SAI BABA
Traffic Lights | FDC Postmark |
  Top Left Bottom Left |  |
| India Security Press Nasik imprints the printers color control marks on margin of every sheet of stamps in either of four positions that is top right, bottom right, bottom left, and top left. These are popularly referred to as traffic lights. In the Sai Baba issue traffic lights have been noticed with different sequence of colors in different positions. Is this for the first time? | There are 2 different types of the first day postmark of the Sai Baba stamp issued on May 20, 2008. The difference is in the one of the 2 words in Devanagari script in the centre of the design. The word on right is believed to be wrongly spelt and had the accent mark (bottom character) facing upwards in the middle letter. This postmark is used at most philatelic bureaus. However in the Ahmedabd philatelic bureau the postmark depicts the accent mark facing downwards. The Mumbai philatelic bureau used the type 1 postmark for couple of days before changing to type 2 postmark. Mumbai is the only philatelic bureau known to have used both types. |