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Item no. S687 (stamp)
Type: stamp
Country: Guinea-Bissau
Date of issue: 2011
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A 4-stamp souvenir sheet issued to honor India’s nationalist leader MOHANDAS GANDHI. The left stamp of the bottom row presents graphic representation of a photograph “Gandhi and the spinning wheel” taken in 1946 by photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White (1904 – 1971). In his independence campaign Gandhi was encouraging his countrymen to make their own homespun cloth instead of buying British goods.
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