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Face value

1k

Issued

1991

Status

Withdrawn

Wildlife Federal era

Sclater's Guenon — 1k

A recess-printed study of one of Nigeria's emblematic species, from the Nigerian Animals Definitives series. The die proof and colour separations are held in the Bureau archive.

Catalogue no.
NG-1991-10
Issued on
3 October 1991
Withdrawn
3 October 1996
Designer
Bruce Onobrakpeya (after)
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 2134
Scott
1446

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