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| Centenary of the death day of Jules Verne. Extraordinaire travels - Illustrations (6 stamps and Souvenir Sheet in set). | ||
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Stamp: Around the World in Eighty Days Edition type: commemorative stamp Denomination: 0,53 € Date of issue: 2005 May 28 Depiction: Bisons stoped a train Colour: multicolored Paper: fluorescent coated paper Designer: Michel Bez Designer of the sheet: Valérie Besser Perforation: comb. 13 or frame 13 Printing process: photogravure Size of a stamp (mm): 26×40 Size of a sheet (mm): Size of a souvenir sheet: 135×142 Sheet composition: 50 (10×5) stamps or 6 stamps Printing run: Stamp issuing authority: La Poste Printer: Imprimerie des timbres-poste et des valeurs fiduciaires (ITVF) |
| Special cancellations (ink - black, designer Louis Arquer, cancelations in Nantes, Amiens, Brest, Paris). | ||
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| This stamp was printed in the Souvenir Sheet of 6 stamps too. Surtax of the Souvenir Sheet was 1,62 € for French Red Cross. | ||
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| On other stamps of the souvenir sheet: 0,53 € - Five Weeks in a Balloon, 1863; 0,53 € - From the Earth to the Moon, 1865; 0,53 € - A Journey to the Center of the Earth, 1864; 0,53 € - Michael Strogoff, 1876; 0,53 € - Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, 1870. | ||
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Jules Gabriel Verne was a French author who pioneered the science-fiction genre. He was born in Nantes, Brittany in France on February 8, 1828, and died on March 24, 1905 in Amiens, France. Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is a classic adventure novel first published in 1873. | ||
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| Themes: bison (Bison bison), persons, literature, locomotives | ||
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