Bornean orangutan 

Bornean orangutan
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Bornean orangutan

Catalogue information

LastDodo number
4696289
Area
Stamps
Title
Bornean orangutan
Face value
4
Country / area
Labuan
Year
1900
Month
Day
Issue group
1900 Various Topics [with overprint]
Order Number in Issue group
2
Usage
Postage
Type
Stamp
Basic colour
Black, Brown
Exact colour
Black, Yellow brown
Theme / topic
Animals, Mammals, Monkeys
Geographical theme
Persons theme
Item subject
Pongo pygmaeus
Michel number
94
Yvert number
74
Scott number
97a
Stanley Gibbons number
112
Designer/Engraver
Printing office
Waterlow & Sons (1810-1961)
Perforation type
Perforated
Number of teeth per 20 mm
Watermark
Without watermark
Luminescence
None
Printing technique
Steel engraving
Paper
Gum
Print run
Dimensions / diameter
Details
Black horizontal overprint "LABUAN". 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.