NG-1973-01
Textile Weaving — 1k
1k · 1973 · Nigerian Life & Culture Definitives
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Face value
3d
Issued
1971
Status
Withdrawn
Industry & Innovation
First Republic
Groundnut Pyramids — 3d
An engraved guilloché design in the house style of the period, issued First Republic Definitives for everyday postal use.
- Catalogue no.
- NG-1971-13
- Issued on
- 12 January 1971
- Withdrawn
- 12 January 1976
- Designer
- NSPM Design Unit
- Printer
- Joh. Enschedé, Haarlem
- Process
- Lithography
- Perforation
- 13 × 13½
- Watermark
- Multiple Crown Script CA
- Size
- 25 × 30 mm
- Colours
- Blue & gold
- Print run
- 250,000
- Stanley Gibbons
- SG 1504
- Scott
- 1026
Varieties & notes
A minor perforation shift is recorded on the second printing.