NG-1993-14
Black Crowned Crane — 15k
15k · 1993 · Nigerian Animals Definitives
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Face value
2/6
Issued
1889
Status
Withdrawn
Wildlife
Colonial era
Key value
African Forest Elephant — 2/6
A recess-printed study of one of Nigeria's emblematic species, from the Lagos & Colonial Issues series. The die proof and colour separations are held in the Bureau archive.
- Catalogue no.
- NG-1889-07
- Issued on
- 19 July 1889
- Withdrawn
- 19 July 1894
- Designer
- M. B. Fashina
- Printer
- Nigerian Security Printing & Minting Plc
- Process
- Lithography
- Perforation
- 14
- Watermark
- Sideways NIPOST logo
- Size
- 41 × 27 mm
- Colours
- Multicolour
- Print run
- 250,000
- Stanley Gibbons
- SG 370
- Scott
- 270
Varieties & notes
A minor perforation shift is recorded on the second printing.