NG-1971-13
Groundnut Pyramids — 3d
3d · 1971 · First Republic Definitives
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Face value
2/6
Issued
1959
Status
Withdrawn
Industry & Innovation
Colonial era
Key value
Palm Produce — 2/6
An engraved guilloché design in the house style of the period, issued Lagos & Colonial Issues for everyday postal use.
- Catalogue no.
- NG-1959-34
- Issued on
- 25 October 1959
- Withdrawn
- 25 October 1964
- Designer
- Tayo Fatunla
- Printer
- Crown Agents, London
- Process
- Lithography
- Perforation
- 12½ (comb)
- Watermark
- No watermark
- Size
- 35 × 35 mm
- Colours
- Slate & vermilion
- Print run
- 1,000,000
- Stanley Gibbons
- SG 937
- Scott
- 648
Varieties & notes
A minor perforation shift is recorded on the second printing.