NG-1975-04
Western Kob — 10k
10k · 1975 · Nigerian Life & Culture Definitives
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Face value
6d
Issued
1931
Status
Withdrawn
Wildlife
Colonial era
Grey Parrot — 6d
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-1931-23
- Issued on
- 17 March 1931
- Withdrawn
- 17 March 1936
- Designer
- M. B. Fashina
- Printer
- De La Rue, London
- Process
- Photogravure
- Perforation
- 14 × 13½
- Watermark
- Sideways NIPOST logo
- Size
- 41 × 27 mm
- Colours
- Sepia & carmine
- Print run
- 1,500,000
- Stanley Gibbons
- SG 706
- Scott
- 494