Malawi Philately: 1979 Wild Orchids Definitive

Details

• Date of Issue: 2 January 1979
• Date Withdrawn:
• Date Invalidated:
• Designer: Gordon Drummond
• Printer:John Waddington of Kirkstall Ltd, Leeds, England
• Process: Lithography
• Paper: 
• Watermark: Cockerels
• Perf: 13.5 (comb)
• Cylinders :Printed in four panes, each divided by a gutter strip. Guillotined through horizontal gutter and distributed in sheets of two panes:
  • 1A 1A 1A 1A (1A) : 1C 1C 1C 1C (1C)
  • 1B 1B 1B 1B (1B) : 1D 1D 1D 1D (1D)
• Sheet: 
• Quantity:

Subjects

• 1t – Vanilla polylepis
• 2t – Cirrhopetalum umbellatum
• 5t – Calanthe natalensis
• 7t – Ansellia gigantea
• 8t – Tridactyle bicaudata
• 10t – Acampe pachyglossa
• 15t – Eulophia quartiniana
• 20t – Cyrtochis arcuata (variabilis)
• 30t – Eulophia tricristata
• 50t – Disa hamatopetala
• 75t – Cynorchris glandulosa
• 1k – Aerangis kotschyana
• 1k.50 – Polystachya dendrobiiflora
• K2 – Disa ornithantha
• K4 – Cyrtorchis praetermissa

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