NG-1968-06
Cocoa Industry — 1/-
1/- · 1968 · First Republic Definitives
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Face value
½d
Issued
1897
Status
Withdrawn
Industry & Innovation
Colonial era
Groundnut Pyramids — ½d
An engraved guilloché design in the house style of the period, issued Lagos & Colonial Issues for everyday postal use.
- Catalogue no.
- NG-1897-10
- Issued on
- 3 October 1897
- Withdrawn
- 3 October 1902
- Designer
- Tayo Fatunla
- Printer
- Harrison & Sons, London
- Process
- Lithography
- Perforation
- 13½
- Watermark
- No watermark
- Size
- 35 × 35 mm
- Colours
- Deep green & black
- Print run
- 1,000,000
- Stanley Gibbons
- SG 433
- Scott
- 312