Spain 1991 General Carlos Ibañez de Ibero, cartographer
From Stamps of the World
- Issue date: 27th December 1991
- one value
- Design: M Garcia
- Printed by: FNMT (Spanish State Mint)
- Print Process: gravure
- stampformat height 41mm x width 29m
- Perforations: 13.75 x 13.5
General Carlos Ibañez de Ibero, 1825-1891
25pts ~ portrait of the founder and first president of the International Association of Geodesy .
Also first president of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures , 1872 to 1891, and first director of the National Geographic Institute of Spain , created in 1870, responsible for the creation of the Corps of Engineers and the
subsequent 1:50,000 Survey of Spain [ref Wikipedia]
