Stamps by countries | Africa | Niger | 2013 |
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Prehistoric people (4 stamps and souvenir sheet in set). Souvenir sheet. |
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Stamp: Homo neanderthalensis
Edition type: commemorative stamp
Denomination: 2500 f
Date of issue: 2013 Sep. 30
Depiction: Homo neanderthalensis, background is engravings in Trois Freres - steppe wisents and reindeers; Ötzi Homo tyrolensis on margin of 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): 112×104
Printing run:
Stamp issuing authority: ONPE NIAMEY
Printer: Stamperija |
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Special cancellation (ink - black) and art envelope were used in first day of issue. |
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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. |
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Themes: Steppe Wisent (Bison priscus), Cave Art, Prehistoric Humans |
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