NG-1956-33
King George VI — 1/-
1/- · 1956 · Lagos & Colonial Issues
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Face value
2/6
Issued
1913
Status
Withdrawn
Leaders & Statehood
Colonial era
Key value
King George VI — 2/6
Reproduced from an approved portrait and passed by the National Stamp Issuing Advisory Committee for the Lagos & Colonial Issues.
- Catalogue no.
- NG-1913-16
- Issued on
- 21 April 1913
- Withdrawn
- 21 April 1918
- Designer
- Austin Onwudimegwu
- Printer
- Joh. Enschedé, Haarlem
- Process
- Lithography
- Perforation
- 13 × 13½
- Watermark
- Multiple NIPOST logo
- Size
- 30 × 40 mm
- Colours
- Blue & gold
- Print run
- 1,000,000
- Stanley Gibbons
- SG 559
- Scott
- 396
Varieties & notes
A minor perforation shift is recorded on the second printing.