NG-1993-14
Black Crowned Crane — 15k
15k · 1993 · Nigerian Animals Definitives
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Face value
1/-
Issued
1910
Status
Withdrawn
Wildlife
Colonial era
West African Lion — 1/-
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-1910-15
- Issued on
- 18 November 1910
- Withdrawn
- 18 November 1915
- Designer
- M. B. Fashina
- Printer
- Harrison & Sons, London
- Process
- Recess & lithography
- Perforation
- 13½
- Watermark
- Sideways NIPOST logo
- Size
- 41 × 27 mm
- Colours
- Deep green & black
- Print run
- 750,000
- Stanley Gibbons
- SG 538
- Scott
- 382