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Prehistoric Man, Animals and Cave Art (miniature sheet and souvenir sheet in set). Miniature Sheet (6 stamps). |
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Stamp: Saber-tooth tiger and cave painting - Steppe wisent
Edition type: commemorative stamp
Denomination: 600 Fr
Date of issue: 2009 Jul. 3
Depiction: Saber-tooth tiger and cave painting in Altamira Cave, Spain - Steppe wisent; 2nd stamp in the sheet
Colour: multicolored
Paper: chalk-surfaced
Designer:
Perforation: frame 12,75:13,5
Printing process: offset
Size of a stamp (mm): 38×39
Size of a sheet (mm): 144×109
Sheet composition: 5 stamps
Printing run:
Stamp issuing authority:
Printer: Stamperija |
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Special cancellation (ink - black) and art envelope were used in first day of issue. |
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On other stamps of the miniature sheet:
600 Fr - Cro-magnon and san bushmen rock art near Stadsaal Cave in the Cederberg, South Africa;
600 Fr - North African mammoth (Mammunthus africanus) and cave painting in Lascaux Cave, France;
600 Fr - Neanderthal and cave painting in Lascaux Cave, France;
600 Fr - Homo erectus and cave painting in Lascaux Cave, France. |
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Standing wisent is a fragment of Polychrome Ceiling of the Great Hall caves of Altamira, Spain. |
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Themes: Steppe Wisent (Bison priscus), Cave Art, Prehistorical Animals |
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