Saltwater Crocodile 

Saltwater Crocodile
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Saltwater Crocodile

Catalogue information

LastDodo number
4582367
Area
Stamps
Title
Saltwater Crocodile
Face value
12
Country / area
Labuan
Year
1897
Month
04
Day
Issue group
1897 Various Topics ([with overprint]
Order Number in Issue
7
Basic colour
Black, Red
Exact colour
Black, Vermilion
Usage
Postage
Type
Flaw
Theme / topic
Animals, Crocodiles, Reptiles
Geographical theme
Persons theme
Item subject
Crocodylus porosus
Michel number
76
Yvert number
82(I)
Scott number
80
Stanley Gibbons number
95
Designer/Engraver
Printing office
Waterlow & Sons (1810-1961)
Perforation
Watermark
Without watermark
Luminescence
None
Printing technique
Steel engraving
Paper
Gum
Print run
Dimensions / diameter
Details
Black bowed overprint "LABUAN" wrongly placed at the top over the value. Presumably due to irregular pins rather than different perforators, stamps issued from 1894 to 1905 have a number of small variations, as well for a single perforation as for a compound of perforations. All varieties lie between perforation 12 and perforation 16.