
Name: |
Visit Thailand Year |
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Thai
Issue
Name: |
ปีท่องเที่ยวไทย |
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Issue Date: |
1987/2530-09-18 |
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Cause: |
To commemorate the 1987
Visit Thailand Year and to publicize the culture and local
tradition in various regions of Thailand |
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Catalogue Number: |
1987/19-22 |
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Denomination: |
2 Baht,
3 Baht, 5 Baht, 7 Baht |
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Unused Value: |
11 Baht, 11 Baht,
22 Baht, 33 Baht |
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Complete Set: |
77 Baht (unused), 44 Baht
(used) |
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Thailex Collection: |
Unused set |
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Size: |
45 x 27 mm |
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Quantity
of Stamps: |
3,000,000 pieces for
design 1 and 1,000,000 pieces each for designs 2-4 |
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Printer: |
Société Nouvelle Cartor
Sarl., France |
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Subject: |
Logo of
the 1987
Visit Thailand Year, which is in part made up of the logo of the
Tourism Authority of Thailand
(fig.),
as well as: 1.
Tak Baat Dokmai
Festival, with the annual Flower Offering Ceremony, at
Wat Phra Phutthabaht
in
Saraburi;
2.
Praphenih Sart Deuan Sip, i.e. the
Tenth Lunar Month Festival,
an autumnal religious festival during the tenth lunar month,
at
Wat Mahathat Wora Maha Wihaan,
in which ancestors and deceased relatives are honoured and given
khanom lah
(fig.),
a traditional snack of
Nakhon Sri Thammarat,
that represents the offerings of clothes to the spirits of the dead;
3.
Bang Fai
Festival at Phrathat Kong Khao Noi
in
Yasothon;
4.
Loi Krathong
Festival at
Wat Mahathat in
Sukhothai |
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Related Link: |
Tak Baat,
Wat Phra Phutthabaht,
Saraburi,
Wat Mahathat Wora Maha Wihaan,
Nakhon Sri Thammarat,
Loi Krathong,
Wat Mahathat,
Sukhothai,
Yasothon,
Bang Fai,
Thai Traditional Festival - Floral Offerings,
20th Anniversary of the UNESCO,
Thai Traditional Festival -
Festival of the Tenth Lunar Month (2022),
praphenih sip song deuan,
Praphenih Sart Deuan Sip |
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