Catalogue information

LastDodo number
1194355
Area
Stamps
Title
Prince Albert
Face value
6
Country / area
Year
1851
Month
Day
Order Number in Issue
3
Basic colour
Exact colour
Usage
Type
Geographical theme
Item subject
Michel number
3 aw 3 ax 3 az 3bw 3 bx 3 bz
Yvert number
6
Scott number
Stanley Gibbons number
2 3 9 10 11 19 23
Unitrade number
Designer/Engraver
Perforation
Watermark
Luminescence
Printing technique
Paper
Gum
Print run
Dimensions / diameter
Details
This item is known in the catalogues as one of the following numbers: Michel: 3 aw (blackviolet, vertically laid wove paper) of 3 ax (blackviolet, wove paper) or 3 az (blackviolet, thick hard wove paper) or 3bw (deep violet, horizontally ribbed wove paper) or 3 bx (deep violet, wove paper) or 3 bz (deep violet, thick hard wove paper); Yvert & Tellier: 6 (wove paper); Stanley Gibbons: - laid paper: 2 (slate-violet) or 3 (brown-purple); - handmade wove paper varying in thickness: 9 (slate-violet) or 10 (greenish grey) or 11 (brownish-grey); - machine-made medium to thick wove paper: 19 (grey-lilac); - very thick soft wove paper: 23 (reddish purple).