Australia Philately: 1968 Christmas

Details
  • Date of Issue: 23 October 1968
  • Withdrawn Date: 
  • Invalidated: 
  • Designer: George Hamori, Sydney
  • Printer: Note Printing Branch, Reserve Bank of Australia
  • Process: Photogravure
  • Cylinders:
  • Paper: Wiggins Teape – chalk coated with Helecon
  • Watermark: None
  • Perf: 13.5 x 13.25 (comb)
  • Sheet: Printed in two panes of 50 stamps (R5 x 10) divided by horizontal gutter.
  • Quantity: 112,919,000

Nine cylinders were used in the printings. The dark green was replaced early in the run, then two sets of four.

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