{"id":2622,"date":"2010-05-30T19:00:27","date_gmt":"2010-05-30T19:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=2622"},"modified":"2012-09-10T13:22:05","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T12:22:05","slug":"kabul-railway-parcel-stamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/kabul-railway-parcel-stamp\/","title":{"rendered":"Kabul railway parcel stamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/alphabetilately.com\/TOC\/parcels-1.html#AFGH\">Trains on Railway Parcel Stamps &#038; Railway Letter Stamps of the World<\/a> pages of the Aphabetilately website includes a picture of a 1923 issue of a 2 paisa railway parcel stamp from the <a href=\"\/afghanistan\/railways\/kabul-to-darulaman-railway\/\">railway to Darulaman<\/a>. A paisa was a subbdivison of the Afghan rupee used in the 1920s.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alphabetilately.com\/TOC\/parcels-1.html#AFGH\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/rail\/af-kabul-parcel-stamp.jpg\" width=\"200\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The stamp is described as &#8220;small quantity issued, no used copies seen&#8221;, citing page 29 of Patterson, presumably <i>Afghanistan: Its Twentieth Century Postal Issues<\/i> by Frank E  Patterson III (New York; The Collectors Club, 1964).<\/p>\n<p>The logo is the national emblem of Afghanistan, first used during the reign of King Amanullah and now in the centre of the current national flag. It shows a mosque, with the mihrab (the niche indicating the direction of Mecca) and a minbar (pulpit), with a royal shako (hat) above. The rays forming eight points were inspired by the 19th century Ottoman Imperial standards, and the shape changed from a circle to an oval in 1921, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/flagspot.net\/flags\/af1919.html\">Afghanistan 1919-1928<\/a> section of the Flags Of The World website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trains on Railway Parcel Stamps &#038; Railway Letter Stamps of the World pages of the Aphabetilately website includes a picture of a 1923 issue of a 2 paisa railway parcel stamp from the railway to Darulaman. A paisa was a subbdivison of the Afghan rupee used in the 1920s. The stamp is described as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5],"tags":[52,90,162],"class_list":["post-2622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways","category-links","category-history","tag-darulaman","tag-kabul","tag-stamp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5173,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622\/revisions\/5173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}