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July 6, 2014October 12, 2020

‘Kashmiri Bride’ Stamp and Postcard, 1980

From personal collection

Postcard and Stamp
for the 1980 “Brides from India series: Bride from Jammu and Kashmir”
Based on work by “Doll Designing Centre and Workshop, Nehru House, New Delhi”

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July 1, 2014October 12, 2020

Pandit Woman Postal Stamp from Austria

From personal collection

‘Kashmir Woman’
Made in Austria

Weird world. Back then someone in Austria had even made a postal stamp out of the photograph of a Pandit woman profiled by Fred Bremner. In 1921, the image was mislabelled as that of a ‘Boatwoman’ by National Geographic.

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Previously on this image the:
Bhattni/Haenz’bai by Fred Bremner, 1900