Azores 1984 Insects

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  • Issue Date: 03-09-1984
  • Withdrawn: 31-08-1989
  • Designed by: Contente, António
  • Engraving:
  • Printed by: INCM
  • Print Process: Offset
  • Paper: Enamel
  • Width: mm
  • Height: mm
  • Perforations: 12x11¾ (stamps of Booklet only vertical perf.)
  • Format: Sheet of 5x10
  • Booklet pane of 4


  • Phosphorescent band in all stamps

Stamps

16.
Large garden bumblebee
Megabombus ruderatus
35.
Large Cabbage White Butterfly
Pieris brassicae
40.
Leaf Beetle
Chrysomela banksi
51.
Moth
Phlogophora interrupta

Print run

Quantity Quantity
16. 1.000.000 51.0 600.000
35. 600.000 BL. 100.000
40. 750.000
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Postmarks: Lisboa, Porto, Coimbra, Faro, Funchal, Ponta delgada

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value AF MI YT NVPH SG
16. 1672 AZO 365 0 AZO 14-1 0
35. 1673 AZO 366 0 AZO 14-2 0
40. 1674 AZO 367 0 AZO 14-3 0
51. 1675 AZO 368 0 AZO 14-4 0
  • AF-Afinsa (Portugal & former Colonies)
  • MI-Mitchel
  • YT-Yvert et Tellier
  • NVPH-Dutch Catalogue
  • SG-Stanley Gibbons