File:BR-SLE 1941 MiNr0145 pm B002.jpg

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Stamp of Sierra Leone (British colony); 1941; definitive stamp of the issue "Pictorals and King George VI of the United Kingdom"; supplement value to the series from 1938; stamp drawing with a scenery at the rice harvesting and portrait of King George VI of the United Kingdom with look to right in standing rhomb; stamp postmarked
Stamp: Michel: No. 154; Yvert et Tellier: No. 160A; Scott: No. 175A
Color: red violet to lilac
Watermark: Sierra Leone No. 5 (= Great Britain No. 4) (multiple Saint Edward's crown over convoluted charcters "CA")
Nominal value: 1½ d. "THREE HALFPENCE" (old Penny)
Postage validity: from 1 February 1941 until ?

Stamp picture size (printed area): 38.0 x 23.5 mm
Date (first issue day of the stamp)
Source scan of original
Author Postal administration of the Royal Mail for Sierra Leone
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This work created by the United Kingdom Government is in the public domain.

This is because it is one of the following:

  1. It is a photograph taken prior to 1 June 1957; or
  2. It was published prior to 1974; or
  3. It is an artistic work other than a photograph or engraving (e.g. a painting) which was created prior to 1974.

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- Stamp in the same drawing and color, but nominal value "TWO PENCE" (Michel No. 155 from 1938)
Picture description Drawing with a scenery at the rice harvesting and portrait of King George VI of the United Kingdom with look to right in standing rhomb
First day of issue
Publisher Postal administration of the Royal Mail for Sierra Leone
Design Unknown authorUnknown author
Printer ?
Printing technique Recess printing
Circulation ?
Perforation Comb perforation, K 12½
MICHEL Nr. Sierra Leone, Nr. 154
SCOTT Nr. Sierra Leone, No. 175A

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