NG-1990-08
West African Lion — 50k
50k · 1990 · Nigerian Animals Definitives
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Face value
3d
Issued
1951
Status
Withdrawn
Wildlife
Colonial era
Sclater's Guenon — 3d
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-1951-31
- Issued on
- 16 July 1951
- Withdrawn
- 16 July 1956
- Designer
- M. B. Fashina
- Printer
- Joh. Enschedé, Haarlem
- Process
- Lithography
- Perforation
- 13 × 13½
- Watermark
- Sideways NIPOST logo
- Size
- 41 × 27 mm
- Colours
- Blue & gold
- Print run
- 250,000
- Stanley Gibbons
- SG 874
- Scott
- 606