Stamp: Crane (China - Treaty Ports- Wuhu 1897)
Crane (China - Treaty Ports- Wuhu 1897)
01 February (China - Treaty Ports- Wuhu ) within release Definitive (II) P.P.C. overprint goes into circulation Stamp Crane face value ½ Chinese cent
| Stamp Crane in catalogues | |
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| Michel: | Mi: CN-WU 45a |
| Stanley Gibbons: | Sg: CN-WU 76 |
Stamp is square format.
Black overprint "P.P.C.". P.P.C. = Pour Prendre Congé.Also in the issue Definitive (II) P.P.C. overprint:
- Stamp - Character "吉" (Ji) Good luck face value ½;
- Stamp - Character "吉" (Ji) Good luck face value 5;
- Stamp - Characters "蕪湖" (Wuhu) face value 1;
- Stamp - Characters "蕪湖" (Wuhu) face value 20;
- Stamp - Crane face value ½;
- Stamp - Crane face value 15;
- Stamp - Deer face value 6;
- Stamp - Deer face value 40;
- Stamp - Owl face value 2;
- Stamp - Owl face value 10;
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| Stamp Crane in digits | |
| Country: | China - Treaty Ports- Wuhu |
| Date: | 1897-02-01 |
| Print: | Lithography |
| Perforation: | 10 |
| Emission: | Definitive |
| Format: | Stamp |
| Face Value: | ½ Chinese cent |
Stamp Crane it reflects the thematic directions:
Birds (Aves), a subgroup of Reptiles, are the last living examples of Dinosaurs. They are a group of endothermic vertebrates, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton. Birds live worldwide and range in size from the 5 cm (2 in) bee hummingbird to the 2.75 m (9 ft) ostrich. They rank as the class of tetrapods with the most living species, at approximately ten thousand, with more than half of these being passerines, sometimes known as perching birds. Birds are the closest living relatives of crocodilians.
Cranes are a type of large bird with long legs and necks in the biological family Gruidae of the order Gruiformes. The family has 15 species placed in four genera which are Antigone, Balearica, Leucogeranus, and Grus. They are large birds with long necks and legs, a tapering form, and long secondary feathers on the wing that project over the tail. Most species have muted gray or white plumages, marked with black, and red bare patches on the face, but the crowned cranes of the genus Balearica have vibrantly-coloured wings and golden "crowns" of feathers. Cranes fly with their necks extended outwards instead of bent into an S-shape and their long legs outstretched.
