Sun Bear 

Sun Bear
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Sun Bear

Catalogue information

LastDodo number
4696567
Area
Stamps
Title
Sun Bear
Face value
10
Country / area
Labuan
Year
1902
Month
Day
Issue group
1900 Various Topics [with overprint]
Order Number in Issue group
5
Usage
Postage
Type
Stamp
Basic colour
Black, Brown, Purple
Exact colour
Black, Brown, Grey lilac
Theme / topic
Animals, Bears, Mammals
Geographical theme
Persons theme
Item subject
Helarctos malayanus
Michel number
96
Yvert number
111
Scott number
98
Stanley Gibbons number
115
Designer/Engraver
Printing office
Waterlow & Sons (1810-1961)
Perforation type
Number of teeth per 20 mm
14½ : 15
Watermark
Without watermark
Luminescence
None
Printing technique
Steel engraving
Paper
Gum
Print run
Dimensions / diameter
Details
Black 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.