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COUNTRY FACTS
These were the 1st Post Cards and the 1st Postal Stationary issued on Mahatma Gandhi by any country. Kanu Gandhi, from whose collection the photos were obtained, is supposed to have asked a royalty of 12 1/2% on the sale of the postcards . Princess Amrit Kaur, the then Minister of Communications, persuaded him to settle for a token sum of Rs.2500/-. POST CARD FACTS
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