Stamp: Greater Bird-of-paradise (Netherlands New Guinea 1962)

  1. Catalogue
  2. Netherlands New Guinea
  3. 1962
  4. UNTEA Overprint - First Printing Hollandia
  5. Greater Bird-of-paradise

Greater Bird-of-paradise (Netherlands New Guinea 1962)

01 November (Netherlands New Guinea ) within release UNTEA Overprint - First Printing Hollandia goes into circulation Stamp Greater Bird-of-paradise face value 20 Dutch cent

Stamp Greater Bird-of-paradise in catalogues
Michel: Mi: NL-WN 9I
Stamp Number: Sn: NL-WN 9
Yvert et Tellier: Yt: NL-WN 9
Stanley Gibbons: Sg: NL-WN 9
NVPH: NVP: NL-WN 9

Stamp is square format.

First Print - the N of UNTEA is slightly lower than the remaining letters, base of T is flat or nearly so. Ink of overprint dull. Length of overprint 16.5-17.0mm

Also in the issue UNTEA Overprint - First Printing Hollandia:

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Stamp Greater Bird-of-paradise in digits
Country: Netherlands New Guinea
Date: 1962-11-01
Perforation: 12½ x 12
Emission: Definitive
Format: Stamp
Face Value: 20 Dutch cent

Stamp Greater Bird-of-paradise 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.

Stamp, Greater Bird-of-paradise, Netherlands New Guinea, , Birds