Alderney 1997 Definitive Booklet. Butterflies and Buddleia
From Stamps of the World
- Issue date: 2nd January 1997
- Designer: Wendy Bramall
- Printed by: House of Questa, England
- Print process: offset lithography
- Stamp format height x 40.64mm x width 30.37mm
- booklet pane height 174mm x width 61mm including top selvedge). Booklet format (cover) height 60mm x width 194mm
- Paper: 102gsm Unwatermarked with PVA Adhesive
- Perforations 14 x 14.75 with one imperf edge (either left or right side)
Alderney definitives, 1994-1998. Flora and Fauna, second series. Booklet £1.44, Butterfly and Buddleia
- Unfolded Booklet Panes were also available from the Guernsey Philatelic Bureau
- For 18p Sheet Definitive and other Booklets from this series. Click on: Alderney 1994 Definitives (2nd Series) - Flora & Fauna
Pane of 18p x 8 copies (four stamps imperf left side, four stamps imperf right side), one fold
18p ~ small tortoiseshell Aglais urticae, on flowers of buddleia bush (typically flowers in UK in July)
The latin name of the butterfly, urticae, refers to its caterpillar's food plant, the stinging nettle. This butterfly can hibernate overwinter
