Angola 1953 Angola Animals

Description

Cards

Catalogues

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• Issue Date: 15/08/1953
• Designed by:
• Engraving:
• Printed by: Litografia Maia, Porto
• Print Process: Lithography
• Paper: Porcelain
• Width: mm
• Height: mm
• Perforations: 13
• Format:

Stamps

5c Leopard Panther pardus	10c Sable antelope Hippotragus niger	20c African bush elephant Loxodonta africana	30c Common eland Taurotragus oryx
40c Nile crocodile Crocodylus niloticus	50c Impala Aepyceros melampus	1a Zebra Eqqus hippotigris	1.50a Sitatunga Tragelaphus spekii
2a Black rhinoceros Diceros bicornis	2.30a Gemsbok Oryx gazella	2.50a Lion Panthera leo	3a African forest buffalo Syncerus caffer nanus
3.50a Springbok Antidorcas marsupialis	4a Blue wildebeest Connochaetes taurinus	5a Red hartebeest Alcelaphus buselaphus caama	7a Desert warthog Phacochoerus aethiopicus
10a Waterbuck Kobus ellipsiprymnus defassa	12,50a Hippopotamus Hippopotamus amphibius	15a()	20a Giraffe Giraffa camelopardalis angolensis

Print run

Print run Print run 5c 6.000.000 2,50A 3.000.000 10c 6.000.000 3A 3.000.000 20c 6.000.000 3,50A 2.500.000 30c 5.000.000 4A 2.500.000 40c 4.000.000 5A 2.500.000 50c 5.000.000 7A 800.000 1A 8.000.000 10A 800.000 1,50A 3.000.000 12,50A 700.000 2A 8.000.000 15A 700.000 2,30A 2.000.000 20A 700.000

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Group of cards issued for this stamp serie in 1958 by the Angolan artist A.Ferreira, with postmark
"Dia do selo 1-12-1958" (Stamp Day)

5c (MC) Leopard Panther pardus

10c (MC) Sable antelope Hippotragus niger

20c (MC) African bush elephant Loxodonta africana

30c (MC) Common eland Taurotragus oryx

40c Nile crocodile Crocodylus niloticus

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value AF MI YT NVPH SG 355 368 0 0 488 356 369 0 0 489 357 370 0 0 490 358 371 0 0 491 359 372 0 0 492 360 373 0 0 493 361 374 0 0 494 362 375 0 0 495 363 376 0 0 496 364 377 0 0 497 365 378 0 0 498 366 379 0 0 499 367 380 0 0 500 368 381 0 0 501 369 382 0 0 502 370 383 0 0 503 371 384 0 0 504 372 385 0 0 505 373 386 0 0 506 374 387 0 0 507

• AF-Afinsa (Portugal & former Colonies)
• MI-Mitchel
• YT-Yvert et Tellier
• NVPH-Dutch Catalogue
• SG-Stanley Gibbons