Stamp: Owl (China - Treaty Ports- Wuhu 1897)
Owl (China - Treaty Ports- Wuhu 1897)
01 February (China - Treaty Ports- Wuhu ) within release Definitive (II) P.P.C. overprint goes into circulation Stamp Owl face value 10 Chinese cent
| Stamp Owl in catalogues | |
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| Michel: | Mi: CN-WU 51a |
| Stanley Gibbons: | Sg: CN-WU 82 |
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 Owl in digits | |
| Country: | China - Treaty Ports- Wuhu |
| Date: | 1897-02-01 |
| Print: | Lithography |
| Perforation: | 10 |
| Emission: | Definitive |
| Format: | Stamp |
| Face Value: | 10 Chinese cent |
Stamp Owl 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.
Owls are birds from the order Strigiformes, which includes over 200 species of mostly solitary and nocturnal birds of prey typified by an upright stance, a large, broad head, binocular vision, binaural hearing, sharp talons, and feathers adapted for silent flight. Exceptions include the diurnal northern hawk-owl and the gregarious burrowing owl.
