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Prehistoric people (miniature sheet and souvenir sheet in set). Miniature sheet (4 stamps).

Stamp: Homo neanderthalensis
Edition type: commemorative stamp
Denomination:
Date of issue: 2013 Sep. 30
Depiction: Homo neanderthalensis, background is engravings in Trois Freres - steppe wisents and reindeers; 2nd stamp in the sheet
Colour: multicolored
Paper: chalk-surfaced
Designer:
Perforation: frame 13,5 or imperf.
Printing process: offset
Size of a stamp (mm): 47×40
Size of a sheet (mm): 112×105
Sheet composition: 4 (2×2) stamps
Printing run:
Stamp issuing authority: ONPE NIAMEY
Printer: Stamperija
  Special cancellation (ink - black) and art envelope were used in first day of issue.
 
 

On other stamps of the miniature sheet:

750 Fr - Homo erectus georgicus;
750 Fr - Ötzi Homo tyrolensis;
750 Fr - Homo erectus.

Panel of engravings on the right hand wall of the Sanctuary in Les Trois Freres. Sieveking, A., 1979: Cave Artists (Ancient Peoples and Places)
Localisation of the fragment represented on the stamp. The image on the stamp horizontally reflected.
Themes: Steppe Wisent (Bison priscus), Cave Art, Prehistoric Humans
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